[garymill]

Well now that Nancy's thread seems to be back on DVD/Videos. I am going to get this started with discussing.

I saw this movie last fall when it first hit theaters. Before seeing it, I already knew that Quentin Tarantino had made the movie so long that it had to be split into two parts and also that it contained highly stylized violence, and not much back story concerning the characters. All we really knew was that the main character, Birdie played by Uma Thurman had been shot in the head and left for dead at her own wedding 4 years earlier, along with the killing of the rest of the wedding party. She had also been pregnant at the time. Birdie wakes up in a hospital room after being in a coma for 4 years, escapes, and vows revenge upon the people responsible for this, her former gang of female assigns led by Bill (David Carradine). One by one she murders most of her former associates. One of the most interesting fight scenes was all done purely in Anime.

The movie to me seemed to be mostly a lot of martial arts type fight sequences. You could say that they were all very impressive, but I would have preferred the movie to have been more character driven, then all of the sudden after one large fight scene, the movie just ended. I knew about part two coming, so this did not come as a shock to me, I just got up and started walking out, actually the first one out. Everyone else it seemed was just sort of stunned, and was still sitting in their seats not realizing the movie had really ended.

All the missing character development did actually come in volume 2. I really enjoyed this one. I also really enjoyed reading the Rolling Stone article about Quentin Tarantino and Uma Thurman. It seems that Uma came up with the general idea for the movie about ten years ago when they were filming Pulp Fiction. Quentin considers Uma his Muse, and Uma’s ex husband supposedly has at times resented the relationship the two had in that way. Many people often wonder if the relationship between Quentin and Uma actually goes deeper than that, but both of them flatly deny it. I thought that David Carradine was just incredible in the role of Bill. Hard to believe that Warren Beatty was originally supposed to have had this role.

One movie that I will write about soon is Stuck On You, about two conjoined twins, played by Matt Damon Greg Kinnear. I knew the type of movies that the Farley Brothers were responsible fo and had serious doubts about wanting to see it. I had rented this via NetFlix as I could not think of another movie to, and when I received it, kept putting off watching it, thinking the premise was just too off the wall. I was very pleasantly surprised. Something for another review.

Still on the subject of Movie celebrities, I was doing some work on CyberMacro in restoring some of the old content to the new web site. I noticed that a few people were doing a Google search for a Nadine Barner, and ending up on CyberMacro viewing a page which is a log of a chat we had with Kaare Bursell over 5 years ago. http://www.cybermacro.com/Macrobiotic_Articles/CyberMacro/Cybermacro_Chat_32899/
Turns out that Nadine has been Gwyneth Paltrow’s macro chef for the past couple of years, and years ago she participated in our Sunday Chats.

Small World.
Gary