Anyone seen Kill Bill yet? [merged]

[barsoomcore]

Ok, let me qualify my statement:

......*thinking*.......

There's no way to qualify that statement properly. Ok, how bout this: Only take girlfriends to this movie who also liked The Fifth Element. That should be about right.

That'll do it. Hee.

 

[jdavis]

a couple of things I noticed looking at IMDb:
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0266697/goofs

Incorrectly regarded as goofs: The many continuity lapses and other apparent technical errors are a matter of deliberate stylistic choice in this pastiche of 1970s "B" action movies.

http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0266697/trivia

In order to achieve the specific look of Chinese "wuxia" (martial arts) film of the 1970s, Tarantino gave director of photography, Robert Richardson, an extensive list of genre films as a crash-course in the visual style they used. The list included films by genre-pioneers Cheh Chang and the Shaw Brothers. Tarantino also forbade the use of digital effects and "professional" gags and squibs. As such, he insisted that bloody spurts be done in the fashion made popular by Chang Cheh: Chinese condoms full of fake blood that would splatter on impact

 

[Shadowdancer]

Chinese condoms that splatter on impact? No wonder China has such a large population.

 

[Viking Bastard]

BADDABUMBAMTISH!

 

[KChagga]

Wow! This movie gave me exactly the same feeling that I got the first time I saw Fist of the NorthStar. If you've seen that anime movie then you know what I mean.
I dug the 70's feel to it, I think that is what pushes this movie over the edge to greatness.

I just realized that I had seen GoGo somewhere else before. She is the same actress who played the balls stabbing Chigusa in Battle Royale. I knew she looked familiar. Crazy girl.

 

[shilsen]

One more thing...

Who's John Galt?

One of the lead characters in Ayn Rand's novel Atlas Shrugged.

 

[DM_Matt]

One of the lead characters in Ayn Rand's novel Atlas Shrugged.

Sigh. What kind of person goes around answering rhetorical questions?

 

[WayneLigon]

Just came back from it.

Fantastic.

 

[Kai Lord]

3 hour movies are very risky and tend not to do well,]

When has a movie ever underperformed because of its length?

not to mention this movie was a little too intense for 3 hours straight.

Not to pick on you, but this amuses me and I've seen a number of people say this. Did everyone really crap their pants over one twenty minute fight sequence in an almost two hour long movie?

Watch Braveheart. A lot more fighting, and save for Sophie's arm and the Yakuza dude's head, a lot more gore. And it was three hours long.

Saving Private Ryan ran about two and a half hours and had two twenty plus minute gorefests that were so authentic they triggered traumatic flashbacks for many WWII veterans who saw them. Did Spielberg cut Private Ryan in two? Or Schindler's List?

If people who actually suffered such horrendous acts can sit through two and half to three hours of shocking re-enactments I think we can handle a three hour movie with a tongue in cheek Uma Thurman swordfight in the middle.

Volume I was mostly a snooze fest.

Or did the overlong Okinawa sequence have you hyperventilating in your box of popcorn? I'm going to go out on a limb and guess it didn't. Ditto for the toe wiggling and anime.

The film was cut to double the profits. Plain and simple.

 

[Welverin]

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.

I hate you Kentucky! An early show costs me $6 and that's only for the first showing of the day for that screen, which doesn't seem to apply if the first showing starts after three or four.

This is a black comedy that makes Fight Club look like a nice movie about male bonding.

But it is a nice movie about male bonding. Sure there's quite a bit of violence and disturbing content, but still!