Anyone seen Kill Bill yet? [merged]

[blackshirt5]

Chitchatting with someone, we both remarked about the total lack of any mention of it being Part 1 of 2 in the previews and such. Very misleading I think, but I'm not that much of a QT fan and cant' stand Uma Thurman, so I wouldn't see it anyway.

Um no, dinner alone. If you bothered to watch the previews, at the end it says Volume 1. October 10th; Volume 2. February 2004.

And the movie rocked hard. I think the amount of blood was occasionally overplayed(see also: Sophie!), but as for the head and limb choppings, it's all good.

Also nice that you don't even get to see Bill's face yet.

 

[Heretic Apostate]

Edit: Never mind...

 

[Rugger]

Nothing like a little of the old ultraviolence...

I loved it.

Lotsa little references and nods to 70's Asian films...Ultra-hot Uma from planet Thurman coming across as a "not so good person"...

I worry about my generation (I'm 28) though...the violence was SO over the top that we laughed our way through. The older folks around us gasped alot and the younger could seem to care less. I guess we're getting de-sensitized.

Oh, and about the "epilogue"...we also waited all the way to the end, and....nothing.

Then today I read that they moved it up to before the credits:

Spoiler

The bit about her child still being alive is what was originally the epilogue

Great flick. Just don't take your parents to see it.

-Rugger
"I WantsMeSomeHanzoSteel!"

 

[Endur]

The Return of the King trailer was worth the price of the ticket.

Kill Bill, which was very good, was just icing on the cake. Violent, but very good. Awesome selection of music. Had me thinking Spaghetti Westerns and other violent movies the whole time.

The trailer for Matrix Revolutions was good, too, but nothing out of the ordinary.

 

[jdavis]

Yep where I live movies cost $14.50. Multiply that by two for this single-movie-split-into-two-parts and thats $30. Well, $29.

Good grief I went to the early show and it cost me $4.50, the late show was only $6.25. If I go to the movies before 6 pm here it's actually nearly as cheap as renting them at Hollywood video (which is $3.99 plus tax). People here were complaining that they went up to $6.25. To see both movies will cost me $9, I ain't sweating that.

 

[jdavis]

The Return of the King trailer was worth the price of the ticket.

Kill Bill, which was very good, was just icing on the cake. Violent, but very good. Awesome selection of music. Had me thinking Spaghetti Westerns and other violent movies the whole time.

The trailer for Matrix Revolutions was good, too, but nothing out of the ordinary.

The Return of the King Trailer was great.

If you like Tarantino then you will like this movie if you don't then don't bother, it just screams Tarantino all the way through it, yes it was violent and bloody and tongue in cheek about it but that's what he does, all his movies are like that, this one just had swords instead of a lot of guns. I didn't find the violence all that disturbing at all (and I'm definatly from a couple of generations back), heck limbs being chopped off and the exagerated bloodspray have been around for a while (the first Conan was very bloody in it's day), this was supposed to be over the top with it, that's the point, don't feel bad about laughing or enjoying it, it was was done to be over the top and in your face, that was the point and the desired effect of it.

 

[Pants]

I worry about my generation (I'm 28) though...the violence was SO over the top that we laughed our way through. The older folks around us gasped alot and the younger could seem to care less. I guess we're getting de-sensitized.

Heh, I did the same thing, and I'm 20.

 

[Mathew_Freeman]

Oh well, maybe I am getting desensitised to violence, but I came out of that thinking "OK, now I thought Fight Club was a black comedy..." This is a pitch black comedy in places. Tarantino lingers on the blood spraying from people.

Spoilery sections:

Spoiler

Her baby is still alive.

Lovely moment. A very good way to end the movie, setting it up for Part 2. I mean, what else could have surprised you as an audience? What other cliffhanger could he have left it on?

Spoiler

House of Blue Leaves fight. Genius stuff, but I still think there was some really sick humour there. "Go home to your mother!" Plus, the section where she hacks of a bunch of feet off, leaving all these guys rolling around on the floor. I chuckled. Maybe I'm just sick.

Don't go see the film if you don't like the look of it, and if you do go and see it please don't come on here and complain about the violence. It's Tarantino does 70's Kung-Fu bloodfest, you all know it is.

I'm not quite sure about feeling nothing for The Bride. I mean, so far as we can tell at the moment, she was brutally near-killed on her wedding day, along with eight other people, and we've been given no reason. Then she was

Spoiler

repeatedly raped in the hospital

. I think she has a right to be more than a little annoyed. Especially considering the genre. I sympathise with her more than anyone else. At least she kills people cleanly. Mostly.

A great film. Soundtrack is great, too.

 

[Alcareru]

Hmm Ill have to see this it sounds like. The reviews from the media are mixed leaning toward the good. From the sound of it, it seems amazing that QT managed a R rating and not a NC-17.

BTW, why is it Kill BIll volume 1? Shouldnt it be part 1?

 

[uv23]

Saw it this aft to appease the gf who really wanted to see it. I'll reverse my opinion about being upset it was split into two movies. I'm actually glad as I couldn't have sat through such a terrible movie for twice as long. The violence was stupid and nauseating. It tried very hard to be kitsch. And thats about it. Didn't really care about anyone in the movie. White actors who don't know how to swordfight still look like white actors who don't know how to sword fight, no matter how much chorreography is used. Blah. And they didn't even show the ROTK trailer.