Disturbing

Rating: 6/10 (19 January 2010)

This film is disturbing, because of what it is trying to say to the viewer.
Let me explain; The general view throughout movie history is that Nazi's are evil, right? As disturbing as this may be, Quentin takes it even further.
This film treats Nazi's like inhuman, evil and retarded... 60 years ago, that is what the Nazi's would call Jews.
We see a scene where a German soldier surrenders, and then being beaten to death with a baseball bat.
Furthermore, we see a slaughter of German officers in the theater scene. Surprisingly enough the Nazi's were watching a slaughter of Americans.
Furthermore the Basters create scars on their prisoners foreheads with the swastika, much alike the Nazi's did with the Jews with the yellow David star.
These are just the main coincidences in between actual events from WWII and Inglourious Basterds.
Now I wonder, did Quentin put this into his movie deliberately? If so, he should be very ashamed. Because basically he is asking us, while watching his movie, to sympathize with the equivalent of the Nazi's, the Basterds.
Maybe I am reading to much into this, and it really is a coincidence.
The movie itself then? We'll it isn't worthless but it is too long, some scenes serve no purpose and are utterly boring.
However, this movie might be saved from totally crapdom by one of the GREATEST acting performances of the last decade. Christoph Waltz preforms the great, intellectual cunning, ruthless, and viciously charming Hans Landa. What an act. I think Quentin should have only kept in the scenes in which Christoph Waltz starred, and this movie would have been an actual classic.
The other actors gave away a very mediocre and non-rememberative performance. Shining at the bottom of this list is Brad Pitt. Wow. I've never seen Pitt portray such a one-dimensional character.
By the end of the movie i started to sympathize for the Nazi Hans Landa, and started to hate Aldo, portrayed by Pitt. Come on, Quentin, this can't be right? Summary: a so-so movie, not worth watching again.