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AOA the inglorious basterds is the best one actually ... its referring to the way germans and americans show 3 with their fingers ... goshops
Minimalist Posters for the Films of Quentin Tarantino – Collider.com 2010
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Several years later, now the owner of a small cinema in Paris, Shosanna plots against the Nazis, her vendetta following a parallel course to that of the "basterds," a corps of Jewish-American soldiers bent on exacting quick and painful vengeance on all Nazis who cross their path.
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Leading the resistance: Brad Pitt is Lt. Aldo Raine of the "basterds," Jewish-American soldiers getting revenge on the Nazis.
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Call me stupid but .... is this a remake of another film and were there in actuality a group simiiliar to the "basterds" who actually did commit similiar acts .....
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Call me stupid but .... is this a remake of another film and were there in actuality a group simiiliar to the "basterds" who actually did commit similiar acts .....
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These are really agin' the rules, and if the 'basterds' had been captured the Germans would, under the traditional system, have been fully entitled to try them by fifteen-minute drumhead court-martial and then shoot them.
Inglourious Walter Jon Williams 2009
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Samm Levine is coming off a successful 2009 after being one of the celebrated "basterds" of Quentin Tarantino and 2010 looks to be an even bigger success for the actor.
MovieWeb: News 2010
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With little attention to narrative detail, the movie suddenly jumps to 1944, and Apache leads the "basterds" to Berlin to blow up a movie house where Hitler, Goebbels, Goering and the entire leadership of the Third Reich are attending the movie premiere of a Nazi war propaganda film during a Leni Riefenstahl film festival.
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The gung-ho "basterds" are louts who storm the barriers like Hogan's heroes; the comic-book Nazis are Katzenjammer Kids; and nobody displays much icy wit except for one Nazi colonel who steals the picture.
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Then we meet Brad Pitt's scene-chewing Lt. Aldo Raine, leader of the titular "basterds," a group of mostly Jewish-American fighters who aim to use sheer brutality to strike terror in the heart of the average Nazi soldier.
unknown title 2009
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