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This weekend is shaping up to be mighty fine in the movie department, and I’m chomping at the bit to see Kill Bill.
I came from the era when Pulp Fiction was a revelation and was part of the generation to whom the movie was marketed specifically for. There wasn’t a dorm room in sight that didn’t have a Jules Winnfield poster hanging in it when I went to college. Trust me.
There are rumblings that the first volume of Kill Bill is light on Quentin Tarantino’s trademark dialogue, but that volume two makes up for it in spades.
There’s also talk that the finale of the first installment is outrageously violent. Over the TOP violent. Wile E. Coyote violent. Blood doesn’t seep from wounds, it gushes. And Uma Thurman is finding a hundred and one ways to slice a man to ribbons – probably even inventing some techniques along the way – as Quentin pays homage to all the grind house kung-fu flicks of the 70’s.
I think Kill Bill will prove to be an interesting experience. I mean, when you think of all the watered down copycats that flooded theaters in the wake of Pulp Fiction, what direction can an auteur go when his voice has been co-opted by the masses?
Kill Bill looks like a full-frontal assault on our expectations. A jarring stab to the kidneys to wake us from our slumber and erase and shades of doubt in a sea of red.
By the way, everyone. I’m toying with some new site designs. But before I can implement them, I need to get a couple of other things up and running again. The server movie last week kind of laid me up and I’m still recovering.
At the top of my list is bringing the forum back online. I created a backup right before the switch, but am kind of lost in terms of reinstalling everything. If anyone has experience with this, contact me the usual way.
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I spent a lot of time on today’s comic – maybe more time than I should have.
I don’t know. Sometimes I slip into this talking head thing where it’s just a two of the characters spitting out one-liners to each other and when I finally notice it, I’m compelled to switch it up a little.
That’s why I was hyper aware of the composition, what props Cami and Jared had in their hands – what they were doing with them. Having Tom talk more with his hands. That kind of stuff.
Maybe it’s important only to me?
As far as You, Me and Dupree is concerned, it looks like a real sitcom-y kind of set up. Immature friend loses his job and home after going to a friend’s wedding. Friend feels guilty, let’s him stay at his house, ruining honeymoon. Friend overstays welcome, Goldie Hawn’s daughter is forced to play a screaming harpie and, by the end, everyone has learned something about friendship.
But, truth is, we’ll probably see it. Why? Because we noticed Seth Rogen is in some of the sceens from the commercials and we’ve been fans of his for ages. Nice to see he’s getting some work outside the Apatow realm. The 40 Year-Old Virgin must have given him some clout.
It would probably be a better use of our time to see Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest a second time since the first time we had to sit in the front row and endure the movie walleye-vision style. But at 2 and a half hours, it’s hard to committ to that again. I told Cami after our experience with Priates and the IMAX frame blow outs in Superman Returns that it would be nice to see a movie that no one really cares about so we can hang back and relax for a few hours. You, Me and Dupree might be that movie.
THERE’S a ringing endorsement for ya’!
Come back later today. I have some news about my attendance at Wizard World Chicago on August 4 – 6.
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