I'm Speechless. Wish Tarantino was.

Rating: 1/10 (9 October 2010)

I love QT's films. All of them. Until today. Inglorious Basterds, in many reviews is accosted for being to ludicrously violent. It is that. But I'm not bothered by it. It's a QT trademark, after all. It is lambasted for its absolutely ridiculous fragment of a plot. I agree that what's there is frankly, insulting. But QT has often managed to do amazing things with such plots. Problem is: It is intensely boring. there is this thing that happens to famous directors. They forget there is this concept called editing. They come to believe that their vision, their every second of imagery is heavenly treasure; that to cut a line of dialog out of, for instance, the third 20-minute conversation around a table, is to cut the heart out of their child. We're here, folks. QT has become boring. His once masterful dialog may be in there somewhere, but it's buried in stuff that would make George Lucas reach for the scissors. And that is all this movie is--talking. Sure, there's some blood and explosions, but QT dashes through the action so that he can get back to yet another stilted, pointless conversation among characters who, frequently have no role save for that conversation. Boring, boring, boring. Stupid and violent, yes, but the boredom: thats' unforgivable.