Thread by @VespertilioGem

There's a tradition where @AnaMardoll watches the "Kill Bill" movies (2003-04), just to remember how bad a director Quentin Tarantino really is. Now it's #kissmatewatches turn!

CW: rape, racism, gore, and maybe more!

#Kissmatewatches I know about maybe one scene in Vol1. I remember these movies advertising, but nothing else after that.
I haven't seen any Tarantino directed movies, but I did see "Sin City" and "From Dusk Til Dawn" which he helped write.

#Kissmatewatches I will be separating Vol1 and Vol2 into two different threads. I'll link to Vol2 at the end of Vol1.
I'll give my ratings to each individual movie, then to both together.
This one is gonna be a helluva ride, so let's go!

#Kissmatewatches Oh good, the first thing we see is a quote about revenge while a woman is covered in blood and sweat. Oh, Uma Thurman, you deserved better.
"I bet I could fry an egg on your head right now if I wanted to."
Was that meant to be intimidating? That was silly!

#Kissmatewatches Looks like Bill is wiping up blood from her, but it's so hard to tell since all we see is Uma's face upclose and beaten to hell.
"Bill, it's your baby-" GUNSHOT AND CUT TO TITLE.
OH OK JUST DO THAT I GUESS
DON'T GIVE ANYTHING TO THE VIEWER JUST YET

#Kissmatewatches Credits to "Bang, Bang" by Nancy Sinatra.
"CHAPTER ONE (2)" ???
Pasadena, CA. The Bells, residence.
Uma walks up, rings the bell, and is greeted by Fox. Suddenly SIRENS AND RED FLASHES TO FOX STANDING OVER UMA'S PREGNANT BODY READY TO STRIKE HER DOWN. FIGHT!!

#Kissmatewatches Already, I feel like I'm not given any chance to breathe or enjoy the story. It's "THINGS ARE HAPPENING SO ENJOY THEM" and I'm not ok with being constantly shoved into a fast-flashing light-up screen.

#Kissmatewatches Uma and Fox fight with no music, save the shattering of glass and the occasional "come on, bitch" from Fox.
A bus rolls by and Fox's child walks in and starts asking questions. Uma tries to introduce herself and the name is bleeped out. Why? Is it a bad word?

#Kissmatewatches Fox's child (Nikki) says she's 4. I immediately call BS as Nikki looks 8-10 and got off a school bus alone. 4-year-olds don't even go to school. In fact, the actress was 8 years old! What the fuck, who made this choice?! Why am I pissed about a blatant lie???

#Kissmatewatches Fox tells Nikki to wait upstairs, then offers coffee to Uma.
And the dialogue begins.
It's so BAD! No one talks like this. It's full of preteen-level cussing and crudity. I feel *numb* for having heard it. All I know is that these two women hate each other.

#Kissmatewatches Uma tells Fox that she plans on killing Fox and her family to "get even". Fox plans a fight date, then pulls out "Kaboom" cereal for Nikki. Uma mentions Fox being the best with an edged weapon. "Fuck you, bitch" is the response. GUN IN THE CEREAL BOX! Fox fires!

#Kissmatewatches Shot goes wide, Uma kicks the mug to distract, and throws a knife from her belt into Fox's chest! Nikki saw everything, but Uma reassures her.
"I didn't mean to do this in front of you... I'm sorry. But your mother had it coming." I HATE THIS WRITING!!!

#Kissmatewatches Uma tells Nikki to fight her if she grows up and still feels "raw about it".
Uma gets in the truck and crosses off name #2. (Oh, like at the title card.) Name #1 is already crossed off. When did that happen? Are we time-jumping?
….A-Are we time jumping?

#Kissmatewatches A man Japanese is being said. Something about how a warrior must do everything (including getting rid of emotions) to vanquish every enemy (even if it's God or Buddha). That... is a very White Man thing. Shinto, Buddhism, and Bushido do NOT agree with this!

#Kissmatewatches Uma rides a Pussy Wagon? Is it a reclaim of the word? I doubt.
CHAPTER TWO
El Paso, TX. Uma dressed as a bride lies in a crime scene. A sheriff with a ton of aviator glasses drives in. Nine deaths with a ton of bullet casings.

#Kissmatewatches Sheriff says it was the work of professionals because the "colors are all in the line" with a steady hand. What? Then he's creepily mentioning how pretty the bride is. Ew, dude, be professional yourself! Then he calls her a cocksucker!! WHAT THE FUCK?!

#Kissmatewatches I'm just going to make a tweet about the dialogue or I'm here all night.
It's SO painful! Every line is either crude, creepy, racist, sexist, childishly-written, or just plain bad. And it wouldn't be terrible if it wasn't so damn PROUD of how ""adult"" it sounds!

#Kissmatewatches Turns out Uma is alive! She wakes in a hospital bed. A woman with an eyepatch walks in and her clothing looks like it's outlined like those "cartoon 3D backpacks". The other nurses aren't dressed like that. Oh, but she dresses like the other nurses now! With- omg

#Kissmatewatches She looks REDICULOUS! An eye patch with the Red Cross on it and one of those little white cotton hats! She looks like she's about to perform a strip tease to "Doctor, Doctor", not commit murder! I'm laughing at how silly this looks!

#Kissmatewatches So the nurse, or Elle Driver, walks with a needle full of poison to Uma. A call from Bill interrupts the act. He refuses to Uma in her sleep because it would lower them (or dishonor them, maybe?). Miss Driver isn't happy about that, but leaves all the same.

#Kissmatewatches FOUR YEARS LATER
A mosquito wakes Uma and she gets some violent flashbacks to the moment she was shot. After mourning the loss of her child (don't know what happened to it), she mentions "four years". How does she know how long she's been out???

#Kissmatewatches CW: Rape
Two men walk in (trucker and nurse) and start talking. The nurse is basically running a HORRIBLE side-business of coma patients getting raped for a price.
It took me a long time to say that without puking. That should explain my thoughts.

#Kissmatewatches CW: Infertility and Rape
Oh, and the nurse says the trucker can cum inside her all he wants because "her plumbing doesn't work". Can't hit her or leave marks, but leaving behind physical evidence because she's infertile is totally cool!
EAT SHIT AND DIE.

#Kissmatewatches CW: Rape
Can we also talk about how she had to lay there mourning her life and baby while listening to someone sell her body like he's done it a million times? Because that also happened. And he probably has in the last four years.
THIS IS SICK AND WRONG AND BAD.

#Kissmatewatches
CW: Rape and Infertility and maybe Miscarriage
This is handled like a shock value torture scene rather than the serious subject it is. This doesn't belong in an over-the-top action B-list movie, it belongs in serious-toned movies!

#Kissmatewatches Moving on!
Uma falls out of bed, her legs not working yet. She hamstrings him and bashes his head in the door. She steals the "Pussy Wagon" keys, scrubs, and a wheelchair and goes to the Pussy Wagon. I don't think this was to reclaim the word anymore...

#Kissmatewatches The main heroine (known only by her relation to a man) is forced to struggle into a misogynistic and sexist vehicle in order to survive and exact revenge against those who tried to kill her.
This is a horrible metaphor and I am already dreading the rest of this.

#Kissmatewatches Now Uma wiggles her toes to get out of coma atrophy. She waxes poetic about how revenge going in one's favor is proof that one is doing god's will. She remembers that The Deadly Viper Assassination Squad attacked her, so she's going to kill them first.

#Kissmatewatches I know I'm white, but you're not supposed to pronounce both i's in the name Ishii, correct?
Oh-Ren I-Shi vs. Oh-Ren I-Shi-I
That... That sounds like anyone could've researched, found that flaw, and edited it easily enough. So what the fuck?

#Kissmatewatches They show O-Ren's backstory in artsy anime form. Her mother and father were killed in front of her at the age of 9 by Yakuza. This feels not only cliché and arrogant, but racist. Appropriation of animation style, inaccurate Yakuza depiction, and "Dragon Lady".

#Kissmatewatches CW: Pedophilia
"FORTUNATELY FOR HER, THE BOSS WAS A PEDOPHILE." Just fucking punch me in the throat already.
While fucking the Yakuza boss at age 11, she kills him with a sword. Then becomes a top assassin by age 20. Then attacks Uma.

#Kissmatewatches Uma gets on a plane and goes to Okinawa.
CHAPTER FOUR
She walks into a Japanese bar where the owner talks to her and teaches her some Japanese. He then bickers on and off with a seemingly lazy worker.
This is a funny scene. "How is it ruined?" I say with a sigh.

#Kissmatewatches Uma mentions she's looking for Hattori Hanzo's steel to get rid of vermin. His whole demeanor changes and he's suddenly taking her more seriously.
So she faked not knowing Japanese the whole time because... why? As a gotcha? It wasn't very good, nor subtle.

#Kissmatewatches Wait. Needless Japanese comedy routine, Fascination with Katana and similar swords, Obsession with Japanese media, Inaccurate but Constant push of East Asian morals and teachings...

IS QUENTIN TARATINO A WEABOO?! I GOT MONEY HE IS!!

#Kissmatewatches Hanzo says he doesn't make swords anymore, but she pushes for him to give her one because Hanzo taught Bill (fighting lessons, I'm guessing?). Uma's character feels like a Karen getting a manager (or BEING a manager) to fire the people who attacked her from LIFE.

#Kissmatewatches Hanzo agrees to make her one, even though he's done making killing weapons. Because this trope isn't overdone to shit.
Wow, they got actual Japanese actors in this. I feel sorry for the director fetishizing their culture so openly in front of them.

#Kissmatewatches CHAPTER FIVE
There's a female lawyer named Sophie Fatale. And a 17-year-old Japanese schoolgirls named Gogo who kills perverts. And some guy named Johnny Mo, nothing else about him. All of them work for O-Ren.

#Kissmatewatches A Yakuza boss mentions her mixed blood, and she kills him in a very anime-esque way.
Ever since I realized I'm watching a Weaboo movie, I've been SUPER uneasy. There's nothing wrong with appreciating other cultures. Never fetishize it. Realize it's not YOURS.

#Kissmatewatches CW: Racism
There's a LOT of Japanese culture and media appropriation here, to the point I have to not keep pointing out every little thing. This is SUPER racist to Japanese people and insulting to the culture. I'm super angry about it, but I have to move on.

#Kissmatewatches Oh-Ren tells them all to go fuck themselves if they hate her heritage. Cool.
Uma goes to Tokyo and- Is that a Jazz version of "Bee Chasing the Czar"? What the fuck???
And Uma has a sword ON THE PLANE WITH HER?! POST 9/11?! This is ridiculous and surreal!!!

#Kissmatewatches If there's ONE GOOD THING about this movie... the soundtrack is awesome.
Uma tracks Oh-Ren to a club. She finds the lawyer in the bathroom and gets the sirens again. Maybe something cool will finally happen?

#Kissmatewatches Uma cuts off Fatale's arm and I can finally talk about the Tarantino Squirts!
Blood loves to pour forth from a wound like a fire hydrant in Tarantino films. And I feel it's a part of his weaboo side. Old ultra-violence anime titles LOVED to have blood like this.

#Kissmatewatches The problem is: media style makes all the difference. Blood gushing out in animation gives it expression and a feeling of quantity and panic. In live-action, it's unnecessary. The unneeded blood amount here just makes it look silly and over-the-top.

#Kissmatewatches And having it be over-the-top is FINE, if your WHOLE MOVIE can be silly and over-the-top. But again, Kill Bill is trying to take this and be PROUD of how SMART it sounds while also showing off its anime figurines in its filthy, odd-smelling room. So no points!

#Kissmatewatches The club clears and Uma fights the Yakuza under O-Ren. Soon, it's just O-Ren and Gogo. Gogo fights Uma with a spike-ball-and-chain.
If this was JUST an action movie, it wouldn't be too bad. The fight scenes are actually decent! But it's NOT and it SUFFERS.

#Kissmatewatches Gogo dies in a very BS way (really, THAT killed her?!) and now it's just Uma and O-Ren. After a REALLY SILLY Trix Rabbit line, the rest of the Yakuza storm in and... a boring fight scene happens. I just praised the fight scenes! Why is it failing to deliver?!

#Kissmatewatches I think the movie went black-and-white to lessen the gore but it comes off as artistically pompous. We're not allowed to take in anything because of all the fast cuts and editing. If we were allowed to sit back a bit and just soak it in, it'd be FUN!! Instead...

#Kissmatewatches After a LONG FIGHT SCENE where NOTHING happens of consequence (they got a lot of trailer-shots here), Uma makes her way to O-Ren. They go back and forth in a mix of Japanese and English. And I have to take back my music like! Bad music choice! Latino mix? Here?

#Kissmatewatches Also, there's no tension here. WE KNOW UMA WINS. She kills Fox after this! Dragging this out is BORING, not COOL.

Oh, and gore happens. Like, "see O-Ren's brain" gore.
And with that, O-Ren is dead.

#Kissmatewatches Uma throws Fatale at a hospital after torturing her for information. Bill finds Fatale and knows what Uma knows. Because Uma wants him to know that she plans on killing them all. That's a bad plan, because now they can all prepare for your attacks! DUH!

#Kissmatewatches We see Uma making the Death List and hear Bill ask Fatale "Does she know her daughter is still alive?" Then Credits!
SWEET BLESSED CREDITS!

#Kissmatewatches This movie is SHIT! I feel like I lost a part of myself for having watched it...

0/10 NEVER AGAIN! Every time it was good, it RUINED! AND IT WASN'T GOOD OFTEN!

But there's still Vol2... I shall tackle it tomorrow. I need a LONG SLEEP after that marathon of BAD.

Here's the link to Kill Bill Vol2 #Kissmatewatches!

https://twitter.com/VespertilioGem/status/1269297837155721222?s=20