Has anyone seen Kill Bill? If so, was it worth it?
Also- don’t forget the Balloon Juice Laptop fiasco, which is still mired at $57.25 (and one offer to pay me to quit blogging). You- reading this- all it takes is a dollar, and you push us closer to a new or used laptop. In fact, I am putting my foot down- no more posting until the fund passes the $60.00 threshhold.
hln
I can hook you up to meet that $60.00 threshhold if you switch my link over… :)
My Paypal account is sore and empty, though, so that’s about it.
hln
John Cole
I thought I did that when you emailed me several weeks ago. At any rate, it is done now.
Director Mitch
What is this, PBS?
hln
Hee hee – amazing what a $3.00 promise will do. Incoming…
hln
Jaybird
Okay. Kill Bill (volume 1) non-spoiler review:
Damn.. Just… damn. This movie is so cool, I found myself taken out of the movie because I was saying to myself “Damn. That’s cool.” There were two instances in the last half-hour when I was taken out of the movie because I found myself saying “Damn, now you’re just showing off.”
I read somewhere (Drudge, maybe) that said that The Village Voice called it “The Most Violent Movie Ever Made”. I would like to say that this is an exaggeration. Yes, there is a metric buttload of violence in this movie. Perhaps even a double buttload. But there is a cartoony, over-the-top element to it that dulls the violence somewhat. I mean, I walked out of Natural Born Killers feeling like I wanted a shower. Kill Bill had me walking out saying “Damn! That was so cool! And that part with the thing! And that other thing part! And the thing! Damn!”
Now there is a downside, Kill Bill was so cool I find myself dreading the movies that are going to come out in the tail end of 2004. Like e e cummings, Q.T. is pretty goddamned cool… but so goddamned cool that he inspires pretenders, and the net effect of his influence is that the world is significantly less cool and you might find yourself resenting his influence. God knows, I wish someone put a bullet in the head of e e cummings at age 10. But in the perfect moment where the pretenders have not yet put out their pale imitations?
You’re just stuck there thinking “Damn. That’s cool.”
(One qualifier about Kill Bill: there ain’t a whole lotta depth. If you used to watch and enjoy Samurai or Kung Fu movies on your local UHF station, Kill Bill is the movie for you. If you’re hoping for another Jackie Brown, go somewhere else.)
John Cole
IF this were PBS, we would be off the air.
Greg Hlatky
$57.25? Maybe you can network a couple of Etch-A-Sketches and a Dymo labeler.
drew
I rushed to the theater last Friday to catch Kill Bill, and plan to see it again tomorrow. I really liked the film, but the movie wasn’t Quentinesque enough. There are glimpses brilliant dialogue, but the dialogue doesn’t compared to Pulp Fiction.
The movie is quiet violent, but most of the violence is so stylized it lessens the impact violence.