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Originally Posted by innerSpaceman
(And Alex, just so's ya know, it was not Tarantino who decided to split Kill Bill in two ... the studio insisted upon it. 4-hour movie and all. Quentin did not put up a big fight about it, but it was meant to be watched all at once ... and now with the magic of DVD, you can do just that.)
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Yeah, I know it came from the studio. But it was still a mistake that greatly diminished both halves (the first lacked the soul provided by the second and the second lacked the spirit provided by the first). I don't know if Tarantino recut the film to better suit the split but if shown as one film I think the two halves could have been better blended.
And I know four hours is too long but then each half is a little bloated and I think it would have been better to cut it down to 3:15 or so than to break it into two unsatisfying halves. People
will go to long movies if they are worth it. The average length of the top ten inflation-adjusted movies is 2 hours, 47 minutes.
Combined the two halves only did $136 million, I think it would have still done that as one long movie and potentially a lot more if people got caught up in the span of it all that was disrupted by waiting for the second half.