In other news I fell victim to a similar attack when I tried to watch "KIll Bill Vol 2" last night. I booted the DVD in the new player and before I knew it Tarantino's gargantuan ego was farcing its way into my living room. You may know I was no fan of the first volume of QT's masturbatory opus, but i have to say that Vol1 is WAY better than Vol2, which ended up being a disjointed and boring experiment in how many styles of 70s cinema can one man forcefully shove into 130 minuets of runtime. It was extra frustrating because the film almost had something cool going on with the different visual styles for each of the "chapters" but they didn't seem to be motivated by anything. I couldn't help but think that a lot of the time the film felt like a student film (if an extremely well shot and beautiful student film,) in the way that so many cinematographic "tricks" were employed on top of flashy camera moves and dialogue that seemed to rip-off Tarantino. Julie mentioned that she felt like the film was made by a "Tarantino Impersonator" or alternately "QT doing his best impression of himself." And maybe that was the point. But somehow I doubt it.