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Summary: i loved it
Review: Quentiin Tarantino is fantastic as a director. When searching through the features i found out it was missing his commentary
which i wanted to hear but the movie was awesome and the making of featurette was cool. i strongly reccomend this movie.
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Summary: Pure Genius
Review: This is a review written by an ordinary, non-cinema buff whose only other encounter with a Tarantino film was Pulp Fiction. I rented this movie (which I have now ordered for my own) simply out of curiosity, and nothing more.What can I say. I was blown away. From the mixture of genres (spaghetti western to anime to old-time badly dubbed black and white Asian flicks) to the incredible camera work to the kick-you-know-what acting (and fighting) to the mix of color and black and white to the incredible but somehow-it-works plot, this is simply an experience not to miss. Yes, it is incredibly violent. It is also incredibly fun, incredibly beautiful, incredibly exciting, incredibly everything. I loved the Japanese girl group (especially the two extra songs in the additional scenes); I loved the beautiful choreography of the final fight in the snow; I loved Uma Thurman half to death; I loved Lucy Liu; I loved the wickedly evil cameo by Darryl Hanna; sheer spectacle of the entire thing. And while I normally eschew the directors' comments as incredibly boring, NOTHING about Tarantino's comments are boring. He explains the movie with such enthusiasm, such complete lack of self-consciousness, either professional or personal, that you feel he is having a drink with you in your livingroom. Fascinating, endearing, wonderful. Simply a must-watch, must-own DVD, in my own humble opinion.
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Summary: The Most Amazing BloodFest Film!
Review: No other woman could take this role except Uma Thurman. She did brillantly in this. I can't wait to see Vol. 2. The blood in this was great no not great outstanding along with the action sequences. The ending sequence was non-stop fight. It's either kill or be killed and this movie proves it. The music was great along with the film. The story goes like this: Uma Thurman (code name: Black Mambo) is about to get married in El Paso, Texas, but gets shot down by her soon to be hubby Bill and 4 of his Viper Assasins. Uma wakes up 4 years later out of a coma and gets revenge on all those her almost killed her. First on the list is O-Ren-Shii, but you don't see that scene to the very end first you see V. Green at her home get killed. Then Uma gets some of the best japanese steel from a retired sword maker and goes after O-Ren-Shii or whatever her name is and kills all her crew. Uma only kills the two in this film and the rest I suppose in Vol. 2 or maybe even a Vol. 3 I hope. The movie is so fast paced (exciting) that you won't believe it's been 1 hr and 50 mins when it comes to a finish. This is one of years best films along with Vol. 2 even though I haven't seen it. Check it out!
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Summary: Superlative moviemaking
Review: Tarantino's gift for "easy" moviemaking is unsurpassed. He doesn't burden the viewer with extraneous matter and the result is a free flowing, singsong of a movie. There are indeed some parts of Kill Bill 1 that will cause moments of discomfort to the more sensitive viewer, but those shouldn't detract from the enjoyment of the story. Taranatino's fusing of anime and live action, while not strictly new or even experimentation, works and that's what matters, taking viewers to places not usually visited. Good movie and highly recommended
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Summary: Excellent
Review: This is another great Tarantino. A great revenge movie, Tarantino spends the first movie of two parts showing the blunt of the bloody revenge, leaving the story to be more developed in Kill Bill Vol 2. The acting is superb for an action movie, and although there is an excess of blood and gore, it is so much that it is almost laughable. A definite for any Tarantino or action movie fan
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Summary: Great Movie
Review: In my opinion this movie is great. Awesome soundtrack (there are some songs I don't like, however) combines with good acting and fight scenes to produce this masterpiece. There's lots of blood and violence in this movie, so its not for everyone, but I think it just adds to the quality of the movie. The plot is interesting and involving (especially as it unravels in Kill Bill Vol. 2) Recomended for everyone not offended by seeing people's arms, legs and feet cut off. :)
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Summary: Bang, Bang, Bill shot down the Bride...now she wants revenge
Review: I missed "Kill Bill, Volume 1" when it was in the theaters (you have to move quickly up here in the Northland because we have only two movie theaters with a limited number of screens and films can disappear before you know it), but this turned out to be to my advantage. Quentin Tarantino did not plan on "Kill Bill" being told in two "volumes" but Miramax decided that a four hour revenge film would be a bit much and consequently we end up with "Volume 1" coming out on DVD the same week "Volume 2" opens up in the theaters. So having seen the Bride (Uma Thurman) take care of the first two names on her "to do" list I can treat tonight as an intermission and go see "Volume 2" tomorrow. This is good because if I had to wait four months to see the second half of the film I would be pretty ticked off. Once upon a time in El Paso, Texas a wedding party is slaughtered execution style. However, it turns out that the Bride, who is pregnant, is not dead but in a coma. Four years later she wakes up in time to save herself from insult being added to her ingury. After dealing with a few annoying details, such as somebody trying to rape her comatose body and being unable to get her legs to move, the Bride puts together her list of people to kill: (1) Vernita Green (Vivica A. Fox), (2) O-Ren Ishii (Lucy Liu), (3) Budd (Michael Madsen), (4) Elle Driver (Daryl Hannah), and (5) Bill (David Carradine). There is more that happens in this film than eliminating the first two list (and since there is a Volume 2 telling you that the Bride survives Volume 1 does not constitute a spoiler), such as an anime telling us how O-Ren Ishii became the Queen of the Tokyo underworld. But Tarrantino is all about how the Bride takes out her first two victims and the triumph of style as substance, especially when style means fountains of blood gushing from human beings that would make Akira Kurosawa proud. You have to keep in mind that Tarantino has seen and committed to memory more movies than any other human being on the face of the planet. The following is a list of movies and television series that are supposedly referenced in "Kill Bill, Volume 1": "The Lodger," "Scaramouche," "The Wings of Eagles," "The Magnificent Seven," "Yojimbo," "Tsubaki Sanjûrô," "The Manchurian Candidate," "Marnie," "Honey West," "Tôkyô nagaremono," "I Lunghi giorni della vendetta," "Da zui xia," "Modesty Blaise," "The Green Hornet," "I Giorni dell'ira," "Le Scandale," "Ironside," "Kyuketsuki Gokemidoro," "Kurotokage," "Da uomo a uom," "La Mariée était en noir," "Twisted Nerve," "C'era una volta il West," "The Wild Bunch," "Siu kuen wong," "A Clockwork Orange," "Hannie Caulder," "Black Mama, White Mama," "The Last House on the Left," "La Novia ensangrentada," "Il Grande duello," "Joshuu sasori: Dai-41 zakkyo-bô, "Shurayukihime," "The Doll Squad," "Tian xia di yi quan," "High Plains Drifter," "White Lightning," "Shura-yuki-hime: Urami Renga," "Truck Turner," "Uomini duri," "Crash che botte!," "Onna hissatsu ken," "Gone in 60 Seconds," "Thriller - en grym film," "Du bi quan wang da po xue di zi," "Profondo rosso," "Switchblade Sisters," "Black Sunday," "Eaten Alive," "7 note in nero," "Hao xia," "Yagyû ichizoku no inbô," "Game of Death ," "Grease," "Wu du," "Patrick," "Day of the Woman," "Hattori Hanzô: Kage no Gundan." "Paura nella città dei morti viventi," "Resurrection," "Shogun Assassin," "Si wang ta," "Makai tenshô," "Escape from New York," "Xian si jue," "Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan," "Tenebre," "The Professional: Golgo 13," "Scarface," "Gai shi ji hua," "Year of the Dragon," "Wong ga jin si," "Hard to Kill," "3-4x jugatsu," "Miller's Crossing," "Hong fen zhi zun," "Unforgiven," "Reservoir Dogs," "Fong Shi Yu II: Wan fu mo di," "Tai ji zhang san feng," "True Romance," "Pulp Fiction." "Jûbei ninpûchô," "From Dusk Till Dawn," "Full Tilt Boogie," "Kite," "Weißkreuz," "SF:Episode One," "From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money," "Proboscis," "Wo hu cang long," "Batoru rowaiaru," and "Koroshiya 1." I was happy I recognized over two dozen of the films on that list, and that is not even close to a passing score percentage-wise. For all I know every single scene and shot in the film is lifted from something else, but the onslaught of references is apparently so relentless that everything old becomes new again, especially without a commentary track when QT can tell us the origin of each and every homage. At this point what is most memorable to me is watching O-Ren Ishii and her posse walk glide into the House of Blue Leaves with the soundtrack giving them energy and the final showdown in an exquisite garden at night with gently falling snow where O-Ren in her white kimono and the Bride in her yellow biker suit do their dance of death with Japanese steel. With "Pulp Fiction" Tarantino made his impression upon our ears with scene after scene of great dialogue. No wonder the soundtrack for that film had clips of some of what came rolling off the tongues of the actors (usually Samuel L. Jackson, who plays a corpse in this film). But with "Kill Bill, Volume 1" Tarantino's blood feast is mostly for the eyes. Imagine what he can do if he every puts those two together in a single film. Until then, we can see how the Bride deals with the rest of the people on her list. This film is not for everybody, but then what Quentin Tarantino film ever was?
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Summary: 5 star film, crap dvd.
Review: The recent release of Kill Bill on dvd is obviously a stop-gap release, and the extras on offer here show this.
But i wont comment to much on this matter too much because Kill Bill is the coolest film ever made. Ever.
People who dont like Kill Bill to me are dead inside, this is quite simply amazing. The visuals on offer in this film are some of the most mesmerising I've ever seen. And as far as Im concerned this is Quentin Tarantino's best film.
Many people, I like to call them idiots, said that this film was a backward step for Tarantino. These people wanted another Pulp Fiction basically despite the fact that if Tarantino was to do another film exactly like Pulp Fiction it would be the biggest backward step he could ever take. And so he ventured forth and took on the massive chore of creating a martial arts cinema masterpiece, and succeeded.
True this is the first part of a two part film but anything this amazing deserves to stand on its own and thus I think that it should be judged as a seperate film and given its rightful place among the all time greatest films ever made.
So in short if you like Kill Bill I like you and want to be your freind, and if you dont like it I hate you and wish you would open your mind. Because if you open your mind I might like you eventually.
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Summary: Uma Thurman is never a straight line
Review: Japanese lore has a word for the people who gave this film less than four stars: idiot. i mean, what were you thinking? firstly, its not a bad influence to kids because blood just doesn't flow like that. its not ripping off Japanese culture or anything like that, it's paying homage to the grindhouse(of which Japan was a major supplier to). the very movies that inspired Tarantino to make the likes of Resevoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction which these same people either haven't seen or hated because they are idiots. i say that again, BECAUSE THEY ARE IDIOTS This film is not original, it is an eclectic blend of classic movie styles which, because it features neither CG nor explosions nor the most convoluted type of love story tripe, grates horribly for anyone without a 1970s to 1980s sensibility. or, for that matter, an open mind. The Kudos are as follows: Uma Thurman is brilliant and more violent than Arnie as The Bride. David Carradine, in just a few of his scenes, makes a villainous presence quicker than any villain currently in cinema(why isn't he in more movies?) Yuen Woo-Ping, who out does his impressive work on the Matrix movies, and Tarantino himself for bumping the grind(house). The insults are as follows: anyone who deemed this movie too violent, too boring, too unlike Pulp Fiction, too harmful to Llamas, Ferrets or indeed any vertebrate animal, and anyone who has said a bad word about this movie. they can go watch Forrest Gump for all i care, all i want are three things: A Samurai Sword, A Yellow Tracksuit, and Volume 2!!!
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Summary: Kill Bill : culture recquired !
Review: For the past decade, American cinema has produced the worst there was to be made in terms of filmmaking, as well as the best. In the Hollywood brain-washing jungle universe, Tarantino belongs to an endangered species : the brilliant director. For most of the Hollywood-addicted zombies, or "average movie-goers" as officially stated, Tarantino's "oeuvre" doesn't stand much of a true appreciation chance. It is like hoping for an illiterate to appreciate Shakespeare,Proust,Dostoïevski.Thus, unsurprisingly , "Kill Bill" wasn't a thrill in the ranks of those who still mistake John Ford with Henry Ford, don't have a clue about The New Wave in Europe, John Woo's Honk-Kong period,Japanese animation or Sergio Leone's westerns. How could they not find "Kill" "boring" as I happened to read? Tarantino is everything American cinema was at its best and everything it should be, yet it is outstanding to witness the foreign trend of his work, the broad references which appeared to elude so many.
Eventually, for every person with a functionning brain and intending to keep it that way, buy "Kill Bill", the rest, as Bono sings "will pass".
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