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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kai Lord" data-source="post: 1166081" data-attributes="member: 3570">Agreed.  I found the final chapter entertaining, but Kill Bill isn't a great homage to classic martial arts films, its a mainstream I Spit On Your Grave.I can handle severed limbs and buckets of blood, the violence is really only an extension of Braveheart, Saving Private Ryan, and so on.  The fact that [SPOILER]Uma had been raped while in a coma in the hospital for four years[/SPOILER] was nauseating however, and that they played the revelation as comedic effect gross out humor (the vaseline) was even more sickening.And apparently since Quentin got to spread the story over two films he felt he was above editing the picture.  Even as a shortened first half, many scenes were way too long.  The Okinawa sequence was ridiculous in its lack of brevity.The opening sequence with Vivica A. Fox was simply horrible.  Horrible choreography, dialogue, and delivery.  It made the teeter totter showdown in Daredevil look like a masterpiece.This is by far the least of Tarantino's work.  Where was the quotable dialogue?  Nowhere.  Where were the endearing characters?  Nowhere.  Oh that's right, this wasn't a film for Tarantino fans, its I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE, with Pulp Fiction's jumpy narrative style.News to Quentin, jumpy narratives are no longer clever.  We've seen it in Pulp, we've seen it in Go, and we've seen it masterfully serve the story in Memento.  Its time to catch up, its now no more than an aging gimmick.  Another news flash, Hollywood stars doing there own kung fu was also clever years ago.  Now WE NOTICE when they can't keep up with the choreography.At least Kill Bill had an anime sequence as backstory.  Oh wait, that isn't clever anymore either.  Its one thing to polish tried and true gags and gimmicks, and another to invent new ones.  Kill Bill did neither.  But at least it was nauseatingly crude.  And had cool music.  Oh yeah, with lots of 70's in-jokes.  IOW, an R-rated Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle.  THAT's all a Tarantino film is anymore?  Pathetic.</blockquote>

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