Very few films are perfect, in my eyes at least. Coen Brothers' 2007 classic
No Country For Old Men is a movie I constantly cite as being one where every single individual scene and performance would be impossible to improve upon in progressing the filmmaker's intention within that genre. No Country, for example, is a film I have watched at length and found no flaws, nothing that dissatisfies me or that I think could be bettered. Stanley Kubrick's early crime classic
The Killing is another. But these are few and far between. Of course that's just my opinion and you guys might be able to come up with a list a mile long about what annoys you about either film and you are entitled to that (I'd love to see such a list however if you do feel that way). But 99.9% of every other movie I've seen, even among the hundreds I love and watch incessantly, I've found things to dislike, that are irksome to me in some way and perhaps contain missed opportunities for further greatness. In the first of a new series, I'm going to dissect some films I like and some that I don't like so much, but always those where I felt like a few things could be tweaked just to make the movie a little better than it actually is. Some of these things were found upon frequent viewings, of course, and perhaps weren't things I had noticed the first time around where a film worked completely for me. First up on the block is
Quentin Tarantino's 2009 Best Picture nominated WWII movie
Inglourious Basterds, a personal favourite of mine and a movie I've seen a dozen times. However, almost since my first viewing of the film, I've always felt a few niggles from the movie and here they are... Of course there are huge
spoilers in this article if you have not seen the movie...