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Well, saw it. Our movie festival is kicking off right now, K.B. was the opening pic.
Stunt scenes were great (Uma too), it was hard to tell when it was her and not.
The animated part was good, not the usual manga or anime with the big heads and eyes, more gritty, sketchy and realistic, good choice. (*blooper*, Desert Eagle .50AE's weren't around in the seventies, when Ishii was a girl)
The dialogue: I liked the 'Indio'-speech from "For a few dollars more", "I leave you alive so you can tell the others", good nod.
Sound track: good-yes-more-please. Also, very non-asian with the salsa cover of "Don't let me be misunderstood" in the endfight, but perfect for the 'Mexican Standoff' atmosphere. I thought of the song in the "Fist of the North Star" next-to-last endfight, where the blue-haired guy with the laser-strips in his fingers battle the big baddie and...almost wins. Anyone know the song?
Verdict: Hey, no Oscar flick, and they kind of dragged out on some of the oneliners for too long at places (hearing a spin on "Now....you will...die" for the fifth time= ) but it was brave to show the stump of Sofie Fatale's arm, and the later close-ups. Hey, I like gore if it's done well. *shrugs*
Thought it was Monica Belucci for a while there. Hm.
3.5/5 in the "all movies" category, 5/5 in the "Kung Fu movies" category. Yeah, I'd say it beats "Crouching Tiger" and "Hero" in entertainment value, it was brave of Tarantino to add the cheesy *swoosh*- and *biff*-soundfx.
PS: Buck-the-Fuck = Zed's Cousin? Gotta be. He got better than he deserved.
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I ran into Zed in Hollywood the other not. He asked me for the time in front of the Roxy at, like, 3AM. The reports of Zed's death have apparently been exagerated.
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Oh man. I'm not much of a fan of QT's oeuvre (so I like to go against the flow, shoot me), but this one... KICKASS! The entire movie is one BIGASS homage to the martial arts flicks of yore. Seriously, the references are EVERYWHERE. Sonny Chiba as weaponsmith! BADASS oldschool Chinese techniques! Yuen "Ass" Woo-ping choreography! Over-the-top anime! Yakuzas wearing Bruce's mask from The Green Hornet! And to top it all off, a not-so-subtle nod to Lee being passed over in favor of David "Billy" Carradine for the lead role on Kung Fu!
Fucking yeah.
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Cartman, we park our cars in the same garage.
Cartman said: "...and a not-so-subtle nod to Lee being passed over in favor of David Carradine for the lead role on Kung Fu!"
What was that nod? Must've missed that. Funny, I explained to my friends on the way home about David snatching the role from Bruce, but I didn't see any nod.
I forgot one thing I didn't add earlier, a blooper of sorts, only a deliberate one. Swords. Don't. Ring. During. Their. Unsheathing. GRRR!!!
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Nim: I went in with no idea what to expect, so I was flabbergasted when Uma showed up in Bruce's Game of Death attire. It's like the spirit of Lee gets to exact vengeance on Carradine too, all these years later. Just thought that was a nice tip o' the hat.
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I didn't interpret it as a Carradine/Lee reference, just a "Game of Death" reference.
Incidentally, Jackie Chan was a stuntman in many of Lee's movies, most notably "Fist of Fury", IIRC. It would be awesome if he did some sort of cameo... He was really really good once. Everything after "Rumble in the Bronx" is lukewarm to me.
There was one movie, late 70's, where he had black jeans, grey sleeveless T-shirt and a pair of spiked leather bracers, kind of like Conan's in "Conan the Destroyer". Anyway, he fought this guy in a living room, they were both crouching all the time, it looked so cool. They moved around like crazy horisontally but never rose past a meter. He was almost as thin as Lee back then.
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Yeah, Chan's early work (before he began clowning about) like Eagle's Shadow and Drunken Master was impressive, real shame that time has taken such a toll on the guy. His recent movies make it painfully clear that he's pushing 50 now, relying more and more on his slapstick antics to fill the kung fu gaps...
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Well. I thought the movie was complete ass. Being artsy for the sake of being artsy. If you want to see an artistic movie done right, see Run Lola Run.
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quote:Originally posted by Nim: I forgot one thing I didn't add earlier, a blooper of sorts, only a deliberate one. Swords. Don't. Ring. During. Their. Unsheathing. GRRR!!!
No, no no - you missed it - it was a QT joke. Of course they don't ring it's a homage/joke.
Just as kitchen knifes don't make the swishing noise like that - but the effect is beefed up - it's a style/joke/reference/just bloody funny - I laughed so much in that movie at all the little things - people were looking at me I'm sure!
The ringing, the swishing - it's like the blood pouring out of the henchmen... etc. Increased for effect - I'm sure there is some movie/cinema name for it.
But I don't agree the swordscreech was an injoke, more like a preset genre standard. The punches and swooshes were new for a Tarantino movie, kind of a barometer for the audience in the first fight, setting the bar and showing us what we should expect of it.
The ringing of the blade is more realistic, a well-made blade should carry vibrations back and forth, like a tuning fork. The intense ring of Uma's sword I guess is a kind of telltale it's a Hattori Hanzo sword, stronger and more solid than anything else.
I would also agree that if your pulse is high enough at the point of decapitation, your veins would spray violently, though you'd have to be pretty worked up for it to work. What would be really tough would be if the victim was at the beginning of a good puking at the point of decapitation, that would look crazy.
Who was that sheriff that got spit on by Uma in the beginning? It looked like David Carradine, but I wasn't 100% sure.
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quote:Originally posted by Proteus: Well. I thought the movie was complete ass. Being artsy for the sake of being artsy. If you want to see an artistic movie done right, see Run Lola Run.
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