"We will be cruel to the Germans."

Rating: 8/10 (15 June 2014)

Say, wouldn't it have been something if this was the way Hitler really got it? Or as Lieutenant Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt) would have suggested, getting a whack at planting Uncle Adolph would have made this a horse of a different color.
Well I've always liked Tarantino's story telling style. Somehow he makes the grotesque entertaining, or almost entertaining if you're squeamish about things like scalping Nazis and branding foreheads with swastikas. OK, entertaining is probably not the right word, more like fascination with a train wreck that you can't help watching as the train cars collide and smash into each other as you stand by helplessly.
He also gives you something to think about. Like Colonel Hans Landa's (Christoph Waltz) squirrel/rat comparison. The colonel's explanation made perfect sense, there's not much difference between the two if you just forget about the tail. That was just a stunning observation.
Well this obviously is not the kind of movie for everyone, and by now most fans know what old Quentin is up to with his pictures. You're going to get generous amounts of blood and gore, but also a fairly intriguing story if you stay with it. No happy endings of course, but that comes with the territory. Basically, Tarantino is an inglourious basterd himself when you come right down to it, and proud of it.