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| | DVD Talk Review: Kill Bill: Volume 2 |
 | | And as the extended, self-congratulatory credit sequence rolled at the end of Volume 2, I sat back in my seat and came to a difficult conclusion: Although Tarantino proved himself in the first film to be a master of eastern allusion and parody, his attempts to go western just aren't as successful. |
 | | Volume 2 is filled with moments that overstay their welcome, and you might defend them by acknowledging Tarantino's desire to emulate the drawn-out, wide-open sequences of some Leone epic, perhaps Once Upon a Time in the West, but there's a vital difference between Leone's practiced, deconstructionist studies and Tarantino's masturbatory excess. |
 | | Tarantino maintains that "Volume 1 is the questions, and Volume 2 is the answers." Actually, he spends good deal of time explaining his intentions (perhaps overly so), also stating that the first film sets the mythology, and the second lets you get to know the characters. |
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