EARLY ACCESS: Kill Bill Vol. 1
Added 2021-09-09 14:00:01 +0000 UTCAnother Millennial Movie Member Pick - so a big THANK YOU to Jon for supporting the me, beans, and the channel. As a MMMember, you get to pick one movie a month that I react too - it can be any year, any genre, anything!
IMPORTANT TIME STAMPS:
preview review starts: 1:27
Watch With Me: 2:36
My Review: 21:28
Comments
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 ♥️
Kathy Carter
2021-09-16 14:30:41 +0000 UTCI prefer the 1932 Scarface, although the De Palma version is fine.
Tyler Foster
2021-09-12 05:34:29 +0000 UTCSure, 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).
Tyler Foster
2021-09-12 05:32:59 +0000 UTCIt is a reason of extraordinary magnitude!
Paul Johnson
2021-09-12 02:21:48 +0000 UTCBrings back memories of when dear old Mom used to say "Shut up and eat your damn KABOOM!"
Paul Johnson
2021-09-11 04:18:08 +0000 UTCHell yes! Loved this! ❤️ I'm suggesting after Kill Bill Vol 2 that you absolutely review Django Unchained!
Amanda Perkins
2021-09-11 03:05:33 +0000 UTCThink 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
2021-09-10 17:51:38 +0000 UTCWe’ll assume you already have copies of Willy Wonka and Wizard of Oz. 😁
Eric Janssen
2021-09-10 17:43:25 +0000 UTCThat would be a great reaction for “Hallo-Beans”
Joshua Yeager
2021-09-10 17:16:59 +0000 UTCWhile 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.
Joshua Yeager
2021-09-10 17:15:33 +0000 UTCHowever, 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
2021-09-10 17:05:59 +0000 UTCWill the car with this license plate please move it?
Eric Janssen
2021-09-10 17:03:34 +0000 UTCThe 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!” 🙄
Eric Janssen
2021-09-10 17:01:45 +0000 UTCI stand corrected.
Alexander Fish
2021-09-10 16:55:41 +0000 UTCIn 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?
Eric Janssen
2021-09-10 16:55:16 +0000 UTCO-Ren was the easiest to find
Brett Delbridge
2021-09-10 14:50:21 +0000 UTC12 no…88 YASS
Brett Delbridge
2021-09-10 14:45:53 +0000 UTC2 2 part reactions in 2 weeks... Just 2 cool!!!
James Falato
2021-09-10 12:29:30 +0000 UTCWasn't this Game of Death?
SCSponge
2021-09-10 10:34:46 +0000 UTCI 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"
Paul Johnson
2021-09-10 07:35:25 +0000 UTCHe 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.
Bruce Miller
2021-09-10 05:11:59 +0000 UTCThat 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).
Tyler Foster
2021-09-10 01:39:55 +0000 UTCOne 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.
Bill Bevins
2021-09-10 00:37:48 +0000 UTCHaha, 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.
Tyler Foster
2021-09-10 00:25:49 +0000 UTCAgreed....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? :)
Paul Johnson
2021-09-10 00:10:52 +0000 UTCWell, 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.
Tyler Foster
2021-09-09 23:54:32 +0000 UTCAnd here I thought DePalma 's use of split screen was a tip of the hat to Alfred Hitchcock lol
Paul Johnson
2021-09-09 23:50:56 +0000 UTCUma's yellow outfit is a nod to Bruce Lee in Enter the Dragon.
Alexander Fish
2021-09-09 23:24:45 +0000 UTCThe 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.
Alexander Fish
2021-09-09 23:22:36 +0000 UTCSome 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
Tyler Foster
2021-09-09 23:18:54 +0000 UTCAfter these, I highly recommend From Dusk til Dawn. Quentin acts in it and it has a very similar vibe.
Alexander Fish
2021-09-09 23:16:50 +0000 UTCJackie 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).
Tyler Foster
2021-09-09 23:12:49 +0000 UTCI dont think she can take on 12 people.. just a few more
Eric Greenwood
2021-09-09 16:54:02 +0000 UTCSame, not a huge QT fan but LOVED Jackie Brown.
Laura Neary Smith
2021-09-09 16:07:28 +0000 UTCOk, 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.
Marci Flint
2021-09-09 14:28:36 +0000 UTCHBO 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".
Bill Bevins
2021-09-09 14:12:37 +0000 UTCQuentin 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
Elisa H.
2021-09-09 14:04:35 +0000 UTC
