Glens Falls (NY) Online Book Discussion Group discussion

I notice Kill Bill 1&2 are playing on Spike (chan 55) tonight (10-26-09). I loved both, but have re-seen them within the last couple of months. So it's too soon for me to want to watch them again. So I decided to record them and save the tape, something I seldom do. Maybe I'll want to watch them next year, and if I can find the tape I'll have 3 hrs of great entertainment.

Earl wrote: "I notice Kill Bill 1&2 are playing on Spike (chan 55) tonight (10-26-09). I loved both, but have re-seen them within the last couple of months. So it's too soon for me to want to watch them again. ..."

Earl, thanks for the heads-up.

About "Kill Bill", Wiki says:
"The overall storyline of Kill Bill — a woman seeks revenge on a group of people, crossing them off a list one by one as she kills them — is adapted from Lady Snowblood, a 1973 Japanese film in which a woman kills off the gang who murdered her family."
ABOVE FROM: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_Bill

I also found the following in a review (it might be a possible SPOILER, but I need all the hints I can get when a storyline sounds ambiguous):
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"... Tarantino then dives headlong into the story, told in a non-linear fashion and without much in the way of needless expository. We're pretty much left to piece together elements of what's going on and why, although the director offers some hints along the way. The basics are this: a pregnant character known as "The Bride " (Uma Thurman) is savagely beaten, stabbed, shot and left for dead on her wedding day by an elite quartet of assassins known as the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad (or DiVAS), her former co-workers. The Bride falls into a coma from which she awakens four years later, her baby lost and her mind dead set on getting revenge. Her eventual target: Bill, the man who ordered the hit. To reach Bill, however, The Bride must first systematically kill each of the DiVAS."

"Those sensitive to violence might consider seeing another movie ... But those looking for a gloriously ultra-extreme 95-minute adrenaline rush to the senses, will find that Tarantino's latest more than fits the bill."
FROM A REVIEW AT: http://www.metroweekly.com/arts_enter...
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Sounds like a real thriller!

They are fun.

Jim wrote: "They are fun."

One of the reviewers ("SniperKitty") at Netflix said:
"The scene with her meeting with those Japanese big gangster leaders is just CLASSIC. I won’t give away what happened, you just have to watch it and laugh your butt off."
FROM NETFLIX DESCRIPTION OF "KILL BILL" (2003) at:
http://www.netflix.com/Movie/Kill_Bil...

I had heard there was something humorous about "Kill Bill", but didn't know what it was since I haven't seen it.

Roger Ebert said:
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"Quentin Tarantino's "Kill Bill, Volume 2" (2004) is an exuberant celebration of moviemaking, coasting with heedless joy from one audacious chapter to another, working as irony, working as satire, working as drama, working as pure action. I liked it even more than "Kill Bill, Volume 1" (2003). It's not a sequel but a continuation and completion..."

"But this is all one film, and now that we see it whole, it's greater than its two parts; Tarantino remains the most brilliantly oddball filmmaker of his generation, and this is one of the best films of the year."
FROM: http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/p...
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Joy, lots of blood, gore & ridiculous fighting, so you have to take it as kind of movie cartoon. I really don't think you'd ever find the humor in it. You'd just be grossed out.

It's a semi-serious spoof on the Bruce Lee type movie, but with some very realistic looking special gore effects; heads being chopped off, people beat to a pulp & such.

Jim wrote: "Joy, lots of blood, gore & ridiculous fighting, so you have to take it as kind of movie cartoon. I really don't think you'd ever find the humor in it. You'd just be grossed out. It's a semi-serious spoof on the Bruce Lee type movie, but with some very realistic looking special gore effects; heads being chopped off, people beat to a pulp & such."

OMG! LOL

Jim wrote: "
It's a semi-serious spoof on the Bruce Lee type movie, but with some very realistic looking special gore effects; heads being chopped off, people beat to a pulp & such."

This type stuff doesn't gross me out at all, like you say, cartoon-like. But Tarantino's Hostel with all the torture DID gross me out.

Alas, I got watching Netflix The Horsemen (on recommends of several in this group) and I forgot to turn the timer on soon enough to record KillBill 1&2. Oh well. I would have rated The Horsemen 4 stars for a good plot, Dennis Quaid and a blessed lack of cgi. Alas crappy-dark photography and putrid lack of captions reduced its (my) rating to 2½ stars.

Earl wrote: "... Alas crappy-dark photography and putrid lack of captions reduced its (my) rating to 2½ stars."

I hate dark photography. It's hard to see when I'm streaming a movie onto my computer screen, and also on the TV screen as well.