"Jay Honeck" wrote in message news:yBijb.777674$YN5.761294@sccrnsc01...
Mary and I went to see this movie last night, based on good initial reviews
and high ticket sales. (Having Uma Thurman in it certainly didn't hurt,
either.

Just wanted to let everyone know, before they spend a nickel in the theater,
that both of us consider "Kill Bill" to be the absolute worst movie we've
ever seen. The "plot" is contrived, the action scenes completely
unrealistic, Tarantino's attempts at "film noire" fail utterly, and it is
chock-full of absolutely gratuitous violence from start to finish. There
isn't five minutes without a limb (or worse) being severed, and blood
spurting everywhere.


Not to nitpick you or anything Jay, but me thinks you might have
missed the point of this movie. Now, that being said, no, I have not
yet seen this one. BUT, reading interviews with Tarantino, that was
his intention. This was a pure action movie; the plot was supposed
to be secondary to the action scenes.

Worse, the carnage was completely unrealistic. It's one thing to make a
violent movie -- it's another thing to make a violent movie badly.


The carnage was SUPPOSED to be unrealistic. The gore and violence are
supposed to be over the top, it's an homage to the Asian Kung-Fu
movies of the 60's and 70's. One of the reasons that it got an R
rating instead of NC-17 for the violence was because the violence is
done so unrealisticly.

They went out of their way to make the blood too thin, and make it
spurt out at insane rates.

We've seen some truly horrible movies in our day, but none that made us want
to run out of the theater as badly as this one.


snip

Save your money and go buy the new "Matrix" DVD instead...

Hmm, I was grossly dissapointed with "Reloaded" when I saw it in the
theaters, and I loved the original. It may have been because the
original was so "outside the box" at the time and original, and the
second one just didn't break any new ground. Or it could have been I
saw it after being on the road from 5 am the day before with only 6
hours of rest after driving from Champaign, IL to Cape May, NJ.

--
Mike O'Malley
(gotta get me a decent ISP soon!)