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2009 | 153 minutes | Rated R
(based on 2 user reviews)

Quentin Tarantino's long-awaited action flick isn't a World War II movie—it's a movie about World War II movies and, by extension, how the Third Reich has become a beloved fixture of American pop culture. One story line riffs on The Dirty Dozen and its ilk, with Brad Pitt as a Tennessee cracker leading a squad of Jewish-American badasses on a search-and-destroy mission through Nazi-occupied France. The other stars Melanie Laurent as the secretly Jewish proprietor of a Parisian movie palace who's plotting to incinerate the German high command at the premiere screening of a Nazi propaganda epic. Tarantino has already caught some flack for daring to use the Holocaust as material for another of his bloody live-action cartoons, but of course the generation that experienced it for real has mostly faded away. In that sense Inglourious Basterds is a social marker as startling as Easy Rider was in its day. By J.R. Jones

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Official Site: www.inglouriousbasterds-movie.com/#/trailer-us
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Producer: Lawrence Bender, Erica Steinberg, Lloyd Phillips, Bob Weinstein and Harvey Weinstein
Cast: Brad Pitt, Mélanie Laurent, Christoph Waltz, Eli Roth, Michael Fassbender, Diane Kruger, Daniel Brühl, Til Schweiger, Gedeon Burkhard, Jacky Ido, B.J. Novak, Omar Doom, August Diehl, Denis Menochet, Sylvester Groth, Martin Wuttke, Mike Myers, Julie Dreyfus, Richard Samuel, Alexander Fehling and Rod Taylor

Sorry there are no showtimes for Inglourious Basterds on Sunday, September 5.

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"but of course the generation that experienced it for real has mostly faded away"

I'm not sure if I this is a real argument for or against anything.

Posted by gcm on | Report this comment

I am hoping it will become a cult movie. Perhaps it may.

Posted by proudtower on | Report this comment

I loved it. It's a strange movie, all right, but it was stunning to behold. I just recommended it to a coworker, and she will probably hate the hell out of it, but I'm not worried about that.

I plan to see it at least once more. Next time I will look at the sets and the costumes and look again for Mike Meyers, who slipped past me despite having several minutes to get me to notice him. If I see it a third time, it will be just to sit back and watch people who really know how to act. I will pay special attention to the basement bar scene, and maybe I will be able to avoid jumping out of my skin at every change in fortune.

I will also watch the final scene with special attention to the satisfaction I felt when it was over. From childhood I have always known that if I didn't like the ending of a film (think "Old Yeller"), I could just dismiss it and make up one that I liked better.

This is the ending I would have made up. I was thoroughly satisfied by this movie.

Posted by T Plotski on | Report this comment

this movie is just another one to cash in on the stereotype of jews as tough, good-looking badadass who are born predators.

Posted by Film Critique Czar (F2C) on | Report this comment

Sporadically entertaining fantasy violence, diluted by long stretches of bla bla bla. Ultimately a mild disappointment.

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