Why did you love "Kill Bill?" I just saw it, thought the fight scenes were excellent, cinematography was good, but everything else blew. No character-development, no depth, no plot (it was like "Hard to Kill" only with slighly less back story), no insight... not to mention the fact that four years in a coma would make her muscles so atrophied that she wouldn't even be able to move until after several months of reconstructive therapy.
I like eye-candy as much as the next person, but it will never top "Resevoir Dogs."
Reservoir Dogs was fun, but beyond the quibbles among the characters, the torture scenes, Mr. Pink, and the end message of "There is no honor among theives", I didn't get a whole lot out of it.
You still get some of that in Kill Bill, but it was so much more fun and thoughtful than that, I think.
I found the mixture of this being a homage of kung fu/japanese style shows, and still having Tarantino's own dark twist to the characters to be enjoyable. The juxtaposition of all these folks being murdering bastards, but the issue of family, parenthood to be fascinating. Sure, there were some holes, but I also found the chemistry between the characters enjoyable.
I only saw the first volume (I hate the fact that I only saw HALF a movie; I feel as if I was forced to leave half way through).
What I loved about Reservoir Dogs was the sheer power of the performances. I HONESTLY BELIEVE that Tim Roth is sitting there gut shot. When Harvey Keitel argues to Steve Bushemi that Roth is not a cop, I almost believe him even though I know for a fact that he's wrong. Also, it almost feels like a play. Most of the action takes place in a single location, there's an amazing tragic ending... Almost Shakespearean in some ways.
Yeah, KB was fun, but there was none of the gravity. I love Kung Fu movies, and I dig the homage, but it just seems beneath someone of Tarintino's skills. Kung Fu movies are B-movies, Tarintino is better than that. It would be like if he signed up to direct the next Friday the 13th.
Oh yeah, and why the hell did Uma show up on that one girl's doorstep intent on killing her armed with nothing more than a bowie knife, which she didn't even have drawn?
Ah, you've only seen Vol. 1. As Kurt Vonnegut once wrote, that's like trying to get from California to New York with a map that only goes as far as Idaho.
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On a totally different topic...
I like eye-candy as much as the next person, but it will never top "Resevoir Dogs."
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Reservoir Dogs was fun, but beyond the quibbles among the characters, the torture scenes, Mr. Pink, and the end message of "There is no honor among theives", I didn't get a whole lot out of it.
You still get some of that in Kill Bill, but it was so much more fun and thoughtful than that, I think.
I found the mixture of this being a homage of kung fu/japanese style shows, and still having Tarantino's own dark twist to the characters to be enjoyable. The juxtaposition of all these folks being murdering bastards, but the issue of family, parenthood to be fascinating. Sure, there were some holes, but I also found the chemistry between the characters enjoyable.
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What I loved about Reservoir Dogs was the sheer power of the performances. I HONESTLY BELIEVE that Tim Roth is sitting there gut shot. When Harvey Keitel argues to Steve Bushemi that Roth is not a cop, I almost believe him even though I know for a fact that he's wrong. Also, it almost feels like a play. Most of the action takes place in a single location, there's an amazing tragic ending... Almost Shakespearean in some ways.
Yeah, KB was fun, but there was none of the gravity. I love Kung Fu movies, and I dig the homage, but it just seems beneath someone of Tarintino's skills. Kung Fu movies are B-movies, Tarintino is better than that. It would be like if he signed up to direct the next Friday the 13th.
Oh yeah, and why the hell did Uma show up on that one girl's doorstep intent on killing her armed with nothing more than a bowie knife, which she didn't even have drawn?
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You have to watch both volumes, grasshoppa!