Heather, I was suprised I was so in love w/it too when I saw it. I do not like Tarrantino. Ever since reading a quote from him that said some film had "the best rape scene ever!"

Also fun dialogue be damned, his misogyny to me is as bad as anything from Snoop Dog, Dr Dre, Eminem et all...

I accidently saw "Kill Bill". A friend bought it and I thought "ah I'll watch the first 15 minutes..."

No.1 I love seeing women fighting well--(also why I love "Crouching Tiger...")
But no. 2, --I realized after scratching my head over how I could love such a violent film -- what it was. Like a few days later, still trying to figure out why I was so emotionally affected. It was so not a "Jenni" kind of film!
I realized it was becuause Bill almost kills the pregnant Bride. And Uma Thurman is blonde (like my mom) and due to her heart and mind power, near-invincibble, and so "good"--a good, stout hearted woman. (Just like my mom.) And so I realized that I loved it b/c it reminded me of MY mom. B/c when my mom was pregnant w/me, she was beat w/a lead pipe and came near death--also like Thurman's character, by her husband. And yet my mom survived, and I survived inside her, after surgeries , weeks' hospitalization, and like Thurman -- after going through near-murdered experience, almost the first first thing she does (in Vol. 1, and 2,)upon consciousness is crack a joke. (My mom did same thing.)

And I never even liked U.Thurman at all til Kill Bill, and now I adore her.
Also b/c Thurman is in love w/her daughter, and my mom, regardless the men she had to suffer, loved me, wouldn't take her eyes off me, so much so that one of the nurses said to her, "Hey, I don't think you like your baby very much!!" b/c my mom wouldn't put me in the hospital bassinet, she kept me in bed w/her the whole time, looking at me.

So that's me ...do you disagree that it was a film w/merit seeing as it was dominated by formidable women? Oh also-- I liked the way they showed the history of one of the most heartless , fierce fighters -- how she had become so fierce partly due to having been a child sex abuse survivor,and she enacts vengeance on him too I think? --

--To me it's a good, woman-empowering film, in spite of the Director ....? Though, it's not about sisterhood. So this is not good. It doesn't really directly challenge the patriarchy b/c Bill is too revered and he dies honorably. (But, at least he dies at the Bride's hands -- did you see No.2? No. 2 is my favorite one.)

Oh one other cool thing -- I thought one notable part was where the female assassin won't kill Thurman when she finds out she is pregnant. I thought that was really good, honor amongst female assassins if you will. That was sort of sister-love.
But give me your entire lowdown on Tarrantino, Kill Bill, etc., for sure.
p.s. Brooke-yes! Natty Gann freaking ROCKS. LOVE that flick and then some -- I own it. I wish I had the poster.
p.p.s. I don't think my Mom would like Kill Bill. She is a pacifist. But it doesn't change the fact that the Bride reminded me of her. It's like a battered woman/mother's triumph story to me.