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Staring:
Brad Pitt,
Mike Myers,
André Penvern,
Michael Bacall,
Bo Svenson
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List Price: $39.98
Our Price: $17.99
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Description
Brad Pitt takes no prisoners in Quentin Tarantino’s high-octane WWII revenge fantasy Inglourious Basterds. As war rages in Europe, a Nazi-scalping squad of American soldiers, known to their enemy as “The Basterds,” is on a daring mission to take down the leaders of the Third Reich. Bursting with “action, hair-trigger suspense and a machine-gun spray of killer dialogue” (Peter Travers, Rolling Stone), Inglourious Basterds is “another Tarantino masterpiece” (Jake Hamilton, CBS-TV)!
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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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Too Strange, 2010-03-10
This movie starts out good and quickly becomes boring and depressing. Save your money.
Great movie for the Tarantino fan, 2010-03-10
My husband and I loved this movie. As expected from Quentin Tarantino, the movie is absurd in its humor, graphic in its violence, revisionist in its history. We will enjoy watching it over and over again...
If only I could give this movie no stars!, 2010-03-10
The use of scrupulously depicted gruesome scenes, completely superfluous in this film, (a well-documented preferred phenomenon of Tarantino), demonstrates a cruel mind and obviously the sinister soul of the director. The plot could have led to a decent picture, but Tarantino's affinity for superfluous carnage and violence leads any decent screenplay into an abyss of semi-entertaining failed dreadfulness. I am unsure why a self-respecting actor would appear in Tarantino movies. Why we still watch Tarantino movies is beyond me. Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, three times, shame on me!
pure acting skill show, 2010-03-09
I think a basic understanding of the culture is required to appreciate this work. I guess people who gave poor reviews only enjoy there little U.S.A and never sees the rest of the world.
WORST MOVIE THIS YEAR, 2010-03-09
not a long review...almost wasted three hours of my life...watched first 30 min and watched last 20 min of movie while fast forwarding the middle..review done...MOVIE SUCKED AZZ:)
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Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: Blu-ray
Brand: Universal Pictures
EAN: 0025192015397
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen
Label: Universal Studios
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Universal Studios
Release Date: 2009-12-15
Running Time: 153
Studio: Universal Studios
Theatrical Release Date: 2009 |
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