To me, the most emotionally intense part isn't her face-off with Bill at the end, but the ragged edges at the end of the first one when Sophie has been delivered, one-armed to deliver her message

See what struck me in part the second was something that was very nicely elided over - Beatrix had bonded with her hard-assed teacher to the point that she'd taught her the big secret killing move. That carried a lot of emotional weight, and the realization of that was all over Carradine's face at the end. It also added a great deal of retrospective resonance to both her training scenes, and her showdown with Daryll Hannah.

My Netflix list is kinda TV-heavy, but there are a reasonable number of movies on it. The foreign films I watch tend to be from Hong Kong, or from Britain. Monsoon Wedding is in my top ten, but I don't recall if that's Indian or British-Indian. Ah, well...

I love both Kill Bills. They kind of meld together into one big movie in my head, though.

I love both Kill Bills. They kind of meld together into one big movie in my head, though.

As was the original intent. Tarantino said on the record that he couldn't abide cutting stuff out, but that a 3+ hour exploitation movie wasn't feasible either, but I suspect two movies was ultimately the work of Harvey Scissorhands trying to maximize profits.

I may have to look up a few of the French films mentioned, I'm not a huge fan of them and tend to find them, ah, pretentious and self-aware. From that standpoint, Quentin Taratino should start making French films. Although, I admit I loved the Kill Bills and own both of them. My preference is for Spanish films. Particularly Pedro Almodovar. I don't watch foreign films nearly as much as I'd like to, because I just have too many other mainstream movies I want to watch first. I also have to admit to a fondness for Japanese flicks. I saw "Shall We Dance" in the original Japanese and can not understand for the life of me why anyone would want to ruin it by remaking it in English. Another one I liked in Japanese was "August Rain." Man, did I cry buckets over that one.

I LOVED Kill Bill 1 and only liked KB 2. I didn't find part 2 satisfying as an ending. Uma just rocked it so hard. I didn't think she had it in her but I was impressed as hell. Tough, vulnerable, kick-ass, tender, funny, tragic: she nailed it all.

I hate Peter Jackson and his kill the monkey movie.

Kong gained him no additional love from me, but he is the guy that gave me Ian McKellen as Gandalf. That buys a lot of cred.

Oh God. Kong was awful. And why can't Naomi Watts give a decent performance? She was so great in Mulholland Drive, and has been so awful in everything since (with the exception of 21 Grams, but I didn't think that movie was very good).

I thought she was decent enough in The Ring, where she actually convinced me she was scared out of her wits. Admittedly Samara is creepier than King Kong, but you'd think she could sell terror while being slung around like Kong's arm weight in an aerobics class, or almost falling off the top of the Empire State Building.