The Mystery Starts Here

Okay, to me, this is a real mystery – how can anyone say “Inglorious Bastards”  is a good movie? I watched it last Saturday and all I can say is….huh? People have been raving about his movie since it came out. I think it’s up for an Academy Award – is that possible? Perhaps I missed something in the movie but…I thought it was a real POS! It made no, zero, not one bit of sense – at least the parts in English that I could understand – most I couldn’t because of the heavy accents. Over half of the movie had sub-titles! AND, many of them faded into the background so you couldn’t read the dumb things. I abhor reading subtitles – I’d rather read a book.

There were so many plot holes in the movie it’s hard to know where to begin. The film starts in the beautiful French countryside during the Nazi occupation of WWII. The Nazis come to the farmhouse looking for hidden Jews. This is supposed to be a dairy farm. There is not ONE cow anywhere. There is no barn. Hmm, I’m guessing Quintin didn’t have enough money in the budget for bovines. There’s more dumb stuff in that scene, but I won’t spoil it if you haven’t seen the movie and want to – but really, don’t waste your time.

Then we see Brad Pitt as Aldo Rain (I think – I never could understand much of what he said) the leader of a group of young Jewish men he’s going to train to go to Europe and not only kill, but also scalp Nazis. There are several bloody scenes showing this – and more. Hey, it Tarantino.  The group Aldo’s Indians, is killing and scalping, left and right, the Nazis can’t find them but….where are they hiding? Who’s supporting them? Questions abound.

The movie is very choppy, jumping from one scene to another, never making much sense. I could go on and on, but I already wasted two and a half hours of my life on this dumb movie. If  ”Inglorious Bastards” gets any awards on March 7th, you’ll probably hear me screaming. Trust me on this one – it’s a really, really bad movie.