  Hello dearest readers, I would like to go on record as being one film nerd who is not excited about Kill Bill, be it volume one, or volumn two or whatever. Why? Because. And if that's not agood enough reason for you than you can go fuck yourself.
I glimpsed through a magazine called 'american cinematographer' today and came upon a little segment with Roger Deakins- the guy who shoots the coen brothersmovies. He said a lot about the way they move the camera- because they move it well and nice. But the thrust of what he said, when questioned was that he felt nice camera moves had to come organically from the story- and they were always to serve the story. Well, obviously. Right? Tell that to Quentin Tarantino. This is not to say that extrvagent camera work isn't kick ass in it's own right. It's definitely kick ass in it's own right. I don't want to pass judgement on Kill Bill version 1.0 or whatever- I just want to say - for the record- that kick ass camera moves are nice today, but will soon become a big part of an evil scheme launched by father time called the Bullet effect.
Maybe sometime I flesh out the bullet effect for ya, but at this point it seems useles since I don't know that you're even there. suffice it to say that the bullet effect is what happenswhen you're all sizzle and no steak and the sizzle you were don't sizzle no more because times have changed and with it, so has sizzle. sizzle changes a lot. Everyday. Think about teh fact that right now Ashton Kutcher is popular.
How will we explainb this to our children. "It was a dark time..." The constant shift in whats cool is a big part of the reason that tv sucks so much. TV is free, and there's a shit load of it at any given moment, whether you watch or not. So everything on it has to grab your momentary attention and be just about the coolest thing available. Thus tv tends to suck. Every once in a while tv is good. Like the simpsons. One of the greatest cultural achievements of our time. And sienfeld. Sienfeld was funny too. Outside of that tv tends to be lame. Case in point is friends.
Friends is really an unfortunate quality to our existence. When it started and I was in 7th grade, it seemed very grown up and cool to me. I don't know what the rest of the country's excuse is. Enoug for tonight. Good luck, and godspeed. 
