In the script of the film you will see that there are several scenes that were chopped off – this came after the audience at the Cannes Film Festival told Tarantino that it was brilliant but too long. One such scene was during the interrogation of the officer by the Basterds when you get that narrator interruption to explain Hugo Stiglitz. The deleted scene was a similar narration interruption to explain Sgt. Donowitz (Eli Roth). The scene showed him buying his bat in New York before shipping out and getting the Jewish members of his neighborhood to sign it.

As for the subtitles, the choice to use or not to use subtitles is a reflection of the point of view taken in any scene. For example: when the subtitles are not used for the Germans talking to Zoller in the cafe it reflects how Shosanna doesn't understand German.

Now the titles. They change fonts because Tarantino likes how clever he is. If you have a basic memory for Tarantino's other films you will remember that he loves his opening titles (the queue of music in Pulp Fiction after the freeze frame on the two robbers is iconic) and Inglourious Basterds may be, as Aldo Raine says at the end “This just might be my [Tarantino's] masterpiece.” The fonts are from other films, particularly his other films, get it? He is referencing his own place in film history. The fonts include the iconic Pulp Fiction font as well as the font for Once Upon A Time In the West (a film he references a dozen times in the first chapter – the shot through the door, eg).

Lastly your comment about the narration being “distracting as hell” I would like to ask what it was distracting you from? Weren't you watching Tarantino's movie? Isn't the narration in Tarantino's movie? Don't you know that Tarantino is a crazy muther-fucker who loves the sound of his own writing? He's a cinematic genius because he says he is a cinematic genius. He's the Andy Kaufman of Hollywood Films. Do some research and you'll see just how deep his rabbit hole of film references go. Inglourious Basterds is the best example, but watch any of his films and see him in interviews – you know this guy watches a lot of movies and he loves them, so he references them. Case and point: the title is taken from The Inglorious Bastards from the 70s, and the tagline was off of Once Upon A Time In The West.

Anyway, decent review.

Many solid performances (Landa, Shoshanna, Hickox[loved Fassbender in Hex]), although I agree with others that Myers was miscast…too distracting. For a moment my friends and I hoped that it was him playing Hitler, but alas… Thought that Roth's clumsy performance might have been on purpose. Maybe Tarantino said, “Act like a little shy Jewish guy who just got The Hulk's body.”

Don’t you hate when in films they speak English with a German accent to let us know they’re German? I was delighted to have the real language spoken.

and the soldiers part obviously was clearly to not give away his position.

and the soldiers part obviously was clearly to not give away his position.

I have to disagree with your criticism of the sub-titles, to me, it felt like the times when subtitles were not used were times when you were supposed to connect with the character who couldn’t understand the language. i thought his use and non use was balanced perfectly.

**SPOILER ALERT** Anyone else have thoughts on why Landa betrayed the Nazis? I’d have to plump for a controversial one and say he was homosexual with his radio controller and wanted to ensure their safety. Just a thought though.

Some of the dialog serves little purpose beyond proving to the world that Tarantino knows more about film than everyone else. He's like a guy who's one the pissing contest and then continues to piss on everyone. It's not the downfall of the movie or anything, but some of the dialog is just a bit much.

But…I am going to see it again this weekend and paying for it.

And you may not love it like I did, but I'll be disappointed if you don't enjoy the very funny dialogue, the quick and bloody bursts of violence, and the beautiful Melanie Maurent.

With IB QT totally changed his playground now coming over to Europe. And it's a nice touch that he used alot of French, German and Italian in the dialoges throughout the movie when he could've just made everybody speak English and leave it up to the audience to guess who's from which country. Landa deserves much respect for learning all those beautiful languages.

I would compare Landa with such enjoyable villains as Matrix's Mr Smith and No Country For Old Men's Anton Chigurh. Wonderful characters they are.

Now some random rambling:
I expected the German high brass to survive since that would've been more true to history. Didn't mind all of them get theirs though.
Shosanna looks very much the girl I dated a while back so A+ for using her in the movie.
I was positively surprised to hear a Beethoven's Für Elise remix when the germs were arriving to interrogate the frenchman.
I half expected Myers start pulling some stupid jokes, but thankfully that didn't happen.
Watch Inglorious Bastards from 1978. I wonder now if QT took any ideas other than the title from there..