0roo0roo
No Lifer
- Sep 21, 2002
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like when? i laughed too, but because it was funny and supposed to be from what i saw, the funny bits were not inconsitent with the style of the movie.
btw, here's the Kill bill references thread
with pics!! *in the rt linkhttp://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=38&threadid=1160078&STARTPAGE=1
I thought it was brillant up until the big battle with 100 guys at the end, that was pretty over the top. The snowy garden fight felt like something from DOA3.
StageLeft
No Lifer
- Sep 29, 2000
- 70,150
- 5
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Not; I guess you've not even seen them. They play out like a real sword fight. Violent, merciless, and not like a stick fight. Rob Roy has the best sword fight of these of course because it was created to be like a real one, whereas just watching the ads for kill bill I can see that it was done in typical over-the-top asian combat relying on impossibly movements and wires to supplement movement. Go see rob roy, then go see kill bill and tell me with a straight face the latter isn't a farce of swordplay.
Consdiering how few movies I pay to see in theater I shan't pay for this one. I may rent it just to see if I'm wrong, since so many say it's good, but my liklihood of being right (disliking it) is too high to pay for it in theater.
haha exactly what I thought!
I think you missed the point.
Tarantino said he was making a homage to cheezy 70's Kung Fu films he loved in the 70's.
So, critisism that it had cheezy Kung Fu scenes, means you missed the point.
Lots of folks in 70's Kung Fu films looked goofy and unconvincing with a sword.
So, you are not really suposed to believe Uma can weild a sword, or fly, or take one on an airplane.
It is a joke. It is a "dark comedy."
However, unless you basically grew up in the 70, as Tarantin odid, there is really no way you can understand what he is doing, or at least certainly not everything he is doing.
I am not saying anyone is stupid for not getting the movie, or that Tarantino did a poor job artistically, just that many of the things folks think are flaws are actually very very intentionally, but I can understand missing them. There was so much "stuff" in that movie folks would have to see it many times to catch everything.
So, the idea of the film is to pull you into the characters, like a serious movie, and then do something funny.
That sounds liek "comic relief" but this is different.
In comic relief, your emotions move from tense to funny, when the sillyscene comes up, and you relax.
In this movie, your emotions stay BOTH tense AND funny at the same time, and you probably get more tensed up.
I saw it and was somewhat disappointed.
Sometimes the excess violence/gore was sickening, other times it was just funny. There was very little Crouching Tiger style in this movie. Maybe 2 or 3 times, and even then it was only small details like jumping onto a staircase ramp.
I disliked the entire animated part of the movie. It felt like it didn't belong in the movie at all.
Was this an entertaining movie? Yes. While I was watching it, I was enjoying it. But once I left the theater, I felt disappointed.
My general opinion of this movie: It's worth paying to see it, but only once.
Sometimes the excess violence/gore was sickening, other times it was just funny. There was very little Crouching Tiger style in this movie. Maybe 2 or 3 times, and even then it was only small details like jumping onto a staircase ramp.
I disliked the entire animated part of the movie. It felt like it didn't belong in the movie at all.
Was this an entertaining movie? Yes. While I was watching it, I was enjoying it. But once I left the theater, I felt disappointed.
My general opinion of this movie: It's worth paying to see it, but only once.
I think they had that anime part because it would have simply been WAY too gorey/bloody if they had real actors/actresses playing out these scenes.
I also think it'll be cool if they added other anime scenes, one to complement the background of each character of the DiVAS.
I also think it'll be cool if they added other anime scenes, one to complement the background of each character of the DiVAS.
BoberFett
Lifer
- Oct 9, 1999
- 37,562
- 9
- 81
I guess some people just don't get it. This film is exactly what it is supposed to be. Saying anything otherwise would be like saying Casablanca sucked, because it didn't have as many riced out cars as Fast and Furious.
For the genre that Kill Bill is trying to emulate, it does it nearly perfectly.
For the genre that Kill Bill is trying to emulate, it does it nearly perfectly.
I think you totally missed the point of the movie...
a) The violence is supposed to be excess and gorey and sickening and funny! It's not a flaw!
b) Crouching Tiger was a wire-fu movie.. This movie was a grindhouse 70s kungfu fest... their was some wirefu but it's not a wire-fu movie!
c) the animated part was brilliant, brutal, artistic, beautiful, and awesome.. if you wanted a cookie cutter movie you shouldn't have seen the latest tarantino flick...
Agreed.
I think a lot of movies nowadays are just too traditional. Anything else is perceived as disappointing. 
alkemyst
No Lifer
- Feb 13, 2001
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Yeah hater was the wrong word, ignorant idiot would have been a better fit.
And again this movie is supposed to be funny/corny/campish a la 70's Kung Fu when all the craze was Kung Fu/Karate (songs, dances, movies, shows, colognes, etc)
Those movies were also not believable....and WTF does something have to be 'real', it's a movie, it's entertainment....
but apparently LoTR is all real, since geeks everywhere put on 'their robes and wizard's hat'
Originally posted by: LanEvoVI
Hands down the best movie I've seen this year. It also wins for bloodiest, most limbs lost, and best sword fight having over 50 people in it.
I agree. Kill Bill was one of, if not the greatest movie I have seen all year. I went with a group of 8 friends, and all agree it was an awesome movie. Uma was hot, and everything generally rocked. Music was perfect for the movie, and the plot was amazing. I have not read the book it was based on, but I plan on reading it now. I liked how the timeline occurred. Oh yeah, the geek in me loved the klingon proverb in the beginning. I would recommend this movie hands down, and plan on seeing it at least once more.
EDIT: Oh yeah, the previews don't do the movie justice at all.
anxi80
Lifer
- Jul 7, 2002
- 12,294
- 2
- 0
got back earlier, bad-ass flick. liked the constant action and gore. my girl jumped at the opening scene where the bride is talking to bill. pretty funny.
also, anyone else notice the little red dots, it was about 9 of them in a square, periodically during the movie? i noticed it a couple of times, a quick flash. for those who are curious, its the MPAA's way of finding out where movie leaks to the net are coming from, the sequence and time the dots appear supposedly narrow down the theatre from which the bootleg came from. interesting, and kinda distracting. couldnt they place them in the corner if anything?
also, anyone else notice the little red dots, it was about 9 of them in a square, periodically during the movie? i noticed it a couple of times, a quick flash. for those who are curious, its the MPAA's way of finding out where movie leaks to the net are coming from, the sequence and time the dots appear supposedly narrow down the theatre from which the bootleg came from. interesting, and kinda distracting. couldnt they place them in the corner if anything?
That's what those dots were for? They bothered me because they came out of no where in my theatre during the black and white scenes.
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