# Inglourious Basterds is Possibly the Stupidest Best Picture Nominee I've Ever Seen. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 9, 2012, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inglourious-basterds-is-possibly-the-stupidest-best-picture-nominee-ive-ever-seen/637246 "2012-10-09T19:40:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Bozuit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/edb3f5/32.png) [@Bozuit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bozuit)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2014, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inglourious-basterds-is-possibly-the-stupidest-best-picture-nominee-ive-ever-seen/637246/101 "2014-07-20T12:49:36Z")
I didn’t really enjoy Inglourious Basterds much. I really wanted to. And I’ve never had much luck explaining why. I think I just found the whole thing too gleefully sadistic. I’m so bored with the Nazis-as-bad-guys thing that I mentally push back against the simplistic portrayal of them as two-dimensional, inhuman villains and couldn’t see those out for revenge as anything other than psychopathic arseholes. Landa was different, but I didn’t want to see German soldiers beaten to death in cold blood or civilians burned in a cinema. The whole film just felt like it was two-and-a-half hours of people I didn’t like killing other people I didn’t like, with no point to it other than sadistic violence. Don’t get me wrong - I’ve got nothing against movie violence. I loved Kill Bill, but it was stylish and you could get behind The Bride and her desire for revenge. She was like a comic book character. Shosanna, on the other hand, was just broken. Inglourious Basterds, and to a less extent Django Unchained, both felt like hollow imitations of Tarantino films made by some talentless fanboy. I think another way to put it is that, to me, Tarantino really jumped the shark here. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inglourious-basterds-is-possibly-the-stupidest-best-picture-nominee-ive-ever-seen/637246.md?page=5)