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Single sentence review of “Inglourious Basterds”

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Entertaining three-hour diversion that seems shorter than it really is, has much, much less action than you would have expected, and once and for all answers the question of “is there anything Eli Roth hates more than women?” with “why, yes: Nazis.”

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dom said on August 25th, 2009 at 1:14 am

Margarihti! cue hand motion….

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Tarpo said on August 25th, 2009 at 1:43 am

It was weird for me.. it FELT long.. but I didn’t care because I was really enjoying it. Chapter One was the single best introduction of a villian I think I have ever seen

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NCallahan said on August 25th, 2009 at 6:39 am

I’m going to see it this weekend and I fully anticipate Tarantino breaking the mold and actually killing Hitler.

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John said on August 25th, 2009 at 7:31 am

Honestly I found it self indulgent (not surprising for a QT film), over long (also not surprising), and boring (which I didn’t expect).

Anyway, maybe this’ll make QT retire the “two characters have a civil conversation shot in long uninterrupted takes while the tension builds slowly and the scene is punctuated by sudden, brutal violence” bit since he leaned on that particular trick in this movie until it snapped in half.

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Robert N. said on August 25th, 2009 at 8:15 am

So, was the “nazis in the cinema” in any way meta QT-style (meaning, “eh”)? Or is he really the dude that he sounds like when he talks about Red Dawn (a freeper on coke)?

And I don’t know if Roth hates nazis more, dude. Nazis at least done shit to attract hate, it’s not really hard to get it out of even the most chilled dude, by now it’s pretty much like saying “Satan” in the middle ages (while being accepted and beyond understandable) to the point that it has become a vague insult meaning “general bad bad thing” (go on, do it catholicism-style, who was Satan being a surrogate for? Who received the horns this time?). Now the women in his films, on the other hand, one has to really have some baggage… There’s a false simetry in that comparison from the start (that is, unless he skullfucks a live baby-nazi’s eyesocket to death in front of its parents and makes them eat the results blabla the aristocrats).

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Will said on August 25th, 2009 at 3:21 pm

All I’d add to that is that when the violence does arrive, it’s worth waiting for (at least in chapter four).

And Til Schweiger is badass.

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Iceshadow said on August 25th, 2009 at 4:45 pm

It could have used more HUGO SPIGLITZ.

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Justin Zyduck said on August 26th, 2009 at 12:14 am

Just saw it. I have heard this movie called tonally inconsistent, I have heard it called self-indulgent, I have heard it called gimmicky. To some extent, I agree with all of this.

However, it was DAMNED ENTERTAINING.

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