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10/25/2003 Archived Entry: "Kill Bill review"

KILL BILL KILLED: I will not launch into any Easterbrookian diatribe about the people behind the movie and nor will I condemn Quentin Tarantino as overrated like Kathy Shaidle (not that I'm linking Greg Easterbook and Kathy Shaidle!) but I went and saw Kill Bill tonight and I have to say I rather enjoyed it.

I won't do a real review of it but I think it was an effective homage to Kung Fu movies with elements of Western movies thrown in. Tarantino also broke away from his long standing principle of not showing the worst violence -- Kill Bill had buckets of blood. Uma Thurman looked fantastic. Overall, not as good as Pulp Fiction or Reservoir Dogs but much better than Jackie Brown. The only disappointments? One, the movie should have been released as one long movie as Volume 1 moved very quickly. Two, Sonny Chiba really should have gotten involved in the action.

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Wow - I thought that perhaps the entry about the passing of the 106-year-old widow was perhaps the top entry here just a few minutes ago... I'm not sure though. I thought that perhaps I clicked back here, and this is now on top.

I am glad that I'm not the only one who is up and working on a blog right now. (I need to update mine more often, though...)

You continue to have a great site, and a great weblog here. Keep up the good work!
:-)

Posted by Aakash @ 10/25/2003 03:36 AM EST

ESR never rests :-)

And thanks for the kind words!

Posted by Steve Martinovich @ 10/25/2003 04:15 AM EST