Grindhouse

[Scott Warner]

All I could think about while watching it was - Here are four Quentin Tarantino's sitting at a table.

Hahahaha exactly.

I finally saw Grindhouse last night. Overall I'd say I enjoyed about 3/4 of the experience, particularly the trailers.

Machette and Thanksgiving were hilarious and both of them nailed the spirit of those old trailers - these double feature movie house places are a couple of generations before my time but I certainly remember watching horror movies in the early 80's that would have these sorts of clips before the movie.

Planet Terror was as advertised. My audio director at work would nod with delight to hear me say "The music was at least 50% of the experience". What good dumb fun this movie was.

Death Proof was irritating until the action sequences kicked in. I really enjoyed Kill Bill because, among other reasons, Quetin gracefully shut his characters up for once. Here it's back to four dudes sitting around the table talking about Madonna's big dick... and it's like, hey, didn't I come in to this GRINDHOUSE thing to see GRINDHOUSE movies? I like how he just totally bypasses emulating the shitty quality (both content and fake physical effects on the film reel) about five minutes into the movie and just starts making one his movies, complete with 70's record fetishes and everyone just too bad ass for you. It's not BAD it's just not really following the high concept of what I paid money to see! Also, I'm sick of his dialog... he's like slightly better than Kevin Smith at this point.

Anyways, cool stuff.

[koisk]

Originally Posted by Scott Warner

Also, I'm sick of his dialog... he's like slightly better than Kevin Smith at this point.

I get that. I mean I love all the QT movies, but then after seeing Death Proof with it's grating dialog not only does it make me not like the dialog in this movie but other QT movies as well. It's a sudden realization that all the dialog is the same, just different subjects. I like your analogy to Kevin Smith too. Watching Clerks and Mallrats is awesome, but by the time you get to Clerks 2 and it's the same thing, you begin to wonder why you liked it so much in the first place.

Overall though I find these points minor, becuase I freakin' loved Grindhouse, Kevin Smith rules, and so does Tarantino.

And the music in Planet Terror was awesome as hell.

[GforGroove]

after all the mix reviews i read.. we decided to go and see it after having enough booz and stuff, so we can be super dizzy. I knew this grinhouse stuff is not my type and probably sober i would be complaning more right now. . But i'm satisfied. No real complains i have a good time and i want those soundtracks NOW

Planet Terror feels more natural to Rodriguez no sense type that i love.