With all the gushing blood, I’m just glad that Mr T. refrained from quoting any topical Monty Python dialogue.
I read Roger Ebert’s 2-paragraph review of the film and he described the film as a “distillation of a genre…” Specifically, bad martial art movies from the seventies. As the proud owner of “Kill and Kill Again,” I’m a little confused as to why I enjoyed KillBill so much more than KillAgain. Most of you have seen KillBill, so I don’t need to describe its content. ‘Kill Again’ is the story of the world’s premier marital arts champion on a quest to rescue the world and the woman he loves from a megalomaniacal tyrant bent on global domination. Both films jump between a blurred sarcastic seriousness and both films also have shamelessly violent scenery. A typical scene in “Kill Again” will have the hero recruiting an old army buddy from a trailer park but on their way out, the buddy gets into a fight with his landlord over his unreturned security deposit. Ten minutes of honest kung fu action later, they leave the park. If you scale back Kill Bill thirty years and remove some of the technology and post, I think you’ll have the cultural equivalent of Kill Again. I suppose I’m just struggling to understand the ways that tastes change over time, but disregarding whatever that means, I want to encourage YOU, the viewer at home, to go out and rent the worst-looking movie you can find. Be it "Mr. Ice Cream Man " or Disney’s upcoming “Brother Bear,” a bad film gives you the perspective you need to enjoy good films and recognize other bad ones.
Goodness. I just inferred that enjoying a movie takes skill. If only one could get paid for enjoying a movie…..
Oh, and the spanking scene is the most beautiful thing I’ve seen in a long while.
mactoplac
Oct 24 2003
01:03 pm
With all the gushing blood, I’m just glad that Mr T. refrained from quoting any topical Monty Python dialogue.
I read Roger Ebert’s 2-paragraph review of the film and he described the film as a “distillation of a genre…” Specifically, bad martial art movies from the seventies. As the proud owner of “Kill and Kill Again,” I’m a little confused as to why I enjoyed KillBill so much more than KillAgain. Most of you have seen KillBill, so I don’t need to describe its content. ‘Kill Again’ is the story of the world’s premier marital arts champion on a quest to rescue the world and the woman he loves from a megalomaniacal tyrant bent on global domination. Both films jump between a blurred sarcastic seriousness and both films also have shamelessly violent scenery. A typical scene in “Kill Again” will have the hero recruiting an old army buddy from a trailer park but on their way out, the buddy gets into a fight with his landlord over his unreturned security deposit. Ten minutes of honest kung fu action later, they leave the park. If you scale back Kill Bill thirty years and remove some of the technology and post, I think you’ll have the cultural equivalent of Kill Again. I suppose I’m just struggling to understand the ways that tastes change over time, but disregarding whatever that means, I want to encourage YOU, the viewer at home, to go out and rent the worst-looking movie you can find. Be it "Mr. Ice Cream Man " or Disney’s upcoming “Brother Bear,” a bad film gives you the perspective you need to enjoy good films and recognize other bad ones.
Goodness. I just inferred that enjoying a movie takes skill. If only one could get paid for enjoying a movie…..
Oh, and the spanking scene is the most beautiful thing I’ve seen in a long while.