Inglourious Basterds (Single-Disc Edition)
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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)!Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #17 in DVD
- Brand: UNI DIST CORP. (MCA)
- Released on: 2009-12-15
- Rating: R (Restricted)
- Aspect ratio: 2.40:1
- Formats: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
- Original language: English
- Subtitled in: English, French, Spanish
- Dubbed in: French, Spanish
- Number of discs: 1
- Running time: 153 minutes
Editorial Reviews
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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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