24th November 2003, 2:16 PM
Bill Murray is the greatest. You should all go see Lost in Translation.
I loved Kill Bill, especially as it was one big tribute to some of my favorite genres (Samurai, martial arts, anime) and featured a ton of winks and nudges at people like me. The Shaw Bros. logo at the beginning of the film (Shaw Bros. is the big Hong Kong studio that dominated Asian cinema from the 60's to the early 90's), cameos from Shaw Bros. legend Gordon Liu (he played the main Crazy 88 guy and will also play the Kung Fu master in Volume 2), Sonny Chiba in a pretty sizable role (he played the sword maker, and he's a big Japanese MA and Samurai star from the 70's and 80's), music from a bunch of great Asian movies, the whole Master of the Flying Guillotine homage (the school girl with the big mace on a chain thingy), and far too many other things to mention here. I really loved it, especially knowing the fact that I was probably the only person in the theater that got all of the references. :)
I loved Kill Bill, especially as it was one big tribute to some of my favorite genres (Samurai, martial arts, anime) and featured a ton of winks and nudges at people like me. The Shaw Bros. logo at the beginning of the film (Shaw Bros. is the big Hong Kong studio that dominated Asian cinema from the 60's to the early 90's), cameos from Shaw Bros. legend Gordon Liu (he played the main Crazy 88 guy and will also play the Kung Fu master in Volume 2), Sonny Chiba in a pretty sizable role (he played the sword maker, and he's a big Japanese MA and Samurai star from the 70's and 80's), music from a bunch of great Asian movies, the whole Master of the Flying Guillotine homage (the school girl with the big mace on a chain thingy), and far too many other things to mention here. I really loved it, especially knowing the fact that I was probably the only person in the theater that got all of the references. :)