Kill Bill films

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Does anyone else besides me love these movies? These two movies are filled with over-the-top special effects and seem to have no common sense, but I can't help but love them which is really unusual for me because I don't usually like action movies.

I think one of the things I love most about this film is how creative all of the main characters are. I mean you have the nameless heroine who is referred to as "The Bride" and after surviving getting shot in the head she goes on a bloody quest for revenge and slices people up with her katana. Then you have the psycho Japanese school girl bodyguard Gogo Yubari who enjoys killing people to protect her female Yakuza boss and is skilled with a ball and chain. And you have Elle Driver, the patch-eyed femme fatale with weird taste in clothes who's really evil and sneaky.

I also think I love this movie because I've always had a thing for Japanese culture, and it was kind of cool how the film blended together both Japanese and American Western culture. Of course all of it was cheesy and probably not very realistic, but that's OK because it kind of fit the style of the movie. I especially liked the anime part from Volume 1 that told the story of the character O-ren Ishii.

So yeah, I really love this movie and luckily I found volume 1 & 2 at Wal-Mart and purchased them to replace my original DVDs that got broken awhile ago. Life is good.

I hated both of them, I'm sorry to say. Some people saw brilliance, I saw four hours of Quentin Tarantino masturbating. But at least they weren't dreadfully boring like Inglourious Basterds. I'll take Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction or Jackie Brown any day.

I love the Kill Bill films. They're just so gory and over the top, and all of Tarantino's other films.

I love the anime scene in the first one (warning: very gory) Also I'm not sure if you'd consider it anime. I think it is though.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sw7lNC06O8s[/youtube]

Thought they were great

Including inglorious bastards, but that's because it feels like british humour which I think is funny and it reminds me about a world war 2 dragonball version since dragonball is so overkill that it's awesome

I am also a big fan of Kill Bill. Have all the soundtracks, memorised most of the dialogue.

The Crazy 88 scene made me sick to my stomach when I first saw it, but in blue_bean terms that means love at first sight

There was supposedly talks of a Kill Bill Vol 3, continuing on 15 years later when Vernita Green's daughter is all grown up and seeks revenge against the bride.

i like the first one better....

They've grown on me. They're not in the league of Tarantino's early stuff but they're fun to watch and I like the mix of the no name, anti-hero, spaghetti western movie and classic kung fu cinema. With all the crap superhero movies being made today, I am surprised so many of you are harsh about this one.

I loved these films. I know that it marked a transition in Tarantino's career where he went from "making low budget films look like big budget ones" to "over the top tributes to cult cinema," but didn't necessarily view it as a step backwards for him. Even though the Crazy 88 scene was REALLY gory, I personally felt that in addition to being a fun, over-the-top fight scene (I'm a guy, can't you tell), it was excellent character establishment for The Bride. With a handful of exceptions (the Copperhead fight, Bride's escape from the hospital), most of the film up to that point talked about how much of a bad@$$ The Bride was and how the Hanzo sword was one of the most coveted weapons in the world. But during that scene in the teahouse, we saw just how lethal both she and the sword really were.

If I had to create a gripe concerning the films, it would be that many of us haven't had the opportunity to see them together as one huge epic film like Tarantino originally planned. I know there have been rumors about him bringing it out for years and I believe there was a one-time screening in LA not long ago which featured both films as one, but I will be a happy camper only when I see an official press release for it on Blu-Ray.

I never really had a problem with the films being separated into volumes. I like to think of Kill Bill volume 2 as a direct sequel to Kill Bill volume 1 instead of being the same film like everybody I know wants it to be. Besides in most stores like Walmart you can find both movies sold together for a decent price so it's not like finding both of them is very hard.

I'm a fan. I saw them in the theater and it was awesome. Of course, I'm a fan of all of Tarantino's films though.

I just see them as a very weak line-up compared to the other films Tarantino has released.
Besides limbs flying everywhere, what else is enjoyable about them? I can understand that they're films you're not supposed to take very seriously and have a good time watching, but they always seemed to be very poorly constructed films.
Maybe it's just me, I don't know.
But there was always something wrong with them that I couldn't put my finger on...