I’m putting this Inglourious Basterds right up there with Pulp Fiction! It’s fantastic! There are some pretty gross spots, but most of those you can anticipate while grabbing a pillow or your teddy bear to hide behind.

Everybody say STRUDEL!!

The nitty gritty:

Brad Pitt is damn good in this new movie courtesy of Quentin “more blood, dammit!” Tarantino. It’s a great way to just enjoy him and forget all about that fertile factory he’s usually joined at the hip with. I think, his line at the end of the movie, “I think this might be my masterpiece” not only speaks for the character and his ruthless, yet unflinching character, but for Tarantino, as well.

However, I’m not all that much of a Brad Pitt fan and despite his solid performance of Lt. Aldo Raine. The standout for me was Austrian actor (debuting in his first American film) Christoph Waltz. He’s everything you could want in a Nazi villain: charming, well read, polite, intelligent, and absolutely and swiftly vicious. This guy could scare Severus Snape!

I’d heard that Leonardo di Caprio was a possibility to play Col. Hans Landa and I’m very glad that Tarantino went with his instincts in wanting a German actor for the part. I really can’t wait to see Waltz in other American movies.

That is not Sherlock Holmes!

If you’re not the squeamish type (you folks ought to have fun viewing The Time Traveller’s Wife) then go see Inglourious Basterds. No spell check necessary.

What is the meaning of the misspelled title? QT: “Here’s the thing. I’m never going to explain that. You do an artistic flourish like that, and to explain it would just take the pi** out of it and invalidate the whole stroke in the first place.”

Tags: brad pitt, christoph waltz, movies, tarantino

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