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#31. Kill Bill: Vol. 1
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Dir: Quentin Tarantino
Genre: Action
Year: 2003

Kill Bill Volume 1 may have had a more profound impact on my adolescence than any other movie on this list. There was a period from when I got my PS1 until I started working when I was 14 where video games were the guiding force of my taste and served as my main extracurricular interest. When I started working, this guiding force started to fully transition to movies more than anything, and Kill Bill was a big reason for that. I saw it the weekend it came out, purely out of boredom, and was left completely obsessed. The scope, the music, the badassery, the action, the artistic stylization--everything felt perfectly tailored for my 15 year old self, and I have been searching for a return to that initial feeling ever since.

It's hard to explain how fucking unique Kill Bill was upon release. Tarantino always nodded to the genre films of his youth, but nothing he made was ever a complete re-creation of them the way Kill Bill was. Nothing else was like it. No one was making the same kind of tongue-and-cheek action scenes. No one was experimenting with black-and-white and color photography and blending styles, incorporating anime into a live action movie, remixing songs from classic westerns and martial arts films. It felt like a laser light show--just so many sensory experiences all happening at once, leaving you almost breathless when you walked out of the theater.

Of course that feeling from my first viewing has moderated itself a bit over time, but I will forever appreciate everything this movie gave to me. It remains the second best action movie ever, and I'll still return to it every now and then to just marvel at it's insane glory.
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