The Kill Bill Blu-ray Mega-Thread

[AVfile]

Hi mike"viera" and welcome.

New movie + new TV = confusion.
Put in a disc you're familiar with before drawing any conclusions, and not The Matrix

Most scenes in Kill Bill are stunning but that church scene is highly stylized by Mr Tarantino. Very grainy as intended!

Also depending on its picture mode and sharpness setting, your TV could be exaggerating the noise, grain and other picture detail. Cinema picture mode with sharpness near the bottom usually works best on the Pannys. Avoid modes called sports, dynamic or vivid.

[mikevieira]

thanks, I'll check my settings and give it a go.

[Paul.R.S]

Searched first; no hits: Are there inserts in the BDs? Reproductions of the DVD inserts featuring Andy Klein's reviews of the pics for CityBeat?

[Early Memphis]

Originally Posted by Paul.R.S

Searched first; no hits: Are there inserts in the BDs? Reproductions of the DVD inserts featuring Andy Klein's reviews of the pics for CityBeat?

Never saw the DVDs, but what you see on the front and back covers is what you get.

[Paul.R.S]

Originally Posted by Early Memphis

Never saw the DVDs, but what you see on the front and back covers is what you get.

Thank you. They are both nice "write ups" that I think I'll have to make color copies of before selling my DVDs (hopefully--what a saturated market it is for these two DVDs). I think I'm about done waiting for a BD of The Whole Bloody Affair with copious supplements.

[14728]

Hey, remember how I said I was gonna post a fake criterion, but I couldn't since it wasn't a URL? Well, now it's my avatar.

[14728]

Originally Posted by tylergfoster

A more important question is, how long is the film with all the additions and subtractions taken into account? The credits of Vol. 1 and the B&W intro / outro make up a good chunk, but the runtime of the two movies is four hours and seven minutes, so even with the cuts, it'd be the longest film I know of on a single disc

Theres a 5 hour version of Fanny and Alexander on 1 disc. Just wanted to put it out there.

[14728]

Originally Posted by Early Memphis

Two things : 1) Big stars/artists/athletes often talk about "retiring" - and almost every one of them winds up having to be dragged off "stage", kicking and screaming.

The only person I've heard say I'll never retire is Ringo, and even if he is dragged off stage, he'll just play with some small time band. (Don't ask me where I found it, because I think it was on Youtube)
I agree about your Blade Runner- type idea. I always thought there should be a blu ray release like this:
Disc 1: Documentary on the making of the film. It would be interactive, e.g during a clip of music video, you'd click on a little box that says click here to watch full thing. It'd end on a screening of the film, which would go into disc 2.
Disc 2:Begins with Kill bill volume 1. It then shows a much smaller documentary (about how it got no oscar noms, box office, trailers, etc.), which ends with a screening of KB2.
Disc 3: Begins with KB2. Another small documentary about the same things plus the legacy of the films, and ends with a screening of the Whole Bloody Affair.
Disc 4: The whole Bloody Affair.

There's probably not enough behind the scenes stuff for this, but maybe there could be a work print for Volume 3 in disc 1. (I think) It would be awesome if this happened.

[andsoitgoes]

I haven't seen this and did not go through the whole thread, but does anyone have any experience with the Canada 2-on-1 release? I got it a while back and have been meaning to watch it, but never got around to it. Knowing more about the format now, I wonder how much lower the quality is and if I should just get the separate disc releases?

Now I'm a not a huge stickler for AQ/PQ, but I don't want to compromise TOO much.

Thoughts?

[Lacrymosa]

Originally Posted by andsoitgoes

I haven't seen this and did not go through the whole thread, but does anyone have any experience with the Canada 2-on-1 release? I got it a while back and have been meaning to watch it, but never got around to it. Knowing more about the format now, I wonder how much lower the quality is and if I should just get the separate disc releases?

Now I'm a not a huge stickler for AQ/PQ, but I don't want to compromise TOO much.

Thoughts?

The PQ and AQ should be the same as the separate releases, but there are no extras and no english subtitles. That should be the only difference.

[Hubunkey]

Originally Posted by andsoitgoes

I haven't seen this and did not go through the whole thread, but does anyone have any experience with the Canada 2-on-1 release? I got it a while back and have been meaning to watch it, but never got around to it. Knowing more about the format now, I wonder how much lower the quality is and if I should just get the separate disc releases?

Now I'm a not a huge stickler for AQ/PQ, but I don't want to compromise TOO much.

Thoughts?

IDK how they compare but I have been searching for that double feature. If you decide you would wanna get rid of it I will gladly trade you my 2 US single disc releases for it

[AVfile]

Originally Posted by Lacrymosa

The PQ and AQ should be the same as the separate releases, but there are no extras and no english subtitles. That should be the only difference.

I recall discussion in one of the Canadian threads at the time that there was a slight loss in PQ. Nobody posted screenshots or anything but there were a few posts on the subject.