INGLORIOUS BASTERDS
NEW DVD
TWO DISC SPECIAL EDITION
AVAILABLE 15 DECEMBER 2009
Brad Pitt
Melanie Laurent
Christoph Waltz
Eli Roth
Diane Kruger
Written and Directed by Quinton Tarantino
Rated R
153 minutes
Universal Pictures
Lt. Aldo Raine: My name is Lt. Aldo Raine and I’m putting together a special team, and I need me eight soldiers. Eight Jewish-American soldiers. Now, y’all might’ve heard rumors about the armada happening soon. Well, we’ll be leaving a little earlier. We’re gonna be dropped into France, dressed as civilians. And once we’re in enemy territory, as a bushwhackin’ guerrilla army, we’re gonna be doin’ one thing and one thing only… killin’ Nazis. Now, I don’t know about y’all, but I sure as hell didn’t come down from the goddamn Smoky Mountains, cross five thousand miles of water, fight my way through half of Sicily and jump out of a fuckin’ air-o-plane to teach the Nazis lessons in humanity. Nazi ain’t got no humanity. They’re the foot soldiers of a Jew-hatin’, mass murderin’ maniac and they need to be dee-stroyed. That’s why any and every every son of a bitch we find wearin’ a Nazi uniform, they’re gonna die. Now, I’m the direct descendant of the mountain man Jim Bridger. That means I got a little Injun in me. And our battle plan will be that of an Apache resistance. We will be cruel to the Germans, and through our cruelty they will know who we are. And they will find the evidence of our cruelty in the disemboweled, dismembered, and disfigured bodies of their brothers we leave behind us. And the German won’t not be able to help themselves but to imagine the cruelty their brothers endured at our hands, and our boot heels, and the edge of our knives. And the German will be sickened by us, and the German will talk about us, and the German will fear us. And when the German closes their eyes at night and they’re tortured by their subconscious for the evil they have done, it will be with thoughts of us they are tortured with. Sound good?
Those who recall my original review may be asking why I agreed to review the DVD. Fair question. For those who have forgotten, here it is.
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INGLORIOUS BASTERDS
2009
NEW RELEASE
OPENS 21 AUGUST 2009
Brad Pitt
Melanie Laurent
Christoph Waltz
Eli Roth
Dianne Kruger
Written and Directed by Quentin Tarantino
Rated R
153 minutes
Universal Pictures
Lt. Aldo Raine: My name is Lt. Aldo Raine and I need me eight soldiers. We’re gonna be dropped into France, dressed as civilians. We’re gonna be doing one thing and one thing only… killing Nazis. Members of nationalist socialist party conquered Europe through murder, torture, intimation, and terror. And that’s exactly what we’re gonna do to them. We will be cruel to the Germans and through our cruelty they will know who we are. They will find the evidence of our cruelty in the disemboweled, dismembered, disfigured bodies their brothers we leave behind us and the Germans will not be able to help themselves from imagining the cruelty their brothers endured at our hands, at our boot heels, and the edge of our knives. And the Germans will be sicken by us, the Germans will talk about us and the Germans will fear us. Nazis ain’t got no humanity! They need to be destroyed. Each and every man under my command owns me one hundred Nazi scalps… and I want my scalps!
I have to admit, this was better than anticipated but that still leaves a lot of room for doubt which it ate up quickly enough.
Tarantino had one good film in him and he made that long ago.
This is a work of pure fantasy. It is more akin to the fairy tales of old than to history. It is bloody, gruesome and, as the Brits would say, ‘bloody gruesome’.
There are some very good performances in the film, but that is attributable to the actors and not the script.
It is a video game masquerading as a movie. Therefore, it is designed for nose picking teen age boys who have no knowledge of history.
In the process, it becomes a TWO AND A HALF HOUR long insult to the veterans of that war.
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I was hoping there may be some explanation as to why this film was made or even funded. Alas, in two discs, there is none of that.
There is a lot of aggrandizing of the ‘talented’ Mr. Tarantino which I can only assume came from those happy to get a paycheck that didn’t bounce.
As far as I’m concerned, it is still a piece of crap explained away only by the phrase ‘revenge fantasy’ scribbled on the back of the box art. What a pitiful explanation for the destruction of historical accuracy.
Mr. T is no genius film maker; he is a lucky SOB who is faking it and being funded by those who he has fooled.
The film is a disgrace to reality and a slap in the face to the film industry’s credibility in total.
Click here for the trailer of Inglorious Basterds
Tags: christoph waltz, diane kruger, jim bridger, melanie laurent, quinton tarantino
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