It isn't a good movie. Mr. Tarantino tampers with history too much. Only one or two of the 'basterds' characters are explored even in a passing way. The costumes are wrong. The Nazi villain says he is with the SS, but we later see him in an SD uniform ( minor, I know.) Nine US soldiers land in occupied France and begin eliminating Germans, but nothing is said of supply for them. They operate in civilian clothes, a violation of the rules of war making them spies, but this is never explored. One of them, 'The Bear' beats Nazis to death with a baseball bat, but certainly it must have been odd to see nine military-age civilians marching across France with a baseball bat in the presence of large Nazi armies at the time ( I mean this bit of movie fluff reaches too far.) The Brad Pitt character aggravates the leg wound of the German female traitor, but in the next scene she makes nice with him. At the beginning the Frenchman is chopping on a block--but he chops nothing! Seems odd. The scalping was uncalled for too, I thought.

American movies are not film-art and this is the problem in reality. Humans have grown-up over this "global war on terror" and the earth's masses are no longer interested in being fed the level of intelligence which has been acceptable in the past -- poor memories, and renditions of sick egos with ONLY their imagination of bits and pieces of horrible art. Good for Russia to begin the giant step in demanding ONLY the finest of art to be worthy of showing the people how imagination can truly benefit the ego rather than desecrate it. No further imagination brand poisoning by those who do not appear to be able to find the idea of true balance in the co-creation of "enlightened" great creative genius.

"... An Eye for an Eye: The Untold Story of Jewish Revenge Against Germans in 1945. The media and major Jewish organizations were opposed to the book because they percieved it as portraying Jews in a negative light, possibly stirring up anti-semitism and weakening their power to exploit the tragedies committed by the Nazi's for their own political agenda. However these same organizations are promoting Tarantino's fictional film. Sack's message from his book was not to promote hatred against Jews. Instead, the books purpose was to prove that Jews are no different from any other group of people who have suffered from persecution but aren't immune from committing autrocities against others. Behind an Eye for An Eye: Revenge, Hate and History by John Sack ...." http://www.examiner.com/x-9462-LA-Nonpartisan-Examiner~y2009m8d29-Fictional-film-Inglourious-Basterds-promoted-while-true-story-of-revenge-supressed