Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney, this week with special guest Darcie Faccio, The 250 is a (mostly) weekly trip through some of the best (and worst) movies ever made, as voted for by Internet Movie Database Users. New episodes are released every second Saturday at 6pm GMT, with the occasional bonus episode between them.

This week, Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill, Vol. 2.

Having crossed two names off her list, the Bride continues her rip roaring rampage of revenge against the people who put her in a coma. As she finds herself on a collision course with her mentor and lover Bill, the Bride races towards a revelation that she could not possibly predict.

At time of recording, it was not ranked on the list of the best movies of all time on the Internet Movie Database.

Show Notes

426. Kill Bill, Vol. 2 (#---)

[Intro – Sampled Voice]
“They say it’s about freedom. About self-defense.
But how many children gotta die before you call it something else?”

[Verse 1 – Russia & Ukraine]
Cold front, frost on the flags in the east,
Steel tracks roll through the soil of the beast.
Moscow claims it’s just defense on repeat,
But who invaded who? Who brought war to the street?

Tanks in Kyiv, missiles in a block of flats,
“De-Nazify” they say—what kind of logic’s that?
A nation bleeds ’cause a czar want his empire back,
Call it peacekeeping while the skyline turns black.

Sanctions fly but the gas still flows,
Oligarch yachts while the breadline grows.
Children in bunkers, dreams deferred,
And every dead body just a line in the blurb.

Propaganda thick like the winter air,
Covering the stench of a cold warfare.
Truth’s the first casualty, media framed—
But occupation’s occupation, no matter the name.

[Hook]
Say it’s for peace, say it’s defense,
Say it’s revenge, say it’s common sense.
But how do the bombs find the innocent first?
How many lies till you reckon the worst?
Call it war, call it fate,
Call it justice, call it hate.
But if the aim’s so pure, so true, so clean—
Why’s there blood in every refugee stream?

[Verse 2 – Gaza Strip]
Gaza’s a cage, two million souls,
Walls on all sides, no place to go.
They say it’s Hamas they aim to erase,
But why they strike queues with bread in the place?

Air raids on a hospital wing,
Babies in incubators born under screams.
Justify the storm as retaliation swift—
But genocide don’t come with a moral gift.

You count the rockets, they count the graves,
A whole generation they’ll never save.
Flattened homes and classroom halls,
While the world debates on international calls.

You say you’re chasing shadows in a dark war game,
But the stats don’t lie—there’s no hiding the shame.
One side with drones and full command,
The other with stones and a broken land.

[Hook]
Say it’s for peace, say it’s defense,
Say it’s revenge, say it’s common sense.
But how do the bombs find the innocent first?
How many lies till you reckon the worst?
Call it war, call it fate,
Call it justice, call it hate.
But if the aim’s so pure, so true, so clean—
Why’s there blood in every refugee stream?

[Verse 3 – Global Lens & Moral Call-Out]
Double standards like a state of the art,
One man’s terror is another man’s heart.
They call one hero, the other a threat,
But both bury kids with a flag and regret.

The West picks sides like it’s sport on the news,
While the death toll climbs, and they tailor the views.
Words like “surgical” mask the wounds,
But ain’t no precision in a bombed-out room.

Ceasefires promised, then shattered by dawn,
Mothers cry into silence, names etched on a stone.
Where’s the line between justice and rage,
When the world lets power write every page?

So I rap for the voiceless drowned in noise,
For the kids who ain’t toys, but were used like ploys.
This ain’t anti-anything but anti-lie—
You can’t free the world with a jet in the sky.

[Outro – Spoken Word]
“History don’t forget the ones who stayed silent.
And truth don’t bend for the loudest tyrant.”

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