I returned from California, only to find my poor Sox out of the playoffs. There's no buzzkill as potent as the Sox falling to the Yankees in the post season. The only thing that I could think off that would take the edge off was to see Uma Thurman weilding a samurai sword. Since that would be impossible to arrange I decided to go for the most available alternative: Quentin Tarentino's latest film Kill Bill.
How impressive is Kill Bill? I had to send my pants out to be dry cleaned afterwards. Uma's the Bride (who's real name is rumored to be Beatrix) is one of the best badasses, standing shoulder to shoulder with Solid Snake and Jack Bauer. It says something when even the immortal Sonny Chiba thinks you're a badass.
And not only was she a kickass lady, we got to see her fight other sexy and dangerous ladies such as Vivica Fox and Lucy Liu. Never before has such female ass kicking taken place on one screen (and don't bring up Charlie's Angels which was too crap to count). Jesus, the fight between Uma and Fox alone is hardcore enough to be its own short film. While the final battle between Uma and Liu (and a horde of Yakuza thug) is everything that the second Matrix wanted to be and wasn't.
How can Kill Bill: Volume 2 top this one? Well, a Uma-Darryl Hannah fight will go a long way, also a fight with David Carradine (I mean good goddamn, this is Caine from Kung Fu!).
But a surefire way would be to have more Sonny Chiba.
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