My original viewing of Inglourious Basterds was definitely otherwise influenced, but not by the fact that Tarantino and Eli Roth were present. Rather, it was enhanced by the fact that Tim League and the Drafthouse wizards rigged Nazi flags to unfurl along the sides of the theater just at the beginning of the Nation's Pride premiere.
Re-watching the movie cemented the fact that I really enjoy it a great deal all on its own, with or without an audience. Basterds has the chops to be nominated for Best Picture, but regardless of whether it is or not, the movie will be one of the longest-remembered films of 2009 in the decades to come.
The Blu-ray Includes two extended scenes (Lunch With Goebbels and La Louisiane card gme) and an alternate version of the Nation's Pride premiere sequence. Also on there is a half-hour roundtable chat with Tarantino, Pitt, and Elvis Mitchell (a favorite interviewer of mine). There's a 4-minute Making of Nation's Pride piece with Roth playing a German propaganda director and Goebbels and his mistress also featured in-character. A quick The Original Inglorious Bastards piece shows off Enzo Castellari and Bo Svenson's cameos and the original trailer for the 1978 Bastards movie.
By far my favorite bits were two short chats with the great Rod Taylor. The first (A Conversation with...) is about how Quentin approached Rod to do the movie, but I like the second more. Rod Taylor on Victoria Bitters is great fun in that it begins by talking about the fabled (to me) Aussie beer I've never tasted because it isn't exported. I replayed it twice. A close third was Quentin Tarantino's Camera Angel, where the clapboard girl's various uses for a tons of scenes' alphabetic reference is on display. For example: 34FN, take 2 would be "Fucking Nazis, take 2". Most would need to see it to understand. Also in there are the complete Nation's Pride short (wish it had been feature length), Hi Sallys (where cast say hi to editor Sally Menke when they fuck up a take), and a Poster Gallery Tour with Elvis Mitchell, where he digs into the film history involved in various movie-placement choices Tarantino made.
I liked very much that the disc integrated with my phone so that I could download a couple featurettes to it (I don't just die to watch them on the TV). I wish PocketBLU (the app) would just give me all of the featurettes instead of just a couple. Not just as a reviewer, but as a fan of the format, I'd love for whatever portable "Digital Copy" to be identical in content to the disc. This is one of the few BD-Live features I've seen people be excited about, let alone use.
Amazon has the Blu-ray on sale for $17.99 ($4 less than the 2-disc DVD that's lacking a pile of extras).