Show oo Gore galore plots moving back and forth in time and side to side in space "Kill Bill -VTarantino rejects linear in favor critics have already of cubist storytelling Some the first volume of “Kill Bill” however tells its whole story in just those two Quentin Tarantino’s two-pa- rt “Kill Bill” as a brilliant exercise monosyllables Uma Thurman in style The film pays tribute to plays Black Mamba a member ic die director’s favorite genres by of the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad On the mixing their iconic images plot devices and musical themes in a order of their bob Bill (David CarradineX the other four Squad bloody pastiche of samurai and members gun down the preg0C don flicks spaghetti westerns V nant Black Mamba on her wedand Japanese animd Add to die ding day and leave her for dead mix a steady stream of Big mistake Four years later television references The Bride (as she is now from “Ironside” to “Star Trek” known) awakens from a coma and you’ve got a whirlwind tour so deep that she must spend a of global pop culture whole afternoon recovering Which unfortunately is not before setting out to avenge the same thing as a good movie herself and the baby she has In this case it’s the same thing ' lost as a bad one Tarantino has First on her death list is O- abandoned the original idea that Ren Ishii (Lucy Liu) who has made his earlier films so enterrisen to die top of the Japanese criminal underworld After a taining: to flesh out the pulp subwith detour to Okinawa to pick up a infusing style genres ' fancy samurai sword The Bride stance Both “Reservoir Dogs” and “Pulp Fiction” humanize then spends nearly a third of the their gangsters by giving them movie in a Tokyo restaurant ' : ly where she quirky wvfearing personalities 1 and encouraging them to chat reduces army of thugs about the stuff of everyday life: to a pile of sushi lopping off fast food pop music and foot heads and limbs leaving only a survivors few single-handmassages Rather than transthe us into Caucasian porting girl likes to “Silly universe of genre films samurai with swords” play Tarantino brings those characmocks the gangster boss drawters into our ing her own sword for the big universe where they acquire showdown But we already know who depth and feeling — to complement their ultravident tendenwins because we’ ve already cies The same geometry name crossed out seen informs his famously complex at die top of the list In a weak 15 oLI” j u Is a lot of violence la Wll BUT Is like saying then Is a lot of To say that Were old-scho- : : single-handed- ed effort to complicate the storyline Tarantino shows us The Bride’s second showdown first She goes after Vemita Green (VivicaAFoxX now a house- i wife and mother Uving in a beautifully decorated home in a brigjuly colored suburbTm a different person now” pleads ' Vernita but The Bride pulls a knife and the redecorating v begins You can guess the new color scheme To say that there is a lot of violence in “KiUBiU” is like ' saying there is a lot of singing in ‘The Sound of Music” Tarantino squeezes every last ’s STADIUMS qqUhMMmJ COFFEE LURCH TEAS DIHHER Mdnigi-- tary Fnday and Saturday Only J0 mr Ttdmh Qbtmm tc to for ntoNuif' HAUNTED IAZERTAB PLAY VAMPIRES ALL MONTH LONG KEBBUUtnUCB STM Amt i E l Rill PABXTHE GUTTER Rfc 253117701782-400- yd-i- 0 £ oigaM MBNGHT S FIB Secondhand Lions rci 200 435 705 935 & HU School Of Rock 1:45 420 705 935 SAI MBNGHT ro-r-a t FM HB 1:45 415 705 925 Good Bay 1:55 400 700 ro-r- SAT MONCHT 2:05 FriWSun FIcAefe S SAT MBNGHT A SAT MBNGHT 900HB 4 $AT MBNGHT SOUNOW a ' Sat ' n Daily 9:10 Matinees All Seats S200 mm j Ck v 9-- Mu m ftewvnF i The Rundown 2297 N Main ro--i MSalSun MOVIE HOTLINE CACHEVALLEYa3 1 300 Not At Mom Behind iho MaN vo-13- 1 SMTf&ia 9:15 Friday ra ' Freaky 700 FriSOiun 4:30 h 7:10 9 20 4 EMJ8K)HDSffCia 15 CRN ffONGMMOlQ 79 M4T 1221 £ Texas Chainsaw Maeeacre 753-844- ADUis$3t2SUNDmsaumnNtfS$a 11 a45 am Sundnv 4SOQ pm Poem Mop-Si- t ULN)pfMVUNU)Q (NIURMnCWKUn MR M4772JB2S9 S49 RANGE IB MIWMNtfrMi 4 30 FriWSunFseAew Caribbean 7 OO e ro-idO PriSm4in d M dOWmlOONorlh Under The Tuscan Sun Seabiscuit Sal 415 FASTA S&VOOe-STTAK-fIZ- ZA Pl2ZA-awt- vi 90-1- 3 7:00 9:30 - Sal 4:15 a Ft MMek BuffiU MsrghmU 3irb Chidmvt to mhc a few) CliwiUMk j just Book Of Mormon qo1 Gift Boob Avoiloble 2 CHILDREN GREAT GREAT SEAT9 GREAT PICTURE Intolerable Cruelty ro-4 25 7 05 friSaSun 200 CINEMA'S a FKL 752-307- S200 Cache Valles's Luxury Discount ThcatermKt ADULTS S3 00 Kmvin Coatner ar fikeimr 7:05 9:30 The Rundown UTAH totoMettM w Pirates Of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre n 1J0 425 705 915 Wmm Out Of Time Kill Bill m 420 70) 930 h 935 4:30 7:10 9:20 1:35 405 7:00 910 FHS S4I MBNGHT fton— or pfc—uni ndtoe 1:40 Wb re-i- n Intolerable Cruelty HttA jomtthVva 4 30 Wwum 4:10 700 9:35 "FH ASA MBNCHT Ahsm the newspaper Feedback at hjmdviesOhotmailcom! O 535 W 100 N Providence I CACHE VALLEY Kill Bill S4-S- writers whose columns appear in The Herald Journal as' part of an effort to expose readers to a variety of community voices He is not an employee of OPEN RANGE 2:00 Sot 4 10 7 00 Movie 5 and Stadium 8 wwwmoviem1e5tcom v ' School Of Rock vi3i 4:25 710 9:40 FriSolSun 2:05 Sirni at to Stadwjm 8 Runaway Jury 5 D free-lanc-e Frt A 2450 North Main U es courses on film and literature He is among a number of ' i£ 900 435-753- -1 Runaway Jury ro-4:30 7:05 9 40 FriWSun 0KNN01HI2M1H Brian McCuskey is an associate professor of English at Utah State University where he teach- - Ltcsnssd - D X FINDING NEMO id MOVIES LOGAN ART CINEMA 7S0 9£0 n Wmtt DHnmy THEATRES 795 North Main Step Into The Liquid ig) o' " - O-Re- Wednesday is Discount Day AH Shows Hot One Buy Tickets Online at wwwwestotestheatrescorn THE UtC COMING FOB HA11QWHN HOUSEOHHE DEAD BREAKFAST drop of blood out of these pulp genres which thus get flattened rather than fleshed out Fans of Tarantino argue that fee extreme violence of his films is cartoonish rather titan offen- sive Suit yourself but without interesting characters snappy dialogue or intricate storylines all that Tarantino can do to hold our attention is heighten the V violence until he must literally make it cartoonish: The flash- childhood is back to so gruesome that he resorts to an animd sequence to stave off an NC-1- 7 rating “Kill Bill” ends with a per-- WESTATES three-dimensio- ESPRESSO ” singing In The Sound of Music O-Re- I to functory cliffhanger designed to get us back to the theater for CN “Vol 2” and the rest of the death list in February but a much larger question looms at the end of this terminally adolescent mbVie Will Quentin Tarantinoever mature as a director? He’s been called the enfant terrible of American cinema but “Kill Bill” makes me wonder if that’s just a fancy o way of calling him something else: a silly Caucasian boy who O likes to play with samurai swords “Kill Bill: Vbl 1” is rated R E for strong bloody violence lan8 guage and some sexual conmintime: 95 tent Running i 2 utes (D |