"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
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| 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.

Apparently you did not see "The Rundown." Actually, "The Rundown" is
hysterically funny as a satire on bad Hollywood. Some camera shots are used
more than once; one scene shows a Piper flying over the Brazilian jungle and
another shows the same shot without the Piper. The Piper actually has the
jaggies from being badly digitized and it jitters around in a way impossible
for a real airplane. The Piper, of course, has duct tape wrapped around a
strut, implying that the airplane is held together that way (silly
Hollywood, where else would you store your duct tape?). There is also a
small stretch of jungle road that is used over and over and over for
locations that are supposed to be far apart.

We also get to see horny African monkeys in Brazil, hallucinogenic fruit
that somehow has not become part of the popular subculture in the United
States, Indiana Jones style golden idols, and every trite marshal arts scene
ever filmed. Well, okay, no one gets thrown through a plate glass window --
they get thrown through brick walls. Oddly, the bullets don't sparkle
whenever they hit something; I kept wondering how that particular piece of
Hollywood idiocy got left out. People fall thousands of feet down a cliff
without serious injury, despite the fact that they invariably land on trees,
rocks, limbs, etc, crotch first. And let us not forget the cute reference to
Amazonian parasite that swims up your urethra and which can only be removed
by amputation, an apparent reference to the candiru catfish. Best of all, we
get to see Christopher Walken doing his non-plussed bad guy routine as his
defenses get taken out one by one.