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Originally posted by nanofever
Kill Bill - I wonder how much of the budget was devoted to prop body-parts and fake blood... B+
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THOSE WERE NOT PROPS!!! AAAAAAAAAA!!!! (Sorry)
Theatre: LOTR ROTK - 11 of 10. I have been waiting for this movie for 20 years, and Pete Jackson totally came through with it. The better than perfect (as in changing the standard for fantasy movies) rating should imply a complete lack of flaws, and, really there aren't any. Even what I expected to be the most disappointing thing about the movies, totally removing 3/4 of the end of the book, turned out to be exactly what was needed, given that the movie was 3½ hours long. Had they done the Scourging of the Shire, they would also have had to do an intermission, and Theatres don't like to do that any more (the bastards). But, honestly, I never expect to see a better movie than that if I live to be 1000.
DVD: X2
What rating this gets depends on what you're looking for. As a comic book on film, it really worked well, particularly as a Marvel comic, which are, as any avid comic reader knows, laden with cheese. The dialog was the kind you could almost see the speech bubbles, the acting was stiff, the plot sterotyped. Like I said, a comic book.
As an action film, it's excellent. The opening scene where Spoiler:
Nightcrawler gets into the Whitehouse and nearly knifes the president to death was both excellent and completely unexpected. At the end of the film Spoiler:
Jean Gray dies saving them all which is good, as it will dramatically improve X3, character wise if not in terms of scenery.
However, all the things that make it a good action move and an excellent comic movie make it a not quite as good as average movie overall. Stiff acting, silly plot, poor writing, cheesy ending vs perfect opening scene and state of the art and then some special effects. I don't consider it time wasted, and I will certainly watch it again, just not in an awful hurry.
5/10