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I had actually planned on seeing Julie & Julia, but apparently the film was damaged the night before and the replacement hadn't come in yet. So we got free tickets and I took the opportunity to see a different movie since I was there already. Inglorious Basterds was starting in fifteen minutes, so that's what I saw. And hence no ticketstub.

So I got pretty much what I expected from a Tarentino film. It's long. There's some pretty graphic violence. People like to talk. A lot. I actually kind of liked the movie, but I'm not entirely sure why. There were lots of really really slow sections as characters sat around a table and talked about all sorts of random things. I found the language to be interesting and some of the conversations were intense, but what with those conversations making up most of the film, it definitely felt long. I would probably only recommend it to people who are already familiar with Tarentino films and really enjoys them.

*SPOILERS FOLLOW*

Also, while the film has a historical setting, it is almost comically not historical in terms of the facts. I mean, it's a well known fact that the entire German high command didn't die in a small cinema in Paris, thereby ending the war in 1944. I find it almost absurd that the movie even suggests this without any explanation. No suggestion of an alternate timeline, no backhanded "...and that's how it would have gone, if things had worked out..." Nothing. It felt weird.

4/5