In case you didn’t know, next Thursday (December 4th), the complete, contiguous cut to Kill Bill is being released in theaters, with a new added anime sequence, about 4.5 hours of Kill Bill goodness.
Will come back to this thread with my review (we are seeing it on Saturday), but I wanted to give a heads-up for those KB/Tarantino fans who might have missed this.
Is there an intermission? I’m not sure my bladder could do that long…
Brian
I would sure hope so. I can’t imagine sitting still for that long. I really enjoy the Kill Bill movies and would very much like to see this but 4.5 hours is just too long for me.
Pretty sure there would be an intermission, but I’ve seen the movie so many times that I know where I can take a five-minute break.
This says there will be a 15 minute intermission:
As for the second change: Remember the head-on car footage that opened Vol. 2, where the Bride is monologuing directly at the camera in black and white? In the Cannes print, that sequence is missing entirely; Chapter 5 ends, there’s an intermission, and Chapter 6 picks up immediately afterward. This makes sense because Kill Bill is no longer two separate films, and thus, the black-and-white recap is no longer necessary.
We have tickets for tonight. I can’t remember the last time I was glued to a theater seat for nearly five hours. I made sure to get aisle seats…for reasons. IIRC, there are a lot more bathroom break opportunities in the second half than in the first.
Headed tomorrow at 2pm, don’t have much desire to catch the 730 showing and leaving the theater after midnight.
That was fun and the hours flew by.
Except for extending O-Ren’s animated origin story I didn’t spot many of the changes until I read discussion afterword. The House of Blue Leaves still blows away every other scene in both films and feels a little out of place right smack in the middle. I have no idea what this would look like to fresh eyes.
I assume there was an intermission?
One of the changes I read about is that the B&W scene of Beatrix driving in a car which opened Pt 2 was missing, given it was no longer necessary.
15 minute intermission right after Bill’s scene with Sofie, I think.
Uma Thurman was injured in a car crash shooting that opening scene to Vol. 2, so everybody was probably happy to be rid of it and the bad mojo associated with it.
Just got back and, to be honest, it’s a better experience broken up into two movies. Not because of the length, but because of the changes. Now, it could very well be that I enjoyed the initial experience more because it was the initial experience, but…
Otherwise, a great time!
The big reveal at the end of Vol. 1 was added after it was decided to make it two films and the B&W scenes were a concession to the ratings board. The brief for this edition was to release the film Q planned before he was forced to accommodate theater owners and the MPA.
I kinda liked the B&W scenes back in the day when I thought it was an artistic choice. Did anybody notice some weird graininess to certain shots in the Blue Leaves sequence? Were those the ones that were formerly in B&W? Is there a reason it wasn’t corrected to match the other shots?
My idea for the next Kill Bill extended edition: The 5,6,7,8s plays an entire set.
One thing I don’t remember from previous viewings is that Bud still had his Hanzo sword and lied about pawning it. There is so much about Bud’s story left untold.
Bud having his Hanzo sword was definitely a thing in KB2 back in 2004.
Just saw this, an 8pm showing with 25 mins of trailers means it ended after 1am!
I hadn’t seen the films in a long time, so it was fun to see the whole thing as originally intended without the mpaa cuts. I was also waiting for the reveal at the end of part one but it makes sense that would be cut when a cliffhanger is no longer needed. The Crazy 88 fight in color is awesome! I still enjoy part one way more than two. Part two just gets way too talky and overlong by the end.
The music in both films still rocks. I remember going to Barnes and Noble immediately after seeing the films back in 2003/2004 and buying the soundtrack CDs.
The “Lost Chapter” cartoon afterwards is skippable IMO. Talking bananas and shark people wtf? Suddenly it’s sci-fi. I guess it’s connected to the Fortnite video game.
I feel if it wasn’t forced to be a FortNite tie-in and with less cartoony CGI it would have worked perfectly. Hell if they had actually filmed it and inserted it into part 1 I would have believed it fit in perfectly (though now that I think about it they’d probably have to put it in Part 2 for narrative sense)
Wait, when was this? I do not recall this at all…
After the credits at the end there is a 10 or so minute long animated segment called “The Lost Chaper: Yuki’s Revenge.”
You didn’t see the title card before the film saying that there was an intermission and that The Lost Chapter would play after the film?
I’m sure it’s online somewhere, apparently it was available to watch within the video game too.
Yeah if it were anime style like the one in the film, or live action, it would have been fine, but as is it just felt weird and completely out of the world of the film.
My badder was a hard “no” on waiting through all the credits.