Tuesday, October 21, 2003
Saw Kill Bill the other night and I have to say I don't share Angus' disapointment with it. There may have been two factors to this, first I saw it for free which tends to lower the bar on any movie for me, and second I wouldn't claim to be a huge Quentin Tarantino fan, in fact I think I have only seen Pulp Fiction. However I liked it. The lack of plot didn't bother me, in fact I positively relished the cliff-hanger at the end and the way they never got around to explaining why exactly the Deadly Viper Assasain Squad had come after 'The Bride'(Uma). It was all about style and surfaces, the music was bang on, and the fight scenes, ooh the fight scenes! Unfortunately I am not what you would called an afficionado of the martial arts genre so I think I probably missed a lot of the references but never-the-less it rocked!
Although one thing that did bother me was the 'The Bride' being raped while she is in a coma, that seemed completely unnecesary and put in purely for shock value, or some pervy fantasy of people having a crack at Uma while she is sleeping.
While I am on movies I will make one point, and one point alone, about The League of Extrordinary Gentlemen (I know, I know, I brought it on myself but it was free). If you are creating a plotline and you have your pick of any literary character ever written, ever, why would you not pick one which actually had the characteristics you require?
Although one thing that did bother me was the 'The Bride' being raped while she is in a coma, that seemed completely unnecesary and put in purely for shock value, or some pervy fantasy of people having a crack at Uma while she is sleeping.
While I am on movies I will make one point, and one point alone, about The League of Extrordinary Gentlemen (I know, I know, I brought it on myself but it was free). If you are creating a plotline and you have your pick of any literary character ever written, ever, why would you not pick one which actually had the characteristics you require?
