Go See KILL BILL!

[Nitemare]

Good movie, very entertaining. It ended and I was like wtf, did not know it was a 2 parter and lost track of time. I also liked Tarantino's From Dusk til Dawn. Asian chick with the ball and chain was awesome.

The blood spraying and the huge fight scene at the end was too comic bookish for me though. I question the casting of Uma Thurman is the badass as well.

An Asian couple sat down next to the wife and I, theater was maybe 10% capacity and brought their two kids, maybe 4 and 2. I'm thinking OMFG NNNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! At the very beginning of the movie it sounded like their was a hot and heavy sex scene, and I'm thinking this is Tarantino, what were you thinking?

Got to give them credit though, kids lasted through about 30 minutes before they starterd yammering and crying. Parents took their kids out. I saw Blade in the theater as well and it was interrupted by a crying screaming child.

Who brings their young children to see films like this?

 

[DanJ]

Originally posted by: Nitemare
I also liked Tarantino's From Dusk til Dawn.

From Dusk Till Dawn was hardly a Tarantino film. The only true Tarantino films being Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, and Kill Bill.

 

[maziwanka]

i really liked this movie.

 

[0roo0roo]

so, any japanese speakers here? how well did lucy liu and uma pull off the japanese?

 

[joinT]

Now releasing the second part alone and then the dual edition is a rip though.

Well what about those who bought the first stand-alone disc, do they wanna have to buy disc 1 again in the doubledisc set?

What peeves me is.
1. regular edition
2. special edition
3. newline platinum series edition
3. special collector's edition.

Doesn't make any sense to me. Make TWO versions, one with just hte movie & another with EVERYTHING.

 

[imported_Tomato]

Saw it, liked it, looking forward to the next one.

 

[gflores]

Saw it last night, very good in my opinion but the last fighting scene was a little bit too unreal. I guess that's what he wanted. I loved the anime scene although I'm not into anime too much. I had one question, though. Why did Bill and the rest of the squad try to kill Black Mamba in the first place? Because she used to be the lover of Bill and now was getting married to someone else, or what? Will this be covered more in the next volume? Also, I noticed in the first fight scene, they bleeped out Black Mamba's name... I wonder why...

No one has mention the soundtrack? What'd you guys think of it? Personally, I liked the whistling song that nurse was singing

 

[anxi80]

Originally posted by: gflores
Saw it last night, very good in my opinion but the last fighting scene was a little bit too unreal. I guess that's what he wanted. I loved the anime scene although I'm not into anime too much. I had one question, though. Why did Bill and the rest of the squad try to kill Black Mamba in the first place? Because she used to be the lover of Bill and now was getting married to someone else, or what? Will this be covered more in the next volume? Also, I noticed in the first fight scene, they bleeped out Black Mamba's name... I wonder why...

No one has mention the soundtrack? What'd you guys think of it? Personally, I liked the whistling song that nurse was singing

since we are pretty much beyond spoilers...

****SPOILERS****











She said she wanted out of the squad, and Bill was going to let her go and live her own life. Then she got ambushed at her wedding. But she was carrying his kid.

The way its supposed to go, she is simply to be referred to as 'The Bride'. We dont get the privilege or knowing her name quite yet. In Vol. 2, you should be able to hear her name. If you watch again, they mouth it out. Vivica A. Fox reportedly is doing press-junkets and such for this movie, and she is dropping Uma's character name as opposed to calling her 'The Bride'.

The whistling song is Bernard Hermann - Twisted Nerve. The soundtrack is good, even has the RZA's score tracks and sound FX on it.

edit: added spoiler tag just in case...

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
so, any japanese speakers here? how well did lucy liu and uma pull off the japanese?

Japanese was accurate, however, it would probably sound 'funny' to most native speakers since they use out dated expressions.

My wife won't tell me the sex joke/discussion they were having in the restaurant's private room though that wasn't subtitled



Her name is on the airline ticket to Japan....it flashes really to fast to make it out unless you know exactly where to look and probably what is was already....there was a still frame on the kill bill site (I think could have been another site).

I have been following the movie for a while now. My sig has had Hattori Hanzo's quote in it for a while. My desktop has a modified version of the sword wallpaper.

 

[Ranger X]

Originally posted by: gflores
Saw it last night, very good in my opinion but the last fighting scene was a little bit too unreal. I guess that's what he wanted. I loved the anime scene although I'm not into anime too much. I had one question, though. Why did Bill and the rest of the squad try to kill Black Mamba in the first place? Because she used to be the lover of Bill and now was getting married to someone else, or what? Will this be covered more in the next volume? Also, I noticed in the first fight scene, they bleeped out Black Mamba's name... I wonder why...

No one has mention the soundtrack? What'd you guys think of it? Personally, I liked the whistling song that nurse was singing

It's odd that you watched through the entire movie without knowing. Sorry, I thought it was obvious.

 

[gflores]

Nope, it wasn't for me, or my friends... did they say it in the film? I didn't catch it.

 

[Maximin]

I saw it yesterday. Really liked it. You know it when you left the theater.

Now I think Lucy is HOT!
Very nice soundtrack, by the way.

 

[Zebo]

Originally posted by: Evan Lieb
I'm being perfectly honest when I say that Kill Bill was the worst movie I've seen since North.

Negatives:

Blood/gore: I have no problem with blood/gore, in fact if I had to choose an action movie with blood/gore and an action movie without blood/gore, I?d have an awful hard time deciding. Sorry, but Tarantino has no clue how to use blood/gore effectively in Kill Bill. Let?s get real, any half-wit can say ?Chop off his arm and make the blood spray out a lot!?, yet Tarantino can?t do any better than that with Kill Bill. I know I?m not the only one who got tired of seeing the same bloody scene after same bloody scene with absolutely no change to the ?Let?s decapitate them and then do it 10 more time, the audience will never see it coming!? Christ, I?ve seen all the blood and guts movies out there, and this one just made me want to puke (and I mean that literally and stylistically).

Action scenes: mediocre at best in terms of quick, surprising, or simply elegant looking moves. Not even close to realistic. Yeah, I could give a crap what Kung Fu genre Tarantino was shooting for, I?ve seen Kung Fu movies and Kill Bill is a disgrace compared to them. In terms of pure action entertainment value, Kill Bill comes no where close to any LOTR movie, Matrix movie, etc.

Positives:

Humor: Tarantino can still make a humorous movie. Kill Bill is still nothing compared to his previous all time greats (Pulp Fiction especially), but there were definitely some funny scenes. For example, after the long bloody cartoon scene, Tarantino pans back to Uma attempting to force her right big toe to move. There were many other scenes like that, and thankfully Tarantino didn?t forget how to direct those types of sick/funny scenes.

Still, Tarantino has the honor of making a movie so bad that it was officially the first movie in my life where I simply decided to close my eyes and take a snooze.

And as others have mentioned here, Tarantino is the only reason anyone would give this movie a second thought. No, don?t kid yourself, many other directors could have done better action sequences, though only few (or, maybe none) could have done it with the same hard hitting humor.

From 0-10 I give this movie a 0.1, which only North was able to surpass with a 0.0. Yes, I?m exaggerating, but Kill Bill was indeed terrible. All IMO of course.

EDIT: Btw, I felt like kicking some of the Tarantino nut-huggers in my theater. It wasn't really because they knew the script by heart, it was mostly because they rehearsed it during the movie. :disgust:

Excellent review... Ever get the feeling this is the "sheep" syndrome and people in generally like movies that require no interpretation or thinking of any kind. Pulp was a masterpiece but this was pure crap and validates much of what his detractors have said about him.