This film is a bloody masterpiece and greatly underrated in its time. Great dialogue, cinematography, and Christoph Waltz was phenomenal. It interesting that it finished an Oscar trifecta starting with Javier Bardem followed by Heath Ledger and ending with Waltz where all three won supporting Oscars for playing villains that changed how villains could and should be approached in Cinema all around.

I could listen to you talking about films all day. The Hitchcock clip and your analysis of it connecting to this film is excellent work.

Though it's part of Quentin's 'fantasy revenge trilogy for underdogs' along with Django and Once Upon A Time, the dialogue as in the bar scene has some of the lived-in greatness that his best writing has.

The twist between how the Germans and English show the number 3 and how Fassbender got caught just blew my mind. I play that scene all the time.

I was always impressed with the basement scene... you have a British spy, pretending to be german, but has a slight flaw in his disguise in that he enunciates German incorrectly... so many levels to that performance... must be a dream acting in a Tarantino film (if you're a good actor). The way he communicates drama through dialogue is unmatched in my opinion.

This movie also has the distinction of having the best strudel/one of the best pastry scenes ever put to film, that is just pure sweet tooth heaven.

I bloody well love Michael Fassbender in this film. interestingly the role was meant for Simon Pegg but he was wrapped in one of the Mission Impossible movies.

I don’t like using the word masterpiece a lot, because it is a phrase which is often overused, but I struggle to find a way to describe my feelings towards this film without calling it a masterpiece. I often forget that it is a Tarantino film as it feels much more polished than his other works, which is saying something!

As a frenchmen I like the fact that Shoshana's name is Dreyfus as it is the name of a famous french jew who was accused of treason because he was jewish (as explained in this video kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rZmXjMh4vLPeZGw.html).

I was lucky enough to get the recent Hitchcock 4K set for my birthday. I think you'll really enjoy it! On the subject of Tarantino, I'd love to see the alternate universe version of "Casino Royale" that he wanted to make with Pierce.

Hey Calvin, great review as always! I’m partial to reservoir dogs, but this is a wonderful film and I plan to revisit it soon! I’m also traveling to London this summer for a study abroad trip and will be seeing The Rolling Stones at Hyde park! Love this channel, thank you!

Christoph Waltz is so bloody phenomenal in this film and it angers me so much after seeing this movie that they completely waste him as Blofeld because he is perfect casting for Blofeld but he is squandered in the Bond series.

The opening scene with Waltz is one of the greatest scenes ever filmed. The irony and viciousness is unmatched.

Loving the new reviews! 🔥 Keep it up man…

YES! I’ve been on a Quentin Tarantino kick this last week and this is perfect timing!

I find it intresting that every time a bond film takes an amazing actor considered to be A+ named Christopher (christoph is a german version of that name), lee, walken and waltz, the film end up being well not the best

Please do a retrospective review of "The Fourth Protocol" starring Pierce Brosnan and Michael Caine. Love your work.

I actually got to see this movie when I was visiting LA in a 35mm print that's privately owned by Tarantino in an old cinema that he bought and uses to show off his collection to the public It's also my favorite movie of his and this was something I wanted to do since I had seen the movie for like the 3rd or 4th time, so it was extremely lucky I was able to catch a showing during the week I was there and I really don't want to sound like a shill, but for the price you didn't just get to see the movie, but they also showed some old WWII era propaganda films and adverts as a warm up, instead of the usual pre-show commercials in regular cinemas

I love this movie. It’s the first Tarantino movie I ever watched and it’s definitely my favourite. It’s partly due to my love of WW2 films, especially the kind of films that this emulates, such as those of the 1960s with its vibrant use of colour. I once heard Tarantino describe this as a film that does everything unexpected. It’s a war film with very little war (it’s really more of a western or even a suspense flick with espionage themes, the Basterds are actually in it very little and they kill Hitler at the end, it’s also an American film where much of the dialogue is in different languages (which I really like because it feels more realistic). I utterly love how the storylines intertwine in ways you also don’t expect. For instance, you expect Shoshanna to kill Landa. Nope. He doesn’t even die. Instead, Shoshanna tries to murder Hitler, which the Basterds end up doing. I love it. I said before, but this really does feel like a Tarantino Bond flick at times, especially in Chapter 5 - Revenge of the Giant Face and Chapter 4 - Operation Kino when you meet Fassbender’s character.

Nice to see you review this Calvin! Watching this film makes you wonder how Waltzfeld could go wrong!

I know Calvin won't want to hear this, but these videos of him discussing films makes me miss the days of his permanent residency on Diminishing Returns. Calvin talking films is so brilliant and I absolutely love the way he observes a moment.

The 3 glasses scene gets better with every viewing, the more you know the more yiu notice the subtlety in the acting. Some of the best I've seen from a collective in one scene

This is Tarantino’s masterpiece. Pulp Fiction is perhaps the most culturally impactful, but this is his best work by every component that goes into constructing a film. Dialogue, cinematography, acting, direction, writing, characters, action, humor, suspense, editing and it’s almost a foreign film. Easily his best work.

In my (casual) survey, QT's best film is invariably a debate between Basterds and Pulp Fiction, so not surprising Calvin! And I think PF is mostly propped up by it's tremendous influence on later film.

Totally get why this movie would win the poll but damn I would have loved for you to have reviewed No Country For Old Men. One of my favorite movies of all time.

Back in 2009 I snuck into a press screening of Inglourious Basterds and it completely blew me away. All these years later it is still one of my favourite films. Its not my #1 Tarantino film though. That is Pulp Fiction. But Inglourious Basterds is a modern classic in my opinion. I particularly connected with the music selections, and this film made me an Ennio Morricone fan. It also caused me to watch the Leone westerns and the Western genre ended up becoming a favourite genre of mine. All thanks to Tarantino's film, which wasn't even a Western. Also, I love that little clip from Sabotage. I only saw that film quite recently and really enjoyed finally seeing where Tarantino got that little clip from.

Yeah! Thanks that you mentioned the 'Easter egg' with Walz and Seydoux!

Inglorious Basterds is what Casino Royale 1967 should’ve been like

I watched this for the first time a few weeks ago, absolutely loved it. It feels very classy for Tarantino when compared to his crime thrillers like Reservoir Dogs (my favourite of his) Pulp Fiction and Jackie Brown. But I pretty much agree with everything you said. Amazing intertwining stories, excellent suspense, characters, dialogue, it’s the whole package

I haven't laughed as much with a movie since I watched Inglourious Basterds when it came out. Incredibly funny and an all time great movie. Yours is primarily a Bond channel but I think most of us would also like to hear you talk about other movies as well, whether it has a Bond connection or not. I find it easy to listen to you because one can hear your enthusiasm with reviews like these.

Never noticed the guy from casino royale is in this ! Great review Calvin. Love this film but Pulp Fiction will always be QT's masterpiece.

In the build up to this films release, Tarantino was talking about an adaption of Len Deighton's 'Berlin Game' trilogy [with a quirk being he'd make a 3 hour film with each hour covering each book] as a rivial to Bond [as this wasn't long after his failed 'Casino Royale' proposal] to feature Simon Pegg, Michael Caine and Kate Winslet but like so many of his projects [such as his Star Trek film] it never saw the light of day.

on a side note, Ive always felt fromm kill bill onwards that Tarrintino does all his movies in that wacky fun style like he did with From dusk till dawn. not a bad thing but i kinda wish he would go back to doing something smaller and more guerrilla type film making. have you ever seen City on Fire by any chance ? kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mt18ecKo26rLl5s.html

Interesting that you think Waltz was hired on as Blofeld because of searing performance in IG, because years ago when the cast list for "Never Say Never, Again" came out, I was excited that the man who played "Antonius Block" in "The Seventh Seal" and "Johan" in "The Hour of the Wolf" would be playing Blofeld. However, like Walz, Max von Sydow had no clear direction on what to do with the Blofeld character, and so his performance was another missed opportunity.

inglourious is one of my favorite movies of all time as well. I've never heard anyone else, other than me and my best friend say it was in our top 5, this was such a nice surprise

Great review! Are you going to review "Operation Mincemeat?" I loved it and would like to hear your take on it.

Hey! Any news on when they will include no time to die in the blu ray box set???!!!!

I think it's a film with some great moments that never comes together to make a great film. This is for most parts my main complaint with Tarantino. I still consider Pulp Fiction his best. It's the one time everything comes together to make a satisfying whole.

"I think this just might be my masterpiece" - Aldo the Apache

Thanks for reviewing my favorite movie Calvin!

Superb review of an Absolutely brilliant film! Tarantino is just a complete master. And the way he puts his own fresh personal twist on actual real history In this one and in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is just unlike any other filmmaker in the World. Waltz creates one of the great villains of all time in this film. And he gave himself such an astronomically high bar that many people - like yourself - were so disappointed with his Blofeld because as good as it was - it was not in that all time classic league like this is. My favorite scene in it is probably the scene with Fassbender in that German club that you spoke about - just brimming with that incredible suspense you spoke about. Just great great filmmaking here! BTW - Tarantino has another ENORMOUS connection to James Bond because it was he who first talked about a black and white version of Casino Royale! He spoke about a full period piece with Pierce Brosnan as Bond but I guarantee the pre credit sequence with Craig was definitely influenced by his idea!

Waltz is kind of the main character, because he comands every scene he is in. Love that he speaks all the 4 languages in the film, no dubbing, nothing. I'm convinced that Waltz won his Oscar "just" for the first scene in the farm house.

Glad you covered this movie :)

Hey Calvin is your bond ranking coming soon?

Is there another Mission Impossible review coming?

A great review would be for the hunt for the red october

I see it as a sister movie to Django. Two films about cathartic revenge with Christoph starring in yin yang roles.

This movie made me think Kristoff Waltz was born to be a Bond villain… … I still can’t comprehend what went wrong…

Just curious, do you ever plan on doing an in-depth review for License to Kill?

One of my favorite movie of all time. Saw it in theatres 3 times which is quite rare for me. I would only watch Tarantino movies for the rest of my life without a problem.

I didn't recognize Rod Taylor. Probably wouldn't have, given that I too only know him from his 60s work. Very interesting casting choice. Given that Tarantino is a famous film buff, I wonder if he deliberately approached him. I thought Mike Myers was a distracting choice, though. Coming so soon after Cat in the Hat, I wonder if Tarantino choice him just for fun, to see what kind of reaction he'd get out of the audience. EDIT: As much as I enjoy this film, I still have to list Jackie Brown as my favorite. I can watch any amount of that film any time.

Exceptional movie. I prefer Django and think Pulp Fiction is his best, but I love this movie. Just wondered why you didn't include Deer Hunter in the Oscar Winning Bond villain movies.

One of my all time favorite films ever.

I think it would be great to do all the Tarantino films as they would still technically include espionage elements quite a few of them.

HANZ is a MASTERPIECE of a character, he deserves that Oscar 10 fold!!!

Hey, my favourite Tarantino film! Great review Calvin.

Killin' Nat-zies!

If you are a fan of Quentin Tarrantino, I recommend the season 6 finale of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.

I'm not aware of Bond connections, but I'd like to see you review Castellari's original Inglorious Bastards.

My mind blew away when I found out that Chris Waltz was in 89's Goldeneye :) did you know Calvin that you can easily get many British or obscure movies rarley seen on UK DVD in Germany like Goldeneye 89 or spymaker or.....ahem Time Share ?? The Entire Remington Steele DVD is and its Region 2 and in English. Germany seems to get them all and not the UK, even 98's worst witch in its entirety is all available there and not here :( . just in case you never knew, keep it up man. oh and uhhh hahaha kzfaq.info/get/bejne/sL9hdMRo28icXZc.html

Meanwhile I am waiting for the Mission Impossible Fallout Review...

A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one!

There was another actor from the Craig era in the film. Gettler. He's introduced when the Bear Jew is introduced, and gets his head bashed in.

Calvin, please do No Country for Old Men at some point

Tarantino pitched to Eon an adaptation of Casino Royale with Brosnan as Bond and set in the sixties. That would've been... something. And in Tarantino's typically egotistical way he claims that Craig's first Bond outing only happened because Tarantino planted the seeds with his pitch.

Can you make a video about Quentin Tarantino wanting to do Casino Royale?

Calvin, ever seen Kelly's Heroes? It stars Clint Eastwood and a big cast of colorful characters in perhaps the most popular -- if fast-and-loose -- dramatization of a real-life heist of Nazi gold, the kind that Bond tempted Goldfinger with. Highly recommended, a lot of fun.

2:27 While I can excuse Tarantino a little as he is a cinephile at the end of the day, it does irritate me when films don't have enough faith in its audience and have to spell out references. Eg. Logan takes influence from Shane-so Professor X watches that film, War for the planet of the apes is informed by Apocalypse Now so have a Kurtz type character say 'the horror' and have 'Ape-ocolypse Now' written on the wall!'.

This film is really good. Watched it for the first time last month. 9/10. The writing, dialogue, cinematography, and acting is phenomenal. (It’s not a 10 for me because there’s one scene that’s a little too graphic for me but that’s Tarantino’s style so).

I really like this movie, but my biggest issue with it, is that the titular Inglorious Basterds have a very small screentime. Sure it elevates a lot of the side-characters, but at their expense.

you are right about everything i agree with everything you said, i do think that they found christoph waltz in this role to play a future bond villian, since hes playing cold war type of villian here very bondesque not that goldeneye show that he did, but just like how javiar bardem in no country for old men, was his foray to bond here it is for waltz, and i would say i love aspects of his blowfeld, just his story line and other things werent that great, but its funny how he plays a person called hanz in this film and spectre, i mean the beginning of this movie where he finds people, feels like the beginning of octopussy you know major dexter smythe kills franz oberhauser in the ice very similar here, but yeah i wish his blowfeld had a better arch, or i would have loved him to play dexter smythe, but anyways a great movie, alot of bond stuff in there.

Since you've reviewed my 2nd favorite war movie, I'd like to see you review my personal favorite war movie which is 1917.

Great review, Calvin! This is actually one of my least favorite QT movies and I think you actually explained why - I dislike the Basterds! None of them really work for me as characters. Everyone else is great and interesting. The opening scene is one of the greatest openers in film history! But the Basterd stuff just stops the movie in its tracks for me.

I'm not really a Tarantino fan which is odd because I like a lot of the same types of cinema he does and I'm glad he's translated some asian films for western audiences. That said, this film I think is great. The cast is all good and Daniel Bruhl, he always has such a charm about him even if he's a villain character

Sucks that no one talks about Brad Pitt in this film. I feel like he gets way overshadowed by Christophe Waltz despite I agree he's the best thing in this movie. But Brad Pitt is awesome as well and my 2nd favorite performed he did behind Cliff Booth from OUATIH.

I haven't watched it in a while but I'd say this is my favourite Tarantino movie as well. I remember they made us watch it in school when I was 12 and it made such an impression on me!

Have you seen Once Upon a Time in Hollywood? it, Bastards and Jackie Brown are my go to Tarantino trio of films.

I think this movie made me love strudel even more

It’s also part of Tarantino trilolgy of taking historical pieces and subverting the ending followed by Django Unchained and once upon a time Hollywood

I love it too.

hey calvin👋

You’ll have to review Operation Mincemeat on Netflix. There’s a certain character in the film who would become famous author …

I liked this movie, I liked the way at the end she put on makeup, the red dress and looked great. Then she casually burned down the house with herself included because she was authentically acting as she wanted to without a filter. It was a metaphor and I have done that at a crisis point in my life. I listed my obligations and the lady said to burn them all down. Burn your Golden Idols; they down serve you anymore. But back to the movie, Tarrantino gave us the history we wanted. All the Nazis gone in one go.

Nice!👍

We need a Get Smart (2008) Review

8:02 Yes, 100% agree, thank you! Is it too late now for Fassbender to become Bond? He would've been by far my favourite if Craig had ended his run after Skyfall (as he should have). Doesn't even have to be a period piece, I would argue. You can still make an old school spy thriller set in the present. Especially now that Russia is shaping up to become the default bad guy again.

A game that I would recommend for you to review is No One Lives Forever series. Both are one of the best spy games ever and I bet you would enjoy the hell out of them.

I really enjoyed this film, and Django Unchained and Once Upon A Time In Hollywood as well. However, what I noticed at the time, and subsequently noticed again with Django, is that the marketing played them up as typical Tarantino blood-fests (in the vein of Kill Bill), but what we got were these really interesting and suspenseful period-pieces, with great dialogue-based scenes and an emphasis on plot. It’s almost as if, when making Kill Bill Volume 2, he realized that he had more aptitude or interest in making suspenseful character and dialogue-driven dramas, than in continuing to make the pop-culture-referencing, 70’s cinema-inspired crime and revenge films had been making previously. It’s as if the trailers for Basterds and Django were bait-and-switches to get his typical audience to come in expecting wall-to-wall Nazi deaths, and instead see a film that is really driven around Shoshanna’s story and her plan to get revenge. Similar thing happened with Django: the trailer makes it look like the plot will be Django helping Schultz collect bounties, and then majority of the film involves the plan to rescue his wife from Calvin Candy, with roughly an hour of tense dialogue before the final shootout. All this being said, I think it has been a good career move, and I think it worked well for him in Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, to the point that the finale, while obligatory after the rest of his films’s choices (including Basterds), probably could have left out without any detriment to the film.

Masterpiece

I gave up on this movie after 20 minutes. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is the only Tarantino film I have liked. I do agree with Tarantino that Pretty Maids All in a Row with Rock Hudson and Angie Dickenson is one of the best movies ever made.

I’m not particularly a fan of tarantinos movies but inglorious basterds (and also django unchained) are two of my favourite films out there.

Tarantino is very hit-or-miss with me, and sadly this is very much a miss as far as I'm concerned. Actually let me rephrase that: on a scene-to-scene basis, it's terrific (save the Shoshanna/Zoller ones, more on that below), I can't add much more to what has already been said about the intro and the bar scene, as well as the whole cinema sequence at the end, brilliant stuff. But as a whole, I find it a rather drab affair, due to the constant winking at the camera and reference to older films. Tarantino is a master at his craft and a very knowledgeable filmgoer, that's for sure, but he constantly seems to feel the need to rub it in our face, to the point of being obnoxious. As a result, Inglorious Basters feels less like a film than a collection of vignettes, each one of them being a tribute to a particular approach of cinema in general and WW2 films in particular, and I do not find that enjoyable. Simply said, it doesn't play straight. It's interesting that you bring up Hitchcock, since for me, Inglorious Basters is an exercise in "imitation is the purest form of flattery" on the level of Gus Van Sant's Psycho. Case in point : the use of several languages. This is very reminiscent of Daryl F. Zanuck's The Longest Day, where each faction spoke their own language, while being directed in their own language by either an English-, German- or French-speaker depending on the case. In Inglorious Basterds however, there's such a discrepancy from one language to the next, that it adds to the overrall disjointed feel of the ensemble, and not in a good way. I cannot for the life of me fathom why English-speakers are so enamored with the likes of Mélanie Laurent and Léa Seydoux, mediocre actresses at best, with a huge, misplaced ego to match. The scenes between Laurent and Brühl are painful and take away any good-will I had towards the film. Sorry, I do not find them clever in any way. Waltz is perfect every time he appears on screen, and Pitt's shtick is entertaining enough, same with Fassbender and Diehl who for my money are the two other best actors in that thing, but Kruger, Roth, Schweiger, Novak and co feek like they are so amazed at being cast in a Tarantino film that they forget acting altogether. Sorry, it became a bit of a rant and I didn't mean to disparage anyone who enjoys the film, and clearly I'm in a minority. As I said, I can take a lot of positives from scene to scene, but just like with Pulp Fiction, Death Proof and Once upon a time in Hollywood, Tarantino's ego permeates too much through the screen for me to enjoy it as a whole.

Please review The Wicker Man 1973!!!

Watched the film for the first time before watching this video. Glad I did. My word, cinema.

Yes, Mr Mendel is the best

0:41 The second rendition of the Hitler rant?

How have you not seen all of Tarantino's movies? He's not like Roger Corman or anything, he's only got 10 (or 9) movies.

Amazing movie

I adore this movie!

Michael Fassbender would have been a perfect Bond.