The older I get, the more I just don't care for hyper-violence and potty-mouth-ism.

I'm sure becoming a dad had something to do with that too.

It's not as though I liked the over-the-top violence (although in a way I'm glad it was as unrealistic as it was). I think it detracted from the movies' other merits. I think I was able to enjoy the movies as much as I did because on some level I understood what QT was trying to accomplish, and was somehow able to just let him take me on the ride. (I don't remember my adrenaline pumping as hard watching a movie as it was during the Bride/Elle Driver fight scene in the trailer in Part 2.) I think that just comes more easily to me than it does to most people (one of whom I'm married to); I can just turn my brain off and immerse myself in the world I'm presented with. Well, for the most part, anyway.

This came up because I've been holding off buying the DVDs until they're released in one package, with all the extras QT is bound to throw in. I've read here and there online that he wants to re-release them to theaters as a single huge movie (with an intermission) in "late 2006", but... can't find official word of that anywhere. Or any dates. Waah.