My bad... mixed up my directors I guess. Although NBK is a very Tarantino kinda film.
I guess if I didn't like NBK it may actually make more sense if I also disliked Kill Bill. Both have over-the-top violence. Both are frankly quite weird on many levels. I'm not real big on Kill Bill either (especially the second one out right now), but I took a chance because it's a sword movie and I like swordfights. :-) I had to watch NBK as an assignment for a class in college, and it really sucked. I much preferred having to watch Higher Learning as an assignment. Now that was an interesting flick and something everyone should see.
Kill Bill, more particularly the first one, is so extremely over-the-top with the violence that it gets cartoonish. They spout so much blood that you think it would take several bodies to have that much, and it has such a fake quality to it that it becomes funny. It doesn't really gross you out much with the way it was handled. Too cheesy for that.
EDIT: Quentin Tarantino did write the script for NBK but did not direct. I knew it smelled of him. :-)
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