Inglourious Basterds (2009)

Director: Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction, Death Proof [which I still think is pretty f-ing awesome])
Stars: Brad Pitt (12 Monkeys, Seven Years in Tibet [which was still decent])
Christoph Waltz (some German films I've never heard of)
YesNoSoso: 2

This movie was freakin amazing. I honestly (and foolishly) thought that it was going to be Tarantino's take on the classic World War II genre, but Tarantino filmed this much more as a western set in World War II. The results are incredible (I love westerns, especially those with a Tarantino twist). I've debated putting this in here, because one of the tenements of YesNoSoso is quick descriptions of movies that give as little away as possible, but I really feel this next point is a huge part of this movies greatness. So here's you're prerequisite "spoiler alert": One of the things that I loved most about this movie was that for most of the it I was under the assumption that the events transpiring were happening during the real time line of World War II and the movie was just revealing an "unknown" storyline of World War II. Because of this assumption, I was watching under the pretense that the Basterds plan was doomed for failure. Because of this misdirection the climax was a true surprise (a rarity at this stage in my movie watching).
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Fistful of Dynamite (1971)

Director: Sergio Leone (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Once Upon a Time in the West [both movies very solid])
Stars: James Coburn (The Magnificent Seven, Snow Dogs)
Rod Steiger (In the Heat of the Night, The Specialist)
YesNoSoso: 2

This barely got a YesNoSoso 2 even with the unacknowledged bias towards Sergio Leone's awesomeness. It is very similar to Leone's Man with No Name Trilogy, except you have to suffer through two great actors doing equally terrible accents and the absence of Clint Eastwood. If you're a Leone fan, check it out, if not, skip it.
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3:10 to Yuma (2007)

Director: James Mangold (Walk the Line, Kate and Leopold)
Stars: Christian Bale (Batman Begins, Shaft)
Russel Crowe (Gladiator, Mystery, Alaska)
YesNoSoso: 2

If you are a western fan, you should love this movie. Amazing performances from Christian Bale and Russel Crowe (I know shocking). I felt that Bale and Crowe should've switched parts, but that may be because I'm not the biggest Crowe fan and his character was more interesting. I will not lie, the ending comes a bit out of left field, but doesn't hurt the movie enough to warrant a pedestrian 1 rating.
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