There is also the open when Lea Seydoux closes the window in the cabin that looks really deep and 3D. It’s also telling that Arrow Video teased a release of Inglourious Basterds with a card in one of their Blu-ray releases a while back, but that hasn’t come to pass. But the decision to utilize the existing 2K digital intermediate from the Blu-ray release and upscale it, rather than doing a new 4K scan of the negative, feels like a miscalculation. Universal does not appear to have done that here, rendering the film’s upgrade to UHD somewhat inert.

Use the thumbs up and thumbs down icons to agree or disagree that the title is similar to Inglourious Basterds. While some folks may lament the absence of an object-based audio mix for this 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray of Inglourious Basterds, it’s important to remember this DTS-HD MA 5. Looking at the 1080p version, which is solid in its own right, the difference is noticeable, but not what I would describe as night and day. For those not familiar with the details regarding Ultra HD Blu-ray you can refer to my article that includes some pertinent data on the subject. Independently owned and operated publications like Slant have been hit hard in recent years, but we’re committed to keeping our content free and accessible—meaning no paywalls or fees.The image has a clean aesthetic, with ample delineation that draws out plenty of detail, in both close-up and wide-angle camera shots.

As war rages in Europe, a Nazi-scalping squad of American soldiers, known to their enemy as “The Basterds,” are on a daring mission to take down the leaders of the Third Reich. The extras are also recycled from the Blu-ray release, including extended and alternate versions of certain scenes, a collection of trailers, and perhaps most interesting, a 30-minute roundtable discussion with Tarantino, Pitt and film critic Elvis Mitchell. For this disc, Universal has ported over all of the extras from their original home video release of the film from 2009.

This amount includes seller specified domestic postage charges as well as applicable international postage, dispatch, and other fees. In the early 1940s, a group of US commandos, led by Lieutenant Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt), are marching into Nazi territory to not only kill them, but scalp them. Weird after playing the 4K version, neither of the Blu-Ray versions I own will play on any of my players !

It’s definitely a dynamic soundtrack, though one can’t help but wonder what a new object-based track would do for this film’s sound design. And that’s a very good thing as this is a very loud, punchy mix that also is quite loose and build wonderful atmosphere. Three featurettes are dedicated to The Inglorious Bastards from 1978, including The Original Inglorious Basterds, A Conversation with Rod Taylor, and Rod Taylor on Victoria Bitter, the latter more of a fun outtake of sorts.If not, maybe if they read the reviews and the responses to them, it might go a small way towards waking them up to produce releases which would not be devoid of quality. In a film library of consistently great and well loved films, Inglorious Basterds easily makes a case for being one of them that stands above the rest.

The seams of the film's construction — Inglourious Basterds is "a collection of scenes" rather than a flowing narrative — are intentional, heightened by the literal chapter titles punctuating each vignette. Said pieces are the vignettes that make up the film, leading up to the final “Chapter” being a culmination and conclusion of them all coming together. There’s a lot of tight framing on faces and you can appreciate all of the details around the eyes, mouths, hairlines, and one particular neck scar. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.In the past 10 years at Why So Blu, Brandon has amassed over 1,500 reviews of 4K, Blu-ray and DVD titles.