I just watched Kill Bill

[xiphias]

I get DVDs to watch while I'm folding laundry and doing other such chores, and I just watched Kill Bill, both parts.

I feel rather ambivalent about it. On the one hand, I'm thinking, "Wow. That was totally self-indulgent regurgitated tripe -- why do people let Quenton Tarrantino even MAKE movies if all he's basically going to do is make film-school-student masturbatory material?" and the other half of me is going, "WOW! THAT WAS COOOOOOL!!!!"

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[unquietsoul5.livejournal.com]

Actually, compared to many movies in the martial arts genre I thought it was much better in regards to it's camera angles, pacing etc.

I preferred the first film to the second, the second had far too many 'shock elements' put in purely for their gore factor rather than advancing plot or developing character.

Like most martial action films (and most action films) there is a some artistic license taken along the way, and some obvious referential bits that are just there to connect it with all the action films that have gone before it in the genre.

It's not Crouching Tiger, certainly, but it's a lot better than Kung Fu Hustle which is one of the most over hyped and pathetic hack jobs to make it into American distribution.

And it did the two things that a film has to do. It entertained and it made money. Most mainstream American film is not art, and much of it is just rework and redoing what was done before over and over and over again. Hollywood doesn't do much in the way of original films, the upcoming year of sequels and remakes is proof of that.

At least Tarantino won't do a "Kill Bill Returns" or some other studio crud.

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

I enjoyed "Kung Fu Hustle" more than I enjoyed "Kill Bill", although I did enjoy them both. And I'm in the somewhat odd position of having watched them two days apart.

One of my problems with "Kill Bill" is that it postulates that women are 1) sex objects 2) mothers 3) killers, and nothing else. It shows two women who are both 2 and 3, but with an implication that, once you choose #2, you can't be anything else.