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Inglourious Basterds [DVD] [2009] | ![Inglourious Basterds [DVD] [2009]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51H4j-mls6L._SL160_.jpg) | Director: Quentin Tarantino
Actors: Brad Pitt, Diane Kruger, Eli Roth, Mike Myers
Studio: Universal Pictures UK
Category: DVD
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Format: PAL
Languages: English (Subtitled), Arabic (Subtitled), Danish (Subtitled), Finnish (Subtitled), Hungarian (Subtitled), Icelandic (Subtitled), Norwegian (Subtitled), Swedish (Subtitled), English (Original Language)
Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
Region: 2
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 147 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 5050582713374
ASIN: B001N2MZSY
Release Date: December 7, 2009
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Amazon.co.uk Review
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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 In the QT world July 25, 2010
balvenie
If I had been told this was a film about WW2 I would have given it a miss, but as QT directed it I thought it was worth a watch. I loved it and was quite happy to suspend belief throughout. Much of the film is subtitled, but don't let that put you off because for some reason it works perfectly. Brad Pitt plays his psychopathic part perfectly with an awful over the top deep South accent adding to the dark humour of the film.
Christoph Waltz is menacingly scary as Nazi Colonel Hans Landa, and all the supporting actors are excellent. I would say this is the best film I have seen in a long time. It is intelligent, humourous, gory, evil, and everything you would expect from a QT film. Just remember to press the pause button if you have to go off and do something, because it is so packed with action you are bound to miss something good if you don't.
The second world war in typical over the top Tarantino style July 20, 2010
John M (UK)
The film could only have been directed by Quentin Tarantino. It is a cleverly put together plot about Nazi atrocities and a gang of behind-the-lines US Nazi hunters lead by Brad Pitt, the eponymous 'Inglourious Basterds', set in occupied France from 1941 to 1944. Christoph Waltz steals the film with an excellent performance as the charming, urbane and psychopathic Nazi Colonel Hans Landa. It combines the usual anarchic scenes, witty dialogue and over-the-top action and violence one has come to expect from Tarantino. The cinema scene involving Brad Pitt posing as an Italian film director trying to speak Italian in a dreadful American accent with the fluent Col. Landa is a particular highspot. A clever and well put together story, but realistically probably only for those who enjoy the usual Tarantino mayhem.
THIS IS NOT A HISTORY LESSON. July 19, 2010
Dulouz Lautrec (Dewsbury, Yorkshire.)
OK. This is not a history lesson, it's entertainment and personally, I don't really like real characters being dropped into fictional situations but every film has to be set at some point and place in history so why not World War II with Adolf and his mob?
I'll admit to being a Tarantino fan although I thought 'Death Proof' was a turnip and it's almost like Tarantino has become a caricature of himself but this film is brilliant, I won't have a word said against it and as far as the reviewers who have given it 1 star, maybe zey vanted ze Nazi's to vin mein fuhrer!
Excellent December 8, 2009
Matty
8 out of 11 found this review helpful
Inglorious Basterds is Tarantino's most enjoyable film in quite some time. The first hour is a gently paced build up for a pretty relentless assault in the second half of the film. Brad Pitt is excellent as Aldo Raine and Christoph Waltz as Hans Landa "The Jew Hunter" is a great adversary.
The film is split into five chapters, the first of which is one long opening scene which builds tension extremely well. Much of the film has subtitles but it's Tarantino's excellent use of different languages that adds to much of the tension. There are times when you know that some characters are unable to tell what others are saying because they don't speak the language. It adds to the suspense.
Part of what makes the film so much fun is that QT has decided to throw away much of the history of WW2 and recreate it his own way for fun, without being in any way disrespectful.
The blu-ray picture and sound are excellent and there are some great special features, including a very interesting "round the table" chat with Pitt and Tarantino.
Never has the phrase "Bon Giorno" been better used!
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