Inglorious Basterds

This is about to become my first review evar, so don’t expect too much quality.

I just came back from my first visit to an American cinema, Dirk and me watched Tarantino’s “Inglorious Basterds” (which was referred to this morning on the radio as “Inglorious B-Words, and they even spell the B-word wrong”). We arrived at the place just in time, the movie was scheduled at 0925 pm, we were there at 0925pm. The cinemas here don’t have numbered seats, you can sit wherever you want to if you are early enough. This sucks however if you want to reserve places for a group in advance… We took (had to take) two seats in the fifth row or so, the outmost ones.
There were no ads before the movie, just trailers, which I appreciated a lot. Some of the trailers even looked quite promising, but I’ve forgotten any title already.

The movie is split up into 5 Chapters and SPOILER ALERT at the end nearly everyone dies. It was quite interesting to watch the original version of the movie, since the Nazis speak German, but not all dialogues are subtitled. One British spy is even disguised because of his accent, and I wonder if Americans would have noticed this. The movie isn’t too violent except from some scenes where skulls are smashed by a baseball bat and scalps are taken off the Nazi heads in closeup shots. There were also a lot of funny moments, many of them due to Brad Pitt’s remarkably accent and cliche after cliche – I have seen better Hitlers, though (spoiler: he dies). Overall rating of the movie: 7 out of 10 J-Points. -1 for the end, was a little weird; -1 for unnecessary violence; -1 for predictability.

As I told you, you’d better not have expected too much of this “review”. I liked the movie, 10$ were completely OK for a Friday night, and I’m really looking forward to see the German adaption of the film, the translators will have to face some hard problems.

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