"As titles go, Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds is one of the very best. Partly lifted from an obscure 1978 flick by Enzo Castellari, its eye-grabbing, demented heroism puts it right up there in the pop cultural pantheon alongside the Sewer Zombies song 'They Died With Their Willie Nelson T-Shirts On’ and Lionel Terray’s 1963 mountaineering book 'Conquistadors of the Useless’. Tarantino’s always been a genius at hooking moviegoers. The chopping off of a man’s ear, lead-performers outfits so cool they kickstart fashion trends, a canny use of tunes so cheesy they wouldn’t be heard on a Guilty Pleasures dancefloor and of once-famous actors whose careers were on life-machine-support status: the director brands his films with a rare attention to detail. Inglourious Basterds abounds in pointillist detail. There are obscure movie allusions designed to tickle the fancy of the sternest cinephile. Close-ups of women’s shoes so gorgeous they’d melt Anna Wintour’s heart. Delightful bite-sized riffs – on apple strudel! – that rekindle memories of Tarantino’s reputation-defining dialogues about cheeseburgers in Pulp Fiction."
(http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/filmreviews/6060344/Inglourious-Basterds-review.html)
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/inglourious_basterds/
"Inglourious Basterds not only knows that it is a fictional movie, but also that it is being watched by an audience, and herein lays its greatest achievement."
"Tarantino is at times like a flamboyant, egomaniacal orchestra conductor, gesticulating wildly and turning to the audience to make sure we know that the show's about him."
"Simply Tarantino's best. A very intelligent script that combines war movie elements with some pointed observations about violence in movies and in society"
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