OT -- Kill Bill

In article , "Ralph
Snart" wrote:

As long as we're talking about movies with the 'SUCK' factor,

Dune.

--
Bob Noel

"Bob Noel" wrote in message
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| In article , "Ralph
| Snart" wrote:
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| As long as we're talking about movies with the 'SUCK' factor,
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| Dune.
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Which one? The movie or the Sci-Fi channel version?

In article , "C J Campbell"
wrote:

| As long as we're talking about movies with the 'SUCK' factor,
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| Dune.
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Which one? The movie or the Sci-Fi channel version?

the movie - the one spewed forth many years ago, way before
the Sci-Fi channel one.

--
Bob Noel

"Ralph Snart" wrote:
As long as we're talking about movies with the 'SUCK' factor,


"Pearl Harbor"

"Memphis Belle"

"Pearl Harbor"

"Memphis Belle"

Those two dogs have wonderful flying scenes, at least...
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

"Jay Honeck" wrote:
"Pearl Harbor"

"Memphis Belle"

Those two dogs have wonderful flying scenes, at least...

Yeah, but they have such silly-ass story lines and, in the case of "Pearl
Harbor," awful acting that I walked out on both of them. I felt they were
insulting to the heroic memory of the real events - some Hollywood lounge
lizard's idea of what war is like.
--
Dan
C172RG at BFM

LOL...we went for the same reason a few days ago, initially we didnt want to see
it, but everyone seemed to be ranting that it was a great movie, we left after
45 minutes.

Jay Honeck wrote:

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.

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.

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.

Let me put it another way: Kill Bill makes Led Zeppelin's awful "The Song
Remains The Same" concert movie seem like a brilliant, break-through film.
And, until now, THAT movie had ranked as our biggest waste of time, ever.

In fact, its ONLY saving grace is that Uma Thurman looks GREAT in tight
leather. (This didn't do it for Mary, however...)

Required Aviation Content: There are several flying scenes in this movie,
depicting a Boeing 747 jetliner in flight over the ocean and coming in to
land in Tokyo. In all my years of movie going, I've never seen a worse,
more amateurish rendition of an aircraft in flight. The old TV series "12
O'Clock High" did a better job, some 35 years ago...

Save your money and go buy the new "Matrix" DVD instead...
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

LOL...we went for the same reason a few days ago, initially we didnt want
to see
it, but everyone seemed to be ranting that it was a great movie, we left
after
45 minutes.

Mary wanted to leave, but I kept holding out hope that things would improve.

Bad choice.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

"Jay Honeck" wrote:
Mary wanted to leave, but I kept holding out hope that...

....Uma Thurman would take off the leather suit.

"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.


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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!)