Saw it tonite, and was....sort of underwhelmed. It was fun; it was definitely a Tarantino sort of experience. Was it as fun as 300? Not even remotely. I will say this: the lusciousness of the female cast was exquisite. Rose McGowan was worth the price of admission alone, and there was plenty of other hot ass in this move as well. Kurt Russell was frakkin' awesome. Good popcorn muncher, I guess. See it with friends if you're going to make it a theater experience. If you miss it, well, you can always watch your Kill Bill or Pulp Fiction DVDs again...
What I dislike about it is that Tarantino doesn't seem to understand: What makes a cheesy movie fun is that it WASN'T so toungue-in-cheek. No one was winking at the camera, so to speak. 300 was cheesy, but in the classic, badass way that a movie like Total Recall was cheesy. And it seems like Tarantino tries, but can't quite figure out how to make something like that.
Tarantino's problem is that he KNOWS he's making a cheesy movie: he's doing it on purpose. People who make the genuine "cheesy" movies think they are making serious movies, which makes the whole experience even funnier!
I like Tarantino's stuff. People rip on him constantly, but guess what? His stuff is fun, it's entertaining, it's not a fuckin' remake, and the bank numbers would tend to agree.
I've been let down by Tarintino... Pulp Fiction caught my attention and Jackie Brown is by far his best movie to date... Everything else has been underwhelming to me... Sometimes fun, but underwhelming. Sin City was good, but I credit the material and Frank Miller more than I do Rodriguez and Tarintino.
Indeed. When every single frame is based off the comic, every line, every nuance, the director's purpose becomes less and less important. And despite popular opinion, I really, really disliked Kill Bill. Though I quite enjoyed Pulp Fiction. And it's hard to go wrong with Jackie Brown, as it's based off an Elmore Leonard novel.
I'll happily jump on the Kill Bill -hating bandwagon. Nothing about those movies pleased me. I remember being a bit pissed off, sitting through both of them after all the gushing. Jesus.
Kill Bill's only redeeming quality was the speach at the end by Bill just before the Bride kills him. "I am a murdering son of a bitch." "Was my reaction really that....unexpected?" The guy made alot of sense there.
The best thing about Kill Bill was the Old Klingon Proverb listed in the the very begining of the movie: "Revenge is a dish best served cold." After that, it was a piece of shit.
I'm sorry, but Grindhouse was, by far, the most fun I've ever had in a movie theatre. Terror Planet was beautiful. With ridiculous zombies, random explosions, and minibikes, it was the perfect shitty movie. Deathproof was a slight letdown, but it made up for itself during the car chase and final scenes. In the beginning, however, Tarantino pulled the usual Tarantino and tried to make it more than it was. Meanwhile, the fake trailers were also brilliant. Don't get me wrong, these movies are godawful shit. But they are hilarious shit. It is just pure machismo - if you think it's meant to be anything more, you're terribly mistaken.
Pulp Fiction is the only movie of his I've liked. Work of genius. Everything else so far has been a total waste of time.
The good news is that they actually filmed enough stuff for the trailer that they're going to have a DVD release of the film in 2008!
Well, sorry, I left that whole kitsch phase behind with my 20's. I'm more into watching movies I actually like because they're actually good, instead of shit I ironically like, and I have to MST3K to make good.
Well I enjoyed Grindhouse, I just didn' think it was the moviegoing experience of the year or anything. Part of the problem is that it was too damn long. If they could have edited both of those movies down to an hour or so it would have been better.
Grindhouse was perfect. Me and some friends went together and saw it and we had a blast. It isn't some piece of art, it's a three hour ride. I only wish the trailers would be made into real movies. I'd love to see Don't and Thanksgiving, and maybe even Werewolf Women of the S.S., if only for Nick Cage as Fu Manchu.
I wanna see Machete with that scary Mexican dude. Actor or not, I don't think I'd like to meet him in a dark alley!
I saw it this weekend.... It was fun. It didn't take it self seriously and I ended up laughing at the screen more than anything. A lot of nostalgia with this movie. I'm apparently older than I thought I was. I remember these movies when I was young... The old theaters in downtown Chicago used to show these all the time. Diacanu, I think you are being a little too hard on Grindhouse. You liked The Evil Dead, right? The Grindhouse brings back that kind of nostalgia. I think the dissappointment is from the fact that it is over 3 hours long and not due to the quality of the flicks. I have to say that Rodriguez's idea of Zombie fighting was pretty unique. Cherry Darling's amputated leg/machine gun was hilarious.... and Rose McGowan can only be described as deliciously sinister....
No, the disappointment (on my end at least) has to do with exactly what you mentioned: Grindhouse Vs. Evil Dead. The difference? Evil Dead really was campy, low-budget horror. Grindhouse is pretending to be, and it reeks of fanboyish prattle to me. To me, it's like the difference between a girl who goes to Hot Topic and buys a studded "dog collar" necklace, and the girl who just takes one off her pitbull to wear. Tarantino isn't old enough to be that nostalgic. He's just unbearably arrogant, thinking he's doing something more clever than those other movies cause he winks at the audience throughout all his flicks. Reservoir Dogs? Entertaining. Pulp Fiction? Pretty spectacular. Jackie Brown? Elmore Leonard Everything afterwards? Self-indulgent shit.
Well I'll say this for QT- he doesn't push people to the middle ground. Most folks love him or hate him. At least the stuff he puts out is fun.
I loved his earlier stuff. Now he just seems too full of himself. The whole Kill Bill 1 and 2 thing pissed me off. "I'm so hot-to-trot, I KNOW you'll lick up volume one and come back BEGGING for number 2!" Fuck him. I watched Volume 2 off Bittorrent.
Actually, I'm pretty sure he originally wanted them cut as one picture, but the studio said it'd be way too long, so he was forced into making it into two. Supposedly, there was going to be an edition released on DVD that had them cut together as one movie. Don't know what ever happened to that, though.
No excuse. Cut shit out, make an extended director's cut. Don't give us half a god-damn movie and expect us to pay twice for it.
