Watched: April 9, 2015
Hashtag: #WatchingKillBillV1
Year Released: 2003
Genre: Action
Starring: Uma Thurman, Lucy Liu
Run Time: 111 minutes
Description (from IMDb): The Bride wakens from a four-year coma. The child she carried in her womb is gone. Now she must wreak vengeance on the team of assassins who betrayed her – a team she was once part of.
I should start by saying I’m not a big Quentin Tarantino fan, but I felt like this is a big piece of pop culture, so I decided to watch it anyway. There were things about it I really liked – Uma Thurman and Lucy Liu, mainly, and things I really didn’t – all the blood. Seriously ALL. THE. BLOOD. It was kind of ridiculous. Also, I didn’t like that it felt like you MUST watch the next film to get the entire picture. I realize it was done like that on purpose, because the original script was too long for one movie, but it would have been nice if certain things hadn’t been so cryptic.
In my personal opinion, the fight sequences were too long to be enjoyable (not to mention, believable, but I doubt believability is what the director was going for), so I’m not really looking forward to Volume 2, which I’m sure will be more of the same, but I will probably watch it, just to know how it ends. Does she Kill Bill? Is she reunited with her daughter? Inquiring minds need to know! No spoilers in the comments, please!
And now for the customary sampling of tweets. For more, follow me on Twitter @RLHammAuthor and search for #WatchingKillBillV1
Masochistic Bill straight up shoots Uma in the head (don’t worry, she lives, she’s the star of the movie) #WatchingKillBillV1
— Rachel L. Hamm (@RLHammAuthor) April 9, 2015
Where’s Uma getting the money for all this international travel? #WatchingKillBillV1
— Rachel L. Hamm (@RLHammAuthor) April 9, 2015
Do the men regenerate when she kills them? Because there are definitely more now than she started with #WatchingKillBillV1
— Rachel L. Hamm (@RLHammAuthor) April 9, 2015
Is it really necessary for this fight sequence to be 8 million hours long? #WatchingKillBillV1
— Rachel L. Hamm (@RLHammAuthor) April 9, 2015
Which brings the body count to like 1000, give or take a few #WatchingKillBillV1
— Rachel L. Hamm (@RLHammAuthor) April 10, 2015
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Never seen it but I love your Twitter commentary about it!
Sighhhhh…that is such a cool movie (duet). No spoilers except that fight scenes are not as long as the O-Ren/House of Blue Leaves scene (yes, that went on and on and on and on….)