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grotty
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Re: Tarantino November 05, 2003 at 05:12 PM UTC #
I really liked Kill Bill.

It has it flaws though-

At first I was confused about the lack of background given and reasoning, but I think you pretty quickly get all the info you need. Plus the screwed up timeline is standard Tarantino.

The major complaint I'd have is the almost comic book like use of blood throughout. Maybe that's what really happens when someones arm is cut off but I thought it only served to make the scenes appear silly. I read somewhere that it was intentional to lighten the mood. I guess it worked because it takes very nasty situations and made them almost funny. I would have left out the silly stuff & dramatically increased the power of the film a la Resevoir Dogs. There's no mood lightener in the ear removal scene.

I did think it was one of the most beautifully filmed movies I have ever seen:

The snowy garden fight scene - the blue silhouetted fight scene - excellent use of color throughout.
markie
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Re: Tarantino November 05, 2003 at 05:18 PM UTC #
Originally posted by grotty:
I really liked Kill Bill.

Plus the screwed up timeline is standard Tarantino.


The snowy garden fight scene - the blue silhouetted fight scene - excellent use of color throughout.
the timeline is somewhat heavy handed having to introduce it with chapter #s scribbled out. A movie should be able to speak for itself not need written description. Oh it make me mad <img src="http://www.quiethorizons.com/products/full/24464.jpg" alt=" - " />

And the fight scene backdrops were just too street fighter 2.

do you live in a cultural vacuum?
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Re: Tarantino November 05, 2003 at 05:28 PM UTC #
Originally posted by grotty:
The major complaint I'd have is the almost comic book like use of blood throughout. Maybe that's what really happens when someones arm is cut off but I thought it only served to make the scenes appear silly.
Well, it wasn't meant to be a zombie flick. As Vietnam vet & gore pioneer Tom Savini says on the bonus disc to DAY OF THE DEAD, blood doesn't gush like a garden hose on fan-setting. It spurts in jets.
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Re: Tarantino November 05, 2003 at 05:30 PM UTC #
"do you live in a cultural vacuum? "

Why? because I haven't seen Charlie's Angels?

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Re: Tarantino November 05, 2003 at 05:37 PM UTC #
i know we are suppose to suspend disbelief at the movies but… she spends x number of hours in the guys truck she just killed recovering use of her limbs. and no one finds her? even a rent-a-cop from the hospital would have known to go the victims truck first, seeing as his keys were missing.
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Re: Tarantino November 05, 2003 at 05:51 PM UTC #
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Re: Tarantino November 05, 2003 at 05:52 PM UTC #
So then, you don't suspend disbelief when you read comix? How do you know it was hours? It could've been seconds.
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Re: Tarantino November 05, 2003 at 05:55 PM UTC #
Originally posted by Dupek Chopra:
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Is she paying you a finder's fee or something?

Would be even funnier if she were located in San Francisco.
markie
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Re: Tarantino November 05, 2003 at 05:59 PM UTC #
Actually it was captioned…. 13(or 11) hours later…..

Captioning and written descriptions in movies drive me up the wall.

More disbelief is that she can move her upper body but not lower…. After a year in a coma you atrophy so badly it takes months to walk again, not hours.
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Re: Tarantino November 05, 2003 at 06:00 PM UTC #
Originally posted by Jaguär:
Is she paying you a finder's fee or something?

Would be even funnier if she were located in San Francisco.
That's not a woman woman, it's a man, baby.
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Re: Tarantino November 05, 2003 at 06:03 PM UTC #
Originally posted by markie:
Actually it was captioned…. 13(or 11) hours later…..

Captioning and written descriptions in movies drive me up the wall.

More disbelief is that she can move her upper body but not lower…. After a year in a coma you atrophy so badly it takes months to walk again, not hours.
Maybe Q solves it in a flashback in Pt.2?
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Re: Tarantino November 05, 2003 at 06:07 PM UTC #
Originally posted by Dupek Chopra:
Originally posted by Jaguär:
Is she paying you a finder's fee or something?

Would be even funnier if she were located in San Francisco.
That's not a woman woman, it's a man, baby.
Damn! Nothing like being out-womaned by a man!
markie
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Re: Tarantino November 05, 2003 at 06:10 PM UTC #
Originally posted by Dupek Chopra:
Maybe Q solves it in a flashback in Pt.2?
Maybe it was just a really silly movie?
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Re: Tarantino November 05, 2003 at 09:43 PM UTC #
Originally posted by markie:
Maybe it was just a really silly movie?
But it was a good kind of silly.
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Re: Tarantino November 05, 2003 at 09:51 PM UTC #
I take my entertainment seriously. If I had not got such high hopes for it, I would have probably rated it higher.

But all the same: <img src="http://www.just4yucks.com/images/general/21047.jpg" alt=" - " />
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Re: Tarantino November 05, 2003 at 10:28 PM UTC #
Originally posted by walkman:
I'm yet to be disappointed by one of his directed efforts. Pulp Fiction is just brilliant, and both Reservoir Dogs and Jackie Brown are very good. It sort of amazes me, though, that an artistic genius like QT can be such an inarticulate burnout in person.
Ever heard of the term, "tortured genius"?

I think if you look through history you'll see the greatest creative minds usually belonged to anti-social losers of society. Not saying QT is one of the greatest, but just making a point.

I do like his movies though, and I think every movie he's made has been brilliant.
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Re: Tarantino November 05, 2003 at 10:30 PM UTC #
Originally posted by mankie:
I do like his movies though, and I think every movie he's made has been brilliant.
he is a prat and so are you for thinking that.

Goodnight.
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Re: Tarantino November 06, 2003 at 01:05 AM UTC #
Originally posted by mankie:
Originally posted by walkman:
I'm yet to be disappointed by one of his directed efforts. Pulp Fiction is just brilliant, and both Reservoir Dogs and Jackie Brown are very good. It sort of amazes me, though, that an artistic genius like QT can be such an inarticulate burnout in person.
Ever heard of the term, "tortured genius"?

I think if you look through history you'll see the greatest creative minds usually belonged to anti-social losers of society. Not saying QT is one of the greatest, but just making a point.

I do like his movies though, and I think every movie he's made has been brilliant.
I'm with you there. It's just that most tortured geniuses and anti-social losers seem to be articulate about their chosen medium, whatever it may be. The thing that gets me about QT is not that he's troubled, but rather that he often seems unable (or unwilling) to discuss his art on an intellectual level…it's as if he just instinctively creates his art, without thought. That's what I find so unusual about him.
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Re: Tarantino November 06, 2003 at 02:40 PM UTC #
Originally posted by markie:
Originally posted by mankie:
I do like his movies though, and I think every movie he's made has been brilliant.
he is a prat and so are you for thinking that.

Goodnight.
So I'm a prat because I have different tastes in movies to you, just like your philosophy on music then.

Maybe I'm not as movie savvy as you, or movie-hip..or was that Rhett? Markie/Rhett one in the same really.

I do wonder though why QT has to talk like a black bloke from the ghetto…..yes, I know were he was raised, but he's still white.
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Re: Tarantino November 06, 2003 at 03:04 PM UTC #
I'd like to give a shizzle-out to my homeboy…
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