I usually end up with one or two-word responses when I ask friends what they think of this or that film, and that's one of the key reasons I WANT to see a movie for myself. "No different was" Inglourious Basterds. I finally have time to watch it for myself, and let me tell you that it's a bloody good movie!
"The opening credits informed me that it has the same genes as" Pulp Fiction," "Kill Bill, "and" Sin City. "I like how in" Inglourious Basterds, "as he did in the" Kill Bill "series, Tarantino immerses himself in the nitty-gritty of cultures. The cinematic style often shifts towards the society seen in the movies. There's no particular Tarantino style, I suppose, because he adapts to whatever story he's trying to tell, and that becomes his style.
In the film, there's a lot of implied gore but depicted in the typical Tarantino-comical way. That's what you're going to see a lot in the movie, a lot of moments of "should I or shouldn't I laugh now". Severe and stressful discussions can result in comical results or extreme results.
The film consists of 5 chapters, each of which usually ends in tense situations that will keep you on the edge of your seat.
In the movie, Brad Pitt sticks out like a sore thumb, and it's a good thing. There were several scenes where I thought "Ocean's Eleven-ish" a little bit; that was the extent of the effect of Pitt on the movie's watching.
Christoph Waltz and Melanie Laurent are the other two stand-outs in the film. This is yet another emphasis on the realism that Tarantino brings into his movies. The devil is in the details, indeed.
All in all, "Inglourious Basterds" is a fine, realistic film based on World War 1 stories. Kudos to Tarantino for another movie that is well performed.
