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The Goddamned Batman
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Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Richmond, VA
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Oct 11th, 2003, 02:46 AM
Wow. I just saw it. It was fucking incredible. I mean, seriously, ridiculously good. I am DEFINITELY seeing this again on the big screen. I had high expectations and it surpassed them all. I'm going to reserve final judgement until I've seen the whole thing, but I think this has a VERY good chance of being my newfound favorite Tarantino movie.
It was clear to me though (and disappointing) that a large number of the audience didn't "get" it. A lot of people seemed bothered and confused when they bleeped out the Bride's name. We're not meant to know it at this point in the story. In fact, it may never be clearly revealed. But for those of us who know it or have figured it out (and it's easy enough to find on the net), certain lines of dialogue might take on a different sort of meaning ("Trix are for kids").
Also a lot of people thought the showers of blood that erupted forth every time a katana sliced through somebody were hilarious. And many other people were mocking how "fake" it was. Obviously these people have never seen a single samurai movie in their stupid little lives, because those blood geysers were wonderfully true to the genre. The choice to have the epic fight in the restaurant in black-and-white was brilliant, it felt just like an oldschool samurai movie.
Immediately after the conclusion of the O-Ren Ishii fight, these two guys up in the front of the theater walked out in a huff and when they got to the back door to leave the theater they yelled out "This movie is BULLSHIT!" I was utterly shocked that anyone could react that way to the movie. Obviously they were idiots who have absolutely NO idea of the types of films this paid brilliant homage to.
I fucking love this movie. Absolutely brilliant.
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