An Album For B Movies: Vol. 1 !

Rating: 5/10 (29 March 2009)

Chapter 1: 2 is like 3, they're all numbers, but how to use them?!
Drama, in its core, is known and invariable. All what the artist can do about it is just playing it differentially, trying to make it as amusing as they can. It's the eternal game which's named art. So nothing, mainly, can be original. It's just the surface that can be one. Actually, every now and then, some work just tells us that, openly and purely. For instance, Baz Luhrmann's Moulin Rouge! (2001) said it through very old and even trite story, yet Luhrmann showed us his version glamorously. But in Kill Bill 1, the problem is that Tarantino presents the surface as being taken also from other works that he's obsessed about, and wants to pay them the biggest homage. Therefore, in this deal, the whole thing lacks originality.. Badly.
Chapter 2: A,B,C.. I don't like LUCY!
Here, Tarantino is nothing but movies freak that got the chance to make one. However, he is doing it as a devoted viewer more than creative artist. It's a B movie that mimics other B movies with its stylistic characteristics and details by great passion and loyalty. But the final result wasn't that unique as a movie and homage.
The imaginative world of it didn't work for me. It's immersed in anything that doesn't guide or charm the viewer, missing fine original details for itself. Even the bride's yellow track-suit was worn by Bruce Lee in Game of Death (1978)! And I began to believe that her brown jacket at the start could be a reference to Jacky Brown (1997) or something! It like a silly competition more than a movie, to ask eagerly: from what movie this line, this fight, or this costume came from?! So it's a cocktail of movies that Tarantino adores, which's not necessarily something that we must adore too!
I could be the only man on earth that was so annoyed out of using mostly non-original soundtrack. True that Tarantino was achieving some dream, making distinct flavor, and rather summarizing the whole matter; the way Moulin Rouge's soundtrack did. But, with the exception of (Twisted Nerve) by Bernard Herrmann at Daryl Hannah's intro, it didn't eventually manage to be magical element. As if the whole movie is like Hanna's character; whistles, however unstoppably, themes from endless old movies and TV shows, pushing you out of it to them. That assured the lack of originality vexingly sometimes.
And when it comes to a revenge story, I don't love hearing bad dialogue, without comic relief, being all the time in the company of Uma Thurman OR seeing Lucy Liu! Some of the action was well done, but all of it seemed absurd. The black and white cinematography wasn't good at all. And the sequence of the Japanese cartoon looked so out of the mood, as just here because the director wanted that, more than the story for instance, I deemed it a treachery to the B-movie persona of it, being a part of honoring program, or so artistic act of another film!
So, it was unenjoyable and uneven. I just found myself preferring the original works over this pretentious hamburger of a movie!
Chapter 3: Kill Time!
Tarantino adores nonsense, and he just represents it in new forms. It could confirm that nothing is original but the way of dealing, YET this time, like mostly every time with him, his dealing wasn't that original nor great. It's average, being like a parody without laughs. When Spielberg and Lucas once wanted to pay homage to the 1930s adventure movies, they made a cinematic series named (Indiana Jones). Here, Tarantino made something where style kills the narration, without much originality, making a toy that gives the biggest kick for only its creator. He didn't either put something serious in the unserious mix of it; in fact, I'm searching for one reason that can make it stand for a second watching else killing the time, but I'm finding none. So, for anyone out there, who want to kill the time with an action movie, here's a pure action movie for you, so proud of being a "B" one too.
Chapter 4: Overrated!
I don't know how it can be a homage to the Blaxploitation movies because of one violent black woman in it??!! So, could the name "Bill" be a homage to Bill Clinton or Bill Cosby?! Ok, let's say that overrating is one crime done by ignorant viewers and reviewers which forever irritates me!
Chapter 5: They must build a statue for Tarantino in Hong Kong!
One value for it is that it glorifies certain Asian cinema industry in a way that no American movie did before. Tarantino admits his absolute love for specific school in making the gory work by the most practical way ever, undertaking making an album for cheap B-movies in a form of another one. But this volume was so dry and tasteless I can tell you that.
..To Be Continued with Kill Bill: Vol. 2.