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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ShinHakkaider" data-source="post: 1177869" data-attributes="member: 9213">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.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />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.</blockquote>

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