The Reel Rejects - INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS REVIEW – THE ENDING IS PURE CINEMATIC JUSTICE! – FIRST TIME WATCHING

Episode Date: April 7, 2026

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It's bad, but I'm going to with it. And this shoot. Aaron is not impressed. That is all. Aaron, what do you think of this movie? We. It was great. great. I had a really great time with it. I virtually remembered nothing. The only thing I remembered

was that Hitler died, but I didn't remember the context or where or how he died at all. But yeah, this was a great film. And I think it's so funny that I think this was the first time I ever seen or heard of something that was like historical fiction, you know, or visionist in the sense that we orchestrated this story in a way where we are taking out Nazis in a way that never happened and we are taking out Hitler in a way that is oh so satisfying. Totally. But yeah, I think it was very much a, not only a satisfying experience, but very Tarantino in the way that it was executed, it being this specific lens of World War II about taking

out the Nazis in the realm of a film, which is something that is very important to. to Tarantino. It is something that has been prevalent in a lot of his work, this love of different film and different decades, whether it be westerns, whether it be Hollywood in the 70s, whether it be film and just in

general of the course of its history. I thought all the performances are really strong. I, there are certain things I was expecting to happen, like, Ila Roth's character to be more active is this presence of, I think his name was Danny, or they

call him the bear during the bear yeah yeah yeah but his presence was still great and felt throughout the the scenes that he was prevalent in i like the way the two plots kind of converged even though you know our our main girl died what was her name shoshana shoshana yeah even though she passed away i think that even seeing through what her intentions were was still very satisfying to see in the way that her she still lived on through the film and like even her her face coming through the projection still laughing as they were all dying was it was just great it was satisfying all around and yeah i think this is definitely up there is one of my favorites for tarantino for sure dude i'm with you she got her dying wish she didn't wasn't expecting you know for him to

whatever turn around shoot her i was whoa i was expecting that made me so mad but i'm really glad that her wish came true and that she's like and you're going to die at the hands of this jew right here right now you're going to burn to death which I love it's just such sweet vengeance and you guys know how I feel about vengeance it's great I mean I thought that

this movie from start to finish had great pacing and this is not a short film and you guys know most of the time a lot of the films that we've watched it I've watched but mainly I that I've watched lately where I'm like this movie didn't need to be however long and I'm like no this I didn't feel it

I'm good at all I didn't feel it at all. And that is what I mean. If you are going to be a producer, Screen 17, Scrim 7, then I said, you know, in that film, it didn't need to be that long. Why? Because it wasn't the cinematic nature of what was brought on the screen today with Inglorious Bastards is the right kind of pacing, the right kind of story. It's good writing. It's good plot. Take your freaking time. Just make a good freaking film. And then I won't. have to yell at you that it's too long because I didn't feel the time here. Great story. Also just like really, how would I say? It's really just, it hits in all the right parts because

the building from the beginning when you see Christoph Waltz and other people kill the Jewish family that they're hiding and how absurd their nature is. And the, the being uh hitler is like such a prick and we're in his we're in his world of like he was so powerful for so long that it's so rewarding to see within a film that there are little groups that were setting him off so much so that it's like you know you always want to be on the rebels side and the rebels were winning here and we won that's really satisfying and even though we got captured so the rebels died yes the girl died the show the Cheshawah Dine, like there's obviously within this story, that's to be written well. Not all the rebels are going to make it out alive and they didn't. But I was so glad of the ending is perfect because I was like Brad Pitt, we can't kill him because we just made a deal with the United States. And I guess he did help us with the stuff.

And you did get word from the head top guy that was like, bring him here. And you're like, okay. And you can still get more information out of him. He didn't say that we have to bring him here unscathed. So I love everything. I love the ending. This was a blastroony of a movie, well-written, well-paced. If you're going to make a movie that's two and a half hours,

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Thanks for reaching out one of Tarotino's best films. I got to know what your favorite Nazi kill was. Mine was when the bear Jew was introduced after the scalping. Thanks for all the hard work rejects. Ooh. I'll tell you're getting killed. That was fun. It was just like, just convulsing through gunshots.

That was very satisfying. That's the first one that's coming to mind right now. There's a lot of really great ones over the course of the movie. Yeah, the dude getting killed in the beginning was great by Eli Roth's character. Yeah, anyone coming to your mind? Yeah, I mean, I love when they shoot off Hitler's face. That's a great time. But I also love when we went to the mom.

of that guy who was like hiding as a Nazi but he put the pill over and he was just like stabbing his face. Yeah. And that was fun for me. And what else? Oh, when we were in the in the bar, didn't we get, we got some kills. We were able to shoot that guy's balls off. It did. That was a good time.

Yeah. And then he stabbed the back of his head. Yeah. Good time, sir. I'm sad we lost Michael Fastbender and the other guys. but yeah, you know, most of them were Nazis who died, so. Yeah, we love that for us.

All right, Joseph McNerney, my old time favorite Tarantino film where he shows his ability to create tension and scene, which is your favorite tension-filled scene. Oh, that first scene where he comes into the barn and he's asking for the milk and then the camera's panning. Yeah. Even though nothing explicitly threatened has happened,

you just feel the tension and the power being, not shifting, because he already had power when he came in, but the fact that he was asking permission to smoke in his own home and it was like, yeah, it's your home. You should be able to smoke. I'm like, that's crazy.

So, yeah, that scene was really powerful. And yeah, that last scene we saw before the actress got killed was also one that was very tense. Yeah, that was good. I thought, you know, when we were at the bar, the entire scene, holy shite, especially when the lead German guy that we shot his ball off,

when he comes out, it's tense the entire time. And then you play a game and I'm like, oh, my God. And then he puts up the fingers and I'm like, why did he look like that? He got something. That whole thing is very tense. And I also agree with you when he starts speaking Italian. I'm like, we're screwed.

He's going to kill us all. Like the whole movie is tense. Yeah. In certain parts, pooh. Yeah, it's just so good. All right, Alan Smithy, before you watch in Glory's Basters, you know that old movie film was super flameless. amiable. That's right. A nitrate film stock burns. It creates its own oxygen so the fire cannot be extinguished. Even if you hold a roll of flaming nitrate under water, it will still burn. And the fire will return as soon as you put it out of the water. That's why modern movie film is referred to a safety film because it won't burn you up in the projection booth. I work with nitrate film every day at my job. Oh, wow. Okay, Alan. I mean, I know that. That is a very cool. He's on a live mission. All right, Ellen Smith. Yeah, what are you doing with that nitrate film?

Why they still make that? They shouldn't, right? Right, why do you work with that? Film's been around for so long. I feel like there has to be an alternative at the theater now. Like, yeah, man. Obviously, we got, we got Blu-Aids, we got digital film. Let's switch that up.

You know, let's not burn places down. That's wild. I did know that film was flammable. I did not, however, know the rest of what you just said. Yeah. I didn't know that the underwater thing and then you still pull it out. I was still on fire. That's insane.

I guess it's just the nitrate. Nitrate is probably the same as the... If I was good at chemistry and the periodic tables, nitrate, the numbers, and then you put the H2O, and you're like, oh, that's why. The nitrate is like rock, paper, scissors. Nitrate is the rock and the water. The scissors.

You get it. You get it. Okay. That's a fun thing, Alan Smithy. Thanks for that. We'll go to Jaden Rose. this movie is just amazing and every sense of a word. It's one of the best Tarantino movies. If I'm

being honest, probably one of the best movies ever made. That opening scene is Chef's Kiss. And Kristen Fultz, one of the best villains ever. I'm curious if you all agree. And what is your favorite Tarantino movie? Oh, so who's our favorite character? Yeah. Do you... No, no, that was

a little question. Yeah, that scene was great. He was fantastic in the movie. I will say it's not my favorite Tarantino movie. It's definitely up there. Which one is? Django. Jango till the day I die. This is my favorite Tarantino movie. Mm-hmm.

The music, the way it's executed, Calvin Candy, the revenge story, all, it's an epic. Yeah, I love it a lot. I need to look up, okay, just to make sure,

because my memory, I'm like, okay, look them all up for a second. Have I seen all of them? No, I haven't. Okay, here's the thing. There's this one scene And once upon a time in Hollywood when Leonardo DiCaprio is in the trailer and he's beating himself up, I could watch that scene over and over and over.

And it is so amazingly hilarious that I'm like, ah, it's between that and this film. Like this film was amazing. Amazing ending, amazing from start to finish, two and a half hours didn't notice it. That is cinematic filmmaking. So they're up there. I'm up there with that. Jay Rushden, question, who's your favorite character? The favorite character probably would be...

I really like Brad Pitt's character. He was very fun. Yeah. Seeing him do that accent and just how charming he was get, you know, was really about his business. He was great. Yeah, he was really good. I liked our show, Shana. She was really believable and she did really well, even, like, in the midst of Christoph Waltz,

because I think a lot of people would bring up his name. That's just an obvious. But Shoshana did great. And the guy who had the crush on her, I thought he was really good. I thought he was really good. It's Flip when she goes to close the door and we see his, the true sides. Oh, that's okay, buddy.

We see you. Scary, flip, like there's that Nazi. There's that. You're on the side for a reason. Oh, I wanted to kill him. and I was so excited when she shot him in the back I was like, go girl, good job Why didn't she?

Why did she ever to touch him? And like, why didn't she shoot him in the head and make sure it's fine. It makes for a better film. I'm just saying. I was like really hoping it was dead. I didn't want her to die, but that's all right.

That's all right. Still an amazing film. Do you have any last words for Zapip? No, this was a great movie. I hope we get to watch some other Tarantina movies. I've never seen Jackie Brown so that'd be really fun. Yeah, I don't think I have either. Hey, hey, let us know

if you guys want us to watch that one. There's Jackie Brown, I have not seen. I don't know what four rooms is. I've never seen four rooms either. And I don't think I've seen Reservoir Dogs. I saw Hayful 8 one time in theaters, and I've not watched it since. So I'd be down to watch that again because I don't really remember

anything that happened at all. I don't know. I don't also don't know what death proof is. That one's like a short as part of like a two feature thing with him and Robert Rodriguez. Then I haven't seen that either. Okay. All right. Well, let us know like this. Leave a bunch of comments.

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