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Summary: Amazing
Review: Quentin Taratino is the master at creating such wonderful dialogue that you just listen and gawk. He is amazing at creating such a terrific story and teasing you by not letting the plot out right at the begining such as his other movies (I.E. Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs). This type of movie genre has not been done before and he adds his flavor to it. One last thing Tarantino knows that music in a movie makes it even more enjoyable and every scene had the perfect song (I.E. Bang Bang he shot me down-Nancy Sinatra). 5 stars all the way.
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Summary: clever movie
Review: i loved this movie. the action was very well directed and everyone should see it. you easily get caught up in this movie because of the clever plot and it immediatly grabs you attention from the start. a must see and buy.
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Summary: Better than Pulp!
Review: This is his greatest movie yet! I'm anti-viloence, but this was gratuitous art! It was ridiculing a genre, while complimenting the actors. Quentin takes his actors to the edge, which makes them believable and great. He also gives the premise of child abuse, and gratuitous violence being done to the present day vipers that we see. This gives reason, heart, soul and compassion to all villians. Monsters are not born, but created from molesting dysfuntion. He is like God,the third author omniscient, finding forgiveness for even the worst sinner!
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Summary: An essential for "Pulp" fans
Review: With Quentin Tarantino you cannot tell whether you will like his movies or not care for them. I saw every Quentin picture and I can honestly say that their is a mixed sense for me.
Reservor Dogs was alright, but I didn't particularly care for it, Pulp Fiction was a masterpiece which in my mind is the greatest action movie of all time, Jackie Brown which was a slight letdown from "Pulp", but satisfying for Quentin fans and a damn good follow-up to the masterpiece, and last Kill Bill Vol.1 & 2, both of which I thought along with my friends and fellow Quentin fans thought was a very good picture. This movie starring Uma Thurman, Michael Madsen, Lucy Liu, Darryl Hannah, Vivica A. Fox, and David Carradine as "Bill". These two movies balanca out the sets of actors in each of the movie and make for a great movie experience for both fans. The first one, in my and many peoples opinions thought was better. If you like action packed bloody movies rather than explanitory movies you will prefer 1 to 2. In 1 you will get the raw action, while in 2 you get the glimpse of the moments leading up to them.
Some may love this movie, and some may hate this movie, but either way you must respect Quentin Tarantinos vision and bravery in releasing movies that everyone might not like, and shows just who his fans really are.
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Summary: The best
Review: Its one of the best movies i ever saw, i love it.....
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Summary: YES!
Review: "Kill Bill" is a very rare phenomenon: a fun, thrilling, exciting action film that also contains a genuinely poignant emotional core.It's COOL when the Bride kicks the crap out of Vernita Green in her idyllic suburban home. It's POIGNANT when she comes face to face with Vernita's 4-year-old daughter after killing her. It's COOL when the Bride beats the hell out of the disgusting orderly who's been pimping out her comatose body. It's POIGNANT when the Bride wakes up from her coma, and, after realizing she's lost her baby, cries out in acute pain and loss. It's COOL when O-Ren Ishii beheads a fellow crime boss at a dinner banquet. It's POIGNANT when an anime flashback shows how she witnessed the death of her parents as a small child. Brilliantly written, acted, and executed, I LOVED this movie. And extra props to Tarantino for not using ANY CGI in this film!! PS Go-Go rules!!!
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Summary: Two words: watch it. Mindless entertainment ensues.
Review: So why do we all like extremely violent movies that contain considerable amounts of blood? Don't expect me to answer that. If I did answer, then I'd probably have to site sources to try to prove some theory. Being lazy, I choose to only contemplate. With that said, all I know is that when I originally saw this film, I really had kept wanting to see more of the blood and gore and coffee table smashing and headless bodies and eye plucking and sword-fighting silhouettes in front of blue screens ... and so on. Did I mention the silhouettes? Yeah, ... cool. Since then, I have seen this film about four times. I'll probably see it again. Once, I did what my friend referred to as a "ghetto double feature" and saw Vol. 1 at home, then I went out to see Vol. 2 in the theater. If that is ghetto, then I've been ghetto-ized. The thing is, well, here's the thing: I'm not even a Tarantino fan. I mean, I admired the box-art for Pulp Fiction (nice font used). Uma Thurman's scenes were great, and there's something about John Travolta's forehead that says, "Watch me." And, so, while I'm not really into his other movies, I admired Quentin Tarantino for Kill Bill. I think it is one of the best movies I have seen, definitely the best he has to offer. If there aren't fight scenes, then we are given great one-liners or even full paragraphs to soak up in. In Vol. 1, the tone is set by the first fight scene. Vivica A. Fox and Uma Thurman do a great job at making us feel a sense of urgency -- and that is why Vol. 1 works so well. We're treated with the brutality of The Bride's revenge. So, ok, the story in Vol. 1 is not as important as the flashy fight scenes, but all the juicy plot-developments are thankfully saved in Vol. 2. So, all you need to do, really, is watch Vol. 1 for the mindless blood and funny dialogue. Lucy Lui should consider more roles like Oren Ishii. She is used so well here. The Bride and Oren have some poignant moments. But, what am I saying? You already know this. Chances are that you've already seen this film. I'll spare you a big review on every single character and how well they were portrayed (you know, like Hattori Hanzo, the Crazy 88, Go-Go, Sophie Fatale, and yes, even Charlie Brown). Ok, here's the part of my review where it becomes all about me. I consider myself an average film-goer. I'm certainly not an elitist, and I like to think that I view movies objectively. And if you're reading too much into the first three sentences of this paragraph, well then you're probably thinking I'm pretty egotistical. Well, that's for you to decide. As for me, If I liked Vol. 1 for its fighting and the set-up, then I enjoyed Vol. 2 for its dialogue and the follow-through. I can watch both seperately, or I can watch them together. I think that is the beauty of it all: both volumes are so connected (in fact, they're really one film), yet both volumes are incredibly different (the style change, being the most obvious difference). So, allow me not to campaign any further on why I think Kill Bill is a big achievement in film. I think many others have gotten that point across. All I can say is that hopefully I have contributed somewhat to those others' points. Just buy the film.
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Summary: QT Shows He Knows Action
Review: There's a scene in Quentin Tarantino's "Pulp Fiction" (1993) where Butch (Bruce Willis) just nearly escapes a most gruesome violation. He is tied to a chair, but is able to free himself. As he leaves the building where he was held captive, Butch takes a samurai sword off the wall, and proceeds-with his newfound weapon of vengeance-to hack away at those who took him captive. Keep that momentum going for 95 minutes, and you've got "Kill Bill." It's been six years since Tarantino's last movie, "Jackie Brown" (a movie I always thought was underrated) but the wait has been worth it.
"The Bride" (Uma Thurman) is gunned down and left for dead on her wedding day by a group of assassins that she originally belonged to, and which is led by a man named "Bill" (David Carridene). Comatose for four years, she wakes up and seeks revenge. Uma Thurman's character makes a hit list comprising of her former colleagues, including Bill, and proceeds to go after them one by one. In Vol. 1, The Bride makes it through two of her former companions: Vernita Green (aka "Copperhead" played by Vivica A. Fox) and Oren Ishii (aka "Cottonmouth", played by Lucy Liu). Don't worry, I haven't given anything away. While there is one plot twist (that I will not reveal), this is essentially the kind of movie that one cannot spoil. We know what's going to happen-but that's not why we watch. We want to see how it happens.
Pop culture references abound: There are references to Bruce Lee, Kurosawa's jidai-geki (period films), American sitcoms, Star Trek, breakfast cereal, Japanese TV dramas, and the Spaghetti Westerns of Sergio Leone. Tarantino is so steeped in film lore, that nearly every frame is paying homage to something or other. And as always, there is that feeling in scene after scene that Tarantino loves what he's doing. This is a man who loves cinema, and it shows. The pacing of the movie is also excellent. Even when there are downtimes, you will not look down at your watch.
What's different? One realizes early on that this is a movie about textures. Tarantino takes us through many in this movie: The movie is shot in color, of course, but we also get black-and-white, and slow motion sequences when he wants to empathize emotion or drama. There is also one animated sequence telling us the origin story of the Lucy Liu character--which is simply superb.
And there is one point in particular where "Kill Bill" is different from any Tarantino movie before it. If "Pulp Fiction" and "Reservoir Dogs" were both characterized by long bouts of conversation, with short, intermittent points of action, "Kill Bill" is the opposite: wall-to-wall action, with brief, intermittent points of conversation. He has literally turned his own style upside down.
"Kill Bill" is Tarantino's homage to the kung fu and karate movies of the seventies. Needless to say, this movie is quite violent, and this presents itself as a problem in the world that Tarantino creates. More so than his previous movies, in "Kill Bill" he juxtaposes his own vision of hyper real violence with the hyper fantastic of the genre he is exploiting. The conundrum is: How to rationalize the two? Anyone seeing "Pulp Fiction" or "Reservoir Dogs" will remember the first time they saw either one how brutally real the violence looked, so much so that it has become one of Tarantino's trademarks. In "Pulp Fiction", when Uma Thurman's character ODed on heroin, it really looked like she had ODed on heroin. "Kill Bill" has that, (witness the opening scene of the film) but it is combined with the pure fantasy from the Kung Fu genre: the power leaps, spurting, candy-cane blood from decapitated mannequins, characters with elevated levels of hearing, etc. Tarantino is sometimes asking the audience to identify, or empathize, with his characters, while other times we are asked to step back and laugh, when the violence is so over the top. One or the other is fine, but putting the two together seems problematic-and I'm not sure that the movie resolves this issue.
This is definitely a movie to see. You have the pleasure of watching a movie made not only by someone who knows movies well, but also honestly respects the genres from which he steals. Tarantino has borrowed a fantasy world, and added his own brand of quirkiness (and realism) to it, with great success. This is a violent movie, to be sure, but we already know that: We go not only to see the violence, but how it is delivered.
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Summary: Fun
Review: It's got fighting, interesting story, briliantly shot, outrageously violent, and amusingly funny. I remember rolling on the floor laughing when the limbs were flying and overthetop blood was flowing out like a firehose. It's intentionally exagerated, and this film, I will say, that it occomplished it's goal. "Kill Bill" centers on an assassin named only as the Bride (Uma Thurman), who was shot in the head on her wedding day by the mysterious Bill. Four years later, the Bride wakes from a coma to find out she's not only lost four years of her life, but also her child (she was pregnant at the time of the shooting). So she sets off in her quest for revenge, her quest to kill Bill. But before she can get to Bill, the Bride must first get through Bill's Deadly Viper Assassination Squad. Let the body count begin baby yeah!!! Sorry I'm a gore hound. Anyway, the Bride exacts her revenge on anyone that gets in her way, we quickly realize that "Kill Bill Vol. 1" is a movie made by Tarantino for Tarantino. Body parts fly across the screen with glee. Buckets of blood spurt out of body stumps. And heads roll (haha...pun) all over the film. At the end of "Vol. # 1," we're left with a great cliffhanger that makes you crave more. More blood, more action, come on let's go, this isn't finished yet. With this unusual introduction, it leaves the viewer wanting to see the next one, and that is good film making. Getting the viewer involved, entertained, and wanting more. This is gold.
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Summary: I loved this DVD
Review: Kill Bill is Quentin Tarantino's masterpiece. He has combined elements of king fu movies, old Japanese samurai shows, and cowboy westerns to create a great action movie. Uma Thurman is so great as a former assassin who turns into an angry bride focused on revenge on everyone after her wedding and life are ruined. This movie is non stop action from beginning to end. I loved the scene where Uma takes on a roomful of assassins with black masks and swords and kills them all. Every fight scene is fun to watch. I loved the fight scene between Uma Thurman and Vivica A Fox. It was so funny how they stopped fighting and acted like everything was okay when the little girl came through the door. Lucy Liu gives a wonderful performance as an tough Asian assassin. I loved the scene in the movie where she slices off a person's head after he insults her. The Japanese animation sequence looks so good in this movie. I loved watching the making of the movie where Quentin Tarantino talks about his sources of inspiration for making Kill Bill. There is a pretty good performance by a female Japanese rock band called 5, 6, 7, 8 that is included on this DVD that I enjoyed. Kill Bill is the best action movie I've seen in a long time.
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