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Staring: Brad Pitt, Mike Myers, Cristoph Waltz, Michael Bacall, Bo Svenson
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Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: Blu-ray
Brand: Universal Pictures
EAN: 0025192015397
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen
Label: Universal Studios
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Universal Studios
Release Date: 2009-12-15
Running Time: 153
Studio: Universal Studios
Theatrical Release Date: 2009

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Brad Pitt takes no prisoners in Quentin Tarantino’s high-octane WWII revenge fantasy Inglourious Basterds. As war rages in Europe, a Nazi-scalping squad of American soldiers, known to their enemy as “The Basterds,” is on a daring mission to take down the leaders of the Third Reich. Bursting with “action, hair-trigger suspense and a machine-gun spray of killer dialogue” (Peter Travers, Rolling Stone), Inglourious Basterds is “another Tarantino masterpiece” (Jake Hamilton, CBS-TV)!

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Although Quentin Tarantino has cherished Enzo G. Castellari's 1978 "macaroni" war flick The Inglorious Bastards for most of his film-geek life, his own Inglourious Basterds is no remake. Instead, as hinted by the Tarantino-esque misspelling, this is a lunatic fantasia of WWII, a brazen re-imagining of both history and the behind-enemy-lines war film subgenre. There's a Dirty Not-Quite-Dozen of mostly Jewish commandos, led by a Tennessee good ol' boy named Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt) who reckons each warrior owes him one hundred Nazi scalps--and he means that literally. Even as Raine's band strikes terror into the Nazi occupiers of France, a diabolically smart and self-assured German officer named Landa (Christoph Waltz) is busy validating his own legend as "The Jew Hunter." Along the way, he wipes out the rural family of a grave young girl (Melanie Laurent) who will reappear years later in Paris, dreaming of vengeance on an epic scale.

Now, this isn't one more big-screen comic book. As the masterly opening sequence reaffirms, Tarantino is a true filmmaker, with a deep respect for the integrity of screen space and the tension that can accumulate in contemplating two men seated at a table having a polite conversation. IB reunites QT with cinematographer Robert Richardson (who shot Kill Bill), and the colors and textures they serve up can be riveting, from the eerie red-hot glow of a tabletop in Adolf Hitler's den, to the creamy swirl of a Parisian pastry in which Landa parks his cigarette. The action has been divided, Pulp Fiction-like, into five chapters, each featuring at least one spellbinding set-piece. It's testimony to the integrity we mentioned that Tarantino can lock in the ferocious suspense of a scene for minutes on end, then explode the situation almost faster than the eye and ear can register, and then take the rest of the sequence to a new, wholly unanticipated level within seconds.

Again, be warned: This is not your "Greatest Generation," Saving Private Ryan WWII. The sadism of Raine and his boys can be as unsavory as the Nazi variety; Tarantino's latest cinematic protégé, Eli (director of Hostel) Roth, is aptly cast as a self-styled "golem" fond of pulping Nazis with a baseball bat. But get past that, and the sometimes disconcerting shifts to another location and another set of characters, and the movie should gather you up like a growing floodtide. Tarantino told the Cannes Film Festival audience that he wanted to show "Adolf Hitler defeated by cinema." Cinema wins. --Richard T. Jameson

Customer Reviews

ick, 2010-03-14
I wish I would have known I was going to have to read the Movie before I bought it. tried 3 times to get thru it but got sick of reading subtitles and then backing up to see what was going on

Swing away Bear Jew, 2010-03-14
Historically accurate? No, it's really not intended to be a documentary... Violent? Very, not for kiddies... typical 1.5 hr. length? No, thankfully...Entertaining? It is, I enjoyed it. Nice work Mr. Tarantino, I got it. I think if you are a fan of his other movies and understand he beats to a different drum you'll also like this movie. A blend of comedy, drama, & action set in the early 40's w/ some cool camera angles. Only thing I didn't like was the subtitles b/c I found myself pausing the movie a lot to read them, however the german & french dialog does add to the authentic setting of the movie. A to the point ending, excellent acting from the German SS Col. played by Christoph Waltz. "Soouund Goood!?"

Pushing the limits, but doesn't pay off, 2010-03-14
Inglorious Bastards does a lot right. The scene work, character, and dialog are all top notch. The main problem is that there are at least 3 distinct stories being told, all loosely tied together that don't come together in any meaningful way.

In Protest, 2010-03-14
As much as I didn't even wish to touch this subject, its ugly head has reared itself time and time again. That being said, I need to say a few words.

I have not yet seen this masterpeice of cinematography, but most everyone in the good old Midwest has, especially the younger generation. I suppose I would actually have to see the film to do a coherent review of said subject matter, but the thought pains me so. I know that I will not spend any of my own money in order to see it, so maybe some duped person who purchased the dvd will allow me to borrow it.

This film is just another addition to the slew of anti-German films pushed on the American public. The film instrumentalizes the Holocaust in order to carry out a never-ending propaganda campaign against Germany. The destruction of the Jews in Europe was a horrible thing, but Hollywood has to keep on using that to continue its political campaign against Germany. I think it is shameful and tactless. I say, leave the Holocaust alone and stop using it for malevolent purposes!

Germany has moved on, Tarantino. Why can't you? Germany is a democratic country of over 80 million people - seven million of whom are foreigners. Germany has a thriving Jewish population. The German people have elected their first female chancellor - for a second term! This is a modern and respected industrial state of the 21st Century.

In addition to the old stereotypes about Germans, Tarantino shows soldiers with historically inaccurate uniforms and presents us with wild scenarios which would absolutely never happen. This genious director has, quite simply, made a film which aims for white trash audiences in order to get a gut-level hate reaction towards Germans to come alive once again, in 2010!

Not only that, he also makes the Germans look ridiculous and pitifully silly. I understand that comedian Mike Myers plays Adolf Hitler. That is indeed a barrel of monkies, my friends!

This movie that I have not seen has made so much money and has enjoyed so much success that Mr. Tanantino and all of Hollywood are leaning back in their seats with a big German-hating grin on their faces: Mission accomplished! Now this is art!

Great Movie, Great Cast, 2010-03-14
I love Tarantino and World War II films. So that made this a must-see movie for me. Then I saw it and it became a must-have movie. I love it. It puts a different spin on WWII movies and the action moves. I got caught up in the film.

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