Martial Arts Western

Rating: Null/10 (23 August 2004)

What I like about the BILL movies so much is how QT drops itty bitty pieces of information and he uses it as a *plant* while he self-indulges in action and bloodbaths (Ok, we know the Bride is deadly, she can pull eyes outta people's sockets) - and then the payoff comes when we get the Pai Mei training sequence. - Oh, so that's how she managed to cut through those 27 some body guards
Death List Five.
She coulda killed them all easily and QT coulda used different methods for their massacre... yes, easily killed them. But what's also great is this nice contrast in rhythm and pace the both films have, and the fact that the plot never does seem redundant:
The sh** happens moments in VOL. 2 when B. gets shot with rock salt... or the unexpected turn when Elle poisons Budd.
You hear comments from fans (or fan-boys) who state that all the DVa's should have been extensively "characterized" as O-Ren? THAT WOULD HAVE MADE THE FILM REDUNDANT! And besides, didn't anyone love how O-Ren's exposition revealed what the genealogy of KILL BILL would be(a ongoing tale of bloody revenge)
While the film is more talky than not, and a lot of heavy OTN at that; it has its trailer moments of action... action in V2 isn't overblown but it still rivets attention and awe from the viewer when QT blends his images with the music from Westerns like Navajoe Joe, The Good the Bad and the Ugly and this track called "Silhouette of Doom" which plays in the film's film noir recap intro and in the gruesome 'eye for an eye' scene in the chapter called ELLE AND I
Its also got the flavor of the cheesy oldies rear-screen projection; rear-screen thats B&W with colored F.G. elements. Also the different film stock and Chinese Shaw Bro. crash zooms in the Pai Mei chapter. Its a mainstream film that has the flavor of NONMAINSTREAM movies. Had Michael Bay directed this, it would have been CHARLIE'S ANGELS.
But its directed by Quentin Tarantino. He's a weirdo and a psycho. But a bona-fide weirdo and whack job at that. Arrogant as people call him, the man brags about how much money he has to live the life of an artist; because he is an artist.
Kill Bill saga? Both films get a 10/10 (GRADE A+) as a guilty... or maybe a not so guilty pleasure film in my book.