Rate Kill Bill

[Pants]

I give it a 9.

 

[Morrus]

I thought it was OK, but nothing special. Certainly not as good as Reservoir Dogs or Pulp Fiction. I gave it a 6 - didn't enjoy it as much as I thought I would and found some of it a bit too silly for my tastes.

 

[Truth Seeker]

Rated

I give a 10..a 10 I say....if it were possible I would have gave it 100...

 

[Wombat]

Gross and pointlessly violent.

Tarantino continues his style -- lots of flash and bang, absolutely zero substance.

 

[Michael Tree]

I gave it a 7. It was okay, but not nearly as good as Pulp Fiction and Resevoir Dogs. Those had character and fantastic dialogue, and were well paced. There were hints of this old brilliance in the Okinawa scene, the fight with the boy she spanked, and the final scene with O-Ren, but most of the rest was way too drawn out and cardboard.

In another thread someone called it the most violent anti-violence movie ever. I don't know if that's what Tarentino intended, but it certainly ended up that way. I was horrified by half of the violence, and for the other half of the violence I was horrified that I and others in the theatre were laughing at such brutality.

Usually after action movies I tend to have an urge to out and roleplay something similar to the movie. After LotR I wanted to play epic fantasy. After Pirates of the Caribbean I wanted to play swashbucling pirates. But after Kill Bill I wanted to play something like lord of the rings, with well defined good vs. evil morality, cinematic heroic action... and lots of armor.

Edit: Grammar my friend is.

 

[Morpheus]

I gave it a 9. It can't get a 10 because it's not finished, but I'll revisit my ranking after Volume 2 comes out. It was darn near perfect, though.

Ditto...

 

[Black Omega]

Keeping in mind I'm an anime fanboy, I gave this around an 8. Not the best movie I've seen but alot of cool stuff and a great homage to the old kung fu movies.

Aside from one anime sequence, nothing much to do with anime though. except in the sense some shows in anime obviously drew inspiration from the same sources Tarentino did.

 

[Truth Seeker]

Better film???

Wait, wait...so, could any of you done it better???

Like or not...there is a story behind all that blood and guts.

Sorry, no spoilers here.

 

[WayneLigon]

As I understand things, the second part is way less violent than the first but I certainly don't see Part One as all that violent. As in, violent enough to comment on how violent it is You carry around a three-foot scalpel and things like that are going to happen.

*checks Poll* Ah, good to see the 8/9/10's leading the pack by a long ways.

 

[ShinHakkaider]

I thought it was OK, but nothing special. Certainly not as good as Reservoir Dogs or Pulp Fiction.

I see alot of people saying "not as good as Reservoir Dogs" but personally I think that RD is probably the most overrated of his films. It's decent enough, but it's not the end all be all that most people make it out to be. If the story for Kill Bill is thin and derivative then the story for RD is no less, maybe even more so. The whole crux of the movie is ripped directly from Ringo Lam's CITY ON FIRE and hiest movies gone wrong like Kubrick's THE KILLING.

I liked KILL BILL a little less than I liked Jackie Brown (which is probably the Best of Tarintino's films in terms of craft and structure, although it does lack the puchy dialogue of Fiction and Dogs) because it lacked pretention, because it is shamelessly nothing more than a 70's martial arts/chambara/revenge movie. And it's fun. Everyone complaing about the violence in this movie, unless they honestly didint know going in and even then they had to know that there is violence in Tarantino's films (I mean really, It's like going to see Goodfellas or Casino and complaining about the violence and the appearace of mobsters in those movies. The movie is called KILL BILL, not Fluffy Bill's Petting Zoo of Looooooove.

I think that Tarintino made this movie for people like me who smiled from ear to ear when the Shaw Bros logo popped up on the screen or when It goes to the split screen (used frequently by Brian DePalma in Carrie, Dressed to Kill and Blow Out among others) during Elle Driver's visit to the Bride's hospital room. Or when he does what I call the Kung Fu Zoom on the Brides eyes when ever she confronts one of the other Deadly Vipers and they show the flashback of her assault in faded out brown.

I loved it because those little touches meant something to me. They refered directly to movie experiences growing up in NY and going to those ratty theaters on Times Square with the sticky floors and watching Fists of the White Lotus and Five Deadly Venoms. Even without that background I think that it still does what it's supposed to do, which is entertain. It's not supposed to be highbrow entertainment. It's a derivitive of the type of movies that highbrow and movie critics in general dont like.