20 Jun 05
Originally posted by seraphimvultureI dunno if it's his best monologue to date but it's up there. I think Jules speech at the end of Pulp and Dennis Hopper's "Sicilians are really Moors" speech in True Romance are barely a touch better. For me, I think "Bill" David Carradine didn't have the acting chops to pull it off. You didn't think Jackie Brown was worse than Vol 2?
Kill Bill: Volume 2. Best monologue Tarantino has written yet... and unfortunately it comes in what I think is his worst movie yet. *sigh*
20 Jun 05
Originally posted by Joe FistThis is where I get everyone who says I don't like Vol. 2 just cause there's not as much action. I actually really, really liked Jackie Brown. I love noir films, and I've read a couple Elmore Leonard books so I already had a taste for him anyway, and that movie comes together really well and has some really great dialogue. Vol. 2.... had nothing for me. I could tell what Tarantino was going for but I don't think he achieved it. Vol. 1 did it's job of getting us ready for some sort of big emotional punch or SOMETHING big in the next movie, and nothing gave us what we were set-up for. As for the monologue, I love it more than any of his others because it brings together all the things that everyone is infactuated with Tarantino for: his pop culture references, his slick way of explaining something geeky, and his way of using such things as Clark Kent's relationship to Superman to describe something real, such as a woman trying to be something she isn't. That monologue is him at his best so far I think, but the movie itself just never paid off for itself.
I dunno if it's his best monologue to date but it's up there. I think Jules speech at the end of Pulp and Dennis Hopper's "Sicilians are really Moors" speech in True Romance are barely a touch better. For me, I think "Bill" David Carradine didn't have the acting chops to pull it off. You didn't think Jackie Brown was worse than Vol 2?
20 Jun 05
Originally posted by seraphimvultureI don't really know if I didn't like Vol 2 as much as Vol 1 because of the less violence. In some respects, I think Tarantino has a little bit of an unfair rap because I think all of his films are unfortunately compared to his most well known triumph, Pulp Fiction. I have found myself saying at the end of his other films, "Well it ain't no Pulp Fiction" but the thing is he has never tried to compete or repeat that. As he has tried other genres I think they are all pretty much the same essentially, telling stories out of chronological order layered with some very interesting dialogue.
This is where I get everyone who says I don't like Vol. 2 just cause there's not as much action. I actually really, really liked Jackie Brown. I love noir films, and I've read a couple Elmore Leonard books so I already had a taste for him anyway, and that movie comes together really well and has some really great dialogue. [i]Vol. 2[ ...[text shortened]... onologue is him at his best so far I think, but the movie itself just never paid off for itself.
I know I have said this in other threads but I really enjoyed Sin City and I think now some of that has to due with Tarantino's role as a guest director. I enjoy his writing but I would really like to see him just direct for a bit perhaps outside of his comfort zone.
20 Jun 05
Originally posted by Joe FistMeh, one of the effects of being a famous director is people hold you to a certain standard, but I really didn't have that problem watching Vol. 2. I didn't have any expectations, just hope, hope that it would find some way to pay-off everything that Tarantino had built up. And it didn't. Everyone is applauding him for this anti-climax he has (which DOES include that monologue that I love so much, so it's not a complete loss), but I think it chops the legs out from under a movie that was already crawling.
I don't really know if I didn't like Vol 2 as much as Vol 1 because of the less violence. In some respects, I think Tarantino has a little bit of an unfair rap because I think all of his films are unfortunately compared to his most well known triumph, Pulp Fiction. I have found myself saying at the end of his other films, "Well it ain't no Pulp Fictio ...[text shortened]... ng but I would really like to see him just direct for a bit perhaps outside of his comfort zone.
