http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2005-2006 by the authors Sun, 2 May 2004 22:15:48 EDT http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/04/28/005858.php#comment-61801 Thanks Jeff, i'll do that in the immediate future. I'm sure it's nowhere near as awe-inspiring as The Duke's analysis tho. As Plato said, "When it comes to the intellectual discussion of Filmic Affairs, ain't no motherfucker can touch The Duke" Thanks Plato Thanks Jeff 61801@blogcritics.org Sun, 2 May 2004 22:15:48 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/04/28/005858.php#comment-61725 You should check out Mark T. Conard's interpretation of KB, both volumes on metaphilm.com: http://metaphilm.com/philm.php?id=200_0_2_0 http://metaphilm.com/philm.php?id=310_0_2_0_M He gives a really interesting psychological interpretation of the movies. Jeff B. 61725@blogcritics.org Sun, 2 May 2004 12:19:38 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/04/28/005858.php#comment-60905 Al, it wasn't the absense of flashing lights or blood. It was the absense of very much of anything. It seemed entirely hollow. Good point about Bud by the way. As i said, Michael Madsen was really quite wonderful, and you've illustrated something i may have missed. Maybe i'll "get" it next time around, but thing is, i kinda "got" it this time too, its just that i didn't particularly want it. No-one wants to hear twenty minutes of bullshit being spouted, man. The performances were flat as hell a lot of the time. But i think if i hadn't been so unimpressed by the bill/bride meet-up (and i wasn't expecting blood and gore and so on, but something, if they'd talked about something in an interesting manner, perhaps. Bill's speech, as one reviewer pointed out in Total Film, sounded like someone trying to "do" tarantino) then i probably would be a lot more postivie. Up until the last chapter, pretty much everything was wonderful. I need to watch it again, and think about it some more as you said. Incidently, my fiancee, who thought the first one was shit, loved part 2. She didn't even want to go see it, and came out with a big grin. Then she yelled at me for gettin all analytical. 60905@blogcritics.org Wed, 28 Apr 2004 09:36:42 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/04/28/005858.php#comment-60893 Gee, el Duke-o, sorry there wasn't enough spurting blood and flashing lights to service your ADD, but Those Who Know will tell you that Kill Bill, Volume 2 was a much more engaging movie than the very entertaining cartoon that was Volume 1. I'll note just a couple of things to be thinking on with a second viewing. First, the Bud character. Consider the shame and humiliation of this formerly big league assassin being treated so thoroughly like dirt in this nothing little bar. Think how consumed with guilt or something he must have felt to have been willing to endure that. Fascinating cross-motivations going through this guy. The payoff of the whole thing was the family scene at Bills. Those precious few minutes are SO incredibly invested. It's an amazing film moment when she walks in on Daddy and daughter. You need to think about this one some more. 60893@blogcritics.org Wed, 28 Apr 2004 04:58:23 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/04/28/005858.php#comment-60852 The last funny movie Whoopie Goldberg made was the one where she gets her dress caught in a paper shredder. She then went on the pro wrassling circuit. I really liked the episodes of "Vamprire Whisky Drinking Truck Driving Righteous Motherfuckers" but man, does Harvey Keitel One need a drink or what. Anyways, I've not seen the newest installment of the "Killing of Bill Again", really, I'm not seeing it until it comes out on DVD or I get a bootleg screener on bittorrent. Where was I? Oh, yeah, why does Carradine get so much love for a movie he did a couple of years ago, but gets squat for a quite good appearance on "Alias"? 60852@blogcritics.org Tue, 27 Apr 2004 21:41:38 EDT