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[Polonius]

I saw an advance screening of "Kill Bill" last week ... it is that violent, so don't go unless you enjoy severed body parts and jets of blood.

[lelio]

and had John Travolta stab a four-inch needle into Uma Thurman's heart

I thought that part was pretty funny. Serves him right for hanging out with bubblegummers.

But anyway, I find it amusing that Disney doesn't want to touch Mel Gibson's film but thinks that putting this out in the theaters is better.

[sticker]

when I heard the title, I thought it was about hitlery's plan to run for president

[Servant of the 9]

GREAT

As long as whiney mommy groups oppose excessive violence, I'm in favor of it.

Gotta train kids to deal with the real world somehow.
This will certainly produce a better class of young adults than the excessive Bambiism of the '70s and '80s did.

So9

[metalboy]

When you lack creativity, what do you do? Turn to violence. It`s what infants do. They haven`t reached the stage yet where they can create, so they bang and break their toys. Just like rap...can`t create anything original so you take the other guys melodies and curse over them.

HULK SMASH!

[MediaMole]

"Snuff-porn?" Gimme a break.

Gotta actually kill someone on screen to qualify. Special effects don't count. It's fake blood with fake body parts.

[Skooz]

This just posted on Drudge:

DISNEY DISTANCE AFTER TARANTINO RECOMMENDS BLOODY 'KILL BILL' TO BOYS AND GIRLS

**Exclusive**

Top WALT DISNEY CO. executives are growing increasingly uncomfortable with the shock nature of films coming from DISNEY's substudio MIRAMAX, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned, just as director Quentin Tarantino recommends his new blood-gushing movie to both boys and girls!

MIRAMAX honcho Harvey Weinstein retained DISNEY chair Michael Eisner's legal nemesis Bert Fields in a symbolic gesture, foreshadowing a possible split, Los Angeles sources tell DRUDGE.

MORE

The VILLAGE VOICE last week declared MIRAMAX/DISNEY's KILL BILL "The Most Violent American Movie Ever Made," and the HOLLYWOOD REPORTER warned it "oozes, drips, flows, gushes, splatters... scalps, limbs and heads are freely removed from characters' bodies."

If you are a "girl or boy you must go and see KILL BILL and you will have a damn good time... boys will have a great time, girls will have a dose of girl power," Tarantino said this weekend in London.

When pressed about his KILL BILL recommendation for "girls and boys," Tarantino explained the film would be okay for kids starting at 12-years old.

"If you are a cool parent out there go take your kids to the movie," he told a reporter.

A top DISNEY source reveals chairman Michael Eisner has become concerned MIRAMAX is pushing the envelope too far with KILL BILL.

"Look, the movie is ultimately a WALT DISNEY concern, we've moved so far away from PINOCCHIO and BAMBI," a top DISNEY source said from Burbank. "[KILL BILL] has led to a deep reassesment of the situation and relationship [with MIRAMAX]."

Developing...

[Bullish]

A huge waste of celluloid.

[Abcdefg]

That wasn't Uma Thurman. I believe it was Rosanna Arquette who got the needle.

[MonroeDNA]

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[Petronski]

BOYCOTT DISNEY: a vortex of seductive evil™

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[LadyDoc]

ah, but the studios won't touch mel gibson's film because it is too "controversial".

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/995539/posts

[Cicero]

Violence CAN be justified when it is properly used with genuine moral vision, and when and the art is genuinely great. For instance, consider The Iliad. Or if you are talking movies, consider "Red River."

But anyone who thinks either Eisner's Disney or Quentin Tarrantino is about to produce great art, or for that matter even mediocre art, is smoking crack. Disney hasn't made a great movie in decades. "The Lion King" was a pretty good movie but hardly a great one, and nothing since then has been worth seeing at all.

[OmegaMan]

I thought this movie was gonna be crap, but now I'm intrigued. This is the best publicity this film could ever have.

[TrappedInLiberalHell]

The same people that promote this 'art' refuse to show the footage from 9/11.

[King Prout]

The author needs to give it a rest.
The theater managers need to keep the widdle kiddies out.
Problem solved.

[Prodigal Son]

The actual article:

The films of Quentin Tarantino are not exactly known for his use of puppies and daffodils. Indeed, leaning more towards the ear-slicing, head-exploding end of the spectrum than that which makes Disney so much money has, along with dementedly funny dialogue and pop-culture references, become something of a trademark for the director. But having not directed a movie since Jackie Brown in 1997, Tarantino's lust for flying claret has mounted up and will, according to Lucy Liu, turn more than a few stomachs when Kill Bill reaches our screens.

"It's so violent," she told press in Beijing while promoting Charlie's Angels 2. "People will leave the movie theatre or get sick in the movie theatre. There's so much violence that it becomes not numbing, but almost comedic. There's a scene where there's so much violence that the colour of the film goes into black and white, so that the blood looks like oil. It's cinematic; it's art."

From the man who put Michael Madsen into audiences' nightmares and had John Travolta stab a four-inch needle into Uma Thurman's heart, you can bet that Liu isn't exaggerating either. But don't be put off seeing what's sure to be a quality film by the odd severed limb. "You can take it to a different level, and show what violence is in such a heightened manner that you don't think of it as violence anymore," says Liu. "You think of it as a language."

It's not mindless violence for the sake of it, it's art, see?