Anyone seen Kill Bill yet? [merged]

[drnuncheon]

*grumble rassin frassin no ROTK trailer when I saw it dern kids these days*

 

[Tyler Do'Urden]

My god in hell... I don't know if I should love or hate that movie.

I felt like I was watching A Clockwork Orange again for the first time, only on speed. My mouth hung open through the whole thing- I couldn't believe I was laughing at it. It's sick and wrong- yet so ridiculously funny that I couldn't resist but be sucked in. This is a black comedy that makes Fight Club look like a nice movie about male bonding.

It felt so wrong... yet... so right. This is the apotheosis of violent films. The perfect kicker would be to have someone come out at the end of part two and go on a schpeel about how sick and ashamed we should be to enjoy this movie, John Galt style- but it won't happen.

I rate movies on a scale of one to five. I'm giving it both a one and a five, because I don't know how else to react. Tarantino is the most twisted cinematic genius since Kubrick, undoubtably.

 

[barsoomcore]

3. In Japan, everyone carries a katana.
4. ...even on airplanes.

What I loved was the second time she was on the plane, where not only is there a katana next to her seat, there's one next to some other seat across the aisle!

Hee.

Of course, I did have an experience in Thailand where the baggage handlers asked if I wouldn't prefer to take my katana on the plane with me. I demurred, reckoning that however laid-back the Thai officials might be, things might get a little dicey explaining it to the Japanese officials when I landed.

 

[Bass Puppet]

Saw the movie on Sunday with some friends. Then ran into 4 of my good friends standing in line to see the movie, and while I'm standing in line with my girlfriend, her friends and 4 of my friends we ran into my roomate coming out of an earlier show. She gave me a couple of nods of enjoyment and some a little insight just to get me even MORE excited to see this move. So we go in, see it, and walk out. I thought the movie was excellent, not perfect, or the Best, but excellent. I look forward seeing it one more time before Vol II.

Did anyone else notice the sound of a fly in the Church, it circled the theatre in a surround effect. It also did it at one other point in the movie but I don't remember when. I thought it was a bit clever to add that small bit of detail.

-Cain

 

[gregweller]

I saw it twice last weekend, and am seriously considering seeing again this weekend ...of course there is the Texas Chainsaw Massacre opening, so I might see that ...but this looks like one I'll buy on DVD and watch every week for a couple of months. But Quentin does that to me. I've watched True Romance so many times I practically know the screenplay by heart (Q. didn't direct but did the screenplay for that). When my wife and I saw Pulp Fiction we were laughing out loud when the kid gets his head blown off in the back seat of the car, then paused and realized NO One else was laughing in the whole theatre. There were a few moments like that in this one. This isn't close to the most violent thing I've seen on screen, though. That would have to go to Peter Jackson's Dead Alive. Although I've also heard good things about 'Ischi the Killer' which I've been trying to track down.

But when all is said and done, I think the whole thing is a love letter from Quentin to Uma.

Spoiler

There's the line at the beginning of the credits -- 'The Bride is based on a character brought to you by Q. and U. It's almost like something out of a high school yearbook, and it just charmed the heck out of me.

 

[Particle_Man]

Sweet! I loved it!

The last bit where she said

Spoiler

"how did you find me?" and we hear a male voice "I'm a man" could mean she heard Bill, or her Groom, or the other male assassin on her list. I am thinking the groom. Maybe she left Bill for the groom and the groom was meant to be a target or something?

Anyhow, I felt rejuvenated after seeing that movie.

 

[KenM]

When my wife and I saw Pulp Fiction we were laughing out loud when the kid gets his head blown off in the back seat of the car, then paused and realized NO One else was laughing in the whole theatre.

I laughed for like 10 minutes first time I saw that as well. But I was the only one laughing. My girlfriend at the time hated that movie. I was the only one in theatre laughing, but I did not care.

 

[Shadowdancer]

But when all is said and done, I think the whole thing is a love letter from Quentin to Uma.

Spoiler

There's the line at the beginning of the credits -- 'The Bride is based on a character brought to you by Q. and U. It's almost like something out of a high school yearbook, and it just charmed the heck out of me.

Uma and Quentin started working on the idea for "Kill Bill" back when they were making "Pulp Fiction." They started kicking around ideas late at night while drinking in a bar after shooting had finished for the day.

Uma reminded Quentin about it when she saw him at an Oscar party three years ago. He had been working on the script for "Inglorious Bastards," a WWII movie, but dropped it to start working on "Kill Bill" again. Of course, he wrote the role of The Bride especially for Uma. And the female members of the Deadly Vipers Assassin Squad are loosely based on the characters from the fictional TV pilot Uma's character made in "Pulp Fiction."

 

[Felix]

Too much blood and violence is too much.

WAY too much blood and violence is just right.

The movie gives you an interesting (if simple) Spaghetti Western story (quite a bit of the soundtrack sounds like an Ennio Moriccone score) that satirizes action movies these days.

Remember how everyone was so upset at South Park in its infancy because they thought it was endorsing awful behavior? Some folks understood that Stone + Parker had a problem with it by taking the language to the extreme. Then they moved onto satirizing other subjects. Might this film not be satirizing the usual Hollywood crap that gets shoveled our way every Summer in the form of the "Summer Blockbusters!"?

Kill Bill: V1[/i] is a good movie.
It is a topical movie.
It is a kewl movie.
It is a movie you should never, ever consider taking a girlfriend to go see.

 

[Rugger]

It is a movie you should never, ever consider taking a girlfriend to go see.

Heheh! I had the opposite reaction.

My GF is a real trooper...always going to the flicks I wanna see...but I was worried about Kill Bill being not her kinda film.

She never once squirmed or seemed uncomfortable or distracted the whole time, and at the end, she looked at me with a PO'd look and said:
"What the hell! The movie felt like it was 20 minutes long! I want more!"

It was in that moment I realized that I will marry her someday.

-Rugger
"I KilledBill!"