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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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Rating:  517 reviews
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Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language), French (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
Running Time: 153 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: MCAD61108380D
UPC: 025192014277
EAN: 0025192014277
ASIN: B002T9H2LA
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.
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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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 Inglorious Movie, Great Performances September 1, 2010
FMC (VA)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
If it hadn't been for some great acting performances (not Brad Pitt) I would have never sat through this entire movie. Christopher Waltz was incredible in this film and the rest of the performances, with one exception, were a close second to Mr. Waltz. And those performances is what makes this movie worth watching. With all due respect to nerds everywhere, a fifth grade nerd with no acting experience could have done a better job acting in this movie than Brad Pitt. He was nothing short of horrible in this film which surprised me because he is otherwise a fine actor. Watching Mr. Pitt in this film I found myself repeatedly asking "is this some kind of joke". Unfortunately it was not. What was Mr. Tarantino thinking?
 Just about perfection August 28, 2010
A. Cooper (Texas)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I was going to write an in-depth and hopefully witty review of Quentin Tarantino's Inglorious Basterds, but seeing as there are more than 500 reviews already that have probably covered everything a potential viewer would want to know, let me just say this:
It's darn near as perfect and dazzling a movie as you're going to find.
Well, that's that, then. On to my review of hummingbird feeders...
Artfully Silly, Pure Fantasy, A Masterpiece in Cinematic Folly August 27, 2010
Maria Eloisa Dungo (Cambodia)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Tarantino hits a very raw but fun-starved nerve. I recently had a spate of disappointing viewings (The Spirit, The New Karate Kid) and was not looking forward to this movie being anymore than chewing gum for the brain. I'm glad I was wrong.
Tarantino brings back the old spaghetti westerns but set towards the end of the Second World War. Anybody who grew up on Kelly's Heroes, the Dirty Dozen and spaghetti westerns understand the realm of seriously flawed but adorable heroes.
Everyone was expecting the great American ending when all we get is a big bang heroes fantasy. Its just not-so-good guys versus really bad guys. Its funny in all the unexpected places. Its like a new journey on a familiar road. No tormented good guys just people who would normally be locked-up now wearing the shoes of would-be-saviors.
The dialogue was just amazing.Good thing about DVD is you can rewind it. Every actor was perfect in their place. And that Landa character:the last time evil looked this charming was when it was Hannibal Lecter.
Tarantino takes the top spot from Scorsese on my list on this one.
Product of an inglorious mind August 26, 2010
Tudor (Toronto, Canada)
3 out of 8 found this review helpful
One star in one star too many for this sick product of a sick mind of what is becoming a sick industry in Hollywood. I could go up the ladder, but I'll stop here for the purpose of this review. In fact there's nothing to review. This movie amounts to nothing, artistically or in any other way. It is a revenge fantasy that comes 65 years too late, so I am at a loss to find the motivation behind this movie. I feel sorry for those young minds who are exposed to this garbage and even more so to see some expressing appreciation. Just glad I live in a different country and a different culture.
 Fizzles out at the end August 21, 2010
Melissa Niksic (Chicago, IL United States)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I liked the movie "Inglourious Basterds," which is a humorous and violent retelling of World War II history. The film branches off into several interconnected storylines, all of which are fantastic and interesting. The cast is fantastic and the story itself is a good one, but I thought the movie was a bit too long and was very anticlimactic at the end. I'm glad I didn't see this in the theatres because I would have been disappointed, but it's worth checking out on cable or DVD.
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