Quentin's next: Kill Bill

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You'll love the movie if you have interests in:

Shaw Brothers style Hong Kong Cinema (the high contrast B&W segment)
Modern Hong Kong Cinema (Jet Li, Yuen Wo Ping, Crouching Tiger)
Japanese Samurai/Bushido (The fight with O-Ren and The Bride is intense)
Anime (Japanese animation based on "Manga" (Japanese comics))

The movie is over the top in some places, but it makes the sheer magnitude of the violence tolerable. And there's a LOT of spraying blood and guts! This is not a shiny, happy movie, it's is a movie about going to Hell, and then getting revenge on the people who sent you there, at any cost!

Sadly, the chapters and time-jumping are hard for some people to follow, but even though you know how some events are going to end up, getting there is half the fun. :D

-Tom
 
Took off work early yesterday to check it out! This is by far the coolest flick of the year. Sorry Matrix:Reloaded, I love you too. I cant wait for volume II!
Im gonna get some people together and take them to see this for sure!
GO BACK TO YA MOMMA! :neener: AWESOME ****!
 
"This <whack!> is <whack!> what <whack!> you <whack!> get <whack!> for <whack!> :cuss:ing <whack!> around <whack!> with <whack!> YAKUZA!"

:p
 
i'm going to pass on seeing it. frankly after seeing QT's other movies i really don't like them. that and i can't stand uma thurman. lucy liu on the other hand is a hottie and is good at the action thing (shanghai noon ballistec ecks vs sever)

and for the record matrix reloaded sucked.
 
Aisan girls in school uniforms are nice thou! Does this make me sick or something?
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YES. LOL

Well, you and the literal legions of anime fanboys out there. (Big anime fan myself, mind you, I just seem more assertive than your typical anime fan stereotype. That, and I don't read Japanese comics or anything, and I don't watch Anime in Japanese with subtitles; if I want to read I'll get a book.)

Seriously, I really don't understand why in all of these Animes (the adult-tageted ones, I mean, not the ones TARGETED at high school girls) the penchant for adolescent female heroes. It's like, 16 and 17 year old girls are always saving the world or something. Is 25 considered old in Japan? Is there some cultural penchant towards finding 15-16 year old girls attractive? (Of course, things used to be like that over here, too. I believe Edgar Allen Poe, for instance, married his fourteen year old cousin, which is just wrong on SO MANY LEVELS...)

Because frankly, grown men drooling over high school girls is wrong and you know it. LOL :cool:
 
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Personally, I can't take cross eyed Lucy Liu. She also can't act too great. You want beautiful women? Check out Brigitte Lin from EAST IS RED and SWORDMAN II. Also...Carina Lau and in my opinion, Anita Mui. Of course, there's always Michelle Yeoh...:)

Check out Tsui Hark's TIME AND TIDE if you want a good gun flick...:D
 
I thought it was great. Tarantino's an arsehole, but the guy makes a great movie.

- Gabe
 
Saw it. It made a difference going into it that I knew it was supposed to be a distillation of every revenge flick Tarantino likes. It allowed me to go with the over-the-top moments (many many of those moments).

Left my girlfriend at home and it was probably the right decision. She would not get it or dig it. Scenes like the motorcycles escorting the limo and Uma's yellow motorcycle were very lyrical. The way he showed air travel on a map and the music he chose worked for me. The silhouetted sword combat near the end, too cool. I'm not convinced about the cartoon sequences. I'm a comic and anime fan but it reminded me too much of Natural Born Killers (and made me think he didn't want to budget the filming needed to show those flashbacks).

If anything was hard to swallow it was that Uma would be so physically fearsome. She's a tiny thing.

Felt like a rocking roller coaster ride to me. Queasy and thrilling sensations. I'd say mission-accomplished for Quentin. Can't wait for part 2.
 
Well...Bruce Lee was a small little thing -- and so weren't most of the masters of martial arts. You'd fear them if you pissed them off...:D
 
I haven't seen this, but one of the things I like about QT is that his violence tends to be semi-realistic. I particularly appreciated the accidental shooting in "Pulp Fiction." That's what you get screwing around with your finger on the trigger!

Now, apparently, he's featuring some woman with a katana taking on 88 men at once and winning! Homage to anime or not, that's just silly. From all I've heard, the film is a perfect example of the school of thought which holds that a katana can slice through a tank. It's nonsense. It takes a full-force stroke from a very strong man to decapitate a bound victim with a freshly-sharpened katana. The notion that you're going to be able to slice through limb after limb like butter is classic Sillywood.

Anyway, it begs the question--why doesn't one of these guys just get a damn rifle and shoot her? (the famous scene from Indiana Jones comes to mind)

Plus, another thing I like about QT are his funky characters. Some were very memorable. But Kill Bill is apparently devoid of anything but ultra violence. I may pass unless I hear something better about it.
 
I want to now why the bleeped out the Bride's name.

Kill Bill was anything but realistic. (I mean, you really can't take your samurai sword on an airliner with you.)

But, it wasn't supposed to be. At least QT isn't trying to pass off over the top silly violence as real life, like a lot of other action movies.

LOVED the music in the movie, too.
 
I guess I'm wondering--what's the point of it? Slashing and more slashing? With no sense of realism, there's no sense of danger. It's just a lot of silly nonsense. No different from cheap B-Movies where bad guys get blown out of windows with one shot from the cop's revolver. Now one of the cool things about QT is he took the silly exploitation movies and gave them realism. So now the cop's revolver doesn't blow the bad guy through the air, it just leaves him moaning. It was an interesting twist. But what is he trying to say with all these sliced off limbs?

I think I'm just prejudiced. I detest the katana fanboys, and this looks like a film tailor made for them.
 
I detest the katana fanboys, and this looks like a film tailor made for them.
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Quite possibly. But, I just liked the style of the movie, the music and the cinematography. No guns? No problem.

After this, though, Quentin should make an equally stylish, but more realistic action movie with lots of guns. The hero or herioine should carry a nice blued S&W revolver in .45 Colt, and it should be slick and funny and violent.

Please?
 
I'm a female fan of the genre -- loved BRIDE WITH WHITE HAIR, A CHINESE GHOST STORY, THE EAST IS RED, SWORDMAN II, PEKING OPERA BLUES, CHUNGKING EXPRESS, every Bruce Lee film done, Brigitte Lin, Samo Hung, Jackie Chan, Simon Yam, Leslie Cheung, Anita Mui, Carina Lau -- maybe Quintin had me in mind....:D
 
1 bullet for the Bride
1 bullet from the cereal box
1 bullet into the burbon
4 bullets from under the bed
1 bullet to the back of the limo

This isn't much of a gun film....
 
Lucy's character DOES wind up using what looks like a PSG-1 at one point. :D

Kill Bill is different. I don't even know if I liked it or not, and I usually form strong opinions about movies I've seen. I wouldn't whine about it being like such-and-such until you actually watch it, though. ;)
 
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Animated, though.

Just saw it. An OK movie to me. Having seen more than my fair share of the Chinese Kung Fu, Japanese Boshido, Speghetti Western, anime films, I can understand what QT is trying to do. Unfortunately, I don't think the rest of the general public not into those types of movies will like it as much. All that blood spraying and over-reacted death scenes made me smile a bit recalling those old Japanese movies.
 
Worst movie I have ever seen, and I like pulp fiction. I would have to rate this as worse than The Cable Guy, the worst movie I had ever seen before this one. I wonder how much the movie company paid all those critics.
 
Actually I thought PULP FICTION was the worst film I've seen -- JACKIE BROWN was his first film I've liked....
 
I guess I'm wondering--what's the point of it? Slashing and more slashing? With no sense of realism, there's no sense of danger. It's just a lot of silly nonsense. No different from cheap B-Movies where bad guys get blown out of windows with one shot from the cop's revolver.
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I don't think you quite get Quentin's joke here. He's made an exploitation film of exploitation films. I think he'd agree that it's a lot of silly nonsense, although as with anything Tarantino does, there is a tremendous amount of genuine craftsmanship in it.
 
Caught it last night. Absolutely loved it. It was blatantly over-the-top from the word go, and had some very skillfully done homages in it ranging from Spaghetti Westerns, to Anime, Kung-Fu, and even Godzilla. (Don't think so? Check out that rockin' model setup of Tokyo.)

On top of that, I thought it had some excellent characterization, especially for a lot of the secondary characters- the sword maker, Lucy Liu's personal bodyguard, and the henpecked restaurant owner.
 
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