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Last Rated: 2/8/2009 8:40:59 PM by nassauroyal and has been rated 3 time(s)
Viewed 449 time(s)
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Egan080's Review and Opinion:
Grindhouse is one of those films that must have seemed like a good idea when Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez were pitching it to the studio that green-lit it for production.
Grindhouse is an energetic if somewhat uneven double feature made up of two full-length movies written, filmed, edited and made to look like those cheap-o, cheesy sex-and-violence Grade Z flicks from the 1970s
Grindhouse starts with a"scratched" film reel and an over-the-top "trailer" for a "coming attraction" titled Machete, a vigilante tale styled after Death Wish, Walking Tall, and every awful revenge tale that was filmed in the era. It's delightfully sardonic, and it's also the best material written by Rodriguez.
The first of the features of this double-billing is Rodriguez's Planet Terror, starring Rose McGowan as Cherry Darling, a stripper who becomes one of the few human survivors of a bio-chemical disaster that turns most of the inhabitants of a Texas town into zombies.
In this story, Cherry joins forces with her bad-boy lover Wray (Freddy Rodriguez), Sheriff Hague (Michael Biehn), barbecue restauranteur J.T. (Jeff Fahey) and others in an all-night chase-fight-and-flee fest against zombies led by Lt. Muldoon (Bruce Willis).
While Planet Terror does have its moments (a character's inability to use her hands becomes a pretty inspired running joke) and the tone and look are very much in the spirit of 1970s exploitaition films, Rodriguez's story meanders about way too much and seems to be unfocused in spots.
It also is the more violent of the two films, with castrations, impalements, shootings, stabbings, injections of dangerous drugs, and cannibalism galore. It's all tongue-in-cheek and so exaggerated that it comes across as cartoonish, but it's also pretty graphic and gross.
Quentin Tarantino's Death Proof is also violent and cheesy, though its plot of a psychotic stunt man (Kurt Russell) on the prowl for victims in the Texas highways and byways near Austin is more tightly written. Laced throughout with constant talk about sex, drug use, and profanity, this feature takes the cliches of every slasher/psychotic pursuer vs. young females flick ever made and puts a fresh (if rather foul-mouthed) spin on them.
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Visual Aspects 76.67% |
The movie was deliberately made to look bad and therefore looks bad! So how do we rate? |
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Auditory Aspects 90.00% |
As with the Visual Aspects, Grindhouse is supposed to be flawed.... |
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Cinematography 60.00% |
It was shot to resemble a cheap movie, so it will deliberately have flaws. |
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Plot/story 63.33% |
Deliberately derivative. That in itself is kinda original, right? |
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Character 35.00% |
Hammy acting, corny dialogue. |
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Acting 40.00% |
The actors here are usually good...can deliberately bad acting be considered good here? |
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General 36.67% |
As I said, one feature is better than the other, but if you "get" the joke of the whole thing, I think it's worth watching |
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Synopsis:
An homage to exploitation B-movie thrillers that combines two feature-length segments into one double-bill designed to replicate the grind house theatergoing experience of the 70s and 80s. In "Death Proof," a psycho named Stuntman Mike stalks and kills beautiful women with his car. In "Planet Terror," a small-town sheriffs' department has to deal with an outbreak of murderous, infected people called "sickos." A gun-legged woman named Cherry and her martial arts-wielding partner take on the zombie army. The two films will be fused together by fake movie trailers. (IMDb.com)
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