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I haven't read the rest of this thread but I have to agree - SEE KILL BILL Volume 1!!
It is a GREAT film - and I couldn't stop giggling throughout the movie at all Quentin's homages and little injokes... and I gasped at the beautiful scene at the end.
And OMG Lucy Liu is MINE I tells ya!
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quote:Originally posted by Axeman 3D: All the reviews I've read say it's crap.
In my experience, movies are pretty much the oppposite of what reciews say they are.. so it MUST be a good movie.. heh.
I adhere to that opinion too Wooz... and they only ever rate 'big' movies when they really can't convince an overwhelming majority that it's the opposite of what it is otherwise they would loose credibility. BUT they always try to bag 'bigger' movies because it makes them look intelligent - like they know something about the movie that everyone else doesn't - including other reviewers... cause remember there is of course competition between reviewers for who gets 'listened' to the most etc. just like everything.
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Saw it last night, really enjoyed it. My wife went from wanting to leave after five minutes (because she thought it was going to be endless chop-socky fights a la Matrix Reloaded) to declaring at the end it's the best film she's seen this year.
Incidentally, before we saw the trailer for Matrix Revolutions, and she wants to see it, despite her loathing for Reloaded.
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Is this Revolutions preview the same one that you could see if you stayed around till the end of the credits at the end of Reloaded?
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No idea, but I felt the same thing when I saw the Revolutions trailer. I am going to get excited, and then be disapointed again. Damnit.
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No it's not the same one. the new trailer is longer and completely different.
Saw Kill Bill. Thought it was very good. Can't wait for vol. 2...
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Like while I was watching the movie, I kept thinking, "Man, this is going to have to be a long movie." Because I didn't know there was going to be a part 2. And so at the end of the movie, I was all, "What a fucking cool way to end it, so we the audience have to imagine __________ completing her revenge. How perfect." But then my friends told me I was an ass.
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Not to be all clever-nerd and stuff, but didn't you notice the "volume 1" at the beginning?
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Don't remember. There was a lot of Tarantino-esque over-clever text at the start of the movie. I didn't notice the Episode IV at the head of Star Wars for years. So I'm thick I suppose. OTOH, I'm still waiting for the Buckaroo Bonzai sequel.
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I heard that some of the sequences we saw here in the States which were in black and white were in color in Japan. But that could be complete bollocks. "In the restaurant" were there black and white sequences?
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According to the IMDB, the Japanese version is indeed more violent, and the black and white sequence was indeed in black and white to avoid the film getting an NC-17 rating.
Which of course means that 10 year olds and younger can go and see horrific violence and death on a large scale. Hoorah for the US.
Interesting that almost every other country seems to have made it an 18 rating or equivalent. Obviously, they must have crazy thoughts, like "making extreme violence black and white does not make it fluffy and cute".
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No black and white sequences, as far as I remember. The sword fight when the lights went out was in silhouette against a blue background. Kill Bill is rated R-15, the same as the renowned bloodbath...Bridget Jones's Diary!
When I was a kid of about 12, my uncle, who was a movie projectionist in Chinatown, took me to see this Chinese movie called "Vengence" (I think) in which the hero in a clean white suit enters the lair of the mafia to avenge his brother's death. He killed about a hundred bad guys with various edged weapons. At the end his suit had become completely red. It was the bloodiest thing I had ever seen before Kill Bill.
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Something I found out today: The piano player that was killed at the wedding is Samuel Jackson! He'll be in part II when they reveal exactly how the wedding went down.
Cool.
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