Inglourious Basterds (Single-Disc Edition) |  | Actors: Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz, Mike Myers, André Penvern, Michael Bacall
Studio: Universal Studios
Category: DVD
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Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 153 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.7
MPN: 61108380
UPC: 025192014277
EAN: 0025192014277
Theatrical Release Date: 2009
Release Date: December 15, 2009
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IN NAZI-OCCUPIED FRANCE DURING WWII, A GROUP OF JEWISH-AMERICAN SOLDIERS KNOWN AS 'THE BASTERDS' ARE CHOSEN TO SPREAD FEAR THROUGH THE THIRD REICH BY SCALPING & BRUTALLY KILLING NAZIS. THE BASTERDS SOON CROSS PATHS WITH A FRENCH-JEWISH TEENAGE GIRL WHO RUNS A MOVIE THEATER WHICH IS TARGETED BY NAZI SOLDIERS.
Although Quentin Tarantino has cherished Enzo G. Castellari's 1978 "macaroni" war flick The Inglorious Bastards for most of his film-geek life, his own Inglourious Basterds is no remake. Instead, as hinted by the Tarantino-esque misspelling, this is a lunatic fantasia of WWII, a brazen re-imagining of both history and the behind-enemy-lines war film subgenre. There's a Dirty Not-Quite-Dozen of mostly Jewish commandos, led by a Tennessee good ol' boy named Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt) who reckons each warrior owes him one hundred Nazi scalps--and he means that literally. Even as Raine's band strikes terror into the Nazi occupiers of France, a diabolically smart and self-assured German officer named Landa (Christoph Waltz) is busy validating his own legend as "The Jew Hunter." Along the way, he wipes out the rural family of a grave young girl (Melanie Laurent) who will reappear years later in Paris, dreaming of vengeance on an epic scale. Now, this isn't one more big-screen comic book. As the masterly opening sequence reaffirms, Tarantino is a true filmmaker, with a deep respect for the integrity of screen space and the tension that can accumulate in contemplating two men seated at a table having a polite conversation. IB reunites QT with cinematographer Robert Richardson (who shot Kill Bill), and the colors and textures they serve up can be riveting, from the eerie red-hot glow of a tabletop in Adolf Hitler's den, to the creamy swirl of a Parisian pastry in which Landa parks his cigarette. The action has been divided, Pulp Fiction-like, into five chapters, each featuring at least one spellbinding set-piece. It's testimony to the integrity we mentioned that Tarantino can lock in the ferocious suspense of a scene for minutes on end, then explode the situation almost faster than the eye and ear can register, and then take the rest of the sequence to a new, wholly unanticipated level within seconds. Again, be warned: This is not your "Greatest Generation," Saving Private Ryan WWII. The sadism of Raine and his boys can be as unsavory as the Nazi variety; Tarantino's latest cinematic protégé, Eli (director of Hostel) Roth, is aptly cast as a self-styled "golem" fond of pulping Nazis with a baseball bat. But get past that, and the sometimes disconcerting shifts to another location and another set of characters, and the movie should gather you up like a growing floodtide. Tarantino told the Cannes Film Festival audience that he wanted to show "Adolf Hitler defeated by cinema." Cinema wins. --Richard T. Jameson
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 Great movie! March 13, 2010
Thomas M. Mickletz (gilbertsville, pa USA)
I been a QT fan since Pulp Fiction. However, I must admit that I didn't get into Grindhouse, just didn't interest me. I passed on Inglourious Basterds because I thought it was going to be just another senseless violent QT ego-trip. I enjoyed the Kill Bills because it had great characters and dialog. But I had a feeling that his work was going down hill, becoming to mainstream. But, when I saw IB for the first time I must say I was very impressed by it. Great characters, awesome dialog, great acting, and wonderful direction. The only thing that would of made this movie better is if would have been shot in Black and White.
Also, the humor is very toned down in this, but if you watch the full length version of Nations Pride mini-movie on the bonus features you will seriously be on the floor laughing, its hilarious!!!
 WWII as told by Quentin Tarantino March 13, 2010
Jack Pinman (Bedford, UK)
If you need to write an essay or a report for school about World War II, then don't take it from this movie, seriously this film is about as accurate to the real thing as the Kokoda track had an escalator instead of stairs. Inglorious Basterds is World War II as depicted as Quentin Tarantino as a group of jewish American soldiers called The Basterds are dropped into Nazi occupied France to kill as many Nazis in the most horrifying, cruellest ways imaginable, and I love it.
What I don't like is the way Quentin shows off to us his knowledge of films is as he shows it so much in this movie. Comparing this to say Pulp Fiction is like comparing an iced coffee to a long island iced tea, both of them have the feel of a Quentin Tarantino movie, you know he wrote and directed both of them but they are completely different genres of films, ones a gangster film with not that graphic of violence and the other is a fictional WWII with the level of graphic violence that could bring tears to the eyes of a person with no eyes. The only actors anyone can spot right there and then is Brad Pitt as Lt. Aldo Raine, the leader of the Basterds and Mike Myers as a brief cameo. all the other actors you will have to think hard as to where you have seen them before.
So basically what I'm saying is don't go into this movie with the mindset of Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill, just don't go into any mindset at all. I can guarantee you will enjoy even more.
DVD (Single Disc) & Movie Review March 12, 2010
Mia (OH USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The single disc DVD release is very disappointing. Almost NO special features. Boo! Rent it, don't buy it if you're into special features on DVDs.
Caution: Might Be A Spoiler Review.
Movie Cons:
1) If you don't like really violent scenes, I'd suggest fast-forwarding through them. They're a bit much, in my opinion. I get that it's a Q.T. film but it's always just above and beyond gross.
2) If you go cross-eyes reading subtitles, this may be really challenging.
3) If you have issues with violence towards women, this may bother you.
4) Man, does it twist with WW2 history. Big time. And it is so off with the time-line of early June 1944.
5) A major plot development is never fully explained. How DOES she end up with that movie theater anyway?
Pros:
1)Those caveats aside, this is a really well done film, beautifully shot. Lighting and scenes, set dressing, costumes etc. are really outstanding. I believe they may have made one mistake with the British officer's uniform but that's a small detail. I liked the pacing of the film especially. It really is a character study with adventure and gore thrown in.
2) Christoph Waltz as Col. Landa is simply amazing!! He is so charmingly creepy that I felt like I was being ensnared, undressed and hung out to dry in a slime pit. The first scene is so taut that I had to stop the DVD and breath a bit. You know it's NOT going to end nicely but still, I was riveted. It wasn't over-paced either. Perfect. Funny thing is, I felt watching Mr. Waltz' performance that he probably is a great guy in "real" life. I'd put him down as one of the great film villains!
3) Brad Pitt is handsome and wise-cracking with an accent you could cut concrete with. I'm not a fan of his but he was great!
4) The two lead females are talented and gorgeous. If you wonder why Diane Kruger looks familiar, she was in the National Treasure movies. And she must speak a bunch of languages because her accents (to me) were excellent!
5) If you're multi-lingual and want to brush up on your French, German and Italian, it's great practice!
6) The casting is brilliant, well-done!
I would recommend this movie highly, but if you're squeamish at all, fast forward when the knives, guns and baseball bats come out.
 really stupid March 12, 2010
David L. Nelson (Framingham, MA)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
A really stupid movie -- not even bad. And technically flawed in that the subtitles flash by far faster than they can be read. Neither the Nazis were that stupid nor the French underground that arrogant.
Glorious Movie March 12, 2010
Beatrice Stein (Seattle, WA)
As someone mentioned on this post, the Jews in "Inglourious Basterds" were not doctors and lawyers. They were, in fact, soldiers. The movie is a fantasy, but of course during WW2, there were American Jews in the front lines fighting the Nazis
My family is American-Jewish, and my uncle (who did become a doctor) and my father fought in the front lines of France. My father told of times between fighting when German soldiers who spoke English and American soldiers who spoke German would talk to each other and toss cigarettes over to the other side. Then the cease fire ended and they'd go back to shooting.
Both my relatives treated the Germans with some civility because they didn't yet know about the Holocaust. Jews who escaped from Europe tried to warm Americans, but their warnings appeared on page 17 of the local press while German denials made the front pages. Americans believed the stories of their German enemies rather than the Jews, probably because Germany was a nation that had produced wonderful scientists, musicians, and philosophers, and people found it difficult to believe that they could participate in such bestial behavior.
Hitler used German antisemitism to unite his people and initiated extermination when no other nations would allow us entry. But he never put his name on the extermination orders---he let other willing participants do that. The same people who produced Brahms, Mozart,and one of the world's great religions wallowed in an evil greater than most other peoples have ever thought of. Hitler was evil enough to give people the right to do what they wanted to do whereas most civilized societies try to make laws that rise above the basest feelings of their citizens. Hitler lost the war the day he allowed the first Jew to be deliberately killed.
The plot of the movie isn't a Jewish fantasy, however, it is Quentin Tarantino's fantasy, and is one that can be enjoyed by all. So long as we have wonderful filmmakers like Tarantino, unafraid of fantasy violence, most of us can act out our basest feelings through film and don't need people like Hitler to do it for us.
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