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It's time.

Now, I'm not really a Quentin Tarantino fan, in fact I think he is full of poo here, but I am excited at this prospect. I like to be excited about forthcoming movies, and I just AM excited about this one. The most violent mainstream American film of all time? We shall see...

― adaml (adaml), Thursday, 9 October 2003 20:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Uma is also icky there, btw.

― adaml (adaml), Thursday, 9 October 2003 20:51 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm anticipating frantically for some reason! and I too am not a QT fan!

PS my friend saw Intolerable Cruelty last night and she said it sucked

PPS I saw Runaway Jury this morning and it was mediocre

― s1utsky (slutsky), Thursday, 9 October 2003 20:59 (twenty-two years ago)

I look forward to any movie that involves kill-crazy vengeance rampages!

I hope your friend is wrong about Intolerable Cruelty -- I love the Coen Bros. but already feared this would be awful because it has that Welsh muppet in it.

― Nicolars (Nicole), Thursday, 9 October 2003 21:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Gonzo's in it?

― s1utsky (slutsky), Thursday, 9 October 2003 21:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Intolerable Cruelty looks awful from the trailer...especially the bit where her dog bites Clooney's hand- how many times have we seen that before?

(s1utsky! There you are! I have a question for you about DV decks, but I'll mail you offline when I have time)

Still...Kill Bill! Did I mention I really don't like Lucy Liu either? She seems like a mean person. I'll watch her movie, but I won't be her friend.

― adaml (adaml), Thursday, 9 October 2003 21:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Gonzo's not Welch, he's Polish or something.

― adaml (adaml), Thursday, 9 October 2003 21:06 (twenty-two years ago)

"Welsh"

― adaml (adaml), Thursday, 9 October 2003 21:06 (twenty-two years ago)

My friend may be wrong but my instincts tell me she's right. But I haven't been a fan of the Coens for years (in my opinion their last four or five films have been terrible) so that might be my bias colouring it.

― s1utsky (slutsky), Thursday, 9 October 2003 21:07 (twenty-two years ago)

x-posting with myself: Gonzo might in fact be Polish, it would make sense for him to be a Galizianer (sp?).

― s1utsky (slutsky), Thursday, 9 October 2003 21:08 (twenty-two years ago)

S1utsky. You. Don't. Like...The Man Who Wasn't There????

*weeps*

― adaml (adaml), Thursday, 9 October 2003 21:09 (twenty-two years ago)

I love the look of the movie, but I thought it was terribly written and constructed--it's over about 30 minutes in! The better the Coens get visually the worse they seem to become as writers--compare how tight Miller's Crossing or Blood Simple are to the messes they've put together lately.

― s1utsky (slutsky), Thursday, 9 October 2003 21:12 (twenty-two years ago)

The construction is a little screwy, but I still love a lot of the (non) dialogue. But yes, it is a flabby fish-like handshake compared to the tight grip of Blood Simple.

― adaml (adaml), Thursday, 9 October 2003 21:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Kill Bill is gonna suck, I think. Much like the "next MBV album" is gonna suck.

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Thursday, 9 October 2003 21:16 (twenty-two years ago)

(don't hurt me Ned)

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Thursday, 9 October 2003 21:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, it's not their dialogue so much I have a problem with... they're still pretty good at that. They should just get someone else to write their scripts and doctor 'em themselves. Or something.

― s1utsky (slutsky), Thursday, 9 October 2003 21:18 (twenty-two years ago)

don't hurt me Ned

I'll let you hurt yourself.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 9 October 2003 21:31 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm not the biggest Tarantino fan (took me years to see Pulp Fiction), but I won't mind seeing this one. Not enough films with female assassins and huge swords in

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Thursday, 9 October 2003 21:33 (twenty-two years ago)

I do, frequently. Thank you for not piling on.

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Thursday, 9 October 2003 21:37 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.chud.com/graphics9/killbill2.jpg

― Nicolars (Nicole), Thursday, 9 October 2003 22:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Bless ya, missus

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Thursday, 9 October 2003 22:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Do you mean Kill Bill Part One? God-damned narcissitic Tarantino couldn't even edit it down to one movie!

― calzero, Thursday, 9 October 2003 23:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Took me a sec to realize that the red on their outfits was blood and not some sort of design statement.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 9 October 2003 23:45 (twenty-two years ago)

hope it kicks ass!

― cinniblount (James Blount), Thursday, 9 October 2003 23:58 (twenty-two years ago)

The New York Times review was relatively frowny, but I loved the penultimate paragraph describing the rationale behind the movie's rating:

""Kill Bill: Vol. 1" is rated R (Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian). It has shootings, stabbings, beatings, beheadings, disembowelings, amputations, mutilations, eye-gougings, slicings, choppings, bitings and a spanking. Also some naughty words."

I have the mild worry that none of the characters will be sufficiently likeable/hateable and that I won't really care about anything but the action itself.

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Friday, 10 October 2003 01:02 (twenty-two years ago)

I think it looks awful, and yeah couldn't have been one film? It's not as though his previous two were brief.

― Sean (Sean), Friday, 10 October 2003 01:06 (twenty-two years ago)

If anything, it'll probably be the ultimate film violence desensitizer. After watching this, maybe I'll be able to keep my eyes open for the chainsaw scene in Scarface. (oh god I am so twee)

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Friday, 10 October 2003 01:10 (twenty-two years ago)

It's not as though his previous two were brief.

Well, as Quentin explains in his interview, he's a writer, always has been. His...thing, y'know, is a novelistic thing, and he's not prepared to dumb himself down for the sake of a script.

Whatever, Quentin.

― adaml (adaml), Friday, 10 October 2003 01:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Lucy Liu is too over exposed -- Ally McBeal, Charlie's Angels...she doesn't seem like the typical indie Tarantino choice -- I wonder if they brought her in to make money, or if it's the only Asian actor they know?

― Mary (Mary), Friday, 10 October 2003 01:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Is Tarantino Indie?

― adaml (adaml), Friday, 10 October 2003 01:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Or just his actors?

― adaml (adaml), Friday, 10 October 2003 01:32 (twenty-two years ago)

I have mixed feelings about the volume one volume two thing. Well, I don't really have any feelings about it, because I haven't seen the movie. I guess I'm anticipating having mixed feelings.

― s1utsky (slutsky), Friday, 10 October 2003 03:28 (twenty-two years ago)

boy, I sure get up to a lot of exciting stuff

― s1utsky (slutsky), Friday, 10 October 2003 03:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Come anticipate Kill Bill with me...

*sits in silent anticipation*

― adaml (adaml), Friday, 10 October 2003 03:54 (twenty-two years ago)

*still here*

― adaml (adaml), Friday, 10 October 2003 03:54 (twenty-two years ago)

*further anticipation*

― adaml (adaml), Friday, 10 October 2003 03:55 (twenty-two years ago)

*suspense*

― adaml (adaml), Friday, 10 October 2003 03:55 (twenty-two years ago)

*yet more hardcore anticipation*

― adaml (adaml), Friday, 10 October 2003 03:55 (twenty-two years ago)

I kind've feel like a dork for being as anxious to see it as I am, but I do have a lot of stress right now that could use some vicarious catharsis.

― Dan I., Friday, 10 October 2003 05:47 (twenty-two years ago)

SUH-LAM!

http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/2003/10/10/kill_bill/

― Girolamo Savonarola, Friday, 10 October 2003 12:35 (twenty-two years ago)

If it all possible, that review made me want to see the movie MORE.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 10 October 2003 13:13 (twenty-two years ago)

People still read Salon?

― Ally (mlescaut), Friday, 10 October 2003 13:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Not now you have to pay for the 'privilege'. Their film reviewing is among the world's worst. Steph-Z especially.
'Kill Bill' - even discusing this pumps up the ridiculous Tarantino myth a little bit more. I'm sure it's fine, but QT is simply a minor order director, however good his films have been. The hipster (class of '93) Kevin Williamson.

― Enrique (Enrique), Friday, 10 October 2003 13:47 (twenty-two years ago)

"Kill Bill: Volume 1" is not the kind of movie that inspires discussion of the acting, but what Thurman, Fox and Liu accomplish here is arguably more difficult than playing the nuanced heroine of a Sundance thumb-sucker."

― Ally (mlescaut), Friday, 10 October 2003 15:37 (twenty-two years ago)

I await Jonathan Rosenbaum's considered response. Everyone here calls Ebert the 'American Barry Norman', but he's dead good, actually isn't he?

― Enrique (Enrique), Friday, 10 October 2003 15:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Ebert in "I'll give this one a total pass, even though all its would-be virtues are what I hate about most other films" SHOCKAH!

― Girolamo Savonarola, Friday, 10 October 2003 15:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Er, not really.

― Nicolars (Nicole), Friday, 10 October 2003 16:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Dude, he totally masturbated over it like I've never seen before - and I've read most of his reviews for a while - and then sits around pointing out that all of its flaws aren't really flaws, but quite the opposite! Of course!

― Girolamo Savonarola, Friday, 10 October 2003 16:43 (twenty-two years ago)

he gave "signnnnnnns" 4 stars or somethig. he isa fuckig wack

― Vic (Vic), Friday, 10 October 2003 16:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Nicole OTM. I don't see him pointing out "flaws [that] aren't really flaws" at all--basically he's stating that stuff that you are reading as flaws are good to him. Two different things, unless you are actually Roger Ebert.

He's got a martial arts fetish and an anime fetish; Ebert in liking films that pay homage to things he fetishizes shocker.

― Ally (mlescaut), Friday, 10 October 2003 16:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Skipping 1275 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

the best thing here is how when stencil pointed out that Momus doesn't hold up Bounce Ko Gals as representative of some terrible rot within Japanese society, or Baise-Moi as indicative of some deep yahoo strain inherent within French culture, Momus responds by tossing off a flip line about how Baise-Moi wasn't to his liking and then ignores the rest of the point. If Momus were a misanthrope, his point would stand, but since he only thinks one culture is worth indicting...God I loved this thread, it had its own sadistic appeal to it

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Sunday, 25 January 2004 14:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Hey, Grumps! Got some threads for you:

which ILXor is most likely to turn into a grumpy old man?
Men banging on sanctimoniously about feminism and/or sexism: classic or dud?

― Momus (Momus), Monday, 26 January 2004 05:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Ha, I've met Devendra - he's rather grumpier than I am! I only get grumpy around FASCISTS and MISOGYNISTS and whatnot

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Monday, 26 January 2004 05:48 (twenty-one years ago)

just to take the bait, though - "finding misogyny rather distasteful" isn't necesssarily equivalent to "banging on about feminism," however much it may seem so to your pining-for-those-days-of-yore ears, dear M.

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Monday, 26 January 2004 05:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I actually tried to read this whole thread tonight and my brain locked up about halfway along. But I did come across this gem from Ally:

Points worth acknowledging:
- "Conan the Barbarian says YOU ARE TOTALLY HYPNOTIZED."

And I am happy. :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 26 January 2004 06:32 (twenty-one years ago)

two months pass...

Is it too early to start anticipating Volume II?

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 2 April 2004 22:48 (twenty-one years ago)

it might be too late, actually. I thought it was coming out in february and was excited then. Now I'm going to have to rent the dvd of the first one to refresh my memory of what the whole thing was about.

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Friday, 2 April 2004 22:57 (twenty-one years ago)

they keep pushing the release date back! someone fucked up

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 2 April 2004 23:34 (twenty-one years ago)

it's still april 19 right?

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Saturday, 3 April 2004 01:52 (twenty-one years ago)

seven months pass...

Postscript.

― MC Transmaniacon (natepatrin), Saturday, 20 November 2004 06:17 (twenty years ago)

WOW PALINDROME HAIKU

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Saturday, 20 November 2004 15:45 (twenty years ago)

think he'll weigh in on the junior boys?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 20 November 2004 16:21 (twenty years ago)

In retrospect, how glad was I that I was on vacation for most of this thread's original life?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 21 November 2004 15:00 (twenty years ago)

two years pass...

http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.tmz.com/media/2007/10/1005_thurman_wenn.jpg

― chaki, Friday, 5 October 2007 22:47 (eighteen years ago)

two months pass...

This thread... this fucking thread.

― Dom Passantino, Friday, 28 December 2007 00:01 (seventeen years ago)

Ooooooooooo-ma

― milo z, Friday, 28 December 2007 00:51 (seventeen years ago)

girolamo savonarola was not a very good poster

― El Tomboto, Friday, 28 December 2007 00:56 (seventeen years ago)

fr$

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 28 December 2007 00:58 (seventeen years ago)

Let me just ask a somewhat loaded question:

If all of the swords in Kill Bill were lightsabers instead - but nothing else were different - how would you feel?

-- Girolamo Savonarola, Friday, October 10, 2003 8:56 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark Link

― s1ocki, Friday, 28 December 2007 03:13 (seventeen years ago)

HOW

― s1ocki, Friday, 28 December 2007 03:13 (seventeen years ago)

what does that even mean

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 28 December 2007 03:30 (seventeen years ago)

It's like being in a funhouse, some of these posters four years ago.

― Eric H., Friday, 28 December 2007 03:34 (seventeen years ago)

That's the funniest fucking thing I've read today.

― HI DERE, Friday, 28 December 2007 04:44 (seventeen years ago)

i think some interesting things worth thinking about were raised on this thread...although ILX was not and never will be a good place to really dig deep into them...

― ryan, Friday, 28 December 2007 07:36 (seventeen years ago)

I just recently said, randomly and oddly, to a group of friends, that Kill Bill 1 might just be the greatest movie ever made. Of course, it probably isn't, but fuck it felt good to get that off my chest.

― Lostandfound, Friday, 28 December 2007 07:47 (seventeen years ago)

And ryan OTM.

― Lostandfound, Friday, 28 December 2007 07:48 (seventeen years ago)

one year passes...

Let me just ask a somewhat loaded question:
If all of the swords in Kill Bill were lightsabers instead - but nothing else were different - how would you feel?

― Girolamo Savonarola, Friday, October 10, 2003 4:56 PM (5 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

― max, Sunday, 22 February 2009 20:57 (sixteen years ago)

that is a pretty loaded question

― max, Sunday, 22 February 2009 20:57 (sixteen years ago)

both of these are on tnt today... what's the point of putting them on TV

― suggban stevens (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 22 February 2009 20:57 (sixteen years ago)

five months pass...

^^ never got a satisfactory answer to this loaded question

― fleetwood (max), Friday, 21 August 2009 19:07 (sixteen years ago)

ok a couple questions for Kill Bill 1 fans
1.) Did the anime scenes seem entirely unfitting?
2.) Near the end of the movie when she had to fight all the ninjas... did that not remind you power rangers (or TMNT movies). The only difference in my opinion was gore & stylistic filming

― CaptainLorax, Friday, 21 August 2009 21:46 (sixteen years ago)

1) nah - totally in step with the whole feel of the film.
2) never got a PR/TMNT/anything for kids feel off the house of blue leaves. plenty of other martial arts flicks, sure, but not that kind of stuff.

re: the "loaded question" - maybe a better approach is to wonder if all the lightsabers in Star Wars had been katanas - how would you feel?

― Bill A, Friday, 21 August 2009 21:56 (sixteen years ago)

1) Totally agree. It definitely fits with the first movie's attempt to pay homage to almost all aspects of martial arts movies - the most glaring exclusion being, of course, the training sequence with Pei Mei in Vol. II. Anime is one of the many addressed throughout the movie.
2) Yeah - felt much more Hughes Bros. than TMNT or PR to me.

If the lightsabres had been katanas, all the Jedi would have been dead a long time ago. How you gonna deflect a blaster shot with a steel sword?

― Adventures of Dog Boy and Frank Sobotka (B.L.A.M.), Friday, 21 August 2009 22:22 (sixteen years ago)

Well I got my 2 cents in. I can't complain (anymore or I will get sb)

― CaptainLorax, Friday, 21 August 2009 22:24 (sixteen years ago)

eight months pass...

sonny chiba's bit in vol. 1 is a really, really outstanding comic performance. the whole bar scene is beautiful calibrated, but he's the best part of it. especially the little gesture/sound he makes after "excuse me" (start at 1:12)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txiR1Nzrzng

― by another name (amateurist), Wednesday, 12 May 2010 03:03 (fifteen years ago)

yes, amazing scene

― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 12 May 2010 03:27 (fifteen years ago)

twelve years pass...

Saw these together tonight for the first time since they came out. So much stuff...I didn't recoil like the first time: a few good things, plus scenes that went on forever. I really liked the (near-final) scene with the daughter and the Malcolm McLaren song.

― clemenza, Saturday, 1 October 2022 05:02 (three years ago)

three years pass...

The Whole Bloody Affair gets a US theatrical release later this year: https://variety.com/2025/film/news/kill-bill-the-whole-bloody-affair-sets-theatrical-release-1236536800/

The rollout will include presentations in 70mm and 35mm, with plans to play in all major markets.
“I wrote and directed it as one movie — and I’m so glad to give the fans the chance to see it as one movie,” Tarantino wrote in a statement on the release. “The best way to see ‘Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair‘ is at a movie theater in glorious 70mm or 35mm. Blood and guts on a big screen in all its glory!”
“The Whole Bloody Affair” removes the cliffhanger ending from “Kill Bill Vol. 1” and the recap opener of “Kill Bill Vol. 2,” bringing the pair together as a single cohesive storyline. The release will also include a never-before-seen 7 1/2-minute animated sequence.

― Lithium Just Madison (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 1 October 2025 22:57 (three weeks ago)

I rewatched these on two consecutive nights for the first time since they came out. Still very enjoyable, but very little of it sticks. Despite technically being two films, there are some aspects that feel a little rushed. It almost could have been three films, or a mini TV series

― Now read it backwards. (dog latin), Wednesday, 1 October 2025 23:01 (three weeks ago)

"QT does animation" doesn't sound to me like the kind of bait that will cause a feeding frenzy

― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Wednesday, 1 October 2025 23:06 (three weeks ago)

I thought the animation sections were pretty good in KB. A nice touch at least

― Now read it backwards. (dog latin), Wednesday, 1 October 2025 23:08 (three weeks ago)

I skip the animated section when I do a comfort food re-watch of KB1.

― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Wednesday, 1 October 2025 23:49 (three weeks ago)

I usually skip to the animated section

― our beloved RIFF LORD (DJP), Thursday, 2 October 2025 02:52 (three weeks ago)

Animated section is the most memorable part of either iirc

― Lady Sovereign (Citizen) (milo z), Thursday, 2 October 2025 03:10 (three weeks ago)

i still like both movies & may actually go see this so there, grumps

― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 2 October 2025 03:25 (three weeks ago)

I rarely go back to these, but reading up on their influences introduced me to dozens of great films from different eras and countries so I'll never hate on them.

― a ZX spectrum is haunting Europe (Daniel_Rf), Thursday, 2 October 2025 09:32 (three weeks ago)

4.5 hours with no intermission?!

― piscesx, Thursday, 2 October 2025 15:49 (three weeks ago)

If I managed to sit through Jeanne Dielman without a wee, I'm sure I could do this

― Now read it backwards. (dog latin), Thursday, 2 October 2025 16:14 (three weeks ago)

althoguh that's an hour less...

― Now read it backwards. (dog latin), Thursday, 2 October 2025 16:14 (three weeks ago)

I’m in

― Clever Message Board User Name (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 3 October 2025 10:28 (three weeks ago)

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