Writer/director Quentin Tarantino's self-proclaimed masterpiece Inglorious Basterds seems to be a "love it or hate it" type of film.
Giving the WWII film a spaghetti western makeover, Tarantino dumps his morals out the window and inserts cartoonish entertainment, laughter and brutal violence into the holocaust days with a smug look on his face. It might be an enjoyable ride for some, while others it's an offensive, disrespectful shit-bucket. Depending on how you feel about the subject material is what will measure your enjoyment of the film. Christophe Waltz's performance turns the long, drawn-out scenes into something worth watching. Basically in the end, it's like a script from a high school student who has no idea what WWII was and then shot & edited by a film school art student, which gives it all a certain type of likeable flair.
3½ Nation's Pride out of 5
4 comments:
Watching a film cheering the deaths of a bunch of dudes cheering the deaths in a film. Very meta Q.
4 That's a bingo! out of 5
I wasn't a fan of this not because I was offended but because for me it's one of those films I've watched once and have no desire to ever watch again.
I can watch Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill till my eyes bleed but at the end of this I was like "meh, it was ok." 2 out of 5 for me.
It's probably what I consider Tarantino's best next to Reservoir Dogs, which is saying a lot considering I'm not very fond of Tarantino at all.
I like Jackie Brown. It feels more like a proper film, as opposed to small scenes stitched together like much of his work.
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