Comments on: Kill Bill Vol. 2 News: Teaser Trailer and Release Date.

By: Redpimp

Redpimp — Fri, 06 Feb 2004 02:13:48 +0000

Believe it or not i am one of the millions who have been praying hard and hoping that miramaXE would come round and realease HERO already. I know i will enjoy it because i downloaded the trailers months and months ago. One wonders however how a Kill bill fan can also appreciate
Hero. One movie is the antithesis of the other.
Where we have expert martial artists the other movie has wannabe amateurs who can barely act.
One has a deep story while the other is just plain flat with no credible story line. One utilises space age Cinematography and visual effects while the other boasts of supposedly pure
film making with few visual effects (bleh)

WHAT GIVES!

By: Bubba

Bubba — Mon, 26 Jan 2004 18:52:10 +0000

Kill Bill is getting moved because Miramax wants to premiere it at Cannes (where the new Wong Kar Wai flick will also premiere, btw) … as far as the Gibson thing, Bill would actually be a pretty good piece of counter-programming …

Having seen both films many, many times I have to say Hero is superior to Crouching Tiger (which I also love) in every way. The cinematography is stunning (pretty much a given where Doyle is concerned), it’s got two of the best dramatic talents in the world (Tony Leung and Maggie Chung) and the two best fighting talents in Asia (Donnie Yen and Jet Li) who are decent actors as well, Zhang Ziyi who is mighty talented and mighty easy to look at, incredible fight choreography and a script with an awful lot of depth. Everybody I know who’s seen it feels the same way … Yimou’s original cut (20 minutes longer … Miramax made him cut it because Weinstein is a dumbass) is now available on EVD in China and should be coming to DVD any time now …

By: Day-vuhl

Day-vuhl — Mon, 26 Jan 2004 11:09:57 +0000

Again, all on its own, one thing that Hero’s got that really stands out – is simply the cinematography – it’s really a gorgeous movie even just to literally look at.

Oh yeah. And fighting.

By: Praetor

Praetor — Mon, 26 Jan 2004 11:03:47 +0000

This looks like a blend of “The Emperor and the Assasin” and “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon”. Exact same time as Emperor, with the same type of martial art fighting as in Crouching. Personally, i think it will be pretty good, but wont stop me from seeing Kill Bill 2 on that day. Emperor is a good movie in my opinion, so more movies in the same time period (and i mean exactly the same, with same people, lol) cant hurt at all.

By: Surajit

Surajit — Sun, 18 Jan 2004 10:24:45 +0000

“HERO” is an awesome movie by director Zhang Yimou. He’s made some brilliant movies before, one that got some acclaim in USA was “The Road Home”, starring Zhang Ziyi (who also stars in Crouching Tiger and Hero). Another awesome martial arts movie is “Ashes of Time”, by my personal favourite director Wong Kar-Wai … highly recommended!

By: Day-vuhl

Day-vuhl — Fri, 16 Jan 2004 15:58:01 +0000

That’s very true… No one’s gonna be talking about any other movie on ‘Gibson’s’ weekend, that’s for sure.

By: David Poe

David Poe — Fri, 16 Jan 2004 15:45:38 +0000

Kook theory, but still fun: Kill Bill 2 was planned for release less than a week before “The Passion of The Christ.” In addition to moving it after the first DVD came out, Is it possible they wanted a time where it would be less overshadowed by one of the most talked about movies so far this year?

Lame theory, maybe…but just a mention of that Gibson movie ’round some parts sends the mouths a-frothing.

By: Day-vuhl

Day-vuhl — Thu, 15 Jan 2004 21:27:44 +0000

If it helps at all – that trailer – well the first of the two anyway, in my own opinion, doesn’t do the martial choreography in the movie much justice.. cuz it is .. very yum.

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 15 Jan 2004 21:20:24 +0000

Yup. That Hero trailer kicks ass alright, and I’m not that big of a martial arts fan. I’ll see it for sure though assuming it goes into wide release.