A few weeks ago it was announced that the Tarantino half of "Grindhouse" -- called "Death Proof" would be released in theatres as its own feature without the Rodrigues half. They'll add a lot of deleted scenes in order to bring it up to a more acceptable feature- film length.
For my money, that's what ought to be done. I just didn't like the Rodrigues half -- called "Planet Terror" -- and was so overwhelmed by all the silly violence in it that by the time it was over and Tarantino's half began, I was so exhausted that I didn't enjoy it as much as I know I would have had it been the first one shown. So I'm really thrilled that it's going to come out as its own movie. However, I must say: Quentin, enough with the four-letter words. It was enough to hear the f-word and the horrible mf-word and the more horrible n-word every two seconds in Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, and, to a lesser degree, Reservoir Dogs. Enough already. And I know you can do it without resorting to those words because both volumes of "Kill Bill" were nearly void of them. Indeed, that's why I stopped watching "Deadwood" on HBO after the first season. I just couldn't take the incessant profanity. Profanity is like a punch line; it's good and it works when you earn it. Use it sparingly and it will add to a script. Use it every few seconds and it takes its toll on the listener...and it's a negative toll... On another note, Barry: we had a "Grindhouse" in Montreal when I was growing up. It was called "The System" and it was a grungy looking and smelling movie theatre next to the old Montreal Forum (when Les Canadiens used to play before they moved to the Molson Stadium). They played triple features every day and it was a favourite hangout when playing hookie. I always loved that name of it: "The System". --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > For your information, the following post is Restricted. No > admittance to persons who might be disturbed by graphic > images of sex, violence, or other aspects of real life. > > > Well, I finally saw "Grindhouse," and, although I enjoyed > it thoroughly, being a big fan of both Tarantino and Robert > Rodriguez, my first thought when it was all over was, "Man, > I really want to see the flick in the first fake trailer." > > http://youtube.com/watch?v=HpKfN3V-44k > > Well, it looks as if I'm not the only person to have reacted > that way: > > http://www.slashfilm.com/2007/03/12/grindhouse-rodriguez-to-turn- they-call-him-machete-into-feature-length-movie/ > > or > > http://tinyurl.com/2335lg > > I couldn't be more pleased. I love Danny Trejo. I met him > once briefly in Santa Fe, and a nicer, sweeter, funnier guy > you'd have trouble finding anywhere else. It's just that he > *looks* so mean! This could make him a star, in the mold > of other not-particularly-good-looking stars like Charles > Bronson. And I just can't wait to see Cheech as a...uh... > priest with a mission. > > I actually enjoyed the film a lot. And although Taratino's > is the better movie as movie, I enjoyed Rodriguez' film more. > He's funnier, and often gets better performances from his > actors, because they love working with him so much. They're > having FUN, and that comes through in the final product. I > mean, few would list Rose McGowan as a great actress, but > the sight of her camping it up as a one-legged avenger with > a submachine gun as a replacement limb was To Die For. > > Lots of blood and gore, natch, because the whole thing is an > homage to the genre of the grindhouse films, made with low > budgets and no stars and hoping to recoup their investment > on sex and violence alone. But because actors love working > with both Tarantino and Rodriguez, they got to make these > grindhouse flicks with actors like Bruce Willis and Naveen > Andrews and Nicolas Cage and Rosario Dawson and Kurt Russell. > That said, my favorite performance in the film is by a first- > time actress (or at least one of her first performances > *billed* as an actress), Zoe Bell. Zoe is a stunt woman. > Suffice it to say she does all of her own stunts in the > driving sequences of "Death Proof." It brings an element of > credibility to the flick that is missing in many others. > > The other "Grindouse" fake trailers: > > http://youtube.com/watch?v=Ka83i_e_v8M > > http://youtube.com/watch?v=XQifXaOboMU > > And a few of the real grindhouse trailers for the 70s films > that inspired this one: > > http://youtube.com/watch?v=sNfNevVeebc > > And you wonder why I'm so weird. This is the sorta stuff > I grew up on. They'd be playing every weekend in a double > feature at the local grindhouse theaters. Oh, for the > good old days of cinema... :-) >
