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Inglourious Basterds (2-Disc Special Edition) [Blu-ray]
enlarge	Actors: Brad Pitt, Mike Myers, Cristoph Waltz, Michael Bacall, Bo Svenson Studio: Universal Studios List Price: ~~$26.98~~ Buy Used: $10.38 as of 9/7/2010 23:13 BST details You Save: $16.60 (62%) In Stock New (45) Used (28) from $10.38 Rating: 517 reviews Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen Languages: English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language), French (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language) Rating: R (Restricted) Media: Blu-ray Discs: 2 Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1 Running Time: 153 Minutes Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3 Dimensions (in): 6.6 x 5.4 x 0.6 MPN: 025192015397 UPC: 025192015397 EAN: 0025192015397 Theatrical Release Date: 2009 Release Date: December 15, 2009 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days


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Customer Reviews: Showing reviews 1-5 of 517 1 2 3 4 5 6 ...104 Next » A masterpiece! April 14, 2010 Claudia C. A. Alves (Brasília, DF Brasil) Second best Tarantino movie! I'm a fan of Reservoir Dogs, but I loved this one. That Col. Landa makes us hate nazis even more. Another great acting work for Brad Pitt. Simply loved. Recommend a 100% How can you not like this movie? April 20, 2010 Jack (North Carolina) This movie was just flat out entertaining as hell and totally unforgettable. That Waltz guy was crazy good in this movie. Sure it could have used a little more action and was dialogue heavy in parts but good all around. Great acting and totally kept my attention for the full 153 min run time. Make sure you have the stomach for heavy violence before you pop this one in... but otherwise this one should not be missed. Another Masterpiece Courtesy of Tarantino April 23, 2010 Giancarlo Urbano (Venezuela) If you haven't seen "Inglorious Basterds" you really don't know what you're missing. It is as humorous and tongue in cheek as Tarantino can be and is a very insteresting retelling (a very inventive one, by the way) of the end of the second world war. The photography in this picture is probably my favorite of all Tarantino movies to date, the colors and the sensations they give are simply wonderful. The same goes for the score. And to all this you could also add the fact that the performances in this piece are genius, specially for our friend Cristoph Waltz who plays the Col. Hans Landa, and for which he won an Oscar. The Special Edition has many goods to be worth the extra money you're paying for it. It also gives you the chance to have a digital copy (at least before december 31st of 2010) free of charge (15$ value). " I think this might be my masterpiece" April 25, 2010 technoguy (Rugby) The film starts with the introduction of two of the main characters who also happen to be the best actors: Colonel Hans Landa((Christoph Waltz) and Shosanna Dreyfus (Laurent) with the heading `once upon a time in Nazi-occupied France'. The firstimage opens upon a bucolic farm scene and sets the template for the rest of the film.A farmer with his 3 daughters, a spaghetti western theme arrives with the Nazis.Tarantino brilliantly captures the mounting tension with Landa's interrogation of the farmer over the dinner table.The subject of his mission is to find the missing Dreyfus family who are hidden beneath the floorboards.The farmer smokes a pipe and so does Landa(Sherlock Holmes style).The Nazi switches speaking from French to English and soon the farmer is forced into cheque mate, divulging the whereabouts of the family,who are shot through the floorboards,while Shosanna escapes. We move on to a few years later to the Lieutenant Aldo Raine(Brad Pitt) and his troop of Basterds,Jewish soldiers about to engage in targeted acts of retribution e.g. to take100 scalps each and drive terror into the Nazis.They also have a handy way of marking survivors for life with a swastika carved in their forheads.They are parachuted behind enemy lines and proceed to ambush and murder Nazis.In their commandos is the `Jewish Bear'(Eli Roth) who despatches Nazis with a baseball bat to the head and body.Also they have a German who murdered Nazis in Germany, Stiglitz(Til Schweiger),a kind of Charles Bronson figure.Adolph Hitler is derpicted as a camp and ranting comic figure who stops survivors mentioning the Basterds. The 3rd of 5 chapters shows Shosanna grown older and her cinema.She has a season of German films, Lubitsch and Pabst.The heroic private Fred Koller flirts with her and she is `invited' to a meal with Koller and Goebbels and his French mistress.They tell her they want to use her cinema to premiere the propaganda film Nation's Pride.She meets Landa in a strudel-eating scene in which the tension mounts unbearably.With her assistant and black boyfriend Marcel she hopes to ignite 35mm celluloid film stock while the Nazi elite are all watching the film.This will be her revenge,as Hitler,Goebbels,Bormann and Goering will all be attending. The last two scenes are 40 minutes long each.The first called Operation Kino shows a German-speaking British soldier,Lieutenant Hicock(Fassbinder excellent),a film critic of German cinema,being informed by Brit General (Mike Myers) of a plan to blow up the German elite in the cinema.His undercover-agent will be a German actress, Bridget Von Hammarsmark(Kruger) and assists will be the Basterds.They will all meet in a tavern in Nadine, called La Louisianne, to find a way into the premiere.Hicock and two Basterds meet Bridget but there are Nazi privates present celebrating Willi's baby birth.They are pestered by Willi who sits with them and though they speak German he detects their accents are strange.They ask him to leave.An SS officer has a verbal duel with Hicock around a table like in a spaghetti western due to the suspicious accents with breath-taking suspense,leading to a shoot-out.Willi and Bridget survive(she wounded).There is a mexican stand-off as Aldo from upstairs bargains for Bridget. Aldo and 2 Basterds want to be escorts of Bridget to the premiere but they only speak a little Italian. Landa meanwhile finds the bodies and a female shoe and the missing person of the shoot-out is shown by her autograph to Willi on a napkin.This will lead to her death later. The 2 revenge plots converge at Shosanna's theatre.There is a remarkable comic scene out of the Marx Brothers as Aldo and Co, answer in Italian.The theatre is the culmination of the mounting drama as the cinema becomes like Gotterdamerung going up in flames and the fleeing Nazis are machine-gunned.Aldo carves into Landa's forehead, after he surrenders,saying"this may well be my masterpiece".The film is a revenge fantasy with extremely funny dialogue,set-piece scenes in a multiple story-line with the use of rock and roll music to pick up the pace.It plays fast and loose with history,using comic book characters and creative poetic license.It is not a Dirty Dozen action film,indeed it loses the Basterds quite soon.The female characters are well developed.Tarantino is back on form and we have missed his dialogue- driven films in stories written and directed by himself.Waltz's performance is scintillating as the sardonic,sly,charming,ruthless Nazi Colonel and will get awards. Not THE HURT LOCKER, not AVATAR, April 26, 2010 Frank Messely (Kortrijk, BELGIUM) but INGLORIOUS BASTERDS should have been deluged with golden statues. Quentin Tarantino is one of these filmmakers who brings fresh air into Hollywood, and IB is a film that I love not so much for its subject as for its originality on so many levels. Here is a filmmaker with a personal, extraordinary view on filmmaking, a man who uses the cinematic tools of storytelling to brew a daring cocktail that both entertains and leaves us thinking. IB is visually great, wonderfully directed, provocative, strongly symbolic, deliciously naughty. I like it because of its unique approach and high cinematic value. And I don't understand why Hollywood didn't glorify its enfant terrible, which would have given proof of a permanent vitality. Awards this film should definitely have won: Best Original Screenplay, Best Picture, Best Directing, Best Cinematography (the final theater sequence is simply outstanding!). Glorious and not to be missed, and image and sound on this BLU RAY are stunning! Showing reviews 1-5 of 517 1 2 3 4 5 6 ...104 Next »

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