Inglourious Basterds (2-Disc Special Edition) [Blu-ray]

Actors: Brad Pitt, Mike Myers, Cristoph Waltz, Michael Bacall, Bo Svenson
Studio: Universal Studios
Category: DVD

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars

501 reviews
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Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen
Languages: English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language), French (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language), French (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: Blu-ray
Discs: 2
Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
Running Time: 153 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 6.6 x 5.4 x 0.6

MPN: MCABR61108483
UPC: 025192015397
EAN: 0025192015397
ASIN: B002T9H2L0

Theatrical Release Date: 2009
Release Date: December 15, 2009
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Editorial Reviews:

Amazon.com
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

Product Description
Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 12/15/2009 Run time: 153 minutes Rating: R

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Just wanted to say.... July 27, 2010
J. Biddy (Chapel Hill, NC)
This is probably the best looking bluray I've ever seen. I wish all of them looked as good as this!

I imagine you've seen the movie already, so I will just agree with you that it is good. But mainly I wanted to say, don't hesitate to buy the bluray copy of this. It should be in everyone's bluray collection as a showcase piece.

2 out of 5 stars

Tedious and Silly July 20, 2010
Kevin Raffay (Huntington Beach, CA USA)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful

I can't help but ask if Quentin has contempt for his audience. This over-long exercise in silliness would lead one to think so.

Yes, the "Jew Hunter" is a great character and well done, but Brad Pitt is horrendous. And what is with the comic book captions? I heard about the failed "Tavern Scene" a long time ago, and would agree with most critics that was one of the movie's bottoms.

This was the first Tarantino movie I have seen since Jackie Brown, and regret wasting my time on this joke of a film. Pulp Fiction will always be one of my favorites, but is Tarantino turning into our generation's Orson Welles?

I can forgive Tarantino for poor editing, but my wife will never forgive me for making her sit through this narcissistic exercise in gore and poor acting.

My tip -- if you are curious, hang on to the remote and fast forward through the tediousness. I think one can watch a accelerated version in about 45 minutes.

1 out of 5 stars

CALIFORNIA UEBER ALLES: A review by Dr. Joseph Suglia July 19, 2010
Dr. Joseph Suglia
1 out of 6 found this review helpful

A review by Dr. Joseph Suglia

Thanks to Quentin Tarantino, the succeeding generation will believe that Hitler was assassinated. Thanks to Quentin Tarantino, they will believe that the Jews overcame the Nazis. They will not know that around six million Jews - not to mention gays and political dissidents -- were funneled into factories of death, where they were stripped, shorn, shot, gassed, shoved into ovens, burned.

No Jews are incinerated in Inglourious Basterds (2009), Tarantino's most malevolent travesty and perhaps the most ethically reprehensible motion picture ever made. Nazis are incinerated. Machine-gunned and set aflame. In a cinema. In Vichy France. In 1944. By a band of Jewish-American soldiers and French resistance fighters.

What, precisely, was Tarantino hoping to accomplish by this fusillade of historical revisionism? Is this nothing more than a puerile time-machine fantasy? To deprive Hitler of the right to be killed by his own hand?

Tarantino's own remarks belie this interpretation: "The power of the cinema is going to bring down the Third Reich. I get a kick out of that!"

When the Nazis are cremated in the cinema, then, Tarantino is cinematically cremating the memory of their dominion. The burning cinema is the central metaphor of the film. It is a self-reflexive metaphor.

Predictably, few Americans seem to have a problem with this dehistoricization and rehistoricization of the Holocaust. After all, America is a country without much of a history of its own. Most of us are afflicted with historical amnesia. To demonstrate my point, let me adduce a personal example. I posted the first sentence of this review on Facebook last year: "Thanks to Quentin Tarantino, the succeeding generation will believe that Hitler was assassinated."

I received this in response (the grammatical mistakes have been retained for the sake of authenticity): "Aint it grand though!"

If this is what most Americans believe, then we are lost. The entire culture is lost.

What no one seems to recognize is that the film is an insult both to those who survived the Holocaust and to those who died in it.

The destruction of history is politically dangerous. It is also a form of ethical rape, especially when that history is fraught with so much hideousness, so much carnage, so much death, so much sorrow. To the supporters of the film, let me ask:

Do you honestly think that survivors of the Shoah would approve of this film?

Though Tarantino may claim that his film revolts against the Third Reich, it does nothing of the sort. Inglorious Basterds does not combat fascism. By liquidating history, it allies itself with fascism. It is a film that uses the same totalitarian methods as the Nazi propagandists, despite Tarantino's misguided intentions.

Holocaust revisionists such as Ingrid Rimland (and so many others) would applaud what Tarantino has done in this film. After all, he has created a film in which the Nazis lose, the Jews win, and the Holocaust never takes place. Is that not what the fascist "historians" have been saying all along?

Permit me to make a few remarks about Tarantino's method of presentation.

No one has described Tarantino better than the brilliant English novelist and critic Will Self. The filmmaker is a "pasticheur and an artistic fraud," Self writes. Indeed he is all of that and much worse. Nearly every image in Tarantino's cinema is derivative or evocative of something else. The climax of Death Proof (2007)--in which a misogynist is surrounded by a ring of femmes fatales and pummeled into unconsciousness--blatantly and uninventively reconstitutes a formally identical moment in Russ Meyer's Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965). Another scene in Death Proof--in which the female leads are surreptitiously photographed--repeats one of Dario Argento's lavish set-pieces in The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1969). Even the same Ennio Morricone music is deployed.

In Inglorious Basterds there are references to many films, such as Revolver (1973), another film scored by Morricone, and Clouzot's Le Corbeau (1943). Curiously, none of these allusions add to the film. Tarantino merely showcases the cultural references. He seems incapable of communicating himself cinematically except by way of derivations from other works of cinema. He does not create. He does not originate. He does not imagine. He does not conceive. He ventriloquizes.

I could not help but feel a certain depression after viewing this abominable film. I recalled that in the 1990s Tarantino was given carte blanche - the whitest of white cards - from critics for his use of racist language. Here we have a work not of anti-Semitism, but of anti-Judaism.

How is it that Michael Haneke's elegantly chilling The White Ribbon (2009), a film that casts a dark light on some of the conditions that led to National Socialism, is largely unseen and this atrocity is surrounded by a cavalcade of approval?

Inglourious Basterds is slime.

Dr. Joseph Suglia

2 out of 5 stars

Boring! July 18, 2010
du_nomad (Salinas, CA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful

I think my biggest gripe with this film was the fact that, based on the title, I fully expected it to primarily follow the exploits of the Basterds. However, quite honestly they could have been left completely out of the film with very little effort--they were nothing more than background characters popping in every now and again. Pitt's character had so much potential to be interesting, but we never learn hardly anything about him and he quickly becomes rather generic. Similarly, the plot itself had quite a bit of potential to be intriguing and enthralling, but instead became labored and boring. I'm glad I waited for the DVD rental, rather than wasting money on the big screen.

4 out of 5 stars

Good fun July 5, 2010
MISTER SJEM (CALIF BAY AREA United States)
Good fun and some really nice dialogue scenes. Brad Pitt is memorable in actions and mannerisms and there's enough gore and shock value typical of a Tarantino film. That said, while I liked it I didn't really like it or love it. MY GRADE: B

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