Overrated- the stupid ending ruined it

Rating: 7/10 (5 July 2015)

I want to give this movie a 10, but I just cant. At times it was groundbreaking, amazing, and awesome, and at other times it was frustrating, angering, and stupid.
There are two scenes that I would put up as some of the best I've seen in any film in recent memory. They are masterful and unbelievably good. The only way I could break this one down is the good and the bad approach.
Good: Opening 20 minute scene was spectacular, the female lead Laurent was great, Christopher Waltz gives one of the best performances I've seen of the 2000s and really almost single handedly makes this movie a 10/10, the plot- I really liked the story how it all revolved around film and movies and how the plan involved the help of a famous movie star, as well as how Laurent's character was undercover and at the center of the plan, the supporting actors- the crazy guy who loves to kill Germans who the IB's recruit is a great character along with the Englishman who goes with him to pick up the movie star and all of the other major characters who had lines (except Pitt- I'll get to that in a second), the cinematography, the dialogue, the humor- wow, this was one funny movie, no doubt, and it was riveting and held your attention from start to finish despite being a dialogue driven movie. There were times it was very reminiscent of Pulp Fiction, and I absolutely loved the similarities, but it was ultimately its' own movie.
However, for as many good things about this movie (which is why I am so tempted to want to give it a 10, there were several letdowns.
Bad: First, I was so pi--ed that Shosanna(Laurent) died. It was the most disappointing and pointless death in a movie I ever seen, and it loses 1 star right there. I really liked this character and she had a solid plan going that she was executing. There was absolutely no point in her dying. I actually LOVED this character so I was very mad at the filmmakers when she got killed pointlessly. She was really the main protagonist of the film, and all they had to do was allow her to escape and live happily ever after on a farm. That was BAD scriptwriting. That's just my opinion, but seriously- there was no reason for her to die- what a letdown.
Second, relating to that, the whole ending sequence was a letdown and disappointing. Don't get me wrong, I loved the whole dynamite being placed and left in there, and I absolutely found it hilarious that Waltz (Landa) changed his mind and negotiated that deal- that was great, but for it just to be some big shoot-up-the place-massacre with Shosanna dead, I thought it could have been more of a caper or a twist could have been implemented to it. For example, what should have happened was the black guy, Shosanna, and the IB's left all should have escaped as the theater burned to the ground, instead of it blowing up and presumably having them die. I would have liked to have seen the black guy and Shosanna escaping like an ultimate crime caper, maybe even have them kiss in the parking lot and then show them on the farm together drinking milk or something- anything happy.
Also, I would have liked to have seen Hitler escape because it just didn't make sense like that- yes it's fiction and I can handle much of that, but come on, at least have SOME historical accuracy breathe here at the end. They could have had Hitler escape from the second floor somehow and crawl away wounded but still alive so at least the war went on the way it really did and there would be a connection. Lol that would have been funny and still kept with the humor. Im not saying this ruined it or anything, but it was just a little bit too far fetched and that prevented me also from giving it a 10/10.
Also, Brad Pitt- what was he thinking? I mean, don't get me wrong, he WAS funny and I found his character pretty funny in most of the scenes, but man, his acting in this was terrible. It was surprising that his acting was the weak link of the whole cast. I never would have thought that. Im not saying he sucks as an actor, and I know the humor was part of the role, but compared to the rest of the cast and actors/actresses who were superb and excellent, he was definitely the worst actor of the bunch, at least in this particular role. I know he's not that bad and has some talent to act, that's why I was surprised. Don't get me wrong- he wasn't the worst ever or anything like that, but he just acted pretty poorly in this, but it's funny too because I think he was just trying to be funny.
Other than that, this was a great movie (could've been even greater if they would have made the ending better and done some of the things I mentioned above). Christopher Waltz was absolutely amazing and I can totally see why he won the Oscar for this. If nothing more, I would say this is one funny movie (one of the strangest funny scenes was watching Hitler laugh at the movie while people are being shot- that kind of humor is so weird yet also surprisingly hilarious at the same time. I thought the actor who played Hitler was hilarious in every scene he was in).