inglourious basterds

it's hard to find anything negative to say about quentin tarantino's newest film, "inglourious basterds". starring brad pitt (lt. aldo raine), mélanie laurent (shoshanna dreyfus) and christoph waltz (ss col. hans landa) the movie is an entertainingly humorous revenge story full of much-deserved blood and violence. brad pitt pulls off yet another outrageous character as the knowville, tennessee-born lieutenant of eight jewish-american soldiers who drop into nazi-occupied france before the normandy invasion. their goal is to inflict as much damage to the nazi forces as possible through apache guerrilla-style warfare; and yes, that includes scalping one's victims. the mission is about more than simply thinning the german herd, though; they enlist excessively violent and horrific means of killing and mutilating their victims. their reputation spreads throughout the nazi ranks as one survivor of each attack is spared to retell the atrocities he witnessed at the hands of the 'basterds'. they become the bogeymen of the third reich.
that's only one of many storylines that cross and converge at different times throughout the film.

tonight, being the saturday or the film's opening weekend, all viewers at the discover mills theatre were given survey sheets to fill out after the show. i gave high marks in every department although i was a little disappointed that the survey gave no section for viewer comments. the acting was superb, the script full of action and complex dialogue (written as only tarantino can), and the score was more than fitting. i especially loved the ramped-up version of beethoven's "fur elise" in the opening scene.
i was hoping for a bit more screen time from b.j. novak (pfc. smithson utivic - he also writes the scrpit for and acts on 'the office') but when he is on screen he is exactly what the story needs him to be.
and you gotta love that ending. classic tarantino. his best work since "pulp fiction".
i cannot say anything more without giving away too much.