Man of Fire.....Kill Billv1/v2.....am I the only one seeing the Very odd Similarities

Status
Not open for further replies.
F

Fixed2BeBroken

Member
Possible Spoilers so

-Both Revenge flicks

-"Revenge is a dish best served cold"

line used in both movies.

-both go against a crime organization

uma against crazy88/yakuza

denzel against la hermanidad or whatever

-both torture for information.

uma cutting peices off that sexy french bitch

denzel cutting peices off that fucker in the car.

and both were on some "if u dont give me a correct answer im gonna cut something off" type shit.

-Both were about a little girl that they thought was dead....and then later find out is alive.

-Both were Ex-Assassins

-Both had it to where....you never saw the Main Antagonist's face in the beginning parts of the movie.

-Both had thier "flashy style."

-They Both End up in the hospital in a coma and then Recover to get thier revenge. (although denzel recovered EXTREMELY faster of course because his stuff wasnt as severe as a Bullet in the head...but severe nonetheless.)

-etc.

WTF?!

Did Tony Scott watch kill bill and say "fuck that, Im gonna make my version.."

its like the Mexican Kill Bill.

either way I love both films...and Denzel is A+ as usual in this flick.

I dont think I have EVER seen Denzel give a poor performance and I have seen most of his movies.

peace
 
Man on fire was good for the first half...but then took a dive after Denzel goes ballistic...

And falls off the face of the earth as his character does a 180 and goes out peacefully
Just overall...a movie I would never see again.

I saw the first 30 minutes or so of KBII(having not seen KBI) and I thought it was really really stupid. I'm glad my ride home decided to go at that point.
 
ErasureAcer said:
I saw the first 30 minutes or so of KBII(having not seen KBI) and I thought it was really really stupid. I'm glad my ride home decided to go at that point.
Click to expand...


BURN THE HEATHEN!! BURN HIM!!
 
ErasureAcer said:
Man on fire was good for the first half...but then took a dive after Denzel goes ballistic...

And falls off the face of the earth as his character does a 180 and goes out peacefully
Just overall...a movie I would never see again.

I saw the first 30 minutes or so of KBII(having not seen KBI) and I thought it was really really stupid. I'm glad my ride home decided to go at that point.
Click to expand...


wtf? volume 2 rocks
 
ErasureAcer said:
Man on fire was good for the first half...but then took a dive after Denzel goes ballistic...

And falls off the face of the earth as his character does a 180 and goes out peacefully
Just overall...a movie I would never see again.

I saw the first 30 minutes or so of KBII(having not seen KBI) and I thought it was really really stupid. I'm glad my ride home decided to go at that point.
Click to expand...

you suck
 
-Both were about a little girl that they thought was dead....and then later find out is alive.
Click to expand...

really? according to the Man on Fire novel
the girl is raped repeatedly and killed shortly after she is kidnapped
...i KNEW the movie was going to soften up the story and try to make it more Hollywood friendly :\
 
Gattsu25 said:
really? according to the Man on Fire novel
the girl is raped repeatedly and killed shortly after she is kidnapped
...i KNEW the movie was going to soften up the story and try to make it more Hollywood friendly :\
Click to expand...

well, i didnt even know it was based on a novel but yea...and she was never raped in the movie

Schafer said:
After directing True Romance Tony Scott was determined to become Quentin Tarantino?
Click to expand...

lol
 
heh...to be entirely honest i'm not sure if the novel came out before the movie but with a change like that i can only assume it did
 
Fixed2BeBroken said:
-Both were Ex-Assassins
Click to expand...
Umm, Denzel was a former Marine.
-Both had thier "flashy style."
Click to expand...
So? They were completely different, and Tony Scott's hyper style has obvious roots at least as far back as Enemy of the State, which he then developed through Spy Game and this.
 
Dan said:
Umm, Denzel was a former Marine.

So? They were completely different, and Tony Scott's hyper style has obvious roots at least as far back as Enemy of the State, which he then developed through Spy Game and this.
Click to expand...

...

even in the movie the guy says he was an assassin for the past 16 years...why the heck do you think he always felt so guilty?

for being a marine?

and sorry...i didnt know tony scott did all those other movies, i dont really follow him..i just know he directed true romance and top gun.

peace
 
"Man On Fire's" the perfect name for this. The whole movie was about Denzel's growth and eventual contentness. In all these kinds of stories the character is rarely deserving of it in the end because he just kils. In this one, like "Leon, The Professional" he saves something that is greater than his life: someone else's. I really love this movie and I was getting Gladiator vibes when Lisa Gerrard's vocals kept coming in. This is leagues better than KB2 when it comes to character development.
 
I rented Kill Bill 2 DVD several days ago and it kinda sucked. It took itself far too seriously.

Man on Fire is one of the best movies I've seen this year, but I wasn't to keen on the way it pussyed out at the end.
 
Man on Fire has character development in the most cliche of senses. There have been so many movies about assassins and goverment agent types who turn into sweet lovable cookie bakers for little girls and puppies. It was a chuck norris movie. He didn't even develop. One minute you saw him with whisky, the next minute you didn't. I'm really surprised by the love this movie recieves here. I mean, they tried so damn hard to be cool with all of it's MTV level jump cuts and dizzle dazzles. Dakota Fanning did a good job, but their relationship was typically sentimental. The whole revenge thing was so easy for the lead character that for me, it was totally anticlimactic. KB2 dumps all over it.
 
*flash*man*unfocus camera movement*on*flash**flash**flash*fire*low shutter speed**Gladiator-like music*is*flash**close up on Danzel face*average*moving subtitles*
 
It was a decent movie, but yeah, the director went overboard with all the editing effects, way overboard. It might've looked stylish to some, but for me it killed the movie.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Top Bottom