Kill Bill, Vol. 2
18 ratings since posting on Monday, August 16, 2004|
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Kill Bill, Vol. 2., though the violence is a bit toned down unlike the first, but it packs quite a lot of rhythm that was lacking in the first. Tarantino certainly knows how to work out magic from a script to put into the big screen. - philip , posted 09/27/06 |
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For the speech about superman at the end alone it deserves my rating, contrived much of the time, under potent when it comes to the fighting, but the opening scene of kill bill 1 and the ending scene of v.2 made it all worth it. I cried. - Paradox , posted 09/27/06 |
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I have copies of both of the Kill Bill movies, and while there's a lot about them that I don't like, and consider to be overdone and cliche, I enjoyed watching them and think they're fun! - Jenni , posted 06/20/06 |
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It was a very artistic film in how it was shot...shame it didn't have a story to match. - Nathan , posted 11/09/05 |
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I liked Kill Bill Vol 1. But, 2, just brought it all together. It was a great movie, and I enjoyed watching it. - Unsubscribed , posted 11/09/05 |
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Well, I had to hand it to him when I watched the first KB, I spent lots of time thinking, "well here's jaded, scrappy, Quentin Tarantino, beating us up with our own lust for gore and pain..." And intermittently, I asked myself: "...there supposedly is a Part Two of this???" I repeatedly consoled myself, thinking: "Whew! Well. At least there's just - no - freakin - wwWAY, he could ever rope me into seeing the second one of these!" And then it happened, the last words in the last seconds of the first movie. He knows. And in fact, I think that was the whole point, to get us to somehow see the first movie to the end, so that in fact, we might feel compelled to see what would happen in the second. I tip my hat to him, I didn't think it was possible, he got me fair and square. However, my impression of KB II was just a part two of my opinion that this was an exercise in self-punishment set up by a director who has begun to have disdain for the movie going public at large. Maybe he was just trying to sicken and bore the viewers, the movie makers, the actors, the other directors, the cinemaplexes, the parents, the kids and even the ghoulish few who may have liked these films, once and for all... getting all of the fascination with violence over-with in one, (nope, two) big bloody splashes. Oh well... and I was one of the ones who did see Pulp Fiction as a wild and often interesting ride. Albeit, shocking in places, it wouldn't have been the same without it's unpredictable brand of bizarre story twists and yes, even the violence. Maybe after PF, 'Hollywood' wanted him to repeat that kind of violence over, and he did the two KB movies as an in-yer-face 'take that' homage to violence itself, hoping that people would say "hey, well there Quentin, that was interesting, how about a comedy next time..." - gwynneth , posted 07/27/05 |
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Imagine going on a month-long coke binge and gorging yourself on stacks of Manga, shitty Kung Fu movies, and crappy, cliche-ridden 70's action movies. Imagine starting to hallucinate and being filled with sociopathic rage. Imagine one of the least attractive actresses in recent memory appearing in your fevered visions while you gnash your teeth down to stumps. Imagine someone putting that all misery on celluloid. Or just rent Kill Bill Vol 2 - Unsubscribed , posted 07/25/05 |
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This Movie is Great and so is the first one. Did you know that they might wait for 10 years until the next movie comes out. Remember the seen were Uma kills the mom at her house. Well they want to wait until her little girl grows up. I think that's pretty cool. i hate when they chage actors for the same character. - Lisa , posted 06/24/05 |
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I really enjoyed Tarantino's Kill Bill Vol. 2. The film has an epic feeling to it thanks to his shameless collage of styles of editing, music scores, and directing styles. The second film really makes it feel like a complete story. Its a Shakespearean love story over-stuffed with pop culture references from the classic to the obscure. I can see why some people will be turned off by this, but I must admit I love it. - Porter , posted 06/09/05 |
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I have watched both KB1 and KB2 several times. KB2 is a very rich film; a complex over-the-top 70's-style martial arts parody film, the sound effects are very exaggerated and make the film what it is - a very entertaining story that explodes from the screen... the soundtrack rocks.... the plot is a so complex that it needs to be watched multiple times (both films) to "get all of it". It is an extremely exaggerated film - suspend your belief while watching it and have fun! - AlienMental , posted 02/16/05 |
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Quentin Tarantino Now Sucks QT is so fuckin played. Res. Dog and Pulp Fiction were amazing in hundreds of ways, but now I think he's tired. The word "simulacra" comes to mind - Style with no substance. I know QT is god in these parts and that my blasphemy is complete and grounds for banishment, but Kill Bill I & II left me wanting. 10 or 15 years ago that stylized violence, witty repartee, and great music and were cutting edge and QT was the mastermind, but he seems a one trick pony and he's done in my humble opinion. For christs’s sake, this is the guy who wrote Natural Born Killers & True Romance. Those along with Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction were an auspicious an entry as any directors ever made into Hollywood with all due respect to Orson Wells. He basically defined his own genre and then virtually disappeared. I must ask QT, “what have you done for me lately?” He may still have good films in him, but KB I & II weren’t them. Supposedly his bag of film references is huge so he might want to reach in to that bag of tricks and come up with something new. He needs to look beyond unsung kung fu flicks and Hong Kong noir for influence. The cool or hip aura that surrounds QT can only last so long, he's gotta make a really good movie sometime soon. His last good film, Jackie Brown was released in 1996 almost 10 years ago. - *MC* , posted 01/28/05 |
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This movie was amazing! - Unsubscribed , posted 12/20/04 |
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Never saw KB1, but KB2 is stand-alone good. Tarantino deftly interspersed humor with his trademark blood and gore with skill. It was a long movie, and I'm probably going to have to rent it to catch more subtle references to Asian pop-culture. - Sal , posted 09/12/04 |
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Just saw "Kill Bill, Vol. 2" on DVD the other night. I enjoyed it, which is no surprise, because I generally enjoy Tarantino's movies: the usual references to old (generally schlocky) movies, the extreme (even cartoonish) violence, snappy dialogue with quirky characters expounding at length, a love of B-movie character actors. But I thought I'd mention something else. Something nitpicky, something only a snake person would get. There's a scene involving a black mamba. The movie uses a *real* black mamba. I could tell. That's significant, because movies frequently use harmless snakes as stand-ins. There's nothing more annoying than seeing something you'd see in a pet store -- a Pueblan milk snake, for example -- be portrayed as something incredibly deadly. There's a snake scene in "Asterix et Obelix contre Cesar" where Asterix has to deal with incredibly deadly ... corn snakes and ball pythons. Ahem. So at least they went to the trouble of getting the real thing from their animal wranglers. Now about this character codenamed "California Mountain Snake": (1) There ain't no such thing, unless you mean "California Mountain Kingsnake", which (2) is completely harmless, which is a strange codename to have in the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad, don't you think? - Jonathan , posted 08/16/04 |
