Review of Inglourious Basterds (2009) by Buggy B — 02 Jan 2014

Well I made it through. I found this movie extremely frustrating because although it is well acted, suspenseful, clever, violent, funny and perfect in a lot of ways the editing (?) drove me nuts. Now I know Tarantino did it this way on purpose but it made most of the "chapters" with their l-o-n-g drawn out scenes and dialogue painful to watch. I just wanted to get on with it, and honestly found myself bored with 90% of this extended, dragged out movie. Every scene just went on & on with so much unnecessary footage, that I suppose was meant to add to the suspense but honestly just made me want to hit the FF button. I will say that the ending is kinda awesome (I wish it were true) and Christopher Waltz is worthy of his Oscar and then some. That opening "chapter" at the French farmers house with all the pipe lighting and politeness and Shosanna! Kinda blew my mind, it was so good but jeez. 08.13.

"Quentin Tarantino's war epic about a squad of special soldiers who preform strikes in Nazi occupied France.".