Inglorious Basterds

[GoldenRivet]

Originally Posted by mookiemookie

Exactly. He also described it as a spaghetti western in a WW2 setting. Think more a "Where Eagles Dare" and "Dirty Dozen" and less "History Channel".

I loved it.

while i didnt really dislike Basterds... i think that 'where eagles dare" and "dirty dozen" have much more credibility than Basterds.

in other words... the activities in Dirty Dozen and Where Eagles dare are actually plausible. Hypothetical as their plots may be... the dont pretend to change major war history.... the context of the films could have actually been real WW2 operations for all the viewer knows.

Basterds on the other hand... while it would have been an opportunity the allies jumped right on so far as an assasination attempt goes... it is based in no part in reality whatsoever.

How i would have ended te movie.

1. The SS colonel is headbutted by Brad Pitt's character. Immediately thereafter brad Pitt's Character is shot point blank in the head and killed instantly.

2. the nazi goons escort the "little man" to the interrogation table where he refuses to spill his guts about the operation and he is shot dead.

3. the SS Colonel calls the ghestapo at the theater, warns them of the men in seats 0023 and 0024.

4. The Ghestapo, warned that the men have explosives kill the men without question and in doing so, uncover the plot to burn down the theater.

The basterds go down in history as one of those heroic groups which nobody today knows anything about.