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In Reply to: Re: I Kill Patrick posted by patrickU on July 3, 2005 at 04:16:40:
The movie has many weaknesses, but it has an undeniable beauty to it as well, something even my wife aknowledged. There are several moments that will brand into your memory, and you will carry them around like a bull. I would not rate extremely hightly the movie as the whole, even though it does have wonderful overall style, but the final duel scene is simply one of the best visual treats in my long memory. The ways it is choreographed, filmed and acted are all superb, and here we see the true potential of Tarantino the Master, something that unfortunately is usually burried under pile of his usual bloody trash. If Pulp Fiction had a few momorable moments, so does this one, except the caliber of those few moments is now higher.I truly wish the director dropped his silly obsession with being our little Pasolini and just let himself be a wonderful artist that he apparently can be.
Will be renting Vol. 2 soon enough.
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I was going to ask above weather you'd watched pt. 1, 2, or both.Pt. 2 is inferior. It has much more dialogue and is more "human," but it's not as well crafted or measured as pt. 1. I don't buy the claim that the two parts originally comprised a single film that was merely cut down the middle. Such a film would have come across as having two halves, each striking very different notes. Pt. 1 benefits from being de-coupled from pt. 2; though maybe pt. 2 would have benefited from remaining joined with pt. 1.
I'd be interested to hear what you think.
I think you're praise of pt. 1 is right on. Very well choreographed and edited (a kind of choreography here, really) visual feast. It's the only film of his I really like, and I went to the theater prepared not to, or to find it as uneven as Pulp Fiction. Intend to revisit Jackie Brown.
His next project is apparently some kind of WWII epic.
From what I read here and elsewhere, it does indeed sound like Vol. 2 is a more conventional film stripped of some unexpected beauty found in Vol. 1. That would be a shame, as the Japanese theme was a good vehicle, but probably not the only one possible.My memories of Jackie Brown are pretty pale. Like you, I turned the KB on fully expecting not to like it. How nice that sometimes we turn out to be wrong.
First you admit to watching LOTR and now KB part 1? Hopefully this will not progress to a love of Leo's DiCaprio's efforts!
It gets worse. I watched the last hour of the movie three times already. So slap me, kick me...If I could, I would compress that one hour into about fifteen minutes of pure beauty and trash the rest.
Yes Pulp Fiction was at time very good, but this violence...
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