At the movies - inglourious basterds

Hmmmm
that sound is pretty much the only opinion I can think of right now to describe Inglourious Basterds; which seems to be one big contradiction of a movie, or rather a contradiction filled movie about movies err if you see what I mean. Its a film thats talky, reallly reallllly talky yet somehow seems all surface, I saw people walk out while others actually applauded at the end, as I said contradictions.

I actually cant really think about what to say/write about it but I did want to point out that the film is about movies and the love of them, like the multiple type faces in the intro, the little flashbacks and genre changes to the ending which is literally death by cinema the plot revolves around movies with film stars and critics characters and projectionists oh and giant heads. Tarantino relishes movies for movies sake choosing not to delve into anything too deep about war when there's scalps that can be cut loose, so theres no discussion about people forced into the German army, no guilt about actions and their consequences, and definitely no doubt about the basterds mission as in this film every Nazi is a full on card carrying member of the party who basically deserve what ever happens to them.
For all their advertised in the posters and trailers the basterds don't actually have as much screen time as you'd expect in fact most of whom seem to disappear after their introduction, exceptions include Eli Roth clearly having a ball as the bat wielding Sergent as is Til Schwieger as an ex german soldier who likes sharpening his knife a little too much. Each of the featured team have some nice little touches like Brad Pitt, who here appears all chin, having what appears to be a noose mark around his neck and Eli Roths baseball bat inscribed with names details shown which are never explained presumably cut out from the finished film

The decision to go with subtitles and constant changes in languages was a good one, its in the multi national actors that the film shines Christoph Waltz is amazing as the Nazi charged with hunting down Jew's, his strange cheerfulness is made even creepier by peoples reactions to it and their realisation that hes always one step ahead, while Melanie Laurent is one of the only characters to get some depth to her story and gives a great performance as the revenge seeking Shosanna.

Anyway I don't really want to spoil anything about the ending, buuuuuuuut to me its Tarantino showing the film for what it is, a movie and one made holywood at that, with an ending that in his head (its seems to me anyway) would have been the perfect Holywood ending to the war but as I said I don't want to spoil anything.
This has been the only film this year that I want to see again, just to get my head around it for better or for worse

so.... as I said
hmmmm