Inglourious Basterds

Ally the Manic Listmaker

Great film. Not THE BEST EVER OMG, but definitely surprisingly well done. The dialogue was never the problem, although perhaps the scenes ran a little long and the ending was a bit too abrupt, given the time Tarantino gave to everything else. All in all, highly recommended and very entertaining.

tidal waif

if he really got guts, he'd be making movies about vietnam or irak .), not pseudo/oppositional entertainment.

smndvdcl

3.5 Production design, dialogue, cinematography, aesthetic and contextual elements are all superbly crafted. However, it plays to a WWII movie evil genius Nazi stereotype for the sake of spectacle. As a revenge fantasy flick, it delights. There is vicarious revelry in subverting history, but the motivation behind Col. Hans Landa's final manoeuvres lack authenticity, undermining the film's astonishing set pieces.

HKFanatic

Quentin Tarantino's best film since "Pulp Fiction" spends nearly three hours walking a tightrope between art and exploitation, rewriting history until the Nazi High Command falls before the "Face of Jewish Vengeance." But in this era where so much prejudice is cloaked by anonymity or disguised behind an innocuous facade, there's something appealing about Aldo Raine's unerring mission to brand hate where he sees it.

Jason

INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS may in some sense wish to provoke but ultimately it is more interested in pandering. This is Tarantino at his most cartoonish and pop revisionist. He is always quite skilled at engineering dramatic situations and writing quotable dialogue, but here everything seems perfunctory and glib. It could almost be framed as a geopolitical rape-revenge film. It is addressed to our baser selves.

Wee Hunk

This movie embodies all the worst aspects of World War 2 movies: hero porn, and smart/evil Nazis. The real bad guys have always been bureaucrats and politicians, who are not diabolically clever. Unfortunately, that's not as interesting.

ASHES IN THE HOURGLASS

He may be an auteur, but he certainly isn't a competent editor. Still, this is my favorite Tarantino if only because of the perfection that is the bar scene. To those who think it denies the Holocaust, I strongly disagree. This is a film that is fully aware of the sorrow and the pity, pun intended, that people have towards the Holocaust and uses it to, paradoxically, make us come to term with it.

Zac Weber

A wild and entertaining film that uses an incredible ensemble cast to rewrite history. The scene where the camera pans up to the top of the stairs is spectacular, especially as "Cat People" by David Bowie blares over top.