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Ok Ok Ok it's been 3 days since I saw this and I'm still unsure about it but I'm going to post 2 reviews - this one in the usual style and a second one which will be in more detail but include spoilers.

STORY
The bride awakens from a 5 year coma to exact revenge on the gang that tried to kill her.

PROS
-Impressive crane shot through the 'house of blue leaves' scene
-Interesting back stories to characters
- great set design and lighting in garden of house of blue leaves
-first half of story is intriguing in cutting back and fore in time
- the last line of the film is compelling enough to encourage you to want to see part 2

CONS
-there is no quotable dialogue whatsoever
-there is so much almost relentless decapitations, beheadings, scalpings and eye gouging that you feel completely desensitised by the end. So much so that a character who gets his head slammed in a door makes you wince much more.
- samurai swords - big deal!!


Frankly I was so looking forward to this as I do believe that Tarantino is an exceptional talent but I was profoundly disappointed by this and if it were not for the last line of the film I doubt if I would bother to see part 2 next February.

I'm going to give a much fuller review of this in another post. This is just a brief one as I don't want to spoil it too much for those who will go and see it. It is not a bad film but from the writer of Pulp Fiction I wanted to see something more original.

please remember to put "SPOILERS" (in capital letters) in the subject header of your more detailed review.

sounds like there's enough blood being spilt!

I also found myself staring at Uma Thurman's hands and feet for the first 20 mins of this film. They're the biggest I think I've ever seen on a woman!

Saw her interviewed on Ross's TV show the other night, VERY willowy and elongated. Seemed a 'bit out of it' if you know what I mean?
Ever noticed how QT says 'okay' after every 6th or so word?
' Okay, its like my BIG movie, okay, and I spent 4 years planning it, okay, and getting Uma was a REAL big deal, okay' etc

QT - zenith of American filmmaking? Not me, pal (anyone?). Lynch, Coens....maybe.

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Ever noticed how QT makes the same film over and over again.
Res Dogs: men in black suits and thin ties hold guns aloft. Heist plot. Violent.
Pul Fic: men in black suits and thin ties hold guns aloft with crap hair. Assassin plot. Violent.
Jac Bro: men with crap hair and women in airline suits hold guns aloft. Heist plot. Violent.
From Dusk Till Dawn: men in black suits and thin ties hold guns aloft. Heist plot. Violent.
Kil Bil: Woman in banana suit kills people. Assassin plot. Violent.

When, oh when will he make the Disney comedy about the talking hippo and Leslie Neilson we all really want to see him do to prove he's not a one trick pony.

"Let's go to work. Let's rob this cafe. Nobody move! Cheeseburgers etc etc"
"I can't, the hippo's sick. In fact, I'm not sure it isn't morning
sickness."
"You mean...?"
"Yup. Half way up the Alps, and we're stranded with a pregnant hippo."
"Talking hippo."
"Who said that?"
"I did."
"Gasp! Matilda!........"
To be continued.

You're right up to a point, Bill, but then many directors (like artists in general) often seem to make, or return to, the same film (or ideas) again and again one way or another, often in their own unique fashion. Be it Scorsese (how to foul up the American dream) or Kubrick (man rubs up against seemingly infallible man-made system/ man comes right old cropper). It's usually a case of how much area can be explored within their chosen field, how diffently it can be approached, and what outside elements can be brought into it. No-one told Turner off for doing another landscape, did they.

The eternal question is have they progressed, and Kill Bill looks a step sideways to me. Then again, QT is not a writer/director of much thematic interest, but he is obviously a brilliant structuralist, and so it will interesting to see how these two films both sit together and pan out individually. Shame he didn't opt for the Man From Uncle remake instead (yes, more suits, more ties...).

Cheers (not long seen the Return of the King trailer, and it rocked my world).

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