Just saw Kill Bill Vol. 2 a couple of days ago. QT always manages to surprise. I guess his films may be an acquired taste, but I find them very entertaining and refreshing. Nothing boring in his movies.
I have a love/hate relationship with QT. He steals so much stuff from other people but gets mad credit for it. I do enjoy his sense of style and his daring to mix such different styles and techniques into his movies. I’d say that he’s probably the only director who has the clout to pull off a movie like this. We almost always expect something zany and different from him and he doesn’t dissappoint.
[quote author=“gr00vy0ne”]I have a love/hate relationship with QT. He steals so much stuff from other people but gets mad credit for it. I do enjoy his sense of style and his daring to mix such different styles and techniques into his movies. I’d say that he’s probably the only director who has the clout to pull off a movie like this. We almost always expect something zany and different from him and he doesn’t dissappoint.
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[quote author=“gr00vy0ne”]I have a love/hate relationship with QT. He steals so much stuff from other people but gets mad credit for it. I do enjoy his sense of style and his daring to mix such different styles and techniques into his movies. I’d say that he’s probably the only director who has the clout to pull off a movie like this. We almost always expect something zany and different from him and he doesn’t dissappoint.
I guess I find it refreshing that QT doesn’t try to disguise his Use of “borrowed” techniques and styles. They are “in your face” and he is not apologetic about it. I prefer that to most of the “original” movies out there using the same stories, techniques and characters (only to pass them all off as new).
[quote author=“VAIO Jet”]Just saw Kill Bill Vol. 2 a couple of days ago. QT always manages to surprise. I guess his films may be an acquired taste, but I find them very entertaining and refreshing. Nothing boring in his movies.
Vol 1 was really good mostly because I enjoy HK cinema and martial arts choreography. I have to say I can’t agree with you on Vol 2. :? I felt there was too much ... talking! ... compared to the first.
Let me climb into my ivory tower of film criticism (OK, up there now) and say that the two would have been better as a unit if the continuous action of the first was toned down a bit with the dialogue in the second, and the second has more action choreography. (OK, now I’m down from the tower.)
As an aside, did anyone else find Bill’s monologue near the end very much like the (anticlimatic) exposition common in most anime?
[quote author=“VAIO Jet”]I guess I find it refreshing that QT doesn’t try to disguise his Use of “borrowed” techniques and styles. They are “in your face” and he is not apologetic about it. I prefer that to most of the “original” movies out there using the same stories, techniques and characters (only to pass them all off as new).
Rip-offs are rip-offs (“homage” is just being nice about it, but it’s the same things) but at the same time, QT does write some incredibly memorable stuff - particularly his dialog. Anything involving Vince and Jules is great, the “ear scene” in Reservoir Dogs is brilliant, and the dialog between Christopher Walken and Dennis Hopper in True Romance was classic.
My big problem with Tarantino, and Kill Bill especially is that the real enjoyment of his stuff depends on getting all of the film references. I was never much of a chopsocky fan as a kid, so I didn’t get much out of Kill Bill. I’m not bothering with part 2, but I’ll probably pick up the box set version when they release it because I’m such a DVD whore.
[quote author=“CRYPTiC”]Let me climb into my ivory tower of film criticism (OK, up there now) and say that the two would have been better as a unit if the continuous action of the first was toned down a bit with the dialogue in the second, and the second has more action choreography. (OK, now I’m down from the tower.)
This is one instance where non-linear storytelling works. Could you imagine having the House of Blue Leaves sequence at the beginning of the second film? The rest would have been even more painful than the 30-minute ending of Return of the King.
so did ne one manage to kill all 88 ? i was playing this game earlier at school and I found it rather weird that these people came down so slowly and I had so much time to fight each one of them. I just came home and tried it on my desktop and just realised how painfully slow that machine at school was. I managed to kill around 50 at the most.
Okay, thanks for posting that. I have exactly six hours now until my forty-five page term thesis is due. And I have what- three pages written? Read that, THREE PAGES. :mrgreen: Still, thanks for the fun. And to join in the film criticism, QT rips off a lot of things from others, and does sometimes make g0d-4wful movies like ‘iron monkey,’ but the way in which he splices his rips is genius.
[quote author=“Rahul”]so did ne one manage to kill all 88 ? i was playing this game earlier at school and I found it rather weird that these people came down so slowly and I had so much time to fight each one of them. I just came home and tried it on my desktop and just realised how painfully slow that machine at school was. I managed to kill around 50 at the most.
[quote author=“TruthSeeker”][quote author=“Rahul”]so did ne one manage to kill all 88 ? i was playing this game earlier at school and I found it rather weird that these people came down so slowly and I had so much time to fight each one of them. I just came home and tried it on my desktop and just realised how painfully slow that machine at school was. I managed to kill around 50 at the most.
I killed them all…nothing happens…game ends. :(
Rahul, only 50?
(just kiddin’)
Since I found the game so fast I just used the right and left arrow buttons. I didn’t bother chopping off their heads or legs. Anyway’s since I haven’t still completed the game, I can enjoy playing it :D
[quote author=“nox”]QT rips off a lot of things from others, and does sometimes make g0d-4wful movies like ‘iron monkey,’
Aha! You’ve been fooled by the QT cloud of trickery. QT didn’t make iron monkey. He was merely “gracious” enough to share it with American audiences since it was part of his “secret collection” of HK films. I saw iron monkey 7 years earlier when it was originally released.
He’s also being ‘gracious’ enough to bring Hero later this year. Hero is a “crouching tiger” like movie that’s visually stunning. It’s definitely worth seeing.
So, it’s good that he’s helping to bring Asian cinema to an American audience but it’s bad that he tries to take credit for it. :wink:
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