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May 01 2005
Kill Bill Vol 1 Review
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| Summary: Killer UMD
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What's there to say? It's Kill Bill. Any fan of Tarantino or action movies in general who finds him or herself owning a PSP should buy it without question. Actually, there may be one question -- one of price. Most retailers are stocking Kill Bill: Volume 1 for a ludicrous $30, but you can find it for $20 at Amazon.com, which is just low enough to bite the proverbial bullet for a great movie.
The only real flaw with the UMD itself concerns the aspect ratio. It's a letterboxed 2.35:1 instead of the standard formatted 1.78:1. Generally I prefer movies to be shown in their original aspect ratios, but on the small PSP screen you can't help but be annoyed by the unused pixels. Spider-Man 2's theatrical aspect ratio was also 2.35:1 and the loss of image was negligible when it was formatted for the PSP's screen. However, it's really a trivial flaw -- if a movie is good and you become immersed in it while watching, you don't even notice the black bars.
And a good movie it is. As I said, any PSP owner who's a Tarantino or action movie fan should own Kill Bill. It's not the best UMD Video release currently available only because it's the best movie; it's also the best because it's the only one to include any DVD-like extras -- you get the short Making of Kill Bill video and music videos from The 5,6,7,8's, the band that performs during the movie. Also included is a scene selection feature, pathetically excluded from all other current UMD Video releases. The scene actually loads and plays in a small window in the scene selection menu, and you can watch the entire scene that way if you wish to do so.
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Comments
05/02/05
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Vlad
| North Carolina USA
"Also included is a scene selection feature, pathetically excluded from all other current UMD Video releases."
not true the same feature is included on Pirates of the Carribean.
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05/02/05
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mastershake
| New Jersey USA
I actually just saw Kill Bill Vol.1 for 13 bucks at circuit city, so its cheap.
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05/02/05
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gi0rgi0
| California USA
How much were other umd's like "pirates of the carribean" ?
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05/02/05
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KippWade
| Indiana USA
Sam's Club here in the US is also selling UMD Movies for about $13. (12.97) They don't have all of them, but they had a few. I almost picked up Hellboy.... but decided that a giant bottle of advil was more important.  hehehehe
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Is this available in Region 2 (Japan), and if so, is the audio English of Japanese dubbed? If English, I'm guessing the subtitles can be disabled?
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05/03/05
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Agent808
| Hawaii USA
do you guys have dvd burners?
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05/03/05
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DT27
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Vlad said: "the [scene selection] feature is included on Pirates of the Carribean."
Sorry. Forgot about that one. I'm hoping it means the rest of Buena Vista's upcoming movies will also have it.
mastershake said: " I actually just saw Kill Bill Vol.1 for 13 bucks at circuit city, so its cheap."
I suppose that's what I get for not looking at Circuit City. Since Wal-Mart had it for $20 and they usually have the lowest prices around here, I assumed it was the lowest I'd be able to find. I'll know where to go when the next UMD Video movies I want are released.
EdZ said: " Is this available in Region 2 (Japan), and if so, is the audio English or Japanese dubbed? If English, I'm guessing the subtitles can be disabled?"
Not sure if it's avilable in R2. The options for subtitles in the R1 version are Off, English 1, and English 2. English 1 subs all dialogue and English 2 (the default setting) subs only Japanese dialogue.
Agent808 said: " do you guys have dvd burners? "
I don't. Nor do I have a DVD player or DVD collection of my own. I'm not a huge movie person (the type that has a movie collection big enough to crush King Kong to death) and that's why I'm buying movies on UMD. I just want a small private collection of movies that I can take anywhere.
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05/03/05
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Whetzel
| West Virginia USA
I just checked and it's actually $24.99. link
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05/03/05
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DT27
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Whetzel said: "I just checked and it's actually $24.99."
I still don't doubt that people are seeing it in Circuit City stores for $13. The price listed on a retailer's website very often differs from the pricetags that the walk-in stores use. Last time I checked, Wal-Mart was selling Kill Bill V1 on its site for $30, but I've found it at Wal-Mart stores for $20 and $24.
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05/03/05
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teomf
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Won mine via Ebay for GBP14.50.. then again have to pay GBP4.99 for p+p costs
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05/03/05
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yimmy
| Michigan USA
It's the first movie i purchased for the PSP. it won't be the last. I watch movies constantly. Being able to start a film, lock the buttons, and drop it in my pocket and listen to a film while I work around the house is cool, plus being able to watch it at the office without violating corporate data policies...
too cool.
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