Posted by Jordan on 09/28/07 03:14

On Sep 27, 11:39 am, TH <thehenderson...@aol.com> wrote:
> On Sep 26, 8:22 pm, Jordan <lu...@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> > On Sep 24, 1:05 pm, TH <thehenderson...@aol.com> wrote:
> > Kill Bill, boring? Are we talking about the same Kill Bill? You know,
> > the one where she comes out of a coma only to find she's been
> > systematically raped for the last 4 years and goes on a kill crazy
> > rampage?
>
> Uh...yeah. Amazingly boring. Long drawn out fight scenes, absolutely
> no character development, couldn't care less who died or lived. Boring
> as shit. I can see simpletons loving it but those are the same people
> who like any movie with guns, car chases and/or monsters. If it's got
> a guy holding a gun on the cover; it's a-okay!!! Forget about a good
> story. I have no doubt you think Citizen Kane is terrible.

No character development? How about this one... Beatrix doesn't
actually kill Bill... Did you realize that? In fact, after the first
fight scene in the house SHE DOESN'T KILL ANOTHER PERSON.

Why? Because she got caught by the little girl.

See, you have to be smart enough to re-arrange the plot in your head.

1) She gets the crap kicked out of her at the Wedding rehearsal.
2) She wakes up in the hospital 4 years later, thinks she lost her
baby and realizes she's been raped repeatedly so she kills Buck and
escapes.
3) She trains, recovers, gets a sword and kills O-Ren.
4) She comes back to California to kill her next target and gets
busted by the little girl, the girl who is about the same age her own
daughter would have been.

Tarantino psyched you out by reversing the first two people she
killed.

The whole "five point palm fist of death technique" is a joke. When
she catches up with Bill at the end of KBII there's a pretend gunfight
scene, it's all play-acting just like the final fight with Bill.

Bill walks off and pretends to die because that's the only way he can
let Beatrix go and it's the only way she can leave. That's why, at the
very end of the film, she's curled up on the bathroom floor crying
"Thank you! Thank you!" She's thanking Bill for letting her go on her
terms.

Want more proof? Every one of the assassins killed in the film is
marked with a line through their name in the end credits. Daryl Hannah
is marked with a question mark because she was blinded instead of
killed. David Carradine as Bill is not marked at all.

Like I say, it's as close to being a perfect film as I've seen.

- Jordan

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