Grindhouse.....
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haven't seen any discussion on here about it....anyone gonna check it out?i'm seeing it at a sneak preview thing tonight, not sure what to expect. reviewers i respect say QT's half is better, or at least, a better rendition of a grindhouse flick, while rodriguez has apparently just thrown together a gory 80s action movie... read a few reviews expecting people to actually walk out of QT's half, as the pacing drops off after the balls to the wall Planet Terror.....
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Not sure what to expect but I'm pretty sure it'll be entertaining!
Anyone else seen this one yet?
Over 3 hours... Kinda long. But for two flicks and the trailer bits, it alright.
Haven't seen this yet, but I have heard that on a couple of occasions, crowds started leaving in "droves" after the first flick ended.
Was that on account of they
Or perhaps they didn't realize there was another film after that??
snoozefest.
frederico was dope, and so was that kiwi chick, and so was that scene where rosarios nipples get hard before your eyes, but other than that, it was ehh...
anyways, grindhouse was highly entertaining. people who hate it are expecting something other then whats presented. its really well made bad movies.
i dont need some artsy fart bullshit on a friday night. see planet terror & deathproof for a goodtime but be prepared to be there for 3+ hours.
I have to say, though, I would imagine a lot of this experience must seem staright strange to anyone under 32 or so...I can't imagine they would see the point of a lot of it. But action speaks volumes, so hey, what do I know?
My verdict: Fun stuff, GO BABY GO!
some of 'death proof' got a little boring
(in comparison to 'planet terror')
but somehow made up for itself in the end.
the middle trailers were great too.
i didnt want to see it at first,
since im really not a huge tarantino fan as of late
but id definitely recommend to someone who wanted
something fun to watch.
While I don't think Tarantino is a hack, if I wanted to see a bad 70s movie, I'll go watch Human Tornado. These movie(s) look awful (both ironically and not ironically).
Yeah, that's basically the way I feel. I feel the same way about a lot of the anachronistic music thst certain people on here mess with. What's the point, when the real thing is available?
Saw it last night, most fun I've had at the movies in a long time.
I thought a lot more people on this board would be into it. It's a lot like digging and producing, taking the best parts of some shitty 70s movies and making them into one long coherent, stylish piece.
Best nod to the Mr. Microphone commercial ever.
Go see it with a bunch a friends, yell, boo, be loud, and applaud Udo Kier.
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Boo! The whole point of the film (hence the title Grindhouse) is to pay tribute to the double feature AIP crap fests of the 70s.
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I see your point, but until 'the real thing' is readily available on big screens (which may be the case in some of your towns, but certainly not in DC except on rare occasions) and revival houses are better able to stay in business, I for one am glad that someone has figured out how to have fun while making junk food movies about zombies/car chases within the studio system and available to the multiplexes. I would rather see this type of thing over just about any self-righteous 'indie' film or your 'Babel'-s or what not. While 'Vanishing Point' is vastly superior to 'Death Proof' and the OG 'Dawn of the Dead' is vastly superior to 'Planet Terror', neither is necessarily more entertaining. So like the occasional 'funk night' where people suspend their knowledge of what year it is to indulge their taste in old school this or that, I at least thank goodness that the people making stuff like this know their shit, and have the clout to get it made and marketed. I just hope that I can catch it at one of the few remaining drive-ins in this area sometime this summer, anachronistic as that may be.
You sure? Kill Bill Vol. 1 & 2 didnt have a big drop off in terms of entertainment when watched @ home.
Are you sayin the appeal is to re-inact the "grindhouse" double feature pre-ADD mindstate and stay in the theatre for the whole afternoon? Or does one have to see it on a BIG screen to really catch/enjoy the effects?
i liked the movies, but that is just f*cked up if its true.
Maybe it was the brownies, but I laughed during the first film until I was weak. The films seem like pure Soulstrut to me; they're the cinema equivalent of the very best funk revivalism. The Tarantino film did have some serious pacing issues with unbelievably self-indulgent dialogue.
Can you do the members of the board a favor and make a list of things you don't know everything about? It's really, really, small, isn't it?
You sound ass-hurt, bobo.
In fairness, though, I am clearly not the audience for this movie.
I have come to love Faux Rillzors (
Anyway, there's no disguising what this movie is - mindless entertainment. Anyone going into it thinking otherwise will probably be disappointed.
I might go see it, but I'll live if I don't.
Who really is? 40+ year olds who remember this? QT/RR Dirk Riders? Film Geeks?Middle America?
What/who is the "target" audience for this?
Just Sayin/Askin?
People that confuse thoroughly unentertaining films for mindlessly entertaining ones.
I didn't think the pacing was as bad as some of the dialogue, and QT reminded me why I enjoyed Kill Bill and Jackie Brown so much- NO QT CAMEOs!
His car is a 1970 Dodge Challenger, which was supposed to be, as pointed out to us several times, like the one in Vanishing Point