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madshutterbug ([personal profile] madshutterbug) wrote2005-03-13 08:40 am

Quiet... DVD Commentary

The hog is delivered to Da King. The majority of the Clan supplies are also loaded and on the way, only a few left and one, maybe two more people to stop by for those.

It's gotten quiet here. *G*

Recently picked up Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill Volumes 1 & 2. I'm a fan of Tarantino, not necessarily a huge fan though as I prefer my Tarantino on DVD or Video rather than on the big screen. Consider that he worked for quite some time in a video store before becoming known in the movie industry, and consider that this implies a significant part of his appreciation for movies is via video/TV viewing...

Anyway, I don't think I'm going into a lot of depth here. Keep this thought in mind: didn't see either one of these until I picked up the DVD's recently. I'd heard a great deal of nattering that Vol. 2 isn't as good as Vol. 1; this from people who saw the movies in theater, and so separated in time between the two halves. That they are two halves of the same movie, I have no doubt. Watching the two parts in succession makes this obvious, and I think changes the aspect of looking at them as two separate works.

It's full of typical Tarantino: people who are hardly either "normal" or nice, but who are holding fairly "normal" conversations. At least until you get into the action sequences. These strongly demonstrate this is definitely an homage to action movies, as well as chambara (the entire Japan sequence is right out of chambara) and kung fu genre's. Well, those are sub-catagories of action films.

Despite the weaknesses I do find in this one (compared to, say, Pulp Fiction), I'm happy to add them to my Quirky Film Collection. That could well be due in part to the fact I bought them both on sale, marked down. Only in part, though. I just really enjoy quirky movies.

[identity profile] marjai.livejournal.com 2005-03-13 07:34 am (UTC)(link)
I don't much care for Tarantino. I find his work to be artless. Well executed but artless.

[identity profile] madshutterbug.livejournal.com 2005-03-13 09:44 am (UTC)(link)
I don't much like Reservoir Dogs. I do like Pulp Fiction. I'm leaning toward I like Kill Bill. He doesn't have that much more out there that I know of, but that's just me.

Holistic Quirk

[identity profile] singingnettle.livejournal.com 2005-03-13 09:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Kill Bill is sooo not my kind of film...but I found myself liking it anyway. I'm too tired to elucidate why, but it has a lot to do with the quirk factor that is carried through in all elements of the film.

[identity profile] singingnettle.livejournal.com 2005-03-13 09:52 pm (UTC)(link)
It's too bad we don't live in the same time zone. If I added my Quirky collection to yours, we would have an embarrassment of quirky riches.

[identity profile] madshutterbug.livejournal.com 2005-03-14 05:50 am (UTC)(link)
Heh, she said Quirky. Hehheh