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Nein, Nein, Nein! Quit the yackin’ and get to the action! Uggg. For a movie about Nazis and WWII, Inglourious Basterds sure didn’t have much action going on. There was an interesting story though, which partially saved it.
Inglourious Basterds is a flick about the Nazis during World War II (otherwise known as WWII). Brad Pitt plays a Jewish American (Aldo Raine) who rounds up a group of other Jewish Americans to go around and kill Nazis. It is established that each member of the Inglourious Basterds owes Raine 100 Nazi scalps. So let the scalping begin! A separate plot line follows a Jewish girl, Shosanna, who barely escaped being gunned down by the “Jew hunter” (Christoph Waltz). Her family was not so lucky. She now owns her own cinema and is looking for a way to get revenge on the Nazis. Man, it was a bad time to be a Nazi. Everyone wanted some kind of revenge. Imagine that.
This movie was good. I am not going to rave about but it was enjoyable. In true Quentin Tarantino fashion, there was a ton of talking and a little action. However, when the action did happen, it was pretty brutal. There was enough scalping going on to weave a rug out of Nazi hair. Man, there was a lot of sitting and talking, though. It seemed like they just talked for 2 ½ hours. Just sitting and discussing the movie premiere and the war and how they would like to kill so and so. Just do it already! More action, less gabbing. At least you know you can go to the bathroom as many times as you want and not really miss anything. However, you do have to be careful about missing the action scenes. They are few and far in between, you might just miss it if you blink.
I do love how Inglourious Basterds gives us an alternate outcome for WWII. I like how a group of Jewish Americans are the ones killing the Nazis. Spoiler Alert: And I love how they kill Hitler and all of the major baddies in Germany at the end. That was great. Inglourious Basterds serves as a good revenge flick for everyone even though this is a fictional movie. I bet it still made certain people feel a little bit better. There were a lot of elderly men in the audience with me who cheered several times when all of the revenge stuff was going on. There was also a great big cheer when the swastika was carved in the “Jew hunter’s” forehead. So I think this movie is definitely a favorite for those who were alive during that time. Everyone got the revenge they wanted. Even the Shosanna got her revenge on the Nazis.
Overall, it was a good film where everyone got the revenge they wanted. It was too long for my taste and there wasn’t a whole lot of action going on. It does have an uncommon plot where it just says screw it to what really happened and they kill a lot of Germans and Hitler. That was refreshing to see.
Time until real action starts: ~ 19 minutes
Baddies: Nazis!
Best Line: “We’re in the killing Nazi business, and business is a boomin’!”
Best Kill: Apparently there was a German who wanted to die for his country and Raine was kind enough to “oblige him.” (Pitt’s delivery on that line was really good.) So one of the Inglourious Basterds called the “Bear Jew” (Eli Roth) comes out of a cave swinging a bat. It was really nice of these fellers to oblige the German’s wishes. The “Bear Jew” beats the guy in the head with his bat and blood is splattering everywhere. They could have done the Rorschach test with his blood after the “Bear Jew” was done swinging away.
Best Explosion: Once all of the most important Germans and Hitler were gathered at the premiere of a movie, Shosanna set into motion her revenge plan. She locked everyone in the auditorium and then set a pile of highly flammable film reels on fire. The whole place in going up in flames when suddenly bombs set by the Inglourious Basterds and some others go off and the whole place explodes, killing everyone inside.
Action Rating: 1 Scalped Nazi, out of 5
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Going to see it tonight, can’t wait! I don’t mind the dialogue so much, cause with Tarantino it’s usually very entertaining in its own right. I liked Death Proof way better than Planet Terror, and Kill Bill was INCREDIBLE.
Deathproof was for me a very long wait for the best car crash death scene I’ve ever seen, so as a ghoul, I look forward to the scalping and bludgeoning in this one. I honestly love spoilers because I’m very impatient, so I’m glad you wrote the review in this way to let me know what is really going on in the film.
Great review! I do want to see this movie. I agree about Tarantino flicks, they do have a lot of talking and not as much action. I felt the same way with Reservoir Dogs. I guess I’ve learned what to expect with his movies as far as dialogue and action goes. I enjoyed the review! 🙂
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I thought this movie was extremely boring. What action there was (all 3 min of it) didnt make up for the 2 hours of useless dialog.
I LOVED this movie. Even though there wasn’t much action, I loved the story, and the suspense. I don’t believe this needs to be classified as a pure action movie, it certainly isn’t.
Awsome movie, i like to see Hitler death lol.I found you site on google btw.
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I couldn’t agree more. Far too much gabbing and not enough fantastic basterd action. But for all the jewish americans out there , myself included, it’s nice to see us kick some hittler anus!!!