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EARLY ACCESS: Kill Bill Vol. 1

🕑 Added 2021-09-09 14:00:01 +0000 UTC

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Kathy Carter

This is one of mine and my daughters favs. We watched this and I was grateful for the early access. We casted and had a great morning w you. Can’t wait for your Vol 2 ♥️

Tyler Foster

I prefer the 1932 Scarface, although the De Palma version is fine.

Tyler Foster

Sure, but the point of watching a movie isn't passing a quiz. I don't care at all how many or how few homages and references taken from other movies I recognize, because if a movie doing it first was all that mattered, we'd barely make any movies at all, and they'd all be tied to technological advances. I don't like all of Quentin Tarantino's movies (his first and most recent two in particular), but even if something like Pulp Fiction is the sum total of Tarantino's video store influences, and one could even pick them out one by one, I get an experience out of watching Pulp Fiction that has nothing to do with any of them (something his imitators routinely fail at).

Paul Johnson

It is a reason of extraordinary magnitude!

Paul Johnson

Brings back memories of when dear old Mom used to say "Shut up and eat your damn KABOOM!"

Amanda Perkins

Hell yes! Loved this! ❤️ I'm suggesting after Kill Bill Vol 2 that you absolutely review Django Unchained!

Eric Janssen

Think I told this story during the Why Quentin Tarantino Is a Pest discussion after Pulp Fiction (and Quentin told it himself in a documentary), but KBv1 is the movie where Uma objected to being in a coma with her eyes open because that’s silly, but Q responded, “But that’s how they did it in ‘Patrick’!” (a cult Australian B-horror about a guy in a coma). Back when 80’s Woody Allen was copying Ingmar Bergman films, it created the discussion among film fans: Look, we know these films TOO, and thanks to home theater, we’ve got them…What is the point of a director film-school homaging all the “influential” movies he knows about anymore, if, like Q, he went to the same video rentals we did?

Eric Janssen

We’ll assume you already have copies of Willy Wonka and Wizard of Oz. 😁

Joshua Yeager

That would be a great reaction for “Hallo-Beans”

Joshua Yeager

While I’m a huge Tarantino fan, the Kill Bill films are my least favorite out of everything he’s done. Still good stuff but I would never go out of my way to watch them again. Loved the reaction as always though.

Eric Janssen

However, we would recommend Enter the Dragon, not only for its own iconic standing, but because it’s a perfect reason to recommend Kentucky Fried Movie afterwards.

Eric Janssen

Will the car with this license plate please move it?

Eric Janssen

The movies came out in early 00’s, when folk, like Tarantino’s “I’ve heard of all this cool Asian geek-stuff!”, were just starting to have heard of Anime, since their kids were watching Dragon Ball Z on Cartoon Network, and everyone pretty much thought it was nonstop Kung-fu-fighting. Or, weird, depressingly arthouse indies, which the critics were reviewing, like the kind you’ll see fan-recommended the minute someone says “You should try doing an anime movie!” 🙄

Alexander Fish

I stand corrected.

Eric Janssen

In fact, the PLOT, like every thing else in Quentin’s I-Know-This-Stuff fest, was taken from the revenge drama of Lady Snowblood. And we get HK martial arts/wuxia (zero-G martial arts) in Pt. 2, I think?

Brett Delbridge

O-Ren was the easiest to find

Brett Delbridge

12 no…88 YASS

James Falato

2 2 part reactions in 2 weeks... Just 2 cool!!!

SCSponge

Wasn't this Game of Death?

Paul Johnson

I can remember seeing Scarface at the theater when I was 16..always liked it...very much a part of the " Big 80s"...also I'm one of those people who liked "Body Double"

Bruce Miller

He actually filmed this as on movie but after he was done and started to edit he realized that it would be too long as one movie. That is why their are two parts. When you watch the second one it explains a lot.

Tyler Foster

That one wasn't one of my favorites (for the reasons you mentioned, although I have a trans friend who cites Dressed to Kill as her favorite movie), nor was Obsession, but I liked the two I mentioned, plus Sisters, The Untouchables (a less lurid but no less tense thriller), Snake Eyes (despite the altered climax I don't think fully works), and his cult musical Phantom of the Paradise. Still need to watch Raising Cain (the Blu-ray I have has a restoration that returns it to De Palma's intended chronology).

Bill Bevins

One of my favorite DePalma movies is Dressed To Kill. I realize that because of political correctness this movie doesn't age well but I thought it was pretty suspenseful at the time it came out.

Tyler Foster

Haha, no question at all De Palma is doing Hitchcock. He loves Hitchcock so much. Another great Hitchcock riff I would recommend: Richard Franklin's Road Games. Franklin is doing such great Hitch that he later got to make Psycho II...pretty good movie, all things considered.

Paul Johnson

Agreed....I love DePalma's 70's stuff("Sisters", "Carrie", "The Fury") but I can remember critics constantly accusing him of ripping off Hitchcock...I say "Whatever works " right? :)

Tyler Foster

Well, that's certainly true. But I think Tarantino is specifically tipping the hat to De Palma, not to Hitchcock. It's got a De Palma luridness to it.

Paul Johnson

And here I thought DePalma 's use of split screen was a tip of the hat to Alfred Hitchcock lol

Alexander Fish

Uma's yellow outfit is a nod to Bruce Lee in Enter the Dragon.

Alexander Fish

The style of the gore with all of the excessive blood spray is lifted directly from 70s era Japanese samurai movies like the Zatoichi, Lady Snowblood, and Lone Wolf and Cub series.

Tyler Foster

Some fun things: The yellow leather motorcycle jacket and pants are a homage to Bruce Lee, who wore a similar yellow outfit in his final film, Game of Death (although, that one is actually notoriously awful because he was not alive to finish it, and much of it is constructed using awful doubles and cheap trickery, so I wouldn't recommend it for a reaction -- his iconic film is Enter the Dragon). In the airport, The Bride walks past a billboard for Red Apple Cigarettes, the fictional brand that appears in all of Tarantino's movies. Hattori Hanzo is played by legendary martial artist Sonny Chiba, who tragically passed away recently due to COVID. He also makes an "appearance" in another film partially by QT, True Romance, when the characters go to see one of his movies in the theater. The split-screen sequence you liked so much is a bit of a tip-of-the-hat to director Brian De Palma. De Palma directed the first Mission: Impossible movie, the original Carrie, and a few great (but less well-known) thrillers like Blow Out and Body Double. The black-and-white sequence that starts when The Bride plucks out the guy's eye and ends when she blinks was for the MPAA, which wouldn't pass the movie with an R rating when the sequence was in color. "Sadistic" = cruel

Alexander Fish

After these, I highly recommend From Dusk til Dawn. Quentin acts in it and it has a very similar vibe.

Tyler Foster

Jackie Brown is the QT I would most want to see Ashleigh cover next to Inglourious Basterds (his two best IMO, and I give the edge to JB). I would also love to see her watch Out of Sight after Jackie Brown (and sent her a copy of OoS).

Eric Greenwood

I dont think she can take on 12 people.. just a few more

Laura Neary Smith

Same, not a huge QT fan but LOVED Jackie Brown.

Marci Flint

Ok, quick admission here, I really don't care for most of Quentin Tarantino's films. If it not for my husband, who loves Tarantino, I probably would never have watched any of them. All that being said, I highly recommend Jackie Brown, I was pleasantly surprised by that movie and that is the only Tarantino movie I personally ever recommend.

Bill Bevins

HBO gave me a free week on my Dish network last month. They ran Kill Bill 1 and 2. Even though I've seen them a few times already, I recorded them thinking, "I should record these in case Ashleigh does a reaction to it and then I can do the watchalong." And here we are. Anyone else make choices on what to record and save with the thought of "Ashleigh might watch it so I need to save this".

Elisa H.

Quentin Tarantino has said that he considers vol 2 to be just the rest of the movie. That he made for it to be looked at as 1 long movie not a part one and then a sequel. So there's good reason you feel like you HAVE TO watch volume 2 technically you've only seen half the movie