I aboslutely loved the sound track. My favorite is Daryl Hannahs whistling in the hospital. I agree that this movie wasn’t for everyone , but too many things in this movie just screamed of everything I want in an action flick. I loved all of the style in this picture.:applause:
This is one of the few movies in a while that I walked away from feeling gitty. I cringed at all the violence and loved it at the same time, there was something beautiful about it.
Man it was excellent. Tarantino is good at making you want to laugh and vomit at the same time.
The anime sequence was awesome, too. Very well produced. And the soundtrack ruled.
MY REVIEW:
Whooptie Doo! Another Kung-Fu movie about revenge and looking cool. :annoyed:
Roger Ebert said it best:
“The movie is not about anything at all except the skill and humor of its making.”
I watched Kill Bill with a critical and unbiased eye. I found Kill Bill to be slow, self-indulgent, and very basic. It had some smart moments, and even a few brilliant ones, but overall - it was just an okay film.
[7 out of 10]
PS - The violence was just fargin wonderful!
:buttrock:
Originally posted by Cinematography
[B]MY REVIEW:
Whooptie Doo! Another Kung-Fu movie about revenge and looking cool. :annoyed:
Roger Ebert said it best:
“The movie is not about anything at all except the skill and humor of its making.”[/B]
So your proud that you and Roger Ebert think the same. You poor, poor soul. :rolleyes:
Ah well, at least for some of us, this film was phenomenal. Poetically beautiful. Loved this movie.
I loved it. Beautiful camera work, great soundtrack, strong actors.
The movie lacked a lot of emotion for the most part, but I think that was part of the character, though some of the parts that were meant to impact you, such as Uma crying over the loss of her baby in the hospital, were longer than usual cuts and didnt have any music. Very powerful, I thought.
The action was great. Matrix reloaded can eat it. there was no resolution in any fight, the fighters just flew away. Reloaded sucked. But anyway, yeah it was over the top violence but that was the point. Has anyone seen Akira Kurosawa flicks? check out the blood spray in thoes.
It was a great. It is wacky, Dont go in expecting anything other than… insanity. I loved every minute of it and cant wait till part two.
Also the Animated part was really nice.
I still can’t decide if I liked it or not. Cinematography was AWESOME though. The House of Blue Leaves scene, where the camera roamed for over 15 minutes boggled my mind. It appears to go from a crane shot, to stedicam, back to crane, and then a tight shot. No clue how they did it.
Only thing that pissed me off was that it was SO OBVIOUS that the House of Blue Leaves scene was turned black-and-white for censor board reasons. All that gore gone to waste! (It’s coming out in full colour in Japan, if you don’t believe me.)
That scene went a little past homage, and by the end it was cleary ripping off Jackson’s “Dead Alive” (Not that there’s anything wrong with that. ) The wiggling arms and the moaning and groaning. All it needed was a lawnmower.
The whole Volume 1 thing pissed me off though. It ended well, but still seems like a jip. And that whole “Quentin Tarantino’s 4th film” thing has got to go. Seriously.
A few thoughts on this movie, because it is definately worth seeing.
It was all over the place, alot of scenes didn’t flow together, but when it was good it was great, when it was bad, it was horrible.
This movie was made specifically for shocking people in some areas, and I think he achieved that pretty well and the cinemotography was usaul tarantino esk talent. Basically you have to get his other movies to understand this one and line or a smoke dosen’t hurt eithier 
The violence is so over the top it’s funny, and he was going for that (i think).
I have to say the credits were like 5 minutes long at the beginning and boring as hell, and yea…that thing about his 4th film, I mean common, talk about ego-centric. Tarintino’s films are always just a mesh of other films, sometimes painfully obvious, but that’s one of his strenghts is to take what he likes from other movies and blend it together in his films so it works in his own style.
Originally posted by Ckerr812
and the cinemotography was usaul tarantino esk talent.
I think that credit goes to Robert Richardson , not tarantino.
Originally posted by Sheep Factory
I think that credit goes to Robert Richardson , not tarantino.
ya… Your totally right, the guys a genius.
I guess I should of typed the direction is usaul Tarantino esk talent.
Excellent. Showed Tarantino is a master of the art of film. His use of style shows that he can make nearly anything work. Just when you start thinking you have it figured out, he uses a different device, and yet throughout proves he makes it work. The opening scene’s pacing shows exactly that he knows how to give you just enough information, yet keep just enough, and leave you feeling completely impacted.
As for the fighting scenes, there were some scenes that stood out, yet some banked on just above average. The scene with Gogo Yusdlsdfjsomething with that swinging metal ball was awesome and memorable. The beginning knife fight in the kitchen was overall good. The one scene I wasn’t terribly impressed with was the big fight at the end in the restaurant. Still, I liked that he switched it to black and white. And overall it was still good.
The switch to anime was genius. Some of the best animation I’ve seen.
Tarantino’s choice of music is amazing. Where does he get these songs? And yet, they’re perfect.
I also, after seeing it, end up thinking I like having them in two Volumes. I thought the pacing was great, and that was a great place to end it, though I wish they would release Vol. 2 much sooner. I felt it was a good length for me to take it all in.
I bet if Kill Bill didn’t have any violence, profanity, or action in it, a lot of you would have found it to be very boring. I can admit this much though -- Kill Bill was very cool and very funny to watch. The violence… :drool: Other than that, it didn’t have that much going for it. It wasnt great, nor was it completely bad. It was just okay.
:shrug:
Originally posted by Cinematography
[B]I bet if Kill Bill didn’t have any violence, profanity, or action in it, a lot of you would have found it to be very boring.:shrug: [/B]
:rolleyes:
Action movie. If it didn’t have any of that stuff what would it be?
Originally posted by dmonk
[B]:rolleyes:Action movie. If it didn’t have any of that stuff what would it be? [/B]
Kill Bill didn’t have much substance to it. If it didn’t have the profanity, violence, or action, there would not have been much left for it. A good movie doesn’t require profanity, violence, or action to hold an audience’s attention.
Originally posted by Cinematography
Kill Bill didn’t have much substance to it. If it didn’t have the profanity, violence, or action, there would not have been much left for it. A good movie doesn’t require profanity, violence, or action to hold an audience’s attention.
So, how can you make a movie about revenge without violence or action? Sure, the storyline might be a bit vaugh but it’s good enough to hold the audience attention, because they’re expecting it to be an action movie not a drama with deep storyline.
Originally posted by Cinematography
Kill Bill didn’t have much substance to it. If it didn’t have the profanity, violence, or action, there would not have been much left for it. A good movie doesn’t require profanity, violence, or action to hold an audience’s attention.
I don’t get you. Why not profanity? Why not violence? Why not action? WHo made the rule that a good movie doesn’t need all of that, especially when, if you hadn’t noticed that the movie was completely about action, violence and profanity. I can’t stand these notions that so many people have about what a movie should be. Get off your high horse. I don’t mean to blow up on you specificly, but I’m so sick of people giving smarmy critiques of movies based on some unwritten rules about what a movie should be. The problem with most movies is they try to follow the rules too much.
CgMonkey
"So, how can you make a movie about revenge without violence or action?
It’s possible. It’s not impossible.
“Sure, the storyline might be a bit vaugh but it’s good enough to hold the audience attention, because they’re expecting it to be an action movie not a drama with deep storyline.”
Don’t get me wrong. I thought Kill Bill was very entertaining. However, I don’t think it deserves the praise that its getting. It was okay.
dmonk
> "if you hadn't noticed that the movie was completely about action, violence and profanity."
And this is why I say the movie lacks substance. Like I said to CgMonkey, I thought Kill Bill was very entertaining. However, I don't think it deserves the praise that its getting. It was okay.
> "Get off your high horse."
I don't own a horse. :p
> "The problem with most movies is they try to follow the rules too much."
I completely agree with you on this point.Originally posted by (e)
[B]I coulda seen it tonight…but…Leafs season opener too good to miss(e) [/B]
4-0 to montreal… ouch, now that is more pain then anything in kill bill 