I finally saw it -- Part II
... actually this could have a double meaning -- I finally saw Kill Bill, Vol.1 again, this time with SD yesterday afternoon
It was the first time SD had seen it -- and at the end of it, she kind of said that it didn't live up to all of the hype that her friends had heaped upon it -- I was a bit more relaxed in my viewing
When I saw it at first with E and S, it really kind of blew me away -- all that action, all that homage, all the movement, colors, archetypes, icons, etc. -- I thought it was very excellent, and seeing it again many months later, I conclude that it is still very good and true to its purpose
Last night, in a marathon-like sequence, SD and I went to see Vol. 2 -- and long story short, SD liked V.2 better than V.1 -- I guess because it was paced more to her liking -- I found it interesting at the end of the movie that people were muttering about which one they liked better
Funny, but isn't this all the same movie -- ok, ok, I'm no fun
Some impressions I had:
1. Does it matter how Bill gets killed, so long as that he dies by Beatrix's hands?
2. Does it matter that everyone on Beatrix's list is killed by Beatrix or not? Much less, killed at all?
3. Why did Q decide to Pulp the first half asynchronically, and then do the second half so straight that it was about as linear a storyline as a ruler from A-B
4. I didn't notice that Gordon Liu was Johnny Mo and Pai Mei until yesterday -- I love Gordon Liu, all the way back from Master Killer
5. The over-acting in this movie is something you love or you won't -- I do, it's so totally marinara, moral, westernish-- pass the parmesan
6. The movie shows 13 deaths, supposedly -- do you remember all 13, I sure don't
7. The soundtrack again is quite excellent and adds to the atmosphere of the movie, like all S/Ts should
8. Would you change your life if you were having a child? Do you have a choice in the matter? If you didn't know you had a child, then found out later, after being your old self for a while, would that make you regret your choices up to your discovery
Oh hell, nevermind -- it's a good conclusion to a very well-paced movie -- I think that by chopping it up, it turns making heads or tails of it difficult because of the urge to compare one to the other -- whereas in fact it is one big story, and the separation into volumes is arbitrary
Comments
I heard that Q had cut it together for Cannes to run as one full-length film -- I do wonder whether it would hold up as a one sitting film because the tone is so different throughout its 3:40ish length
Posted by: owner | April 30, 2004 11:00 AM
i cant wait to see this thing on one dvd. i wonder if it will fit on one dvd. if i could watch it in it's entirety....
i know that quentin had pages of script and they went far beyond what they actually anticipated but wow. it was really good.
Posted by: janitor | April 29, 2004 4:10 PM