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[robinbloke]

"That rocked seven ways to Sunday."
-Me.

Oh my lordy, I can't remember being this engrossed in a film for quite a while; after the almost sterile predictability of Revolutions this film was a breath of fresh air.
Tarantino has managed to cram about six dozens different styles of film into one, but the whole thing plays like an arthouse film on crack. But despite being influenced by everything Hong Kong that he can lay his hands on it so obviously has it's own fresh new style(?) or at least it's own feel. Everything is beautifully over the top; the fight scenes pulled me in for the excitement, fast, quick, blurs of movement rather than stunt after stunt after wire-fu. Yes there were stunts and such in it, but they blended into the whole thing rather than being actually focuses of it all.
The sheer ridiculousness of some of the scenes and gore were just fantastic, the plot was simple, direct and in your face.
The music is my only (minor) gripe, not because of the actual soundtrack (which I want! want want!) but because I hate sound cuts mid-track that wrench the music rather than fast fade it; this could of been indicative of some style I'm not familiar with or for a particular reason, but it just irked me.
But the styles and clichés all so beautifully rolled into each other, manga, the swords, the Bruce Lee tribute, the token schoolgirl, the stop cuts, the... ah...
In short, go and watch it; unless you don't like slightly (ahem) gory films, hell, just go and watch it - it rocked my socks.
Rah.

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[duranorak.livejournal.com]

I hate gory films, and it *still* rocked my socks, *all* of them, and for that matter the socks of *everyone else in the world*, damn it. It was one giant sock-rocking *thing*.
Yes.

The further away I get from it, the more I can appreciate how good it was. I was so shaken by all the gore when I went to see it that I couldn't really separate the film from that, but now, a couple of weeks' distance away, I can see how brilliant it was. Rah. Can't wait for the second half.

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[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

Rah!
I'm still buzzing from it, the rocked socks were flying from the skies, giant musical socks in dolby digital.

And yes, want to see the next one noooooow!

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

I think the reason is that all the gore was so ridiculous and unrealistic that is was funny rather than shocking. Real gore is different. Mmmm, Lucy Liu's brain...

Did you guys recognise the schoolgirl? She was the mad one with the flick knife in Battle Royale.

[suave-steve.livejournal.com]

The soundtrack cd is excellent also. Track 10 especially so.

[diesilla77.livejournal.com]

It's the first film in many a year that I'm gonna watch at the flicks a second time. Stunning, pleasantly pretentious, and Gogo in a skirt!!!!

Agree that the gore was comedy splats, rather than anything approximating the real thing...

[jasonooc.livejournal.com]

i see the film on the monday after release and no-one wanted to see it as all i got was its gonna be a crap Tarantino film but it did really rock, and no-one belaved me now i dont look soo mad and the sound track is ace.

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

There's only one Tarantino film that is a bit off, and that's Jackie Brown.
I knew Kill Bill would rock when I first heard about it and saw snippets from the trailer.