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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Date: 2004-04-19 11:50 pm (UTC)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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Date: 2004-04-20 11:27 am (UTC)You have to watch both volumes, grasshoppa!