Gothamist: Killing Bill Twice

Mark

Wed, 16 Jul 2003 18:36:47 -0500

btw, JJBHL is probably the funniest nickname I've heard in ages. props.

JJBHL

Wed, 16 Jul 2003 17:52:55 -0500

He needs a better spin doctor to create any excitement around his dated, video store geek, played-out self. Even sweaty Uma in an ugly tracksuit swinging a sword isn't enuf.

Two Princes

Wed, 16 Jul 2003 16:59:45 -0500

He was in the Spin Doctors?

Mark

Wed, 16 Jul 2003 16:52:07 -0500

While QT is certainly the single-most influential director of the 1990s, you're fooling yourself if you think that "Kill Bill" is going to be anything other than a helluva B-movie thrillride. QT and Harv have admitted as much. I can't see any benefits from splitting a movie conceived as a single piece into two, other than the obvious financial upside. I say worst. Let's hope it's just the Buzz Machine talking and that this rumour never comes to fruition.

karen

Wed, 16 Jul 2003 14:38:37 -0500

I'm about as anti-tarantino as it comes (mostly based on the argument that three and half films does not make one an auteur) but i still find myself sucked into his brilliant media machine. that article in the new yorker last fall about his publicist(i think this is what jen is referring to in her post) totally opened my eyes to the way his "image" has been deftly manipulated to give him such critical cachet. yeah, rolling thunder did some good work but can he be more grandiose? that trailer is completely over the top. and the website for the film's not much better. yet i'm psyched to see the movie. damn him and his spin doctors!

JJBHL

Wed, 16 Jul 2003 12:53:55 -0500

Snore. Just what I don't need. That along with Bruce Willis and John Travolta cameos.

Frankenstein

Wed, 16 Jul 2003 12:44:55 -0500

It's quite likely, given Tarentino's penchent for overly-complex story structures, that Bill is, in fact, killed at the beginning of the movie and the rest of the film plays out in flashback.

Jennifer Jayson Blair Hornstine Leigh

Wed, 16 Jul 2003 12:17:54 -0500

If it were your job, as Tarantino's publicist, to manage his reputation/comeback in the media what would you do? To me, it seems pretty lazy and contrived to re-introduce him to the public in a feature in the New York Times. At least there's a minor news hook re: 2-parter. But I'm in the two glasses half empty camp. I mean how much excitement is there around Matrix Revolutions? "On Nov. 5, Zion is invaded by machines!" Whoopiee. I'll take one really great movie, thanks. Spare me two mediocre halves and the extra $9 ... since now we'll need it to fork over to the thieves at the MTA. Okay, this is off-topic, but how funny is it in "Queer Eye for the Straigt Guy - Ep. Butch" when Carson says, "Show me on the doll where the bad man touched you."??

P.O.

Wed, 16 Jul 2003 12:10:02 -0500

Has anyone watched Reservoir Dogs or Pulp Fiction since they came out? They do not stand up against the test of time. They were funny, shocking, unpredictable and soo cool when they first came out, but view them now and the flicks are boring, silly and crazy self-indulgent. Very sad, but interesting from a "What stands the test of time?" perspective.

Crouching Pulp, Hidden Fiction

Wed, 16 Jul 2003 11:57:18 -0500

It's about time a famous director brought the Kung Fu genre back into the spotlight for mainstream western audiences. I can't wait for this original blend of arthouse cinema and martial arts action.

andrew

Wed, 16 Jul 2003 11:43:01 -0500

Yes, because of Rolling Thunder I got to see Chung King Express on the big screen. Had no idea about it before he released it. That's worth a lot, right? Well, it is to me. But Kill Bill is yet another big action film with a great trailer. Which worries me, if I'm going by this Summer's track record. But then I remember that like you said, Jen, his past films are all really good. I like Tarantino. He's a big film nerd like most of my friends, cept rich and famous. I think the trick is to just read his print interviews. Usually he has interesting things to say about film and is not mugging for the cameras.

Jen

Wed, 16 Jul 2003 11:13:12 -0500

His antics are more annoying than his movies. I mean, when you saw last few movies, those movies would be all his movies: Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Ficiton, and Jackie Brown. There was that awful Four Rooms segment, but... I like what he's doing at Miramax with Rolling Thunder - really getting behind Asian films - but there's a Tarantino saturation point, he's such a whore on talk shows and is a camera hog...he's like the Jim Carrey of directors.

jake

Wed, 16 Jul 2003 10:55:25 -0500

at this point, tarantino has to win people like me back- he's fucked up so many of his last films that i don't trust him anymore. i mean, he's such an egomaniac that he actually makes me ill.