This past Friday night I went to the local multiplex (I’m still on Ohio) to see Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds on opening night.  I’ve never been a huge Tarantino fan (I dislike him as a person and can usually take or leave his work - although he has done some awesome stuff) so I went in with low expectations and a huge curiosity about the appropriateness of his tale about Jews killing Nazis and how cinema would play a role in the film.

My personal opinion is that while there were some amazing sequences and performances in the film (namely Christoph Waltz, Michael Fassbender and Mélanie Laurent) it didn’t really do anything for me as a whole film.

The more interesting and perhaps most TakePart appropriate debate surrounding the film however has to do with Tarantino’s decision to rewrite history and have the hunted play the hunters.  Below are a few pieces from both sides of the debate. I recommend giving them a read and seeing which side you end up on.

+‘Inglourious Basterds’: When Jews Attack (Newsweek)
+Recommended Reading: Daniel Mendelsohn on the New Tarantino (Jonathan Rosenbaum)

+The Auteurs Daily: Tarantino and His Inglourious Basterds (read the 3rd paragraph for a German response to Mendelsohn)
+Rethinking INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS (Spout)

And for those just interested in the cinema of it all: +Now in Theaters: “Inglourious Basterds” (The Auteurs)