Grindhouse Split or: Why I Won't Be Buying the DVD

Originally posted by Dusty

If QT and RR have any say in this, the split won't happen.

Originally posted by Cory Chaos
If they want to sell the DVD's, they'll have to split it. Can't sell something people don't want in the first place. It's justified in that the movies are already screening seperately overseas.

Originally posted by ragesRemorse
what...but its ok to sell them something they dont want in the first place as long as its in the theaters?

People won't know wether or not they want it (both movies on one DVD) until they see it in theatres. I personally don't want to own "Death Proof". If I can get "Planet Terror" seperately, with the exact same extras as would be featured on a "Death Proof" release, I'll take the former. In the end, I'll go for whatever offers me more of the movie I actually liked.

Originally posted by vintageSW77
we are getting it as a whole in the UK
its been confirmed
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0462322/releaseinfo

Originally posted by ragesRemorse
well bollocks to you then 🙂

Rottentomatoes.com says that the films may be rereleased separately in theaters as well in the U.S. They also said they may potentially include the "missing reel" footage. Thats excited to those like me who have already seen the film, but is overall bad for the movie. I'd like that footage as an extra on a DVD, but not to be integrated into the film itself.

Planet Terror is great in the sense that there's a lot of zombies and head explosions. But Death Proof involves a certain amount of maturity.

Originally posted by Solo
Planet Terror is great in the sense that there's a lot of zombies and head explosions. But Death Proof involves a certain amount of maturity.

Funniest. Quote. Ever.

Please, indulge me.

I'll be getting both of them, I enjoyed them both.

I was actually hoping they'd split the movies on the DVD. Like Disc 1 is Planet Terror and Disc 2 is Death Proof.

But with seperate releases, I hope we don't lose the trailers.

Though it is two seperate movies, it can also be considered one. IMDb lists Grindhouse as a movie. Planet Terror and Death Proof are just segments in the movie.

Originally posted by Cory Chaos
Funniest. Quote. Ever.

Please, indulge me.

You can argue that Death Proof is more close to reality than Planet Terror. In that view I see it as more mature and more interesting...

Originally posted by Solo
You disagree that Death Proof requires a certain amount of maturity and Planet Terror - none? Death Proof is far more experimental, and a lot more personal. Not as "mature" as Jackie Brown, sure, but much more so than Planet Terror.

No, I disagree that "Death Proof" requires anything more than a elementary school education, and a clear understanding of revenge, because that's all it is. A very basic, slow, dialogue fan appeasing revenge movie. Looking any farther into it is just being needlessly overanalytical of something incredibly simple.

You can relate to the situation more though.

How does that make it any more "mature"? It doesn't.

Neither films require more maturity than the other. Planet Terror has a bunch of zombies killing things and blowing up. Death Proof has a bunch of girls babbling about worthless crap and then doing something stupid.

Death Proof just felt more like an actual film to me. Its hard to watch a movie and say you saw a film. Planet Terror was an extremely good movie, but Death Proof was a well orchestrated film.

The reason I feel that "Death Proof" failed (me) is because all Q.T. did was take a grindhouse plot and modernize it, which doesn't work in 2007. It loses its nostalgic feel, it loses it's actual point of being an homage, and in all honesty, it hardly felt like a Tarantino film, given the poor dialogue, the self-agrandizing references to his own movies, the obscure movie talk, the annoying as all hell characters, and poor acting, the wasted talent, the lulls in engaging cinema, and lastly the recycled camera shots from "Reservoir Dogs".

Originally posted by Superfly4000
Death Proof just felt more like an actual film to me. Its hard to watch a movie and say you saw a film. Planet Terror was an extremely good movie, but Death Proof was a well orchestrated film.

I don't thinks PT can be consider a good movie. Not even a great zombie movie the least to say. It was practically average and recycle theme of every zombie movie ever made. Didn't provide anything new or anything innovative. However I do agree DP was a lot more organize and properly arrange to tell the story.

I just want to say Planet Terror and Death Proof were both fantastic (In my opinion). I just felt like Death Proof was the better film because it was more diverse, entertainment wise. I mean, it delivered humorous dialogue from the chick cliques, and had great car scenes (the head-on collision in particular) and Kurt Russel switching from badass predator to pussified quitter, which was absolutely hilarious!

Planet Terror just seemed like I was repetitively watching the same stuff. Gunshot, explosion, gunshot, explosion, gunshot, explosion, explosion, explosion, Bruce Willis, Osama, explosion, helicopter. Still a great movie, I just felt like I had more fun watching Death Proof.

This is all in my opinion.