10 Essential Movies Quentin Tarantino Demands You See
8. The Great Escape
It was only a matter of time before Quentin Tarantino tried his hand at a war movie - the result, Inglorious Basterds, was an entertaining if somewhat uneven affair with commendable performances - especially from Christoph Waltz - and some typical moments of Tarantino excess. While there are certainly more probing and shocking war movies out there, Tarantino has always been a filmmaker more concerned with entertaining than with offering a deep insight into an issue, so his pick of The Great Escape sits well with his own cinematic output. The story of a mass escape from a POW camp in Nazi Germany certainly has a Boys' Own feel to it which is present in Inglorious Basterds. Thats one of the most entertaining movies ever made and was kind of the touchstone goal for Inglourious Basterds to one degree or another... Make a World War II movie thats just entertaining, that you just enjoy watching the movie.
