Movie Monday: Inglorious Bastards

Alright so this is next in line as far as the date the Tarantino movies was released... so I'm going to be putting it here after I just did the Kill Bill Review... but I did watch Django Unchained before I watched this one and I would recommend watching Django before this movie... Christoph Waltz is the hero in Django and the villain in Inglorious Bastards... and he's a great actor that they don't seem like they're played by the same person... but he's very unlikable in Inglorious Bastards and quite likeable in Django... so if you're watching it back to back... it might be hard to like him as much in Django if you see this movie first. Not needed... but that's my suggestion. I also liked Django more than this movie so... yeah.

I liked this movie- I feel like it's one I could watch again and again. It didn't really feel like it was that violent because most of the people that were showed brutally murdered were actually very evil... with the exception of some brave heroes that died while killing the really bad guys so... yeah.

This movie kind of has 2 plots that are supposed to connect together... but they sort of don't. The one plot being about the Inglorious Bastards- a band of Jewish American soldiers that are planning to kill Hitler. The second plot is about a young woman in France who is running a movie theater and her family was killed by Cristoph Waltz's character. She later is pursued by a nazi soldier who ends up wanting her theater to host a film festival... so she makes a plan to burn the theater down with all of them inside. While she plays a movie of herself telling them what she's doing and what they did to her family.

It's not the most action filled movie... I mean it is towards the end- but there's a good chunk of the movie in the middle that's just a bunch of people talking and... that part is a little slow. My favorite character is Shoshana- the woman that owns the theater and is the actual best character and hero of the movie... who gets somewhat overshadowed by the Inglorious Bastards... and that kind of sucks. Apparently this was originally supposed to be a mini series and I think that might have ended up being better. The Inglorious Bastards were kind of underdeveloped as characters and Shoshana should have been in the movie a little more.

I also feel like I have problems with how this fits into the Tarantino-verse... I believe the theory of this was that the killing of hitler kind of created a world where movies like Kill Bill were made more frequently because violence was more acceptable because of everything that happened at the end of this movie... but I feel like the Inglorious part of the Bastards wouldn't make that much of a difference. Spoilers: But most everyone in the movie died in the theater explosion and the film Shoshana left was destroyed with the rest of the theater... no one really would have known who did everything. So... I'm not quite sure violence would be glorified the way the Tarantino Universe theory explains it... if anything Django's legend probably would have told before then and glorified the violence in that way.... soooo maybe the universe still makes sense... but I was a little overwhelmed with this movie's connection to the overall theory.

Like I said- I still think it's a good movie. Lots of twists and lots of suspense... not my least favorite from Tarantino... but also not my top favorite.

Bye!

-Shannon