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Sun, May. 2nd, 2004 01:31 amWatched Kill Bill Vol. 1 two days ago.
Errr... let's just say I won't be lining up to see Kill Bill Vol. 2 any time in the near future.
I'm also probably not the target audience for the movie, given that I am incredibly squemish about violence and even more incredibly squemish about violence that is supposed to be cool. Or funny. Or something. So I probably missed watching about half the movie (all the fight scenes) because I had my eyes squinched shut for all of them.
I don't know. I think Quentin Tarantino is a fanboy of anime (obviously), but unfortunately of all the anime tropes and genres that I intensely dislike. (Akira, hello!). And I didn't really get the point of the movie, but that is probably because I had my eyes squinched shut through all of the fight scenes. I also think Tarantino's an interesting director who does some very cool things visually (I particularly liked the split screen in the beginning when Darryl Hannah is in the nurse costume and how it slides out of the split screen), but to no purpose. I was also sort of touch and go with the entire "homage" to Asian martial arts movies and how it almost felt to me like he was making fun of them. I guess I was also disappointed because there seemed to be no point in referencing that entire genre of movie, as opposed to that Julianne Moore Douglas Sirk-style movie that came out a while ago (Far from Heaven? Something something Heaven?).
Also not big fan of giant gushing founts of blood. I read in some other reviews that later on the violence gets so over-the-top that it gets funny, which is also not to my taste, considering that the violence is really fairly serious in the beginning -- I think we are supposed to feel some sort of emotional impact during the wedding massacre, at the fact that The Bride loses her baby, etc. And I was really offput by the first fight sequence and the rather disturbing turn that the violence there took.
I guess I am just not one for violence that seems rather gratuitous for me. It bugs me when there are movies and this type of thing is sort of filmed in a "Whoa, look how cool this is" way.
Errr... let's just say I won't be lining up to see Kill Bill Vol. 2 any time in the near future.
I'm also probably not the target audience for the movie, given that I am incredibly squemish about violence and even more incredibly squemish about violence that is supposed to be cool. Or funny. Or something. So I probably missed watching about half the movie (all the fight scenes) because I had my eyes squinched shut for all of them.
I don't know. I think Quentin Tarantino is a fanboy of anime (obviously), but unfortunately of all the anime tropes and genres that I intensely dislike. (Akira, hello!). And I didn't really get the point of the movie, but that is probably because I had my eyes squinched shut through all of the fight scenes. I also think Tarantino's an interesting director who does some very cool things visually (I particularly liked the split screen in the beginning when Darryl Hannah is in the nurse costume and how it slides out of the split screen), but to no purpose. I was also sort of touch and go with the entire "homage" to Asian martial arts movies and how it almost felt to me like he was making fun of them. I guess I was also disappointed because there seemed to be no point in referencing that entire genre of movie, as opposed to that Julianne Moore Douglas Sirk-style movie that came out a while ago (Far from Heaven? Something something Heaven?).
Also not big fan of giant gushing founts of blood. I read in some other reviews that later on the violence gets so over-the-top that it gets funny, which is also not to my taste, considering that the violence is really fairly serious in the beginning -- I think we are supposed to feel some sort of emotional impact during the wedding massacre, at the fact that The Bride loses her baby, etc. And I was really offput by the first fight sequence and the rather disturbing turn that the violence there took.
I guess I am just not one for violence that seems rather gratuitous for me. It bugs me when there are movies and this type of thing is sort of filmed in a "Whoa, look how cool this is" way.
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