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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Disney
EAN: 0786936226997
Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Miramax
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 5.1SpanishSubtitledJapaneseSubtitledGeorgianSubtitledChineseSubtitled
Manufacturer: Miramax
MPN: D32210D
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Miramax
Region Code: 1
Release Date: April 13, 2004
Running Time: 111 minutes
Studio: Miramax
Theatrical Release Date: October 10, 2003
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Product Description:
After a six-year hiatus, Quentin Tarantino returns to the director's chair with KILL BILL. The movie proves once again that he is a hyperactive visionary and the master of cinematic coolness. Split into two volumes by Miramax in order to ensure that Tarantino's vision would not be compromised (and presumably to sell more tickets), KILL BILL: VOL. 1 tells the first half of the sprawling story, which is quite simple at first glance. A female assassin, referred to as "The Bride" (Uma Thurman), is attacked on her wedding day. Dead are her soon-to-be husband and unborn child. However, she doesn't die. Four years later, she wakes up from a coma looking for revenge. Although her ultimate target is her former boss, Bill (David Carradine), it's quite clear that The Bride is saving the best for last. And before she can track him down, she must methodically take out the minions who ruined her life. VOLUME 1's targets include Vernita Green/Copperhead (Vivica A. Fox), Sofie Fatale (Julie Dreyfus), and the heartless O-Ren Ishii/Cottonmouth (Lucy Liu). Using a blessed sword handmade by Hattori Hanzo (Sonny Chiba), The Bride begins her relentless assault. Turning up the style and energy levels that he kept under a threshold with 1997's JACKIE BROWN, Tarantino's obvious glee and reverence for the underground kung fu action pictures of the '70s, and Sergio Leone spaghetti westerns, makes for a stunning visual spectacle. Employing split screens, slow-motion, an anime sequence, and his trademark ultra-hip musical selections, Tarantino's film dares viewers to be unimpressed.
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Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill, Vol. 1 is trash for connoisseurs. From his opening gambit (including a "Shaw-Scope" logo and gaudy '70s-vintage "Our Feature Presentation" title card) to his cliffhanger finale (a teasing lead-in to 2004's Vol. 2), Tarantino pays loving tribute to grindhouse cinema, specifically the Hong Kong action flicks and spaghetti Westerns that fill his fervent brain--and this frequently breathtaking movie--with enough cinematic references and cleverly pilfered soundtrack cues to send cinephiles running for their reference books. Everything old is new again in Tarantino's humor-laced vision: he steals from the best while injecting his own oft-copied, never-duplicated style into what is, quite simply, a revenge flick, beginning with the near-murder of the Bride (Uma Thurman), pregnant on her wedding day and left for dead by the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad (or DiVAS)--including Lucy Liu and the unseen David Carradine (as Bill)--who become targets for the Bride's lethal vengeance. Culminating in an ultraviolent, ultra-stylized tour-de-force showdown, Tarantino's fourth film is either brilliantly (and brutally) innovative or one of the most blatant acts of plagiarism ever conceived. Either way, it's hyperkinetic eye-candy from a passionate film-lover who clearly knows what he's doing. --Jeff Shannon
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It is nice to see chicks kick @ss right along w the guys!!! Uma is a fab actress! She makes revenge seem so delicious!!!
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Tarantino really outdoes himself with this one. All-star cast, interesting dialogue, intense fight scenes, incredible musical arrangements... you will not get bored with this gem of a movie. Uma Thurman really kicks ass, both literally and figuratively!
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I'm happy to be one of the few who didn't care for this movie. Every few seconds a limb is sliced and BLOOD sprays everywhere. I don't care to watch that. People with swords flying through the air? One swordsman (woman) defeats an army of 30 trained swordsman in less than a minute? Characters are shallow and have no grounding to reality. I can keep going, but It'll just bore ya... I guess my taste in movies has improved since the days of Pulp Fiction. I'll still take Jackie Brown over Kill Bill anytime.
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WOW!! That's all I can say when I first saw this film by Quentin Tarantino. Uma Thurman is superb as the left-for-dead bride who comes back four years after being left in a coma to wreck vengeance on the cowards who tried to do her in. David Carradine plays Bill, the clandestine leader of the Vipers, who seems to direct everyone's motives from the shadows. This is definately Tarantino at his best and I highly recommend it. It's not a film franchise for everyone; if anyone saw the interview he had with KRON's Jan Wahl a few years ago it just goes to prove that Tarantino makes films that he wants for his fans, not for those who love musical theater (not that there's anything wrong with that genre either).
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Ugh, this is one of the worst movies I have ever suffered through. And I'm saying this as someone who loved Pulp Fiction! Watching this rancid exercise in self~indulgence is like being trapped in a car on a long road trip with a boring film nerd who just won't shut up. I have been told that a lot of this tripe is "intentionally bad", which is apparently a good thing, but nevertheless intentionally bad is still bad. It's evidently based on all the B movies Tarantino has seen, so I guess it's trash stealing from trash. Avoid unless you're the kind of person who enjoys watching someone else play video games.
Ivan Rorick
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