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Kill Bill: "The Whole Bloody Affair" 4 discs

post #1 of 54
7/6/07 at 5:44am
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Amazon Lists Four-Disc, NC-17, 247 minutes Kill Bill: "The Whole Bloody Affair" DVD edition for November

http://www.amazon.com/Kill-Bill-Whol...dp/B000R7HY0A/
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post #2 of 54
7/6/07 at 5:49am

Re: Kill Bill: "The Whole Bloody Affair" 4 discs

Itll be interesting to see it as one film for those of us who havent.

I wonder if itll just play back to back or whether things will actually be reedited for the one film version.
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post #3 of 54
7/6/07 at 11:32am

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I wonder if itll just play back to back or whether things will actually be reedited for the one film version.

As far as I know there are only minor, non-structural changes made and that they still pretty much play as-is and that there's even an intermission between "volumes".

The combined length will make it necessary to split the film up on two discs anyways so the intermission doesn't bother me.

I have a feeling that a lot of people are gonna be expecting massive changes and those people are gonna be very disappointed.
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post #4 of 54
7/6/07 at 11:52am

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I hope they remove the "recap" scene from the beginning of Kill Bill 2. It was the scene with Uma Thurman driving a car telling the audience what happened in the first movie. It was kind of lame.
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post #5 of 54
7/6/07 at 12:00pm

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Nice concept. I have no interest unless there is an HD optical disc offered. Will wait it out otherwise.
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post #6 of 54
7/6/07 at 7:04pm

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Originally Posted by AaronMan
I hope they remove the "recap" scene from the beginning of Kill Bill 2. It was the scene with Uma Thurman driving a car telling the audience what happened in the first movie. It was kind of lame.

I am sure they will remove that scene from the FOUR DVD SET.
You can count on it.
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post #7 of 54
7/6/07 at 8:26pm

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Originally Posted by AaronMan
I hope they remove the "recap" scene from the beginning of Kill Bill 2. It was the scene with Uma Thurman driving a car telling the audience what happened in the first movie. It was kind of lame.
I like that scene and it works as the opening of Volume Two but it wouldn't make much sense if they keep it in this version.
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post #8 of 54
7/6/07 at 8:30pm

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I hope they remove the "recap" scene from the beginning of Kill Bill 2. It was the scene with Uma Thurman driving a car telling the audience what happened in the first movie. It was kind of lame.
I remember reading the script on the internet a years or so before the movie was released, and from memory, I'm pretty sure that was actually the first scene in the script.
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post #9 of 54
7/7/07 at 11:10pm

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Originally Posted by AaronMan
I hope they remove the "recap" scene from the beginning of Kill Bill 2. It was the scene with Uma Thurman driving a car telling the audience what happened in the first movie. It was kind of lame.

When it played as one movie at Cannes, it was the Japanese versions of the two movies, but without the last scene of Vol. 1 (the bride making her list on the plane), and without the first scene, which you referred to, from Vol. 2.

Certainly, a few changes will be made, but if we do see it in the movie, I think it would have to be as Matthew described.
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post #10 of 54
7/8/07 at 2:23am

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Just in case anyone was interested, I decided to go in search of the script I was talking about. And here it is. It' s an interesting read - it also has the famed "Yuki's Revenge" segment that Tarantino cut before filming, in which Go-Go has a twin sister that tries to take revenge on the Bride for Go-Go's death.
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post #11 of 54
7/8/07 at 8:59am

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For a while there, Tarantino was talking about doing "Yuki's Revenge" as an animated sequence, and sticking it back into THE WHOLE BLOODY AFFAIR.
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post #12 of 54
7/8/07 at 10:00am

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Nice concept. I have no interest unless there is an HD optical disc offered. Will wait it out otherwise.

Ditto. No HD version = NO SALE!
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post #13 of 54
7/8/07 at 12:12pm

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Yeah, I waited and waited for this, and now they've held off for so long that I'm now into the HD discs. I'm going to pass knowing that eventually this will make it onto one of the HD formats...

See Weinstein Co? This is what happens when you sit on something for too long. You lose a customer.
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post #14 of 54
7/8/07 at 2:06pm

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Originally Posted by Carlo Medina
Yeah, I waited and waited for this, and now they've held off for so long that I'm now into the HD discs. I'm going to pass knowing that eventually this will make it onto one of the HD formats...

See Weinstein Co? This is what happens when you sit on something for too long. You lose a customer.

You gain a customer here. I have no need for the HD version and I'm glad it's coming to regular DVD.
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post #15 of 54
7/8/07 at 4:40pm

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Ya's fancy pants, all a ya's.
I want mine on VHS.


Well, actually S-VHS.
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post #16 of 54
7/8/07 at 5:07pm

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Originally Posted by MatthewLouwrens
Just in case anyone was interested, I decided to go in search of the script I was talking about. It' s an interesting read - it also has the famed "Yuki's Revenge" segment that Tarantino cut before filming, in which Go-Go has a twin sister that tries to take revenge on the Bride for Go-Go's death.

Yeah! I read the Kill Bill script before the movies came out and Yuki's Revenge was the sequence I was most looking forward to seeing on the screen. It was so epic and would have been easily the highlight especially if I recall correctly that the whole sequence was to be done in one take?

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Originally Posted by Mike*Sch
For a while there, Tarantino was talking about doing "Yuki's Revenge" as an animated sequence, and sticking it back into THE WHOLE BLOODY AFFAIR.

...please, please, please... please! Be true!
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post #17 of 54
7/8/07 at 8:45pm

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Originally Posted by MatthewLouwrens
It' s an interesting read - it also has the famed "Yuki's Revenge" segment that Tarantino cut before filming, in which Go-Go has a twin sister that tries to take revenge on the Bride for Go-Go's death.
More "Go Go" is a good thing!!!
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post #18 of 54
7/8/07 at 8:49pm

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Originally Posted by Carlo Medina
See Weinstein Co? This is what happens when you sit on something for too long. You lose a customer.
When other versions of "KB" were announced for home video release, people screamed it was to soon! Now people are saying its too late?
"KB" just can't win!
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post #19 of 54
7/8/07 at 9:05pm

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No, Weinstein could have won, had they followed the LoTR method, which was to be up front about the upcoming releases, release the theatrical versions and then in a short, pre-announced amount of time, released the extended edition.

It didn't help that the Japanese got an extended version not long after the initial U.S. DVD release, but now it's been over a year (perhaps over two I've lost track of time) and some people have moved on to the newer home theater formats.

I'm not scorning them for this release, I too am glad it came out. Rather I blame them for sitting on something that they've had in the can for quite a while (and yes, I'm equal opportunity, I'm PO'd at New Line for sitting on the director's cut of Dark City, which should have been released a while ago).

If it had taken this long to get the extended edition together that would be one thing, but from what I've read it seems like this has been finished for quite some time.

In any case, it's nothing that I have on the actual product. Eventually it will be released on HD, and I'll snap it up when it does. Just expressing my feelings over what I feel was an unnecessary delay. Rather than see my opinion as some attack on the release (which it's not) ask yourself this: would you have purchased this 1-2 years ago? From what I hear, it was ready to go then.
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post #20 of 54
7/9/07 at 1:01am

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Originally Posted by pitt_norton
...please, please, please... please! Be true!

I think that time has passed.
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post #21 of 54
7/9/07 at 7:17am

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Originally Posted by Joe Karlosi
You gain a customer here. I have no need for the HD version and I'm glad it's coming to regular DVD.

You missed the point.

For those of us who have moved on to the next format, this is no news at all.
It will be a rental at best.

If this was released when it should have been (3 years ago), it would have been a must buy.

Now, I don't care if they delay it another 5 years.

Still, I'm not sure why they wouldn't release it on HD since the studio supports the format.
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post #22 of 54
7/9/07 at 7:25am

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The 'whole bloody affair' cut has been in the can for awhile. It played at Cannes last year and in Austin back in Oct.. Quentin had held off working on the special edition to take a breather from the whole Kill Bill experience. They could have released a movie-only DVD of the extended cut, then this SE would be a triple-dip.
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post #23 of 54
7/9/07 at 8:00am

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Exactly my point Doug! (though you said it much more clearly).

Weinstein didn't gain any customers with this move. Everyone in this thread who says they are buying...would you not have bought this 2-3 years ago? So really there is no gain by them sitting on a finished product for years. Yet a few of us, like Doug and I, grew disenchanted in waiting, and moved on to the HD formats. So by us not purchasing, a customer is indeed lost. And yes, I shamelessly admit I would have double or triple dipped in this (and probably even bought the original releases). As it is, Weinstein, Miramax, et. al. have $0 from me with regards to Kill Bill, when they could have easily had over $100.
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post #24 of 54
7/9/07 at 10:34am

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Originally Posted by Doug Schiller
You missed the point.

For those of us who have moved on to the next format, this is no news at all.
It will be a rental at best.

If this was released when it should have been (3 years ago), it would have been a must buy.

Now, I don't care if they delay it another 5 years.

Still, I'm not sure why they wouldn't release it on HD since the studio supports the format.

Better yet, maybe you should wait for SuperDuperHHHD before buying it, or perhaps PolkaDotRay or 3-D-DVD?
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post #25 of 54
7/9/07 at 10:42am

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I own a Blu Ray player, and i have to say my SD DVD buying has not slowed at all. I will buy this, and i will buy any DVD thats priced right. Unlike $35 bare bones Blu Ray discs.
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post #26 of 54
7/9/07 at 6:06pm

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Originally Posted by Joe Karlosi
Better yet, maybe you should wait for SuperDuperHHHD before buying it, or perhaps PolkaDotRay or 3-D-DVD?
I know you put a smiley to make it sound like a joke, but this has nothing to do with "waiting for a better format" [the underlying sentiment behind your smiley]. It's the fact that Weinstein and Co. had this in the can for several years and sat on it for apparently no good reason.
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post #27 of 54
7/10/07 at 3:07am

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Originally Posted by Carlo Medina
I know you put a smiley to make it sound like a joke, but this has nothing to do with "waiting for a better format" [the underlying sentiment behind your smiley]. It's the fact that Weinstein and Co. had this in the can for several years and sat on it for apparently no good reason.

"No good reason"? It's their business. Anyway, enough of this -- I'm thrilled I'll finally be getting this version, and there's nothing else to say, really. And I wasn't joking with my smiley, I was quite serious.
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post #28 of 54
7/10/07 at 5:00pm

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Since I didn't buy the separate releases this Whole Bloody Affair interests me greatly.
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post #29 of 54
7/10/07 at 5:49pm

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Why is everyone tripping about this not coming to HD formats? In the HD software section, Kill Bill is on the TBA list of upcoming titles, so it's definately on the way. Much like Trading Places, with the same special features on both standard, and HD release, I'm sure the Blu-ray version won't be a bare bones release. Why on earth would it be?
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post #30 of 54
7/10/07 at 6:29pm

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Originally Posted by Carlo Medina
I know you put a smiley to make it sound like a joke, but this has nothing to do with "waiting for a better format" [the underlying sentiment behind your smiley]. It's the fact that Weinstein and Co. had this in the can for several years and sat on it for apparently no good reason.

Tarantino has been quite busy the past couple of years so I'm sure his attention was with DEATH PROOF and not just doing extras for this DVD release.
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