Revenge, Gloriously Post-Modern Style

title: Inglourious Basterds  (Universal)

director: Quentin Tarantino

starring: Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz, Diane Kruger, Eli Roth, Michael Fassbinder, Melanie Laurent

one sentence or less: “this might just be my masterpiece”

My appreciation of Quentin Tarantino comes in waves. When “Inglourious Basterds” dropped into theaters at the end of last summer my feelings could be described as lukewarm at best, and I knew that seeing “Inglourious Basterds” was not a good idea. I let the hype, criticisms, DVD release, and Award season pass by before I finally felt ready to sit down for a viewing. In the interim my esteem for Tarantino, while not necessarily reaching the fever pitch it started at, had grown. But, even with the award nominations and praise of friends still rattling around in my head, I was still unprepared for the filmmaking mastery and intellectual power on display in “Inglourious Basterds.”