Great movies! The style and cinematography and music on Kill Bill Vol I were fantastic. I don't care what anyone says, Quentin Tarantino is a f*ckin' genius. And I don't care about those who say he just redoes whats already been done. He took that to an extreme with the Kill Bill's...
Vol I and Vol II are completely different as far as genres go...with I being an ode to Hong Kong Kung-Fu movies, especially the Shaw Bros. stuff. II is more an ode to the spaghetti western. Both are great, but different...so if you watch II expecting what you saw in I, you might be disappointed. But if you take each on their own merits, you might like them better.
I liked I better myself. I really loved the stylized fight between the Bride and O-Ren Ishii at night in the snow! And Gogo was HOT, SUPER HOT....every thing about her was perfect, the face, the hair cut, the little school girl outfit...no wonder I dig Japanese Babes!
The scenes with the Bride and Hatori Hanzo (Sonny Chiba!) were great too, especially upstairs in the attic, and when he presents her the sword.
I really dug the Anime section of O Ren's story too, reminded me of the anime in the two parter in the Animatrix....
"Its a Hatori Hanzo blade!"
"It really is a Hatori Hanzo blade..." - O Ren Ishii