Inglourious Basterds

Inglourious Basterds is a 2009 war comedy film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino and starring Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz, Michael Fassbender, Eli Roth, Diane Kruger, Daniel Brühl, Til Schweiger and Mélanie Laurent. The film's title was inspired by Italian director Enzo G. Castellari's macaroni combat film The Inglorious Bastards (1978). The film was distributed by The Weinstein Company and Universal Pictures. The film was released in Germany, and the United States on August 20-21, 2009 to critical-commercial success.

Plot
In 1940s German-occupied France, young Jewish refugee Shosanna Dreyfus witnesses the slaughter of her family by Colonel Hans Landa. Narrowly escaping with her life, she plots her revenge several years later when German war hero Fredrick Zoller takes a rapid interest in her and arranges an illustrious movie premiere at the theater she now runs. With the promise of every major Nazi officer in attendance, the event catches the attention of the "Basterds", a group of Jewish-American guerrilla soldiers led by the ruthless Lt. Aldo Raine. As the relentless executioners advance and the conspiring young girl's plans are set in motion, their paths will cross for a fateful evening that will shake the very annals of history.

Why It's Glorious

 * 1) One of the reasons this movie is so good is because of the way Tarantino decides to experiment with tension and fear; if you think about it for a second, Inglourious Basterds is an ode to terror and fear and the way the tension and suspense is handled is fantastic and will make you hold your breath.
 * 2) * The first scene between the farmer and Hans Landa is extremely tense, you can see the scene without context and it would still break your heart just like the farmer's tears are falling little by little.
 * 3) * Other scenes like the basement-bar sequence, the reunion at the café between Frederick and Shoshana, the strudel scene, the private moment between Hans Landa and Von Hammersmark and the final negotiation between Landa and the bastards; all are scenes where silence and intimidation are prioritized based on the power of dialogue.
 * 4) Great performances from the cast, especially Christoph Waltz and Melanie Laurent.
 * 5) While the film can be quite long, it has some funny, amazing and well-done moments throughout the movie. Some of them are:
 * 6) * The opening dialogue between Hans Landa and the farmer
 * 7) * The baseball bat beat-up
 * 8) * The strudel scene
 * 9) * The "3" scene, especially because of the attention in small details it requires
 * 10) * The italian scene
 * 11) * The final negotiation between Hans Landa and Aldo Raine
 * 12) * The explosive climax at the theater premiere.
 * 13) Beautiful soundtrack, even though it wasn't performed by anyone else.
 * 14) Quentin Tarantino still did a fantastic job directing the film, just like he did in the Kill Bill series.
 * 15) Amazing narration by Samuel L. Jackson.
 * 16) The sets like The Le Gamaar cinema and most of Paris occupied in the 1940s are well made, and it's a major location in the film's plot.
 * 17) Hans Landa is an extremely vile antagonist and a man who does his job in a very classy and elegant way. He's easily one of the best movie villains of all time.
 * 18) Beautiful cinematography.
 * 19) Awesome characters, such as Lt. Aldo "The Apache" Raine, the "Bear Jew" and Shoshana Dreyfus.
 * 20) The recreation of a 1960s-70s intro theme including the old Universal logo was well made.
 * 21) Interesting cameos from Mike Myers and BJ Novak.
 * 22) The violence and blood is well-used in the story.
 * 23) The final cinematic scene is completely epic, at the movie theatre scene, the movie suddenly changes into another film with another scene where Shosanna Dreyfus tells all of the Nazis to die and causes the movie theatre to go on an inferno rage and kills Hitler, blowing up the entire theatre.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) There are some extremely gross-out humor throughout the movie.
 * 2) Plot hole: When Landa captures Raine at the theater, he pokes him gently in the eye. Raine then viciously head-butts Landa, but a few minutes later when they negotiate Landa's surrender at the restaurant, there are no marks on Landa's face.
 * 3) Despite being the titular characters, the bastards have little screentime. Although they're still amazing.
 * 4) It's kind of disappointing that the bastards and Shoshana never met.

Reception
The film received mixed-to-critical acclaim by critics, and audiences alike and multiple awards and nominations, among them eight Academy Award nominations (including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay). It has an 89% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 329 reviews, with a rating average of 7.82/10. The site's critical consensus reads: "A classic Tarantino genre-blending thrill ride, Inglourious Basterds is violent, unrestrained, and thoroughly entertaining." Metacritic scores a film a 69/100 based on 36 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".

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Trivia

 * Roughly only thirty percent of the film is spoken in English, the language which dominates the film is either French or German, with a little Italian. This is highly unusual for a Hollywood production.
 * 1) *Quentin Tarantino worked on the script for almost a decade.
 * This is the first Quentin Tarantino film to win an Oscar for acting: Christoph Waltz for Best Actor in a Supporting Role. Waltz won another Oscar for Tarantino's Django Unchained (2012).