Kill Bill
I haven't seen anything from Tarantino in a while, and this looks pretty cool. I haven't heard much on it except some descriptions. Here is a premise I found on this site:
"In this film noir tale, an assassin called the Bride (Thurman) is shot down, with child, by her employer, Bill (Carradine) and other members of their assassin circle, at her wedding (along with everyone else at the wedding). She, however, survives, though a bullet in her brain keeps her in a coma for five years. She wakes up PISSED OFF, soon setting out to seek... revenge. She seeks out the various members of the assassin group, globetrotting to kill them each in order, saving Bill for last (which will happen in the second half of the movie). "
Looks like there will be 2 movies instead of one big one because the screen play was so long.
www.kill-bill.com
"In this film noir tale, an assassin called the Bride (Thurman) is shot down, with child, by her employer, Bill (Carradine) and other members of their assassin circle, at her wedding (along with everyone else at the wedding). She, however, survives, though a bullet in her brain keeps her in a coma for five years. She wakes up PISSED OFF, soon setting out to seek... revenge. She seeks out the various members of the assassin group, globetrotting to kill them each in order, saving Bill for last (which will happen in the second half of the movie). "
Looks like there will be 2 movies instead of one big one because the screen play was so long.
www.kill-bill.com
Comments
Lucy, Lucy, Lucy!
Daryl, Daryl, Daryl!
What's better than a chick fight? A chick sword fight.
Screed (perpetually thirteen)
KILL BILL just looks bad. They had to split it into two films, but I bet if he was just forced to not use slow motion it could have been one.
Uma vs Lucy in the Edward Scissorhands like snow, for one.
Jeff
Please. It's something that can be done well at times (Alien series, Terminator 2) but I just don't have the gullibility level to believe an anorexic chick tearing through one burly stunt man (or for that matter burly assassin character) after another.
And my gullibility level is pretty high.
Originally posted by Splinemodel
but I just don't have the gullibility level to believe an anorexic chick tearing through one burly stunt man (or for that matter burly assassin character) after another.
Oh, man, I just saw the worst example ever of this: Underworld. Kate friggin Beckensale running around with uzis!
I'm usually a fan of the genre, there's just something sexy about it, and I like her. But she just couldn't shake her built in primness to work in this role.
Jeff
Originally posted by sCreeD
Uma,Uma, Uma!
Lucy, Lucy, Lucy!
Daryl, Daryl, Daryl!
What's better than a chick fight? A chick sword fight.
Screed (perpetually thirteen)
Don't forget Chiaki!
Who doesn't like a kick-ass Asian in a schoolgirl outfit?
Originally posted by bunge
They had to split it into two films, but I bet if he was just forced to not use slow motion it could have been one.
Holy crap that would be funny if true!
Originally posted by Splinemodel
Am I the only one here who's dreadfully sick of the female action hero?
Please. It's something that can be done well at times (Alien series, Terminator 2) but I just don't have the gullibility level to believe an anorexic chick tearing through one burly stunt man (or for that matter burly assassin character) after another.
And my gullibility level is pretty high.
I was voicing similar to complaints to my film-buff sister earlier today. For me, it's not so much the female action hero per se, it's the "action heros" that clearly have no martial arts background whatsoever.
I really want to love Kill Bill, but from the little bit that I've seen so far, Uma's physical performance is much closer to Charlie's Angels than to Crouching Tiger.
Originally posted by bunge
Funny, I thought UNDERWORLD had a decent story that made it better than the average 'action hero' movie.
I didn't hate the plot, I just thought the lead was badly miscast.
One thing I didn't like about the storyline was it didn't leave me with anyone to root for, though. By the end I didn't really care who won the war.
Jeff
Originally posted by shetline
Damn. I had hoped this movie was about Bill Gates.
I was thinking in the same vein...except O'Reilly.
Aside from
Return of the King
Matrix Revolutions
[Mystic River]
Anything with Tom Hanks (he's due)
I reserve my cash-money for good movies / epics / something memorable. I reserve my $3.99 for Quentin PPV night on DirecTV.
She was barely tolerable in Pulp Fiction and damned near Sofia Coppola'd the whole thing for me. This movie gets a huge "meh" and I'll probably never watch it.
Tarantino is sooooo 9 years ago.