Heck, FYE paid me $4.41 to take it off their hands.
I traded in three DVDs that I had no use for, got $15 in credit. The DVD cost 19.99, so with tax I paid $5.49. but there’s a $10.00 rebate, so I got the DVD plus $4.41 in me pocket.
Trade DVDs
???
Profit!
Heh…put it first in my Netfix queue as soon as I was able to. Great timing as I should be getting it anytime from tomorrow to Thursday.
I have yet to see it entirely. I could have seen it at the theater, but I never did, so now is my chance and I’m pretty excited.
Yeah, you should have seen it at the theater.
While I like many other directors, Tarantino is pretty much the only one I really get excited about knowing something is coming out and simply won’t miss his shit in the theaters.
Anyway, I was tempted by Amazon yesterday. They said KBV1 retailed for 30 and they sold it for 20 but could get it to me in 2 days for like 5 bucks.
But, I went by my trusty (and incomprehensibly inexpensive) CD store yesterday and they had it for 17.99.
I enjoyed it as much the second time. I don’t think its as good as Pulp Fiction, but it’s got a LOT to like.
Yeah – I think some people didn’t realize how funny this movie is. It’s totally ridiculous.
Very much so.
Alright. So I watched it last night and… WOW. What an awesome and funny movie!
I’m not gonna go into any details since this isn’t really a spoiler thread, but man oh man…
One negative thing: I wish I never knew that the big killing scene was presented in color everywhere but America. Was that in this thread or another one that I read that? Anyways, if I hadn’t known that, it would have just been a cool artistic chioce, but knowing it forced the resentment of nanny-ship into the forefront of my mind throughout the scene.
So we watched it last night, minus the sake as I was feeling a bit under the weather. Brilliant! However…no director’s commentary on the DVD??? What a pisser! The “making of” featurette is nice and everything, but only about 25 minutes long. It definitely seems like they just kinda said “Well here, this should tide you over until we REALLY release it.”
Still, for 17 dollars (20 + tax - my 5 dollar reservation payment), and with a free poster, well worth it. I’ll probably watch it again tonight, I don’t think I could ever get sick of that movie.
AND! The little insert for the DVD says you can order your own Pussy Wagon keychain! I think I’ll skip that one, but I was rather interested in the shotglasses. 
Wow, great collection.
I’m not gay and you’re with someone but I’d consider marrying you for half of that collection
I work at a video store.
First off, as a public service announcement- don’t expect to get your hands of a copy of Kill Bill this weekend. Rumor is that rental stores are running out of copies now, and nobody rents movies on a Tuesday. That means they are probably all gonna be snatched up within the first hour of Friday night. I’m not saying you can’t try, just don’t be surprised if they are out…
Us at the store are taking bets on what percentage of customers will complain that it is too violent, or that it isn’t all in English and they hate subtitles. This is gonna be a fun one.
First, let me preface this by saying that I did a search for a Kill Bill thread from when the movie came out and failed to find on. If someone else knows of one here, please link it. Since I didn’t find an old thread, this one will have to do.
I liked Pulp Fiction and From Dusk Til Dawn was ok for what it was. I figured I would like Kill Bill Vol 1. I didn’t get a chance to catch it at a theater, but I put it on my list of DVD’s to buy. I bought it yesterday and watched it last night.
My girlfriend and I got some good laughs and I guess it was ok, but I really don’t see what the big deal was about the movie. It was a decent popcorn movie. It had some tasty shots (and not just the women), but I seem to be missing something. So, why all the raving about this movie?
I also have to say that I found some of the soundtrack and background music/sounds annoying to the point that I will have to work to convince myself to watch it again. I realize that it was deliberately tacky. There is tacky in a “Bruce Campbell” sort of way that is good. This was annoying in a “I’m going to pierce my eardrums with an ice pick” sort of way. Maybe it was just this that kept me from enjoying it more?
The movie was overhyped for you. I hate it when that happens.
It is absolutely a popcorn movie, it’s pure trash. But what glorious trash it is! I dunno, if this type of movie is just brainless fun, KB was fun to the power of ten for me. Beyond that, though, no one’s gonna confuse it with The Grand Illusion or The Seventh Seal.
C’mon, it’s not really all that trashy. It does, however, take inspiration from comic books, seventies blaxploitation, kung-fu movies, samurai flicks, westerns and hard-boiled thrillers, as well as uses over-the-top gore, action and editing to produce a movie that is more like a comic book than any other movie I’ve ever seen.
THATS why it’s funny, because it is so DAMN entertaining as a result of all of the above, plus tons of stuff I’m probably missing. I used to think Q.T. was a bit of a lucky hack, kind of a tolerated Hollywood madman, but since seeing Kill Bill I have changed my mind. This movie goes at the top of my list of all-time best action flicks.
I am SOOO looking forward to receiving my copy from Amazon, it should be here tomorrow at the latest. I absolutely loved this film, from it’s opening hommage to the NBC “Movie of the Week” graphic circa 1972 to its hommage to anime to, well, anything. But, as said in Pulp Fiction, it’s the little things:
I liked how the names get more ragged as she writes them down, the words themselves a barometer of her hate.
I like the look of panicked confusion in the first victims face as her child was approaching the house.
I liked the preposterousness of determining your age by looking at your lifeline.
I like how Uma is living Jules’ dream: walking the Earth, like Caine in Kung Fu.
Kill Bill is a lot of things to a lot of people (I’ve had moviegoers walk out of both shows I went to), but it isn’t the work of an untalented or lucky hack.
Nah, dude. Granted, 70s graphics tended to look alike, but the graphic after the Shaw brothers logo was a bumper that introduced a movie on a drive-in screen.
Actuyally, it was Black-and-white here in Singapore too. From what I understand, only the Japanese version was in glorious colour. And the Japanese (Region2) DVD will be the only version withg that scene in colour (for all you completists).
Personally, I didn’t mind the B/W, it had a very nice artistic quality to it, adding to the ‘too much violence is no longer violence’ thing. (Someone described it that way in an earlier thread, but I don’t recall who. I’m paraphrasing of course).
Oooh… I’m sitting here at work, just back from lunch, and I can’t help myself from watching a bit from the Kill Bill DVD I purchased on my break.
And yes, folks, it’s the Japanese version, in it’s full, colorful, glory!! Ah, can’t wait to get home and watch it!
Oh, and it even included a 10% discount ticket for Vol.2 ! Cool!
Huge spoilers folks…
Well, I don’t put it in the realm of Pulp Fiction – it’s dialog just doesn’t match up. I won’t disagree that its eye candy and ear candy, but for my money, it’s the best candy out there.
As other’s alluded to, it’s one to like more for the “trees” than the “forest”. I mean, all it is is this: she gets screwed over so she goes out to kill the people who did it.
That said, I just liked every one of the “trees”.
I enjoyed the fight scenes.
I enjoyed her recovery scenes.
I really liked the anime.
Then some of it, I just like Tarantino being cool. E.g. when the cop drives up to the chapel with the sunglasses on the dashboard. Or his line (approx.) “Son number 1. . .this is one tall drink of cocksucker.” or the pussy wagon, or the non-anime introduction to Liu’s character.
I thought the scene with Sonny Chiba and his lackey was real funny.
The scene with Buck was funny. Sick, but you have to laugh.
And none of that requires anyone to know she’s walking the earth like Jules or that she’s wearing an outfit like Bruce Lee wore in something or that Elle Driver is whistling some theme from some movie.
A little deeper, I like the hints at the back story, and the “cliffhanger” adds something. I think Uma brings some weight and a touch of melancholy to her character. There’s a mystery about what led up to the massacre. There’s no joy in her at all so you wonder just what all of the revenge will bring. Bill is the baby’s father, so what went on with that.
I will say, the fighting started to wear just a little with me and I have a pretty high tolerance for it. Definitely the right decision to release it in two volumes.
Anyway, that’s my take. Its not something I expect everyone to like. I knew my wife wouldn’t like it (she didn’t see it with me in the theater) and she didn’t.
Agreed, and this actually reminds me of one sequence that assaulted me like nails on a chalkboard- Uma and Vivica Fox’s appallingly delivered exchange in the kitchen, just before the little girl comes in. (Note Moody’s unparalleled technique of specific references sans spoiler boxes ) The two women here spit “bad ass” lines at each other with all the steely flair of two six-year-olds pulling each others’ hair. Vivica Fox, especially, is just awful; she’s an unashamedly sucky actress, and hiring her to butcher repartee like this doesn’t pay homage to overacting in genre films or whatever other defense some Quentin Head will give for her presence in the flick.
Sometimes bad is bad, as the eminent guru Huey Lewis once said.
You’re probably right… I remember it vaguely as having to do with “the movies” and, when typing, immediately thought of those “movie of the week” graphics that were big when I was little. Thanks for the correction!
My Amazon order didn’t arrive yesterday. 
Watched it last night and thought it was terrific. It’s like Pulp Fiction, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, and Charlie’s Angels rolled into one.
If you didn’t like any of those movies you probably won’t like this one.
My favorite part was the girl hiding the gun inside the cereal box and what type of cereal was it? KABOOM!