Inglourious Basterds

Alright, its been a week, and i think I've decided to shift to focus of this blog from... nothing to movies.

Inglourious Basterds

For those of you who have been living in a hole, Quentin Tarantino has released yet another film for our viewing pleasure. This time, the world's biggest movie geek has abandoned his usual modern American setting for nineteen forties Nazi-occupied Germany. The story depicted in all of the trailers is accurate, and sums up the overall plot of the movie, but ignores a very important secondary subplot, which can be forgiven, because the point of it is not made completely apparant until about halfway in. Anyways, Brad Pitt takes on the role of an American soldier who has a real name, but is better known as "Apache". Now, Apache is the leader of a small squad of Jewish-Americans who are deployed behind enemy lines to spread terror by killing, torturing and even scalping german soldiers. For what must be obvious reasons, this group becomes known as "The Basterds". The Basterds become aware of a premier of a new German movie, where all of the German high command will be in attendance. Obviously, this is an opportunity they cannot pass up, so they team up with a British soldier and film expert and a German actress in order to gain access to the premier and kill everyone inside.

Tarantino's usual approach to movies usually goes something like this: lots of character development, some first-rate (though over-the-top) action and gore, with a petty or ridiculous story (see From Dawn 'til Dusk, Kill Bill, etc.) However, Basterds actually has an interesting and coherent story, though still has moments that make it hard to take seriously. This may seem to be a bad thing if you have never seen a Tarantino film, but it actually works to make the movie more interesting and enjoyable, as only Tarantino can do with such skill.

All in all, this was one of the better and most enjoyable movies of '09 that I've seen so far, and I would recommend it to any Tarantino fans, or anyone who has liked at least one of his films, or anyone who likes to laugh at Nazis and Hitler, or to anyone who is not my father.


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This makes me seem redundant, but i can't do a better job than this: