Kill Bill Double Pack [Blu-ray] [Region B]

If you new to these movies I would like to point out that Kill Bill volumes I & II should be viewed as one complete film as opposed to a prequel/sequel affair. This boxset is best enjoyed by watching one immediately after the other to take in the full story. Kill Bill is an out & out tale of revenge and retribution, this is dished out by our main protagonist 'The Bride'. Directed by the fantastic Quentin Tarantino, Kill Bill is heavily influenced by the 1973 Japanese movie Lady Snowblood, which is developed from Japanese Manga, so this should give a flavour of the kind of action scenes within the movie. Gore, spurting blood and swordplay are all prevalent in the movie, so beware if you haven't seen the film and this is not your thing. As always though we are treated to gems of dialogue and character interaction from the modern day master of this technique, although there may not be as many classic pieces of script writing as say, Pulp Fiction or Reservoir Dogs, there are still some quality exchanges, in particular the Superman conversation during volume 2 being one of my favourites. Performances by the cast are all rock solid, and they help the film to flow along easily, Tarantino has once again used actors from other films he has been involved with, but in my eyes this is certainly no bad thing. The film itself certainly has a comic book style, with a huge nod to the 70's Hong Kong chopsocky flicks of years gone by. My particular favourite parts of the film are the training sequences with Pei Mei, a truly terrifying mentor and character. If your a fan of old martial arts movies, you'll see the reference here to films such as Jackie Chan's - Snake In Eagles Shadow & many others. The soundtrack throughout the movie also features similar old sound effects that used to be heard on the old Shaw Brother and Golden Harvest movies, check out the very start of 'our main feature presentation' to be taken right back in time. Kill Bill on Blu Ray features many different filming techniques, and at times we are watching in black & white for atmospheric and flashback sequences, these tend to include lots of film grain, although picture quality is not foresaken at its expense. Close up shots feature great detail, blacks levels are inky black and the grain effect creates the impression that we are indeed viewing the movie on film. From this we can be immediately transported back into a techno colour, neon filled Tokyo all sparkly and shiny, or even switched to a beautiful and rewarding anime section featuring The Brides main adversary in the first episode. The Blu Ray version of this movie is exceptional, and is a huge improvement over the DVD versions of the film. Watch out for a black & white scene that is immediately followed by a view of a desert landscape, this highlights the differences in technique and really makes the blue sky and sandy, rocky surfaces come alive, total eye candy! In another scene we see The Bride in bright yellow motorcycle leathers & jumpsuit that pays homage to Bruce Lee & Game Of Death, the bride takes on all-comers in furious battle, the enemies are all sporting black suits that make The Bride jump out from the screen as the contrasts in clothing and colours clash. The scene then morphs in to one of silhouetted characters brawling against a blazing blue backdrop in one amazing scene. This is the kind of experience that your Blu Ray player was made to produce, and is a good test for your kit, along with being one of many of the numerous highlights of this movie. Sound quality is once again excellent, and as always, music plays a huge part in Tarantino's flick. Although it doesn't have a play along soundtrack as we have in Reservoir Dogs, the music perfectly suits each scene and compliments the movie perfectly. With swords clashing on many occasions you can almost feel the danger and sharpness of the Hanzo Hattori swords swooshing and slicing the air around you. Punches, kicks, throws and thuds also sound amazing & will keep your home theatre active throughout the movie. With dialogue being so important in Tarantino's movies its reassuring to know that this is also crystal clear and reproduced faithfully. I haven't checked any of the extras on this box set yet, so I'm not sure what is available on the disc and the quality of them, so I can't make comment on those. So regardless of if you haven't seen Kill Bill before, or you are thinking of upgrading to the Blu Ray experience, in which case you will be able to view the movie in a whole new light, because you haven't really 'seen' it until you have experienced it in Hi Def, then I can give this one a big thumbs up! ***Additional Info*** It was because of viewing this movie in Blu Ray that I calibrated my T.V. There are a couple of scenes that are on the disc that allow you to check out your black and colour levels. The scene mentioned in the review during the restaurant battle that features The Bride in silhouette fighting the crazy 88 is one good example for seeing how deep and inky your black levels are. But there is also another great example: Without spoiling the film, there is one particular scene that is underground, and we see nothing but soil, roots and blackness. When I first watched the scene as the camera pans down the sheer blackness, I was very disappointed with the washed out, grey appearance of what should have been a thick inky and deep black, the scene is very claustrophobic intentionally, and the fear of this darkness is what Tarantino is trying to give you, to help you feel what the character is experiencing during the scene. It was this that spurred me on to calibrate my T.V. Now this can be done professionally at expense (ISF), which will of course give you the optimum results. However, you can also perform some calibration yourself to achieve much better results than the standard settings give performance wise. Most T.V's are shipped from the store pre-set to achieve an eye catching display against the other competition they face, this results in a higher power usage, lower life span, and a poorer performance for your T.V within your home environment, as well as being detrimental to achieving the best picture obtainable for Blu Ray. All Sony Blu Ray discs have a secret easter egg calibration feature within their main menus, this is accessed by pressing '7669' on your remote (or triangle 7669) [Return] on Playstations, a series of calibration screens will then appear to which you can pause and adjust your T.V settings, don't worry you will not damage the T.V. and everything is user adjustable. One word of warning though, DO NOT attempt to adjust advanced or engineer settings if you are unsure of your capabilities. THX enabled discs also include a calibration feature, but you will need to use blue level glasses to calibrate correctly using THX. Once you have discovered these calibration screens you can check on youtube for help and assistance in adjustments. One other piece of advice is to adjust the T.V settings at the time of day and under the conditions you mostly view the T.V, if you watch your movie on a night when the room is darker, the settings will be different for a well lit room during daytime viewing, this will ensure you gain a truer calibration. The various calibration test pages take you through a SMPTE calibration bars, which help you to fine tune your brighness (used for controlling your T.V's black levels), colour and contrast. Other screens will help you adjust the sharpness, which is commonly set far too high. If you are concerned about messing up your current settings, take a note of the current numbers of each of the brightness, contrast, sharpness etc so that you can quickly and easily go back to these if you wish, I'm sure you won't if your set is not calibrated correctly. If you are disappointed with the black levels, colour and contrasts, or even if you are suffering from other viewing effects such as 'halo-ing' whilst watching Blu Rays, I'd recommend you give this a try. Once I had calibrated my 42'' 1080p Toshiba, I re-watched the underground scene in question. Now my screen was jet black! No wash out, grey streaks, just one deep black screen that was portrayed exactly how it was meant to appear. The sharpness of the images on screen also appears far crisper now, and contrast between colours is superb. I hope that is useful to some of you out there, I hope you do give it a try & you get noticeable results. Charlie

Tarantino has rarely turned down expectations. I personally think that Django is his only bad movie because it lacks of what Quentin can really do well: telling a story that is not just unpredictable, but you can enjoy while waiting to see what will happen next. And so you end up stuck on the screen watching and listening to brilliant and dense dialogues that reveals characters personalities, original scenes, great acting and direction of actors, a certain focus on people's faces and expressions, that sometimes compensate silences, and a great knowledge of classic moviemaking: words, picture, editing and long scenes with no need to show off, unless you really want to play with viewers. So you have great film like Inglorious Bastards and Deathproof with long dialogues and a quite steady camera, few edit cuts, because when a guy is good at making films, he does not have to "shoot" everywhere just to prove it. All that to say that KillBill, presented in a fantastic blu ray edition and quality, is the perfect mix of Quentin's need to have fun and his will to become more and more a great narrator. Here he defintely puts all he knows and loves and feels about his favorite music and cinema and comics and tv, and create a 2 chapters film where you speed up and slow down switching from a situation to another without the feeling it is just a justapposition or collection of "best scenes" of single moments. It is a long quest and trip to justice and vengeance, constantly swinging between joke and tragedy, parody and drama, true feelings and wonderfully constructed dialogues or situations.

Fantastic collectible edition

Bought this a few weeks ago and quite happy with the purchase. Unfortunately soon after buying the Steelbook boxset arrived at only a few pounds more which i would rather have had but a good item none the less.

class film watched it stright away and loved it yet again

Lovely

Looking forward to watching both dvds

I'm a big fan of the Kill Bill movies so you can imagine how excited I was to get my hands on both movies in glorious full HD. Sadly it was clearly never meant to be as my dogs decided to 'kill bill' themselves by ripping the package to pieces and depositing what was left around my garden. I attribute no blame to either Amazon or my postman - both fulfilled their end of the bargain. My dogs, however, are clearly some of the harshest movie critics in the business. Quite why they took an exception to two of Tarintino's finest movies is beyond me - maybe they disliked the casting, the fight choreography or perhaps they're just like sh*ts. I'm going for the latter...

Reçu une semaine en avance de la date prévue, hormis les traces de doigts sur les dvd et un petit accro sur la pochette que j'ai collé, tout est parfait, une fois nettoyé le coffret est comme neuf. A posséder absolument pour les fans. En français dispo.

Muy buena edicion de la saga Kill Bill. Tarantino en estado puro. Presentación en una caja de carton que envuelve al blu ray que contiene los 2 discos. Viene en Castellano e Ingles DTS-HD 5.1 y los subtitulos en perfecto castellano. En cuanto a los extras viene los trailer del Vol.1, el como se hizo de ambos volumenes. 2 canciones de 5,6,7,8, el estreno de kill bill 2 (que es Robert Rodriguez tocando dos canciones con unos mariachis) y una escena eliminada del Vol.2 que por cierto esta espectacular. La calidad de imagen es muy buena (blu ray). El envio perfectamente embalado y antes incluso de tiempo. Lo unico malo es que el poster es muy pequeño, menor que un A4.

迅速な発送 そして良い商品をありがとうございます。

........... Kill Bill Volume 1 Uma Thurman e' la sposa, che subisce una terribile imboscata durante la sua festa di nozze, nella quale tutti gli invitati, suo marito nonche' il figlio che ha in grembo, vengono brutalmente sterminati. Dopo essersi svegliata da un coma di 4 anni, intende vendicarsi nei confronti dei responsabili del massacro. Si tratta dei membri di un gruppo elitario di killer, guidato dal personaggio di spicco di nome Bill, noti come la Deadly Viper Assassination Squad, o DVAS. Ognuno di questi efferati assassini ha un nome in codice secondo le varie specie di serpenti velenosi., Kill Bill Volume 2 Con questo sensazionale, imperdibile evento, il geniale regista Quentin Tarantino completa l'incredibile ricerca di vendetta della Sposa cominciata in Kill Bill Vol.1! Avendo gia' spuntato due nomi dalla sua Death List, la Sposa e' tornata alla ricerca di Budd e di Elle Driver, gli unici sopravvissuti della squadra di assassini che l'hanno tradita quattro anni prima. Tutto conduce al confronto finale con Bill, il primo maestro e l'uomo che ha ordinato l'esecuzione della Sposa! .......che altro aggiungere un MUST+++++

I would definitely buy from these people again that came on time for condition worth the price