i honestly dont buy that QT is making this big critical statement that "nationalist war films have brainwashed and will continue to brainwash Americans." He's not trying to criticize it but rather use this truth to his advantage.

QT relies on the nationalist war films that have brainwashed Americans to make Basterds work. Because we have been essentially led to believe that Nazis are the most evil thing ever (which they probably were, though our perception of their evil has been GREATLY enhanced by movies), QT is able to make a film where his villain essentially does very little "evil" in the film itself (worst thing they do is kill Shoshannas parents and they do it in a manner that is hardly brutal compared to everything else in the film) but the audience is completely rooting for the heroes to perform as much brutality as they can.

he plays with the idea that what makes we the audience believe to be good/evil isn't the actions of the characters but our perceived notion of them. every Nazi in the film we assume is evil and every non-Nazi we assume is good. because of this, QT is able to rewrite history in the film to allow for the good guys to perform "evil" acts and yet still have complete support of the audience and present historically inaccurate facts because it involves the bad guys getting what we believe they should have gotten in reality.

If this was a movie about some made up war with made up sides, it wouldn't work. the reason it works is because we have a assumption of what WWII is and QT toys around with this. He essentially provides our id the WWII film it wants.

so basically, it's a movie about killing fucking Nazis.

We're still very satisfied with Landas fate at the end. He's quite likable yes but him being a Nazi doesn't change he fact that we want him to suffer. If anything, Landa reinforces it.

We want Nazis to suffer in our movies, regardless if we like them or not.

You're not a true American then.

Er ist ein gewöhnlicher Opportunist und verdient nicht mehr als ein Redmond Barry Schicksal.

I don't think that review is anything special. Doesn't everyone see what Tarantino attempts with his movies? It's pretty obvious, especially with the last two.

Just go over to imdb, there a lot of uptight posters there who take Tarantino's film far to literally, and what's worse is that they refrence critics implying that there are professional critics out there who also have a stick up their ass wound too tight, and twisted far too up there that they can't see past the violent surface of Tarantino's films.

But it happens, and none of the the posts here scream "F" territory. The evidence suggests something fishy.

There are fishy "F" grades and fishy "A" grades in almost every thread for popular/highly discussed movies - - it's simply the way of the internet forum.