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Like a bat to the head, it's not too subtle, but you can't help but watch.
Quentin Tarantino seems to be hanging on to a lost world of moviemaking. He may be nuts. But he's a nut who cares.
Its biggest flaw, though, for those who care about such things, may be its moral attitude. That might seem a stodgy thing to bring up in the context of a Quentin Tarantino movie, but it takes such center stage that it needs to be examined.
Tarantino's vigorously accomplished 'Inglourious Basterds'
Landa is such a wily and despicable concoction that, in movie terms, he's almost impossible not to like. And therein lies part of my problem with this movie.
I'm tempted to say Tarantino has done it again, but I doubt anyone has ever done anything like his dazzlingly original World War II movie, Inglourious Basterds.
They're inventing a new junk-food product line for Inglourious Basterds - the White Elephant Supreme.
Inglourious Basterds not only knows that it is a fictional movie, but also that it is being watched by an audience, and herein lays its greatest achievement.
WWII revamped Quentin Tarantino style, Inglourious Basterds succeeds as the ultimate fantasy revenge story, a Kill Hitler which stands as one the best works in the career of its influential filmmaker.
Tarantino is at times like a flamboyant, egomaniacal orchestra conductor, gesticulating wildly and turning to the audience to make sure we know that the show's about him.
Despite some of the scenes dragging on too long, Inglourious Basterds is still a lot of fun, altering history for the better as the Nazis feel the force of redemption.
Inglourious Basterds is worthy of Dr. Strangelove.
... the disc producers have skipped the usual commentary track and traditional making-of documentary for a more eclectic collection of supplements...
Shows how most of us turn to film for both fantasy escape and an avenue to make the abstract past tangible, enough to even possibly, and powerfully, replace actual history.
A glourious rude mix 'n match of subtitles, nazi scalps, guerrilla cinema and testicle blood-soaked subterranean French cellar saloon shootouts, the movie is a vintage QT Western European western. In other words, Tarantino's WWII heartfelt warsploit rocks
A brilliant rebound with a wonderfully complex story, a great cast, and a score that's really up to par with Tarantino's standards...
Tarantino's World War II epic is both bloody and talky.
Tarantino's visual style and flare for the fantasy make for an intriguing and colorful World War II drama.
Don't be put off by all the explicit gore, for it is ultimately vindicated by the flick's disturbing, self-referential way of delivering a thought-provoking message not only about war, but about our insatiable lust for movies about war.
Mr. Waltz's dynamic performance contrasts satirical and dramatic hues, effectively charismatic and repulsive at once.
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