Historical Facts are Boring

Rating: 1/10 (12 March 2015)

My title is how I imagine the brainstorming session by the production team of this movie was kicked off. The writers of the movie have made the error of forgetting that Inglorious Basterds wasn't actually supposed to be taken seriously. The movie takes itself so seriously it is actually offensive. It is the film equivalent of the 'Commando' graphic novels of the 1960's My fear is that as time goes by, subsequent generations might see films like this and think that it represents some form of factual representation. The one thing that I find really tiresome about this and numerous other films of the past 10 years and television series such as 'Band of Brothers' is the assertion that the treatment of the Jews during the war and the other horrific actions of the SS was somehow common knowledge to the troops invading Europe. It wasn't, it barely was known to the public even years afterwards, so stop using it as an excuse for characters to commit fictional war crimes in retribution.
I won't get bogged down in the dozens of other historical inaccuracies, historically revisionist statements and attitudes of the characters and pure idiocy of the plot and just say that films like this take us back to the bad old days of the post war vainglorious posturing where the only good German is a dead German.
Avoid this and hope they don't make any more.