The Real Reason We’re All Annoyed With Quentin Tarantino

With nothing but a new cut of Kill Bill to offer, Quentin Tarantino has gone into semiretirement right as American cinema is fighting for its very life. And to make matters worse, he won’t stop talking smack.

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The American movie is in a fight for its life. Quentin Tarantino’s peers have all taken up arms, while he’s opted to sit back, heckling from the sidelines. (Miguel Medina / AFP via Getty Images)


All the glowing reviews for the four-hour-and-forty-one minute version of Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill — originally released as two separate films in 2003 and 2004 — are a sickening read if you actually go and see the damn thing, now titled Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair. So little is changed, it’s shocking. It’s essentially the first two installments stuck together with a fifteen-minute intermission in between, an effect you could achieve at home by simply watching both films with a long bathroom break in between.

In case you need a reminder, Kill Bill is the saga of a top assassin named Beatrix Kiddo (Uma Thurman) who emerges from a four-year coma and seeks protracted, gory revenge on her former mentor-lover Bill (David Carradine) and the hit squad who nearly killed her.

When Beatrix finally awakens, it seems she’s also lost the baby she had been carrying. This is yet another vital reason that, in the list of revenge killings she plans to do, written down neatly in a notebook, she puts the death of the baby’s actual father last after the planned murders of hit squad members Vernita Green (Vivica A. Fox), O-Ren Ishii (Lucy Liu), Elle Driver (Daryl Hannah), and Bill’s brother Budd (Michael Madsen). Then finally, she declares, “I am going to kill Bill.”

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