This on the Top 250? Seriously?

Rating: 2/10 (23 July 2011)

Inglourious Basterds is boring, nonsensical, stupid, and overlong. I can't get my head around on why this is on IMDb's Top 250. Personally, I don't think it deserves this amount of praise. Heres why.
The main problem with Inglourious Basterds is that it can't decide whether to be a gritty war film or a table conversation caught on tape. For 70% of the film, all we are given is boring and overlong foreign language conversations that do nothing more than act as stretching filler for the 153 minute run time. Worse, it does almost nothing to develop the nonexistent plot line and the uninteresting and emotionless characters (apart from Colonel Hans Landa played by the great Christoph Waltz). Boring!
It is a strange fact that the title characters (the Basterds) get such little screen time. But even if they had more time, you still wouldn't care about them the slightest. For matters, they aren't very interesting characters. Who are they? Where did they originate? Why were they selected to assonant Nazi's in the first place? None of this is explained. And as hard as Brad Pitt and the others try, their talent is wasted on their roles being overshadowed by the unnecessary conversation scenes plaguing this film.
Near the end of this bore, we get to the action scene (finally!), but its just played out ridiculously. Spoilers: Hitler and his Nazi officers get locked inside a burning theater during a screening. Shouldn't there be guards available to stop the intruder from doing this? I only spotted a few on duty who didn't do anything. During the explosions, two of the Basterds sacrifice their lives to well continue shooting Hitler's corpse I guess? Not sure why. Then we cut to a conclusion that doesn't resolve anything.
So whats so good about this film? From my point of view, nothing apart from Waltz. There's no plot or character development, the story is poorly told and the pacing is slow and boring. We all know Quentin Tarantino as a respected film director, but this mess he made doesn't come close to the charm of other WWII films like The Dirty Dozen, Saving Private Ryan, Defiance or Valiant.
This basterd of a film is just plain bad. But seriously. A movie this poor in the Top 250? Thats completely beyond me. "D"