Wednesday, June 09, 2004
done saw me a movie
I watched Kill Bill last night, the first one.
My initial gut feeling is that it’s more enjoyable than Pulp Fiction or Reservoir Dogs. It’s probably not as good as either of those – those movies each have at least one character that’s more fully developed into something approximating a real human being – but it’s a more entertaining movie. Definitely not as good as Jackie Brown, of course.
But so, my biggest complaint with it: she leaves two corpses lying on the floor of a hospital room, and then spends thirteen hours lying in the back of one of the corpses’ truck. I know it’s a hospital, and there are probably just corpses lying around everywhere already, but don’t you think somebody would have noticed these particularly conspicuous corpses, what with all the blood and gnawed tongues and broken necks sticking partially out into the hallway, and everything? And don’t you think that the cops or investigators or whoever would notice that one of the corpses’ car-keys were gone, and start to look (or send somebody to look) for this car, in hopes of catching the murderer? And don’t you think that, due in part to the extreme distinction of this corpse’s car, one of the corpse’s former co-workers would know exactly what car was his, and would be able to describe it to the investigators in close detail? And don’t you think that the car would be pretty easy to find, considering it was sitting in the employee parking deck? And don’t you think that the investigators, upon finding this car, and finding the blood-splattered woman talking to her feet in the back, would have hurled Uma into jail as swift as they could? And don’t you think that, since it was in Texas and all, Uma would have been fried up all good within a decade or two, even though she was obviously insane and/or mentally handicapped (you know, the whole talking to her feet thing). But then again I guess you don’t go to a Quentin Tarantino movie for realistic depictions of the law enforcement trade.
That truck was the worst thing about Kill Bill. It was just stupid, not funny or witty at all.
Also watched Five Easy Pieces the other night. Good film. I like those slow ‘70’s movies that are never in a rush to get anywhere.
I watched Kill Bill last night, the first one.
My initial gut feeling is that it’s more enjoyable than Pulp Fiction or Reservoir Dogs. It’s probably not as good as either of those – those movies each have at least one character that’s more fully developed into something approximating a real human being – but it’s a more entertaining movie. Definitely not as good as Jackie Brown, of course.
But so, my biggest complaint with it: she leaves two corpses lying on the floor of a hospital room, and then spends thirteen hours lying in the back of one of the corpses’ truck. I know it’s a hospital, and there are probably just corpses lying around everywhere already, but don’t you think somebody would have noticed these particularly conspicuous corpses, what with all the blood and gnawed tongues and broken necks sticking partially out into the hallway, and everything? And don’t you think that the cops or investigators or whoever would notice that one of the corpses’ car-keys were gone, and start to look (or send somebody to look) for this car, in hopes of catching the murderer? And don’t you think that, due in part to the extreme distinction of this corpse’s car, one of the corpse’s former co-workers would know exactly what car was his, and would be able to describe it to the investigators in close detail? And don’t you think that the car would be pretty easy to find, considering it was sitting in the employee parking deck? And don’t you think that the investigators, upon finding this car, and finding the blood-splattered woman talking to her feet in the back, would have hurled Uma into jail as swift as they could? And don’t you think that, since it was in Texas and all, Uma would have been fried up all good within a decade or two, even though she was obviously insane and/or mentally handicapped (you know, the whole talking to her feet thing). But then again I guess you don’t go to a Quentin Tarantino movie for realistic depictions of the law enforcement trade.
That truck was the worst thing about Kill Bill. It was just stupid, not funny or witty at all.
Also watched Five Easy Pieces the other night. Good film. I like those slow ‘70’s movies that are never in a rush to get anywhere.
