Why some people don't like or 'get' it

Rating: Null/10 (1 November 2003)

It's interesting that Kill Bill Vol 1 and Scary Movie came out very close to eachother. Both films are such that if you haven't seen the films that they honour or mock, then you simply wouldn't understand what the film is trying to do. I recently saw Kill Bill for the 3rd time with a friend and she came out of the film saying "I thought the story was very shallow...I thought that it was just relentless killing after killing after killing." I realized that everything that I thought was 'cool' about the film, she simply didn't notice or understand. If you saw Scary Movie without every seeing or hearing about the Matrix or Scream, you would think that the film is a plotless and stupid film. It's the same thing for KILL BILL if you haven't seen any of the Japanese or Western films that this film feeds off of. For example...when the "Green Hornet" theme is playing through the film...I was so delighted and excited to hear that song again...and I found it funny and interesting...but many people didnt get it. The split screen DePalma stuff was awesome to me...only because it reminded me off WHY Tarantino did it that way. Lots of people just didnt get it.
So...please...if you think that it is a bad movie...dont spread that around...because you just dont know any better.
BT