Kill Bill Vol. 1 & 2

Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill, Vol. 1 is trash for connoisseurs. From his opening gambit (including a "Shaw-Scope" logo and gaudy '70s-vintage "Our Feature Presentation" title card) to his cliffhanger finale (a teasing lead-in to 2004's Vol. 2), Tarantino pays loving tribute to grindhouse cinema, specifically the Hong Kong action flicks and spaghetti Westerns that fill his fervent brain--and this frequently breathtaking movie--with enough cinematic references and cleverly pilfered soundtrack cues to send cinephiles running for their reference books. Everything old is new again in Tarantino's humor-laced vision: he steals from the best while injecting his own oft-copied, never-duplicated style into what is, quite simply, a revenge flick, beginning with the near-murder of the Bride (Uma Thurman), pregnant on her wedding day and left for dead by the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad (or DiVAS)--including Lucy Liu and the unseen David Carradine (as Bill)--who become targets for the Bride's lethal vengeance. Culminating in an ultraviolent, ultra-stylized tour-de-force showdown, Tarantino's fourth film is either brilliantly (and brutally) innovative or one of the most blatant acts of plagiarism ever conceived. Either way, it's hyperkinetic eye-candy from a passionate film-lover who clearly knows what he's doing. Product Description

Not a bad 2 pt story

I love everything Quintin Tarantino has made or has brought to America so I had to buy this set on principal. There is high action, blood, and tons of sword play in this indept story revolving on one woman hell bent on revenge. I didn't like this 2 disk movie series as much as his previous released titles or the newly released Death Proof. But its still pretty good.

This set was a Best Buy exclusive I believe with a limited edition slip cover to store both volumes in. October 4, 2008

Sorry can't help here.

I order it from a very unreliable seller,I never got the box-set. Just two DVD's in separate jewel cases and one was damaged. October 8, 2007

A Fitting Tribute...

...to an era-gone-by. I won't make this wordy, because I feel that other users have written reviews that more than amply describe the details of this two-part cinematic masterpiece.
Everything in this movie, and I mean /everything/ is the ghostly image of something from the golden age of kung-fu cinema poured through the imaginative filter of Quentin Tarantino's mind and stylized to the point of near-absurdity. Even so, it is just this almost-insane pacing and imagery that makes the movie. The dialogue is tight and razor-sharp, contrary to a few comments. What you must understand, is that it is being written in a manner specifically characterizing that which it parodies.
Tarantino clearly loves kung-fu cinema. You can feel it in every frame, no matter what is happening on screen. I have loved it as well, and I hope that many more will give this classic the chance it deserves. July 7, 2007

There are good kung fu movies, bad kung fu movies and there's this

IFC is showing both KB movies on TV. Boy, I wish I could get back the time I wasted.Fortunately I've got a good remote. and the pain is less. Wooden acting, rotten dialogueboring action sequences. Painfully bad. I rate this somewhere below Crippled Masters.I'm going to watch Dirty Ho and Princess Iron Fan and clean this from my mind. June 11, 2007

What's with the bleeping?

When I saw the first "volume" of "Kill Bill", I asked myself: "Self, why do they keep bleeping out this chick's name? Is surprise important, here? Does it turn out that she's really Eleanor Roosevelt, or Pam Grier, or something?" Now, after seeing the second part, I have my answer; it was strategically vital for Tarantino to conceal the fact that his heroine is, in reality, the famous Beatrix Kiddo! Whew. Glad I wasn't spoiled on that one.

But now I have another question: how is it possible for a man with this much talent to make such an agonizingly stupid movie? December 26, 2006

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