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
Watching a film cheering the deaths of a bunch of dudes cheering the deaths in a film. Very meta Q.
ReplyDelete4 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.
ReplyDeleteI 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.
ReplyDeleteI 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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