Let’s cut to the chase. Quentin Tarantino is a man you either admire for his innate ability to write meaningful, quirky, albeit drawn-out dialogue that can either serve the story magnificently (“Reservoir Dogs” and “Pulp Fiction”) or hate because of his ability to make this dialogue repetitious and too hip for its own good (i.e. this film).
This is the first time I have seen this movie (am saving the other half for tomorrow), and I really enjoyed the stunts and action. Some things, I could have done without, but overall, a really good film. I hope Planet Terror is as good.
Description:A deranged stuntman stalks his victims from the safety of his killer car, but when he picks on the wrong group of badass babes, all bets are off in an adrenaline-pumping, high speed, white-knuckle automotive duel of epic proportions, where anything can happen.
Loud, fast, and proudly out of control, Grindhouse is a tribute to A deranged stuntman stalks his victims from the safety of his killer car, but when he picks on the wrong group of badass babes, all bets are off in an adrenaline-pumping, high speed, white-knuckle automotive duel of epic proportions, where anything can happen.
Loud, fast, and proudly out of control, Grindhouse is a tribute to the low-budget exploitation movies that lurked at drive-ins and inner city theaters in the '60s and early '70s. Writers/directors Quentin Tarantino (Kill Bill) and Robert Rodriguez (Sin City) cooked up this three-hour double feature as a way to pay homage to these films, and the end result manages to evoke the down-and-dirty vibe of the original films for an audience that may be too young to remember them. Tarantino's Death Proof is the mellower of the two, relatively speaking; it's wordier (as to be expected) and rife with pulp/comic book posturing and eminently quotable dialogue. It also features a terrific lead performance by Kurt Russell as a homicidal stunt man whose weapon of choice is a souped-up car. Tarantino's affection for his own dialogue slows down the action at times, but he does provide showy roles for a host of likable actresses, including Rosario Dawson, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Rose McGowan, Sydney Poitier, and newcomer Zoe Bell, who was Uma Thurman's stunt double in Kill Bill. Detractors may decry the rampant violence and latch onto a sexist undertone in Tarantino's feature, but for those viewers who grew up watching these types of films in either theaters or on VHS, such elements will be probably be more of a virtue than a detrimental factor. -- Paul Gaita
“This is the first time I have seen this movie (am saving the other half for tomorrow), and I really enjoyed the stunts and action. Some things, I could have done without, but overall, a really good film. I hope Planet Terror is as good.” read more
“Let’s cut to the chase. Quentin Tarantino is a man you either admire for his innate ability to write meaningful, quirky, albeit drawn-out dialogue that can either serve the story magnificently (“Reservoir Dogs” and “Pulp Fiction”) or hate because of his ability to make this dialogue repetitious and too hip for its own good (i.e. this film).
I think most genre buffs are in the know as to how this film came about; two guys with an idea and a love for grindhouse cinema, hence the original theatrical double-bill, “Grindhouse” and, voila, two separate films - Robert Rodriguez’s “Planet Terror” and, of course, Quentin Tarantino’s “Death Proof” - playing back-to-back. The idea was a good one. It’s just too bad that the films did little to complement each othe” read more
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