{"id":8959,"date":"2025-12-10T18:49:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T23:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/?p=8959"},"modified":"2026-03-10T19:19:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T23:19:32","slug":"kill-bill-the-whole-bloody-affair-is-a-glorified-double-feature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/kill-bill-the-whole-bloody-affair-is-a-glorified-double-feature\/","title":{"rendered":"Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair is a glorified double feature"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

My simplistic take on the mini-controversy over Quentin Tarantino casually bad-mouthing Paul Dano: he still talks about movies like a fan, not a professional. Pithy dismissals, sweeping generalizations, and professions of binary love or hate are for movie buffs on Letterboxd<\/a>, but are uncouth coming from a working filmmaker. See also Paul Schrader’s often blunt hot takes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this preamble is to cushion these half-formed thoughts:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I thought I had sentimental fondness for the two Kills Bill<\/em> from back in the day, but watching them again in the theater, back-to-back in this form, really tried my patience. Even if the original artistic intent was a single four-hour film, the Whole Bloody Affair<\/em> version strikes me as just fancy marketing speak for a double feature. I don’t think there was some great injustice done by releasing it in two halves in 2003 and 2004.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was also newly irritated by the mannered dialogue, which once sounded fun and fresh, but now sounds like baby talk from Juno<\/em>, Ned Flanders, or Jay & Silent Bob: skip diddly doo homeskillet, snoochie boochies, silly rabbit Trix are for kids, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It really stood out to me in this rewatch how much work the music is doing. Biggest example: imagine the entrance of O-Ren Ishii without Tomoyasu Hotei’s thunderous “Battle Without Honor or Humanity”, which was directly quoted from another movie soundtrack, only a few years old at that point. Younger fans may not remember that a big driver of Tarantino’s earlier films’ success was their best-selling CD compilation soundtracks. The mixtapes of their day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My simplistic take on the mini-controversy over Quentin Tarantino casually bad-mouthing Paul Dano: he still talks about movies like a fan, not a professional. Pithy dismissals, sweeping generalizations, and professions of binary love or hate are for movie buffs on Letterboxd, but are uncouth coming from a working filmmaker. 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