lee nicholson
Well-Known Member
Why oh why are are so-called 'movie' fans choosing junk like KILL BILL over (say...)BELLY OF THE BEAST. KB tries to be hip, tries to be violent (believe me, it isn't as violent as people say it is) and SEAGAL is having to do STV movies.
It's a disgrace, and please don't think i'm slagging off TARRANTINO, i just think he makes one good movie, then one bad movie: resovoir dogs (good, tough, hard) pulp fiction (smarmy, self-satisfied) jackie brown (gritty, well acted) kill bill (as pulp fiction, but just a complete catologue of other superior movies) I look forward to TARRANTINO's other movies, but his over-relience on milking a "genre' that SEAGAL kept alive in the late 80's-90's is pittifull, considering SEAGAL's treatment by hollywood. Plus the fact, that BOTB was better than KB (fact!)
Tarrantino is in danger of being too hip. With "hip-ness" , someone is proclaimed "hip", not with a in-built "hip' thing to everything they do. He need's to be creative, or maybe all the guy can do is 'borrow' (sorry....pay "homage" to) from other movies.
And when dealing with the martial-arts genre, the cinema public should remember the true bad-ass of kung-fu cinema...STEVEN SEAGAL
Sorry, i had to get that off my chest, i'm just sick of the sight of KILL BILL merchandise around at the moment. Advertising to people, who like the movie, regardless of actually "liking" it. The ultimate insult being that BRUCE LEE's classic GAME OF DEATH has been re-released in the uk (on dvd) in KILL BILL style artwork(?????????kill bill owes whatever limited style, it may have, to GAME OF DEATH)
Prety soon kung-fu cinema will be exclusivly populated by the JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE crowd.
peace
(by the way, am i the only one to hate PULP FICTION?)
It's a disgrace, and please don't think i'm slagging off TARRANTINO, i just think he makes one good movie, then one bad movie: resovoir dogs (good, tough, hard) pulp fiction (smarmy, self-satisfied) jackie brown (gritty, well acted) kill bill (as pulp fiction, but just a complete catologue of other superior movies) I look forward to TARRANTINO's other movies, but his over-relience on milking a "genre' that SEAGAL kept alive in the late 80's-90's is pittifull, considering SEAGAL's treatment by hollywood. Plus the fact, that BOTB was better than KB (fact!)
Tarrantino is in danger of being too hip. With "hip-ness" , someone is proclaimed "hip", not with a in-built "hip' thing to everything they do. He need's to be creative, or maybe all the guy can do is 'borrow' (sorry....pay "homage" to) from other movies.
And when dealing with the martial-arts genre, the cinema public should remember the true bad-ass of kung-fu cinema...STEVEN SEAGAL
Sorry, i had to get that off my chest, i'm just sick of the sight of KILL BILL merchandise around at the moment. Advertising to people, who like the movie, regardless of actually "liking" it. The ultimate insult being that BRUCE LEE's classic GAME OF DEATH has been re-released in the uk (on dvd) in KILL BILL style artwork(?????????kill bill owes whatever limited style, it may have, to GAME OF DEATH)
Prety soon kung-fu cinema will be exclusivly populated by the JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE crowd.
peace
(by the way, am i the only one to hate PULP FICTION?)