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Old 12.14.2008, 12:46 PM   #4481
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My friends and I wanted to watch a movie, one wanted to watch Magnolia but blockbuster didn't have it (wtf?) so I made them watch Harold and Maude, one of my favorite movies, and they loved it. They were a little wary of the old vaginas though.

 
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Old 12.14.2008, 01:23 PM   #4482
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fuck. I give it a 1/10
fucking terrible boring boring endless scenes with stupid women talking stupid shit. so fucking pointless and dumb.



Damn, everybody bashes this movie. I love it. I've watched it so many times. I hated the Rodriguez one, though. Which everyone seems to like.
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Old 12.14.2008, 01:28 PM   #4483
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Damn, everybody bashes this movie. I love it. I've watched it so many times. I hated the Rodriguez one, though. Which everyone seems to like.

I like em both, but I prefer the Rodriguez one.

I wish he would make 'Machete!' - the film in the fake trailer.
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Old 12.14.2008, 01:29 PM   #4484
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I wish Eli Roth would really make Thanksgiving!!! I loved the nod to The Majorettes (the trampoline part).
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Old 12.14.2008, 02:14 PM   #4485
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The thing I hated about "Grindhouse" was they promised a hard R, with blood, sex, and all that good stuff, and then they edited out the sex. Like in "Planet Terror", I know Rose Mcgowan has done her share of sex and nudity in other films but damn I bummed when they cut the sex scene short, and it was cool seeing Rico from Six Feet Under kicking ass. I really liked "Death Proof" as well, lots of dialogue, kind of goes with the terrority with Tarantino.
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Old 12.14.2008, 04:27 PM   #4486
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I like em both, but I prefer the Rodriguez one.

I wish he would make 'Machete!' - the film in the fake trailer.
I heard he is supposed to be making it. No clue if it's true though.
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Old 12.14.2008, 04:33 PM   #4487
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Old 12.14.2008, 05:38 PM   #4488
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Yeah, Death Proof is a -10/10.

Probably the worst film I've ever seen. Down there with Gangs of the Dead, Diary of the Dead, Death Racers, Ankle Biters, Room 666, and the Matrix Revolutions, etc...

For the record, I wasn't a huge fan of Rodriguez's either. It was entertaining, though -- something Death Proof is not in the least. There's just absolutely nothing to like in Death Proof.


The only thing I liked about grindhouse were the fake trailers.
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Old 12.14.2008, 06:13 PM   #4489
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Haha. Adam, we seriously somehow end up on this nr-loves-death-proof-atsonic-hates-it thing in this very thread every 3 months or so.
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Old 12.14.2008, 06:24 PM   #4490
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Old 12.14.2008, 06:25 PM   #4491
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Grindhouse was exactly what I expected. Rodriguez didn't pull out the stops and Tarantino had a good laugh. Who watches a Tarantino movie without expecting endless petty dialogue? The ending to Death Proof was fucking ballsy, though.
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Old 12.14.2008, 06:29 PM   #4492
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I at least expect for the dialog to be entertaining or have some kind of point. I've tried to appreciate the movie on many different levels; as an anti-film, as some kind of experimental piece, etc. Really, whatever angle you look at it from, it's an embarassment to film.
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Old 12.14.2008, 06:49 PM   #4493
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I at least expect for the dialog to be entertaining or have some kind of point. I've tried to appreciate the movie on many different levels; as an anti-film, as some kind of experimental piece, etc. Really, whatever angle you look at it from, it's an embarassment to film.


The dialogue not having a point Was the point. I thought the dialogue was so spot-on as a 70's exploitation film. I mean, I'm sure you've seen tons of the real ones, and often that's what the dialogue was... it was just something pointless to kill time between the violence and nudity.

That's what Death Proof was completely. It was an 80 minute device that was designed around a (couple of) great violent scenes. In that regard, I think the movie was incredible because it accomplished that perfectly.

Also, on a side note, the music kicked ass (although the soundtrack was a bit too good for a grindhouse flick in reality, though not necessarily by miles-- remember that Sun Ra was sang in BASKET CASE).

PLANET TERROR on the other hand was in fact what I'd consider too obvious. It didn't show the same enthusiasm for the sub-genres they were intending to homage that DEATH PROOF did.
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Old 12.14.2008, 06:57 PM   #4494
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I got the "point" of the film, but endless boring talking about nothing and a girl riding on a car was not entertaining. And, really, that's what a film like that should be about: entertainment. And yeah Planet Terror was just some new age horror film with a few clever touches. It was pretty lame... though again had a few entertaining parts.

The whole grindhouse project in general sucked, and I'm glad it failed big time... but the trailers for Don't and Thanksgiving were great. That little 1 minute 30 seconds of trailer is Eli Roth's best work ever!
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Old 12.14.2008, 06:58 PM   #4495
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Glad you mentioned Basket Case by the way. Love those films... love Brain Damage and Frankenhooker. Now THOSE are great movies.
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Old 12.14.2008, 09:37 PM   #4498
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Glad you mentioned Basket Case by the way. Love those films... love Brain Damage and Frankenhooker. Now THOSE are great movies.

Anything he touched was amazing. He finally did a new film, with RA The Rugged Man... haven't seen it yet.
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Old 12.14.2008, 09:40 PM   #4499
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Old 12.15.2008, 12:43 AM   #4500
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tarantino's dialogue normally resonates with the plot in a very visceral way and grindhouse sounded like a lazy writer wanking off. when you make an "homage" to something that in actuality was , honestly, crap fucking movies, you do not try and copy the CRAP! Like "let me show the audience hlow boring and banal the grindhouse movies were by boring the fuck out of them! "

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