A new trailer for Inglourious Basterds has shown up. It downplays the whole brutalizing Nazis a bit compared to the teaser and focuses more on the plots to assassinate Nazi leadership, including Hitler, at a movie theater. Those plotlines interest me more, but I’m still unsure about seeing this one if it’s going to try and make me feel good about gratuitously torturing and slaughtering people, even if they are Nazis. Plus, it’s got Eli Roth acting, and every time I see his smirk in these trailers I have an urge to strangle a kitten. So that’s a negative.
Check out the trailer here.
Inglourious Basterds, written and directed by Quentin Tarantino, follows a band of Jewish soldiers led by Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt) dropped into German-occupied France for the sole purpose of revenge via mass slaughterings of Nazis. At the same time a German woman escapes execution to Paris and becomes the owner and operator of a cinema while crafting her own revenge plot. Needless to say, the two threads merge during the film. The film has a gigantic ensemble cast, including Diane Kruger, B.J. Novak, Eli Roth, Samm Levine, Mélanie Laurent, Christoph Waltz, Mike Myers, Maggie Cheung, Julie Dreyfus, Samuel L. Jackson, Daniel Bruhl, Omar Doom, Cloris Leachman, Til Schweiger, Michael Fassbender and more.
Inglourious Basterds is scheduled to reach theaters on August 21st.
