Far from "the best" film I've ever seen

Rating: 2/10 (12 August 2009)

I finally got to watch both parts of Kill Bill last night (yes, I know I'm late).
I have to say that, while it wasn't "the worst movie I've ever seen" (WAY too many people use that idiotic description), it was probably the most self-indulgent and pretentious film I've seen in many a long year of watching MANY movies.
The entire film could, and should, have been edited down to a single 2-hour film. The "hommage" to Asian martial arts films was amusing for a few minutes, but then Quentin proved his usual inept self and slathered the whole thing in Sergio Leone-style spaghetti western music.
I did find parts of the film(s)amusing, but over all it was just too much of the same thing, over and over.
I don't see this film as groundbreaking in any way. It is simply repeating clichÃ©s from bad films, and having the incredible pretense to imply that somehow, it is "good".