When I got out of the cinema my heart was still beating fast from what I've just experienced. As a Quentin Tarantino fan I knew it had to be great, but I really had no idea (pardon my language) how effin' much! I seriously did not expect this to be so epic. So beautiful. So breathtaking.
"Once Upon A Time in Nazi-Occupied France... 1941."
As well as with all of his other films, Quentin Tarantino filled this one with many movie references - beginning with sort of a reference before the actual movie even begins, namely the vintage Universal logo from 1973. Many of the other references refer to 'bunch-of-guys-on-a-mission-in-WW2' movies or spaghetti-westerns, as Basterds itself consists of those two genres. But there are also other movies referred to, like The Godfather (hilarious Brad Pitt in white tux, with his jut out chin, pretending to be Italian).
Now something I'm sure you already know or guessed: the soundtrack is amazing. It's obviously more in the style of Kill Bill, rather than the soundtracks to Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown or Death Proof (which are also terrific). A lot of Ennio Morricone and Western-filmmusic. The entire soundtrack consists out of music from other films, and it's so well chosen, that it works just perfectly with Inglourious Basterds. And David Bowie's Putting Out Fire from the 1982 film Cat People is a great song and as it obviously sticks out from the rest of the soundtrack, it fits perfectly right before the film's climax.
Brad Pitt, who played Lt. Aldo Raine from Tennessee, was a lot of fun and, yes, he was pretty cool. Yet, it wasn't really anything extraordinary - especially compared to Christoph Waltz's outstanding performance as the brillant character of SS-Colonel Hans Landa. He really earned the Cannes Award for Best Acting Performance and it would be only fair if he'd get the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. But there's also more great acting throughout the movie - like Mélanie Laurent as Shoshanna Dreyfuss; Til Schweiger maybe giving the coolest act of the year; August Diehl, as the slimy Gestapo-officer Hellstrom, who also offered a really scary performance.
And then there are four - subtitled - languages spoken in the film (English, German, French and Italian). But they really don't bother - they make the film more interesting and give it a very nice art-house touch.
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As I'm sure you already know, there are a lot of violent scenes in the film (though not as many as in Kill Bill vol.1), but between most of those scenes passes quite some time - which is filled with really brillantly excecuted suspense, to which Tarantino's (as usually) excellent dialogue adds even more tension. The slow-paced opening sequence, which is just filled with suspense and ultimately ends with the killing of a Jewish family; The magnificent La Louisiane-scene, where the Allies' masquerade is about to come undone by the Nazis any second and after 20 min (of screen time) ending in a superfast furious shoot-out killing almost everybody there. Like Tarantino said himself, "a shorter Reservoir Dogs". Those scenes and many more in the movie, are pure cinematic experience. But after you saw the whole movie, it's like all those thrilling and action-packed scenes were only a precursor to the climax, which finally explodes into the audience as an epic bullet-filled inferno, just like the Gamaar Theatre literally explodes in the movie. I also loved the sub-plot, of the nazi-hero Frederick Zoller falling in love with the Jewish girl Shoshanna, which ends in a very dramatic shoot-out where they both kill each other.
The aspect of Hans Landa wanting get off scot-free after the war and living on a nice island for the rest of his days is also a nice one, as a lot of nazis actually did this. And of course, the end, where cinema literally ends World War II, is nothing less than genius.
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Inglourious Basterds is a masterpiece and as much as I love Kill Bill or Jackie Brown (and I really do), I like Basterds a little better and thus makes it my favourite Quentin Tarantino movie since Pulp Fiction.
Just as the last line in Inglourious Basterds metaphorically states: It just may be Quentin Tarantino's masterpiece.

An amazing and clever film, that invented a new way of storytelling; it tells the plot backwards and can only be told backwards. And that's an amazing experience watching the movie.
Telling the story backwards is not, as one may think before actually watching the movie, just a caprice. It is the whole point of the film. The main character, Leonard, is a man, who is in a condition since "the incident", where he forgets everything that he witnesses after a couple of minutes. That forces him to take immediant notes and pictures of anything relevant to him; those notes will lead him later on, when he forgets about what happened again. So telling the story backwards gives the viewer (almost) as much information about the current situation, as the protagonist currently does. The viewer doesn't know what chronologically just happened before a scene and Leonard does neither, because he forgot. Also, telling the story backwards gives the movie a great climax, which wouldn't be the case if the film'd be told in chronological order. And the ending is certainly one of the best twist endings ever.

94% FRESH

Miller's Crossing; one of the Coen's very best films. A brillant and stylish gangster film with a very clever plot, many twists, great dialogue and a unique atmosphere, that also plays terrifically well with the amazing action scenes. Carter Burwell did once again a beautiful soundtrack and Barry Sonnenfeld, still as cinematographer in this picture, does a great job as well.
This one is certainly also on the list of the best gangster films ever.

A brillant, comic art film. Jarmusch at his best! The humour is often very subtle and would've not have been able to be portrayed anywhere else but on film (not in a book, not in a song nor in a play). It's a genius movie, because of it's slow paced (much credit to the beautiful camera by Robby Müller), richly detailed and highly enjoyable scenes. Benigni also makes you laugh throughout most of the movie since he appears in it. Him and Tom Waits and John Lurie give a great performance. I know there are many people, who will (or are) fall in love with this film, just like me. A much too underrated, terrific independent film by the great Jim Jarmusch.

An amazing neo-noir crime thriller masterpiece; the Coens' first film and it has everything a great Coen film has. It resembles to their later masterpieces, like Fargo and No Country For Old Men. You may find some dragging parts somewhere in the beginning, but you'll find yourself very quickly drawn into this great film. As many Coen films do, this movie also has a brillant plot, full of turns and surprises, about how a "small" crime, has a huge impact, and is getting worse and worse. Like I said; a masterpiece of it's genre(s) and with an even more terrific climax and ending!

Macabre 90 minutes of pure, shuddering horror. Often quite disgusting because of what you don't see. Scenes, that let you imagine what the gory details would look like. That's also why it's so horrifying; it has a realistic feeling. Adding the documentary-style in this film, it's like a nightmare that could really happen somewhere in the nowhere of Texas. And that's another point why it's a true horror film: it's a nightmare. One of the very first slasher-films ever made, and arguably the best one. It is a landmark in slasher- and horror-films, that inspired later on many movies of it's genre.
95% fresh

One of the best Anti-War movies ever and also one of Kubrick's best films. I quote an other critic from here, supporting it, that Full Metal Jacket is not a realistic movie, but a "horror-comic superrealism". I think the movie and it's message are brillant. It communicates, how pointless war is. It also presents everything, from the treatment in the boot camp to all the killings (friends' and also enemies' deaths) in Vietnam, very brutally.

In my opinion, the best Western movie and one of the best films ever made. The best way, the Dollars-triogy could end. Leone's directing is outstanding, no scene is dragging, beautiful landscapes, a more than great climax and also one of the best soundtracks ever (!). I recommend everybody to see this movie!

One of Scorsese's best films, and one of the best films ever - telling the tragic story of Jake LaMotta's life: his boxing career and what a horrible, but tragic man he was. A beautiful film with strong images. In many scenes you can feel the brutality coming out of the screen. The gory ones in the ring, and the terrifying ones outside of the ring. It's the zenith of Scorsese's directorial style, as he thought it would be his last film. Robert DeNiro is outstanding and deserved the Oscar for this role.

[size=2]Jarmusch's anti-western is beautiful, genius and one of his best films. It was a flop at the box office, but is a significant and brillant film.

And even though it's pretty different from Jarmusch's other work, it still has some typical Jarmusch-moments we know and love.[/size] The film becomes a spiritual journey, in which the main character, which is really great acted by Johnny Depp, turns from a naive bookholder into an unintentional serial-killer, because of being chased by bounty hunters and the law. On the way we also find some great cameos (Gabriel Byrne, Alfred Molina, Iggy Pop, ...)

The incredible (!) camera by Robby Müller and the really amazing (!) & great-fitting music score by Neil Young, are breathtaking.
The very non-heroic ending, in which the main character and the viewer are barely part of, just emphasize the not-western, in this gorgeous picture.