Q. Tarrantino's "Kill Bill"- Good or Stinker?

[Timexwatch]

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Does Coma rape Count? "Hello, my name's Buck and I'm here...."

[St Leo]

Greatest. Movie. Ever.

Of course, my previous Greatest Movie Ever was Austin Powers III, so take my rating with a grain of salt.

[ajbera]

Just saw it... and I loved it. Little substance (boiled down, just a chick-oriented revenge flick), but it's got a whole lotta cool. It starts off strong, with the fight between Uma and Vivica, and end on an interesting note with ramifications for part 2. Lots of blood, but I love that in a film. Still not as gory as "Dead Alive", but what is?

Don't expect another "Pulp Fiction" or "Reservoir Dogs" (my fave Tarantino film), but I think if you watch it without any expectations other than to be entertained, you'll leave the theater happy.

PS: Julie Dreyfus (Sofie Fatale) is beautiful...

[Skanky Burns]

[spoiler][/spoiler] tags allow me to read the whole thread without the risk of reading that spoiler. And to read St Leo's post beneath it.

[Sikander]

Originally posted by Dr Strangelove
As far as I'm concerned Tarantino is way over-rated. The only good thing about his chef d'oevre "Pulp Fiction" was one really spiffy line: "I'm going to have to get medieval on your buttocks". The fact that that piece of garbage got Academy Awards is the best single piece of evidence that the Academy Awards are utterly meaningless.

Actually that award goes to "Bowling for Columbine" hands down.

[Sikander]

Originally posted by Drogue

Ben and Jerry's makes anything go down easier

I'll order a case for my girlfriend immediately!

[Q Classic]

pulp fiction was good for one reason and one reason only.

samuel l. jackson getting his wallet back. y'know, the one that says bad mutha ****a.

[Static Universe]

Re: Q. Tarrantino's "Kill Bill"- Good or Stinker?

Originally posted by monkspider
It also saddens me to see Uma Thurman fall from being the raven-haired beauty on the cover of Pulp Fiction to the ghastly, anorexic-looking beast that we see today.

The irony here being that Uma looked her ghastly anorexic-lookingist in Pulp Fiction. From the previews I've been of Kill Bill she looks much healthier now.

Of course, Uma T. does nothing for me and I think she only ever looked good once, stepping off the giant seashell in Terry Gilliam's Baron Munchausen.

But WTF do I know?

[Dis]

any gratuitous nudity?

[St Leo]

There's some schoolgirl skirt action. Otherwise, no. It's all about pulverizing limbs in a sort of poetic motion that's worthy of a Coleridge poem.

[Drogue]

Originally posted by Sikander
I'll order a case for my girlfriend immediately!

Although maybe not for the cinema. You get weird looks for that kind of thing

[Zero]

Originally posted by Dissident
volume two comes out this winter I think. Or early next year- which is still winter.

From what I heard is Tarantino has had some problems cutting the film down to under 3 hours towards 2 hours. You know how these artistic filmakers are. They agonize over every cut and edit they have to make. So Tarantino and the movie studio agreed to release it in two parts.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120338/

Making 2 vol. has only one reason. $18 as opposed to charging $9.

[Drogue]

But for twice the work. Surely making 2 parts to this is like anyone making 2 seperate movies. He's put the work in to make two movies worth then why not have it as two movies. I don't want to sit through 3 hours plus trailers for one film, yet cutting it often leaves out interesting bits. Therefore a 2 parter seems the best option. Whats wrong with making two films and charging the same to see each?

[St Leo]

Originally posted by Zero Making 2 vol. has only one reason. $18 as opposed to charging $9.

Have you see Part I yet? It works as an organic whole.

[Timexwatch]

I believe that the whole thing was split into two because Harvey Weinstein wanted to hedge his bets and not release a potential 3 hr bomb into the theaters. That's harder to recover from that a 1.5 hr bomb.