Inglourious Basterds
Language: English
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Writers: Quentin Tarantino
Release Date: 21 August 2009 (USA)
Cast: Brad Pitt, Diane Kruger, Christoph Waltz
Producers: Lawrence Bender, Christoph Fisser, Henning Molfenter, Charlie Woebcken
Cinematography: Robert Richardson
Film Editing: Sally Menke
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Anurag Kashyap
Abhay Deol
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Wiki says
May 20, 2009(Cannes)
United Kingdom:August 19, 2009
Australia:August 20, 2009
United States:August 21, 2009
Poland:September 11, 2009
When’s India release ?
India release anyone?
Probably it won’t be released in here :(
Tere muh me keede tere muh mein dhul, faale.
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
This movie comes right from Tarantino’s stable, and Tarantino had fun. You know what to expect when Tarantino has fun. Awesome with a capital A. It is Tarantino’s best since Pulp Fiction. Let me use a cliche – Don’t walk, RUN for it.
P.S: When did I last hear someone saying something about the history book?
Confessions of somebody who is NOT “movie” or a “director” or a “star” fan or a “cinema industry” fan and so will talk about their movie kinds
Just saw Kaminey and IB …. while I loved Kaminey, watching the 2 movies within a week, didnt help me but get the thought, all the laurels (that is well deserved specially within Indian set up of movies) that VB got for Kaminey and hailed as Tarantino, watch IB (even a trailer) and you’d feel that “YES VB is as cool as QT of 10-14 years back.” For QT making such full on action gruesome brutality, with classic style, effortlessness, casualness and jumbling up the story making it absolutely interesting and making a cinema on which you know whats gonna happen, but still looking forward how this moves. Slow pace and the steady screenplay, though might bore you for a minute or 2 at times (I was also on the last show, so maybe it was my sleep) …. but by the end of it you walk out so bloody satisfied like you ve seen a movie …. though have watched QT movies before on DVDs, watching one in full screen hall, finally made me realise why he is considered to be one of a kind …. WATCH THIS ONE! ITS BRILLIANT
A good film, but if this were made by any lesser known person or say in Hindi, it would have been slammed hard. But Tarantino’s art of subconsciously telling you what is going to happen in a scene, before it starts and then playing the scene at such an easy pace, is absolutely enjoyable. The climax didn’t go well for me as did some scenes, but the hard hitting style of cracking a scene wide open right in the center is what I love in Tarantino’s work and IB has a lot of that, right from the very beginning till how he ends the movie.
I think if made by a lesser known person or say in hindi, this movie would ve achieved a strong status later than immediate, however, wo giving out the plot or the framework, d still say creating a fantasy out of the basic premise, and still making sure that the audience watch the stuff, is pretty much an achivement in itself… Sadly if the concept is tried in India, we will have PILs and groups flaring up … overall, QTs style of making a 5 minute story into a 2+hr one, with multiple plots going on at the same time together, always comes up with a racy movie, enhanced with effortless gruesomeness, which just doesn’t leave you … as the movie watcher experience ‘d still think (and thats just me thinking aloud) just keeping it to this movie, it’s kickass…
A QT can only exist in Europe or America.. not here or pakistan or middle east or all the moralising countries.. nevertheless he is great and we are his bastard children..
Dying to see the film..
True sir, but maybe thats why we have the directors like yourself and a others (I include RGV and Mani Ratnam as primes) who are making/made movies that are questioning the moral police, are raising issues but are effectively seeing the light of the day, with success and an ever increasing following… now thats something QT will never have in Europe or US… an admiration that the film viewing and societial outlook was changed
n just to add, QT will never have a fan base that would go watch a love aaj kal expecting a gulaal (not even a jab we met) cuz QT might ve said its a great movie ;)
is exactly what I thought on my way out the theater; a director can’t go all out in India like you could in the US.
Inglourious Basterds is another incredibly entertaining film from Tarantino. It’s Brave, unique and just sheer brilliant!
Three stars. It didn’t suck, but it wasn’t great, either.
But, rather than crib about why I didn’t think it was a great film, I will tell you to watch this film to see the birth of a STAR!
Christoph Waltz, who has spent his career working in German television, STOLE this movie. An absolute joy to watch, he managed to steal every one of his scenes. I absolutely hope this is the start of an international film career for him as I cannot wait to see him on the big screen again…
T!, I guess you can cast your vote, the option available right above where you type ur comment (not respond) … that’d make the overall stars for the movie up or down…
Is that right oz? Not a very old patron of PFC, so, just making sure…
Christopher Waltz, is he the guy who played Col Landa? he did steal the movie away….
Yeah, just sent a message to oz because I clicked the stars, but my vote didn’t show, and the stars are no longer available for me to click.
Although, I disagree about Herr Waltz. I am fascinated by him, and a quick Google on him once I got home shows that I am not the only one. There is quite an Oscar buzz around him already, and lots of people seem to have been as taken with him as I am. Now to see if one of my cousins can send me some tapes of his TV work…
you disagree as in, you think he did a commendable job or he didnt
, I thought I was agreeing with you when I said he was great… anyways where and how do you plan to get the tapes? there are interesting work of cinema and advertisements that somehow a lot of the folks are accessing, I got no clue how… is there something you can share with me?
I probably shouldn’t reply to comments before a nap, I totally misread what you wrote…
I have family and friends in that part of Europe, and used to travel there quite often, so have access to stuff from that part of the world.
Actually, wherever I travel I try to make it a point to visit bookstores and video stores. Even here in Southern California, every strip mall video store is a potential goldmine of videos and CDs that you may have never heard of before. I have made so many discoveries of great things just by tripping over them accidentally. And, just about everything is on sale on the Internet somewhere ;)
The basterd is back with a bang . . .Quintessential QT dialogues . . .chapterwise breakdown. . .great blend of violence, suspense and humour sometimes all at the same time . . . You haven’t seen war until you have seen it through the eyes of Quentin Tarantino . . True very true . . . ” My name is QT and I need me thousands of viewers. . . We are gonna be dropped into a theater . . we are gonna be doin one thand and one thang only. . .seeing IB. . ssat good? ” Yes Yes Yes YEs yes!!!
The Basterds rock the movie theatre. . .Go headbang with em
loved the movie. thought the bar scene was stretched. Christopher Waltz i agree delivers the best performance and cruises around showing emotions quirkiness and cruelty with supreme ease, and brad pitt i must admit is a star attraction who delivers. his choice of cinema should get him an academy very soon. QT delivers exactly what is expected of him, brilliance!
@t!… yessir… should make my trips to bookstores and video parlours…
on the whole, anybody with any recommendation on movies that has like time wraps and kinds? moving into past or future, altering course of time and kinds? a more serious version of “back to future” kinds, butterfly effect kinds.. for some reason I have a fascination for such stories, right since doorarshan times, read some Dr. WHOs… but havent heard much of such movies… anybody at PFC who can recommend any movie on this genre?
I’d definitely recommend Primer which is my favourite. Then there is Timecrimes (Los cronocrímenes in Spanish) which is very much like Primer. People also recommend Run Lola Run but I haven’t seen it. Donnie Darko is there which also deals with Time wrap and is quite good watch. You may also try The Jacket and 12 Monkeys both dealing with paradoxes of Time Travel.
This is pretty much all I can think of right now.
thanks a ton .. have seen 12 monkeys… didn’t know run lola run had the time thing to it… Primer.. will surely check this out… thanks again for giving these…
Well, I can’t say whether Run Lola Run qualifies this category or not because I havent seen it. There are movies like 12:01 and Groubdhog Day etc. where same day occurs again and again in the life of characters. If Lola rennt is like these then it might not belong to above category.
Agree with you wholeheartedly Anurag, agar Tarantino yahaan filmein bana raha hota toh uski toh industry aur public(some r right here on PFC) ne abhi tak phaad di hoti specially on moral grounds. Uske upar se agar QT ne kuch Flop films bhi de diya hotey, toh samjho uski toh abhi tak lag gayi hoti!!!!!!!!!
was pretty good..would hlike to know if someone else could have made this same movie..re-writing history aint easy and Bradd Pitt was stunning…he wasnt bradd pitt..he was apache…the basterd!! seeing him play a character so convincingly is a glory…Coen Brothers and now Tarantino have shown us what Pitt is capable of…
Was Tarantino too stuck in his Pulp Fiction mode? not sure..but every bloddy scene/chapter being treated the same way…didnt excite as much..
what did IB ever have to do with PF?
Treatment, pacing…
well the streams did crisscross a bit. didn’t feel left in the lurch, “go figure” like pf (which of course was the best part about it). pacing, well, could say that about all his work. we’d be getting into his signature then, tough not to leave that. while i didn’t feel it caused any less excitement to me, I could relate with that sentiment (case in point: rgv).
Let me start off by saying that I am a huge QT fan. Not only because he defies movie-making physics and makes genre-bending movies; but also because he comes off as a very smart and articulate person without any bs in his interviews.
Now the IB review:
The movie starts very promisingly. Nazi-occupied France has a spaghetti Western feel to it. Col. Hans Landa (Waltz) reminded me of “Bad” in The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. As Landa grills the farmer, the tension rises incredibly. Small details like changing the language of the conversation show that Landa is an incredibly astute man. The first “chapter” as QT calls it left me gasping for more.
Unfortunately, it all goes downhill after the introduction of the Basterds. Brad Pitt carries off his role with panache and there is an interesting character named Hugo Stiglitz. However, the rest of the Basterds are not impressive at all. Eli Roth is over the top and not believable at all.
The movie just dragged throughout and was very long for no reason.
Many reviewers are dissing QT because he uses an 80’s David Bowie song in a 40’s movie. Or because no details on the war are provided at all. These people need to understand that a QT movie should be only looked at in isolation and enjoyed.
And that is where my primary complaint is… As a movie-watcher, I expect to enjoy the movie. And QT has left me sorely disappointed. The dialogue is nowhere near as sharp as Pulp Fiction and the action is not as funny/campy as Kill Bill. Just blood/gore when it is not warranted. Of course, the problem is that QT can only be compared to himself. Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, From Dusk Till Dawn are among my all-time favorites.
But Grindhouse and now IB are absolute clunkers. I have given it three stars simply out of respect to QT. And maybe someone can enlighten me on why this movie is so great.
ND, my review for the movie, is out of watching the movie… not trying to comparing it to any of his previous work, no pulp fiction, no RDogs no KBill… doesnt matter if he used an 80s song in a 40s movie… to me by the end of the movie I was pretty gung ho and charged up.. I felt that post 2 hours, despite having quite a few real slow moments and movie losing pace… the end of it you walk out all excited all over again, and all those slow moments make sense again … which doesnt happen too often… by the end of it the pitch of the movie stayed on … but then again, each of us entitled to what we feel, depending on what we expected or what was on with us while we went in to watch it ..
Accomplishing a Tarantino even for Tarantino is a very tough ask and he comes through. Enjoyable, hilarious and fascinating.
Just back from watching this movie. I’ve always loved QT’s style of film making. His trademark way of unfolding a scene (as Oz bhai pointed out) is always enjoyable. Pretty good movie, though changing historical facts and blending with fiction didn’t go that well with me (the climax). If anyone else would have made this movie instead of QT, it wouldn’t have been this enjoyable. I would give 3.5 stars. There is no option for giving half star, I would give 3.
Yaar when is it releasing in India??
The thing that I like most about QT’s movie, since his Kill Bill days, is the strength of characters. His lead characters be it the hero or the villain are always superlative in their jobs. Portraying men/women without pain or fear or guilt is no mean achievement but QT manages to do this everytime.
My least favorite of Tarantino
Agreed! Atleast in Grindhouse there was no pretense. He was just making a B-movie experience.
I personally loved the movie and it has always been my opinion that QT’s movies are great on 2nd viewing. We all ( especially QT fans ), expect a lot from this guy. When Pulp Fiction came out, it was trashed by critics, and then it gained its cult status. When “resevoir dogs” came out, ppl expected it to be a heist movie , rather it was a conversational movie, with the heist in the background, After this, people fell in love with QT’s dialogues and writing. When Kill Bill 1 came out, critics said, it has too much of violence and was missing QT’s dialogue and writing, ( after a while, how fun the movie was). When Kill Bill 2 released, many of them complained that there’s too less of action and more of dialogues. Now, looking back , they consider the Kill Bill movies as one of the best work from QT.
“death Proof” was his take on B-grade action movies and I loved it too, although because they clubbed it with Rodriguez’s “planet terror”, I believe this movie suffered. I personally loved the dialogues in this one too, espceially the ones in the Bar.
Basterds is again defying what QT has done in his previous. you simply cannot slot him and also cannot compare him to anyone else. He takes you into his own world, his own characters, his folklore and the scenes spellbindingly open up one after another. I loved IB. great ensemble acting. I love Col.Hans Landa the best, apart from Brad Pitt and Eli Roth. QT is spot on. After the first 2 chapters, the momentum does go down a little bit, ( that probably is the only complaint I have ), but I do realize that QT relishes in building up the movie towards the end. Without throwing in any spoliers, please do go watch this movie.
Hail QT !!!
Another Tarantino special. The man has a way of making scenes out of nothing. Brad Pitt was awesome, but I think Christopher Waltz, the Jew Hunter was truly amazing
This has to be the greatest work by QT.
Saw it yesterday. I guess I had too many expectations so didn’t like it much. It took way too much time to make a point. Tarantino has become too indulgent with his craft this time. Christoph waltz was a revelation. May be not the next Joker but definitely around there.
I enjoyed it thoroughly. Things I liked: dialog of course, Brad Pitt, chapter one, the basement tavern scene, the sudden Discovery channel voiceover about nitrate film, the scrawled labels for Bormann and Goering, anybody could be bumped off anytime, the Tennessee Italian accents.
Things I didn’t like: should’ve been more of Aldo Raine and the Basterds – set up so well but didn’t really do much, unnecessary gore (the film wouldn’t have been any less entertaining if the baseball bat bashing wasn’t so explicitly shown).
Hell, i thought the gore was less. Wanted to see more, was a war movie afterall.
A fun and entertaining watch. liked the violence, although wanted a bit more gore
The dialogues could have been better, but the way the tension keeps building up in each of the segments, is worth the full price of the ticket.
Although a bit of a downer compared to earlier tarantino flicks, would still recommend to Go for it!
Was a bit apprehensive considering the hype it had generated.But in the end I guess its justified.It has a lot of elements that makes one root for the film.Loved Christoph Waltz and Brad Pitt.Chapter One was amazing.And there so many sequences that were interestingly shot.I give it a 3.5 rating.
But for an excpetional performance by Christoph Waltz, and his characterization, which reminded of the Peter Sellers, IB is a concoction of style, brash humor and voilence… It is time the talented QT delivered something beyond voilent dramas with little essence… eminently watchable and enjoyable film… but offers nothing beyond heavy duty entertainment.. thats not a mean feat either…
superb movie QT rocks
watched this today…fantastic film..and I did find some subtle message in it on the futility of war. Note the scene Pvt. Zoller finds it hard to sit through the premiere of his film based on his own heroics during the war where he single-handedly killed 300+ soldiers atop a bell tower. An Act, he was so proud of till now, he now finds difficult to watch unfold in front of his eyes in all it’s brutal glory. May be I’m mistaken. And btw, when at the end Brad Pitt says “this might just be my masterpiece”, was it QT himself saying it to the viewers? I felt so…and not that I differ much
Brilliant movie.. Waltz was mind-blowing!!
Watched a 2 weeks back…really amazing..Quentin Tarantino all the way..Christopher Waltz did a great job..I think he s the highlight of the movie after,of course,Tarantino…But i felt slight let down in the climax…but still a great movie…
Hope to see Christoph Waltz more in the future…