Quentin Tarantino is nothing if not audacious, and for me, this is his most enjoyable movie since Pulp Fiction. Toss The Dirty Dozen together with Cinema Paradisio, fold in a few issues of Sgt. Fury and his His Howling Commandos, then top it off with a couple of good spaghetti westerns and you get some idea of the flavor here. Pitt's great channeling Warren Oates as Lt. Aldo Raine, but he's upstaged by the beautiful Melanie Laurent as a French/Jewish theater owner with a thirst for vengance and even more so by Christoph Waltz as the charmingly villainous Nazi Col. Hans Landa. Graphically violent, often surprising, and funny as hell - well, that's Tarantino for you. And who else but Tarantino would employ Ennio Morricone, Mike Meyers, Rod Taylor, David Bowie, Bo Svenson, and John Dykstra - all in the same WW II movie? :thumbsup:

Didn't care for it. The whole "inglorious bastrds" thing is but a fraction of this really long movie. It's not about them and we really don't spend but a few scenes with them. I love Pulp Fiction, but it had pacing and didn't drag. I have to quote Elvis on Tarantino's latest....A little less conversation, a little more action please!! The Bowie song was great though.

Loved it. I felt a little squeamish at how badly he treated the Nazis though. Really laid waste to Hollywood endings.

I don't think I'm too interested in seeing this Basterds film. It just sounds like a bunch of Jewish-American soldiers getting revenge on German soldiers. That's not an interesting or realistic enough of a plot for me.

Sorry...

I don't think I'm too interested in seeing this Basterds film. It just sounds like a bunch of Jewish-American soldiers getting revenge on German soldiers. That's not an interesting or realistic enough of a plot for me.

Sorry...

s'okay.

The opening could have been cut in half but overall it was ok. Some people were confused by the end coming before the middle and so forth. Also, Myers was miscast IMHO. I kept waiting for him to break into Dr. Evil.

Also, Myers was miscast IMHO. I kept waiting for him to break into Dr. Evil.

I recognized his voice before I recognized his face under all that make-up. Granted, Myers' presence pulls you out of the story just a bit. The bigger surprise to me was who was playing Winston Churchill - American actor Rod Taylor - who I haven't seen in a movie in at least 30 years.

I recognized his voice before I recognized his face under all that make-up. Granted, Myers' presence pulls you out of the story just a bit. The bigger surprise to me was who was playing Winston Churchill - American actor Rod Taylor - who I haven't seen in a movie in at least 30 years.

Now that I didn't know. Wow!

It was great!

The bigger surprise to me was who was playing Winston Churchill - American actor Rod Taylor - who I haven't seen in a movie in at least 30 years.

Taylor's cameo is my favorite thing about the film. Truth be told, I thought he'd been dead for years.

FWIW, he's Australian.

Taylor's cameo is my favorite thing about the film. Truth be told, I thought he'd been dead for years.

FWIW, he's Australian.

TCM showed "The Time Machine" the other night and it seemed Taylor was half-heartedly affecting a British accent. I remember thinking that some American actors like Taylor just can't pull that one off. Shows how much I know. :p

It's been what...50+ years? Maybe he learned a thing or two?

It's been what...50+ years? Maybe he learned a thing or two?

He doesn't sound a whole lot like Churchill either.

Does that mean he didn't sound like Churchill, didn't sound British or, both? Haven't seen the movie, so, I wouldn't know.

Does that mean he didn't sound like Churchill, didn't sound British or, both? Haven't seen the movie, so, I wouldn't know.

Both. He's on screen for all of a minute so it doesn't really matter.

Thanks for the reviews! I almost always enjoy Tarantino movies no matter how shocking or gross they are (or maybe BECAUSE they are gross and shocking?).

I'll be checking it out at some point in the future. I have to watch Death Proof just about every time it comes on. Favorite scene is just before Kurt Russell runs the girls over.

The good woman and I saw IB tonight and it's two thumbs up from us. She thought it went by very quickly. I found it hung together better than any past QT movie I can recall. I loved that the "punch line" at the end of the movie is set up very early with a smart pay off. I know she and I will be talking about it for days ...both agree we need to watch it again.

FWIW: If nothing else, see it in the theater simply because the sub-titles are MUCH easier to deal with on the big screen than they will be on the tube with DVD.

John O.

Just saw this on Blu-ray, though I liked it a lot, Jackie Brown is still my favorite Tarantino film. Besides the great acting, dialog, and what might be Tarantino's most coherent plot, I thought one of the more interesting elements of the film was it basically had you rootin' for terrorist. And not just your garden variety Hans Gruber-ish movie terrorist, but seeking-religious-revenge-terror campaignin'-strapping-explosives-to-yourself terrorist.

And man, those KNB make-up effects were something! I was cringing during the last scene.

David Bowie?

The movie was okay. I'm in the "a little less conversation" camp too.

I went in thinking it was going to be this group going around France and/or Germany hunting down Nazis.

David Bowie?

David Bowie's theme song to Paul Schrader's "Cat People" is used in the scene where Shosanna applies her makeup while preparing for her own "final solution". It's a left field choice to be sure, but the music and lyrics serve the scene well.