War movies tend to be constrained by history. And history tends to be based on facts. Things that happened for certain. No room for doubt. Well, Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction) decided he wasn’t particularly interested in that restriction when making this beauty, turning World War II into a violent alternate-history revenge fantasy featuring one of the filmmaker’s most audacious gallery of rogues. Missed it? Good news.
Seventeen years after its theatrical release, Inglourious Basterds has officially landed on Hulu, giving subscribers access to one of Tarantino’s biggest and most acclaimed movies. Like many of Tarantino’s films, it unfolds across several interconnected stories in Nazi-occupied France. Jewish-American Lieutenant Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt) leads a group of soldiers tasked with hunting down Nazi forces, while cinema owner Shosanna Dreyfus (Mélanie Laurent)bides her time in hiding while plotting vengeance against the regime responsible for murdering her family. Their plans eventually converge around a movie premiere attended by the highest levels of the Third Reich.
The cast is led by Pitt alongside Laurent, Christoph Waltz (Django Unchained) as Hans Landa, Eli Roth (Hostel) as Donny Donowitz, Michael Fassbender (X-Men: First Class) as Archie Hicox, Diane Kruger (Troy) as Bridget von Hammersmark, Daniel Brühl (Rush) as Fredrick Zoller, and Til Schweiger (Atomic Blonde) as Hugo Stiglitz.
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Collider Exclusive · Sci-Fi Survival Quiz Which Sci-Fi World Would You Survive? The Matrix · Mad Max · Blade Runner · Dune · Star Wars
Five universes. Five completely different ways the future went wrong — or sideways, or up in flames. Only one of them is the world your instincts were built for. Eight questions will figure out which dystopia, galaxy, or desert wasteland you’d actually make it out of alive.
💊The Matrix
🔥Mad Max
🌧️Blade Runner
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🏜️Dune
🚀Star Wars
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You sense something is deeply wrong with the world around you. What do you do? The first instinct is often the truest one.
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In a world of scarcity, what resource do you guard most fiercely? What we protect reveals what we believe survival actually requires.
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What kind of threat keeps you up at night? Fear is useful data — if you’re honest about what you’re actually afraid of.
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How do you deal with authority you don’t trust? Every dystopia has a power structure. Your approach to it determines everything.
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Which environment could you actually endure long-term? Survival isn’t just tactical — it’s physical, psychological, and very much about where you are.
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Who do you want in your corner when things fall apart? The company you keep is the clearest signal of who you actually are.
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Where do you draw the line — if you draw one at all? Every survivor eventually faces a moment that tests what they’re actually made of.
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What would actually make survival worth it? Staying alive is one thing. Having a reason to is another.
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Your Fate Has Been Calculated You’d Survive In…
Your answers point to the world your instincts were built for. This is the universe your temperament, your survival instincts, and your particular brand of stubbornness were made for.
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The Resistance, Zion
The Matrix
You took the red pill a long time ago — probably before anyone offered it to you. You’re a systems thinker who can’t help but notice the seams in things.
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You’re drawn to understanding how the system works before figuring out how to break it.
You’d find the Resistance, or it would find you — your instinct for spotting constructed realities is the machines’ worst nightmare.
You function best when you have access to information and the freedom to act on it.
The Matrix built an airtight prison. You’d be the one probing the walls for the door.
The Wasteland
Mad Max
The wasteland doesn’t reward the clever or the well-connected — it rewards those who are hard to kill and harder to break. That’s you.
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You don’t need comfort, community, or a cause larger than the next horizon.
You need a vehicle, a clear threat, and enough fuel to outrun it — and you’re good at all three.
You are unsentimental enough to survive that world, and decent enough — just barely — to be something more than another raider.
In the wasteland, that distinction is everything.
Los Angeles, 2049
Blade Runner
You’d survive here because you know how to exist in moral grey areas without losing yourself completely.
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You read people accurately, keep your circle small, and ask the questions others prefer not to answer.
In a city where humanity is a legal designation rather than a feeling, you hold onto something that keeps you functional.
You’re not a hero. But you’re not lost, either.
In Blade Runner’s world, that distinction is everything.
Arrakis
Dune
Arrakis is the most hostile environment in the known universe — and you are precisely the kind of person it rewards.
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Patience, discipline, and political awareness are your core strengths — and on Arrakis, they’re survival tools.
You understand that the long game matters more than any single victory.
Others come to Dune and are consumed by it. You’d learn its logic and earn its respect.
In time, you wouldn’t just survive Arrakis — you’d begin to reshape it.
A Galaxy Far, Far Away
Star Wars
The galaxy far, far away is vast, loud, and in a constant state of violent political upheaval — and you wouldn’t have it any other way.
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You find meaning in being part of something larger than yourself — a cause, a crew, a rebellion.
You’d gravitate toward the Rebellion, or the fringes, or whatever pocket of the galaxy still believes the Empire’s grip can be broken.
You fight — not because you have to, but because standing aside isn’t something you’re capable of.
In Star Wars, that willingness is what makes all the difference.
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Was ‘Inglourious Basterds’ a Success?
The movie was nothing short of a critical triumph, and it currently sits with a 90% score on Rotten Tomatoes from critics. Waltz’s breakthrough performance as Hans Landa was particularly acclaimed, bringing his genius to a whole new audience and, in the process, winning him the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. We dare you to try and drink a glass of milk with someone around a table again after seeing this film. Particular acclaim went to the performances of Brühl and Laurent, whose fascinating romantic arc was a tense treat in the Parisian portion of the film. And the scene with Fassbender in the pub is one of the most iconic scenes you’ll see, and is memed to this day.
It was also Tarantino’s biggest commercial success at the time, earning approximately $321 million worldwide against a reported $70 million budget. Its combination of critical acclaim, awards success, and blockbuster box office helped usher in another enormously successful phase of Tarantino’s career.
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