Anyone seen Kill Bill yet? [merged]

[Quasqueton]

The only QT film I've seen from beginning to end was Pulp Fiction. I liked it. I started watching Resevoir Dogs, but I turned it off during the torture scene. "Action violence" is one thing, it's usually quick, and the bad guys die, but I could not stomach watching the extended torture and mutilation of a random cop.

Does this movie have such a scene? I'll skip this flick if it expects me to suck up and watch an extended torture or rape scene.

Quasqueton

 

[jdavis]

Actually, I've never seen Kill Bill volume 1

Only looking around on the web have I since seen the addition "oct 10th, volume 1"

I see that in the trailers on their site, but haven't seen it on the TV ad's, perhaps I have to search for it...

So, I'll gladly retract what I said, and admit it may in fact be squezed into some place, after the release date.
They do tell you it's QT's "Fourth film" a lot though. Too bad they didn't mention his fourth and half film is seperate.

And hey, Mel Brooks did History of the World Part 1. Doesn't mean it was half a movie...

Everything I have seen or read talks about it being split into two, it's not like they are trying to hide the fact or trick people, every interview I have read with him or the actors talked aobut it being split. They are not trying to mislead anyone that would be foolish on their part, they want people to know there is a part two because they want people to go to part two, they are telling everyone who will listen the movie is split into two parts. Here is a article from Feb 25th talking about the split:

Tarantino's Double Dose of 'Kill Bill'?

Quentin Tarantino's new movie Kill Bill is so long, the filmmaker now plans to turn it into two separate films. The film, starring Uma Thurman, Daryl Hannah, Vivica A. Fox and Lucy Liu, was originally scheduled to hit American cinemas screens in October, and now it is expected that the second part will be released just weeks later. David Carradine, who stars in the drama says, "Shooting has been going on so long - with Quentin continuing to write scenes, that plans are afoot to turn Kill Bill into two 90-minute features that would be released within five weeks of each other. I probably shouldn't be saying this, but what the hell - they can't fire me." He adds, "It's a brilliant marketing plan. The first film would end with a cliffhanger, so that everyone would want to see the second half." Carradine, who landed his role in the flick after Warren Beatty dropped out, is expecting to go before cameras again to shoot extra scenes for the movies.

It wasn't a secret they were spliting it, if it was it was a pretty lousy secret because they kept telling people for the last 6 months there would be two movies. It wasn't done for the money, it was done because Tarantino kept adding new scenes during production and the movie got too long. 3 hour movies are very risky and tend not to do well, not to mention this movie was a little too intense for 3 hours straight.

Other trivia about the movie:http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0266697/trivia

 

[KenM]

Just saw it, loved it. A thought:

Spoiler

I think the kid that was in the first chapter is Uma's Kid. She said She was 4. Vivacca's(SP?) character would have had to been very pregnent when she when on the hit to take out the wedding party. Did not look like she was. Also we never see the groom that was taken out.

 

[Vocenoctum]

Everything I have seen or read talks about it being split into two, it's not like they are trying to hide the fact or trick people, every interview I have read with him or the actors talked aobut it being split. They are not trying to mislead anyone that would be foolish on their part, they want people to know there is a part two because they want people to go to part two, they are telling everyone who will listen the movie is split into two parts.

As I mentioned, I knew before hand. However I still don't see the commercials on TV proclaiming it's half a movie. What will draw people to the second movie is thie first movie, not advertising for the first movie. While I'm sure the QT fans have kept up on such things, I'd say quite a few people didn't.

But, aside for surveying people at the theater to see if they knew ahead of time, there's really not much else to add.

 

[Shadowdancer]

Just saw it, loved it. A thought:

Spoiler

I think the kid that was in the first chapter is Uma's Kid. She said She was 4. Vivacca's(SP?) character would have had to been very pregnent when she when on the hit to take out the wedding party. Did not look like she was. Also we never see the groom that was taken out.

Don't think that will work:

Spoiler

The Bride told Bill, right as he was shooting her in the head, that he was the father of her child. Bill's not black, so that kid couldn't have been Bill's. Unless The Bride was lying. Also, we see that kid four years and six months after the shooting. Copperhead could have been three months pregnant at the wedding and not shown much.

 

[ascendance]

Wanted: Native Japanese Speaker

I want a native Japanese speaker to tell me how bad Uma Thurman and Lucy Liu's Japanese was

 

[Jeremy]

Just wanted to add my friends and I absolutely loved every second of this movie. We spent much of it laughing, pointing, wincing, and laughing some more.

Loved the style, action, sounds, music, choreography, dialogue, way it was shot, and fun of it. Mish-mash of a whole bunch of genres I love.

 

[Welverin]

One thing that did get me going was a guy who brought his 2 very young kids to see it (I'm talking 4 to 6 range).

Reminds me of a mother who was going to buy her son (6-8) a South Park video game.

 

[Pielorinho]

Saw it last night, and my main reaction was to the ultraviolence. I watch some pretty violent movies without being fazed, but this one -- hoo boy! I'm still not sure whether I'm glad I saw it. My wife, I think, regrets having seen it.

That said, it was brilliantly done. QT knows what he's doing, and is a master at it. When it was funny, it was very funny; several of the scenes were very beautiful. And it wouldn't have been the same movie at all without the huge level of violence.

I realized what made the violence so terrible was that Tarantino seems obsessed with destroying the body. Most movie violence involves stabbing or shooting: a person gets a surprised look on their face, maybe a bloodstain on their shirt, and falls over. Their body remains essentially intact. Tarantino isn't satisfied with this: when people get hurt in his movie, their bodies are radically altered. Limbs are gone, sides of heads are staved in, eyes are removed. It's much harder to watch.

Daniel

 

[kengar]

Saw it yesterday. It was shocking, uber-violent and grisly, but you can't deny the talent behind pulling that vision together. The unapologetic mayhem left you wondering whether or not to laugh. As a result, half the time I was staring in amazement at the gore and the other half I was giggling. I've seen better fight choreography, but even that seemed a kind of homage to the 70's films Kill Bill has its roots in.

The audience was quiet as they left. Like someone else said earlier, it wasn't a piece that you left hooting about. Even teenagers -whom I expected to be animatedly replaying the more outrageous scenes- were subdued.

..and the ROTK trailer rocked majorly