Post by Surreptitious Cardboard Box on Sept 4, 2008 15:44:02 GMT
Trust me when I say that it really doesn't make sense . You're right; getting bitten on the hand by kittens is only likely to make you MORE DEAD, rather than bring you back to life and cause you to wreck your apartment as you search for a way to satiate your leather fetish. But it's MICHELLE PFEIFFER, so it doesn't matter.
However the penguin stuff is just bizarre. I mean, forgetting the fact that they were living in the sewers anyway, there is then the fact that they were willing to waddle into Gotham city with rockets strapped to their backs and blow up people for the sake of a freaky mutated man, that had lived with them all his life, getting his revenge on society for mistreating him. You want to feel sorry, but you just can't .
I shan't ask for an explanation, though. I don't think there is one.
The last film I watched was Kill Bill vol.2, last night. It was noticeably different to vol.1. For a start, half the chapters weren't done in an anime format (which, although stylish when they appeared in vol. 1, just seemed like a vehicle for showing off QT's ideas and filling up the blood and gore quota without the film getting banned. Afterall, O-Ren Ishii was the only character to have their back-story shown and she's no more important than the other assassins. Still, I would have liked to have seen Elle Driver's - all we got was a quick shot of Pai Mei plucking out her eyeball, and then her poisoning his fish-heads). There was a lot less blood; this wasn't an outrageous never-ending-stream-of-blood-spurting-out-of-hosepipes fest like vol. 1. If anything, the most horrific scene was when the Bride got buried alive. It was utterly weird when she managed to get out - I mean, how deep did they bury her?!
Daryl Hannah as Elle Driver was great to watch again. She was no longer dressing up as a saucy nurse and whistling 'Twisted Nerve', sure, but I loved the fact that she wrote everything down in a notebook. When Budd was writhing from the venom of the Black Mamba, it cracked me up to see her sit down, flip out her notebook and read to him all the stuff she had found out on the internet about the snake and how long it took for people to die from the venom xD.
Overall, it was just as entertaining as vol. 1, but for different reasons. I think it's just important to see them as one whole film, considering that's the way they were originally intended. The quick, throw-away remark about why the Bride no longer had the Pussy Wagon seemed a bit cute, but was appropriate, and the ending satisfied not on a need-for-violence level, but on a relief level.
However the penguin stuff is just bizarre. I mean, forgetting the fact that they were living in the sewers anyway, there is then the fact that they were willing to waddle into Gotham city with rockets strapped to their backs and blow up people for the sake of a freaky mutated man, that had lived with them all his life, getting his revenge on society for mistreating him. You want to feel sorry, but you just can't .
I shan't ask for an explanation, though. I don't think there is one.
The last film I watched was Kill Bill vol.2, last night. It was noticeably different to vol.1. For a start, half the chapters weren't done in an anime format (which, although stylish when they appeared in vol. 1, just seemed like a vehicle for showing off QT's ideas and filling up the blood and gore quota without the film getting banned. Afterall, O-Ren Ishii was the only character to have their back-story shown and she's no more important than the other assassins. Still, I would have liked to have seen Elle Driver's - all we got was a quick shot of Pai Mei plucking out her eyeball, and then her poisoning his fish-heads). There was a lot less blood; this wasn't an outrageous never-ending-stream-of-blood-spurting-out-of-hosepipes fest like vol. 1. If anything, the most horrific scene was when the Bride got buried alive. It was utterly weird when she managed to get out - I mean, how deep did they bury her?!
Daryl Hannah as Elle Driver was great to watch again. She was no longer dressing up as a saucy nurse and whistling 'Twisted Nerve', sure, but I loved the fact that she wrote everything down in a notebook. When Budd was writhing from the venom of the Black Mamba, it cracked me up to see her sit down, flip out her notebook and read to him all the stuff she had found out on the internet about the snake and how long it took for people to die from the venom xD.
Overall, it was just as entertaining as vol. 1, but for different reasons. I think it's just important to see them as one whole film, considering that's the way they were originally intended. The quick, throw-away remark about why the Bride no longer had the Pussy Wagon seemed a bit cute, but was appropriate, and the ending satisfied not on a need-for-violence level, but on a relief level.