Rate Kill Bill

[Nightfall]

I liked it for many of the reasons stated here. I also think like Shin, this movie SHOULDN'T be compared to any of QT's other work. Because it's unique. It's like comparing apples and pears. I felt the whole point of this movie is that QT said "Gee I want to make a butt kicking, violent, off centered movie that might not reach EVERYONE. But those that love Kung Fu movies, samurais, anime references, and even just some hip hop beats along with a different score will like." This movie isn't for those that want something of substance or the kind of "English Patient" movies. Hell compared to Braveheart, this movie is substandard! But that's my point! It's in a place all it's own. And that's where the movie SHOULD be judged. As itself, not as something else.

Oh yeah I gave it an 8. I would have gone 9, but I felt the fight with Gogo could have been a little longer.

 

[jdavis]

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.

I've got a friend who is working on a doctorate in Criminal Psychology and she loves Reservoir Dogs (she also loves Kalifornia, so that should tell you how her taste in movies runs). Reservoir Dogs made me very uncomfortable, there were parts of it that were so intense I had a hard time watching them, it's a completly different type of movie than Kill Bill, which is outlandish and obviously in "The Movie World". You could believe the people in Reservoir Dogs were real criminals and that stuff really happens, heck that's why my friend liked it. They used a old Godzilla set in Kill Bill, they took Samurai swords on the airplanes, there was absolutely no mistaking this for anyting in the real world. Heck even in Pulp Fiction you could believe that that kind of stuff could happen, The Kill Bill world was no more real than the Who Framed Roger Rabbit world, it was a complete action movie fantasy world.

 

[Darrin Drader]

I also think like Shin, this movie SHOULDN'T be compared to any of QT's other work. Because it's unique. It's like comparing apples and pears.

What are you talking about? Apples and pears are very similar. In fact, there's even a hybrid apple/pear that you can buy in some grocery stores.

 

[Dragonblade]

I gave it a six. The music and retro atmosphere was great. It had that distinctive Tarantino style and had a nice hard edge to the story.

However, I'm sick to death of wire-fu. I'm also sick of Hollywood actor types trying to do martial arts or sword fighting. They don't look or move naturally at all and the fights are so unrealistic and overchoreographed it drives me nuts.

Much better to find a trained and experienced martial artist and teach them to act, IMO.

I also hate it when American actors who can't speak Japanese to save their life are portrayed as supposedly fluent in it. Its painful to listen to them.

I also don't like Lucy Liu. I don't think she is attractive at all and don't buy her as a Yakuza boss.

 

[Dragonblade]

I gave it a six. The music and retro atmosphere was great. It had that distinctive Tarantino style and had a nice hard edge to the story.

However, I'm sick to death of wire-fu. I'm also sick of Hollywood actor types trying to do martial arts or sword fighting. They don't look or move naturally at all and the fights are so unrealistic and overchoreographed it drives me nuts.

Much better to find a trained and experienced martial artist and teach them to act, IMO.

I also hate it when American actors who can't speak Japanese to save their life are portrayed as supposedly fluent in it. Its painful to listen to them.

I also don't like Lucy Liu. I don't think she is attractive at all and don't buy her as a Yakuza boss.

And to qualify my opinions, I have lived in Japan, I speak near-fluent Japanese, and I have a blackbelt and years of martial arts experience.

 

[Particle_Man]

I also don't like Lucy Liu. I don't think she is attractive at all and don't buy her as a Yakuza boss.

Spoiler

Off with his head!

 

[Nightfall]

What are you talking about? Apples and pears are very similar. In fact, there's even a hybrid apple/pear that you can buy in some grocery stores.

Okay how about apples and coconuts?

Dragon,

That's your call. I happen to like Lucy Lui and felt the actors spoke the language fluently enough. (Course I can't tell since I don't speak/read/know that much Japanese.)

 

[Pants]

That's your call. I happen to like Lucy Lui and felt the actors spoke the language fluently enough. (Course I can't tell since I don't speak/read/know that much Japanese.)

The only problem I had with the Japanese stuff was the use of the F-word. From what little I know of the Japanese language, the F-word really doesn't exist in their tongue as we use it. Saying it in Japanese would be the equivalent of saying fornicate you or fornicate this. Just a quibble though

 

[Dragonblade]

Well, not liking Lucy Liu is just personal opinion. I'm not going to downgrade the movie just because she is in it.

But I find it hard to swallow that she is some sort of Yakuza boss when she can't speak the language to save her life.

Now, the other girl, her "lieutenant", her Japanese was almost flawless. I could have believed her as a ruthless Yakuza boss.

But yeah, Japanese doesn't have "F--- you!" in their language.

 

[Nightfall]

Yeah I liked Gogo too. Of course I couldn't tell the difference but I guess someone that's spent a year or more probably could tell the difference. Me, it sounded good enough.