Originally posted by Vinny Valentine
Best Movie of the Year IMO.What a good movie... 'Planet Terror' had the killing, blood and grotesqueness, when 'Death Proof' had the Thriller and suspense. I was disappointed slightly at the end of 'Planet Terror'.
Overall, 4.5 Stars out of 5.
Originally posted by Vinny Valentine
... Anyone else notice how they tied in each movie to each other?
I found the entire night to be a complete joy. The movies allowed me to abandon a critical train of thought and just completely enjoy the movies. Very rarely does this happen for me. Also, very rarely do I have so much fun just watching something. Even more surprising, I've never seen a more pleased audience at the end of a movie before.
I think it's the best movie to have come out so far this year. At least, it's the most entertaining. It was a pure and utter joy to watch.
And I think it's obvious that Tarantino has a bit of a crush on Zoe Bell.
Yes, she is a stunt double. Uma Thurman's stunt double for Kill Bill, at that.
Originally posted by teampac08
All I gotta say is that El Wray was a tight character. My favorite action scene was when he was trying to get to Cherry in the hospital. What a bad ass scene.
Bring on the El Wray prequel.
"Planet Terror" was great... Fast paced and fun.
The car chase in "Deathproof" was impressive and worth sitting through the slow parts.
The fake trailers were hilarious.
I saw Grindhouse last night, and I gotta say, I wasn't all that impressed. In fact, I thought most of Tarantino's Death Proof was extremely boring. The scene where the second set of girls is eating lunch and the camera floats around capturing their conversation was very frustrating to sit through. The shot itself was impressive in that it was probably the longest uncut shot in film history, and if the actresses actually remembered the entire scene without cue cards, then yay. However, the dialogue in that scene was soooooooooooooooo damn boring. Kurt Russel was gold, the car scenes were awesome, but the dialogue just made it suck, I thought it was really really lame.
Robert Rodriguez's Planet Terror was a decent zombie movie at best, I enjoyed it much more that Death Proof. Yet, there was nothing really new there. The leg gun on Rose McGowen kicked ass of course, and the zombie death scenes were amazing and hilarious, and I loved the film grain in both movies and the "missing reel" splices where the sex scene and lap dance scene should have been, that was a hoot, but I just wasn't shocked like in Pulp Fiction when Vincent Vega accidentally shoots Marvin in the face, nor was I captivated by any of the dialogue like Mr. Pink's in Reservoir Dogs.
I thought that the fake trailers were pretty funny, but youtube's "Hobo With A Shotgun" was even better than all of Grindhouse's fake trailers put together.
Anyway, maybe I'm comparing apples to oranges, and maybe my expectations were too high, but I just wasn't impressed. I doubt I'll ever watch Grindhouse again.
I found that conversation awesome. I mean, it must've took some rehearsing to get that down and it felt so natural. It was like watching people actually have a conversation instead of reading lines. Quentin Tarantino always has a way to make extraordinary circumstances seem believable because of the natural ebb and flow of his directing/writing.
As for Machete...
seriously, knowing it's about a bigass mexican with guns and knives and cheech as his sidekick...makes me want to see it so much more. I mean...what more could you possibly want? lol
Originally posted by Andrew McLeodI totally agree with you regarding the technical aspects of that scene, it just bored the hell out of me. 😬
I found that conversation awesome. I mean, it must've took some rehearsing to get that down and it felt so natural. It was like watching people actually have a conversation instead of reading lines.