Inglourious Basterds Has Two Perfect Scenes. The Rest Is the Problem.

About this episode

The episode critiques 'Inglourious Basterds', highlighting its two standout scenes while discussing its overall shortcomings.

After Kill Bill nearly broke them, Richard Lewis, Thorin, and MonteCristo close the Tarantino arc with the film that was supposed to prove he still had it. The verdict: Inglourious Basterds contains two of the finest scenes Tarantino has ever directed (the farmhouse interrogation and the basement bar), but the rest of the movie can't sustain the altitude those scenes reach. What could have been a profound meditation on the power of cinema, the banality of evil, and Jewish catharsis instead settles for machine-gunning Hitler's corpse on the floor of a burning theater. PrizePicks — Visit https://prizepicks.onelink.me/LME0/FOURPLAY and use code FOURPLAY and get $50 in lineups when you play your first $5 lineup!

People in this episode

Hosts: Richard Lewis, Thorin, MonteCristo

Topics covered

• Tarantino films
• movie analysis
• cinema power
• Jewish themes
• film critique

Keywords

• Inglourious Basterds
• Tarantino
• film review
• cinema
• Jewish catharsis
• Hitler
• movie scenes

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Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Inglourious Basterds, Kill Bill

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