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I hart this movie. Hart it hard and long. It was hilarious, what with the random explosions and suchwhatnot. Especially the gatlin-gun for a leg.

Discuss.

I didnt care for gunleg. How does it fire!?

By way of lulz, obviously.

Sidwarrious
I didnt care for gunleg. How does it fire!?

Muscle spasm?

I loved both this movie and Death Proof a lot.^^ But I'm a sucker for Tarantino movies n' stuff.

I demanded that my man take me to see this in the theatre the moment it opened. I'm a Rodriguez junkie and although I wouldn't wanna' buy a round and hang with Tarantino for ANY amount of time; his movies are among my favorites.

I was a tad disappointed in Death Proof. Sure, a couple of awesome car chases. (My favorite "car chases:" "The French Connection" and "Bad Boys." ) But, the dialogue was painful and nothing we haven't heard from Tarantino before. I think, because I saw things in the trailer that weren't in the film...I was let down, but not impressed enough to buy it, unless it comes in a "Grindhouse" double movie set. Which it's kinda' a jip it didn't. But, I'm sure it will eventually. More money for the fat cats.

But, Planet Terror? I bought it the day it came out. Excellent "zombieish" flick. Although, I lost a bit of respect for Rodriguez...leavin' his wife for Manson's sloppy seconds...I don't care how freakin' smokin' your leading lady is...You got five kids at home dude. (Of course, I can just hear Tarantino in his ear. F-her man, you're not a man if you don't!) And really she IS uber-sexy in that little GOGO number. But, have a understanding with your spouse then...prick) But, that's beside the point. I love Dr. Dakota and her crazy sub-plot. El Wray (I don't know his name yet...Carla's brother on Scrubs?) isn't too shabby either and I'm always happy when Michael Biehn gets a paycheck. I think it's the best job I've EVER seen from McGowan and I LOVE the Gatlin Leg.

"Planet Terror" has quickly joined the rotation of my favorite "back ground noise" DVD collection.

Planet Terror was an awesome throwback to grindhouse the great stuff like John Carpenter & Romero made back in their hayday.Its got stuff that I've always wanted to see in a movie, A person with a gun for a leg, Bruce Willis as a villain for once, Tarintino playing rapist #2, and as you guys said explosions and violence. The plot is so inconsiderably crazy, how could you not love it? I'd much rather have seen a full film version of Machete.

As for Death Proof, it was pandering. Tarintinto referencing Tarintino? He's absolutely lot his mind now. Jackie Brown was almost nothing but dialog and exposition, but things happened. There WERE characters. In Death Proof, all the female character have the same annoying droning voice where they discuss nothing for to hours. The scenes with Kurt Russel killing the girls was priceless. The ending was NOT what I wanted at all. This was more like a pro-women exploitation I Spit On Your Grave or some of the road movies type of grindhouse thing. Why wouldn't he do something awesome like a women in prison film or just a full fledged road movie where Kurt Russel drives from town to town killing women. I was completely unimpressed. Inglorious Bastards should be better, hopefully. Tarintino really underimpressed me with this one. I'd like to blame Eli Roth for influencing Tarintino, at this point I've more respect for Uwe Boll for actually making Grindhouse style B movies.

You guys know that these "homages" and "parodies" of old b movies, are actually still being made right? Check out Plane Dead for zombies, on a plane. The Roger Corman style of grindhouse monster movie is still alive every other week on the Sci Fi channel. Everyone has this unwarranted self importance now. They think their the greatest directors and creators in the world. It makes me mad. I'd love to have a third of the budget for Grindhouse to make a truly epic B movie. Hell I could make a full series of b movies. With even more elaborate car chases and explosions.

Rodriguez ignores the unions, so why can't I?

Fifth best zombie movie ever! The others being:

4. Zombie 1
3. Night Of The Living Dead (original)
2. Shaun Of The Dead
1. Dawn Of The Dead (remake)

See, I'm the opposite. I usually like the dialogue in Tarantino's movies. Yes, it was a LOT of dialogue...but that's just typical for him, it's his way of developing characters. And yes, it was girls talking about nothing a lot....but I found their conversations more realistic than some of the girl talk they put in movies nowadays. I mean, he could've had them talking about their periods for two hours. Plus, many parts of the conversations aren't completely irrelevant. Many of the things they talked about ended up being linked to the future crazy crap that happened to them.

Like how that girl always landed on her feet, because she was such a skilled stuntwoman.

Also. Perhaps it's the feminist in me but I loved the ending of Death Proof. Not only was it funny....but come on, if Stuntman Bob had done nothing but kill girls for the whole movie and kept getting a way with it or something, wouldn't that had just been more predictable? For once, the killer messed with the wrong people...and murdering psychopaths CAN be big ass whiners.

At first I didn't love Death Proof, but the second time I saw it I enjoyed it more. Same deal with Reservoir Dogs.

...but, ah, it doesn't matter. It just depends on what ya like.


Planet Terror....that's just a zombie-killin' good time!

marine
I'd much rather have seen a full film version of Machete.

I was so upset when I found out the "Trailers" were dummies. I know...Machete looked fanfuckingtastic. Hopefully, it'll be a great video game.

YAY for B-Movie connoisseurs!

Grindhouse is pure epic win. Hands down. I saw it in theatres and I've been a huge patron of it ever since. It was by far the most unique and outrageous viewing experience I have ever been through. The worn out look of the film, the bad splicing between reels, the missing reels, the fake trailers it was all a bawdy exploitation eyegasm. I can't say I know anything about the old grindhouse cinemas and the exploitation films of the 70's, but I'm guessing that Tarantino and Rodriguez captured their essence. Watching Grindhouse was like abandoning my morals, my logic and my sense of sophistication for pure sleaze, and man did I love it. It's a shame a lot of people are just so used to the typical run-of-the-mill Hollywood films, if everyone could learn to embrace the weird and wrong every once and awhile, Grindhouse would one of the highest rated films out there.

Anyways... Planet Terror was blood-splattered, sleaze-cuzzling fun, no doubt about it. Rodriguez executed the gut-wrenching, brain-spilling, vomit-enducing grindhouse horror movie perfectly. I mean let's face it, Planet Terror has everything. Explosions, Bruce Willis, GORE, smokin' betties, weapons in place of appendages, goo and puss, Qunetin Tarantino as Rapist #2, sweet rides, oh man, need I go on?! It's the film that crosses the line and just keeps on running. I mean come on, when you've seen a child shooting himself, a dog getting run over by a car, a melting member and a jar fulla testes, you know you've just ditched your morals. I thought the storyline was both clever and downright stupid (in a good way), with lots of different elements mixed in throughout. I thought the acting was pretty superb too, each actor obviously understood the sheer exploitation of the film, yet played with it in a blievable way. And I gotta say, Josh Brolin as Doc Block was genius and just so badass. It was also pretty funny to see him reduced to a whimpering mess, much like Kurt Russel's character in Death Proof. The effects were also very zombie movie-esque. If you pick up the DVD you'll learn that many of the effects used clever, money-saving shortcuts too and hey, I didn't notice. All in all, Planet Terrorwas awesome. Go watch it now.

Best line in the movie: "I'm gonna eay your brains and gain your knowledge." or "I also want your balls."

Oh and by the way, I have both Planet Terror and Death Proof on DVD. (Yes, I did enjoy Death Proof enough to purchase it.) The only bummer is, Rodriguez reveals on the Planet Terror DVD that there will indeed be a DVD box-set including both movies. (It might also give you the abaility to play the whole Grindhouse experience as a whole (which could mean the inclusion of all the faux trailers.) Of course, I learned this after buying both DVDs. I might still buy the boxset though, I just gots to see the trailers again!

I loved Planet Terror, but Deathproof left me cold. I liked maybe the last ten or twenty minutes of it, (I'll happily admit I loved the ending and the credits song), but the first part of it seemed like a waste of my time. I know it was character development for the big bad and all, but I felt cheated.

Still, Planet Terror more than made up for it. It was both the only zombie movie where characters I liked actually lived and the only role Rose McGowan actually acted in. Seriously. After seeing how good she was in Grindhouse, my friend Julia and I rented a bunch of other McGowan flicks and she was so laughably bad. (Those movies spawned countless in-jokes.)

Also, she could fire her gunleg by believing in herself.

magickmaker
I know it was character development for the big bad and all, but I felt cheated.

I thought that awesome car crash/death scene made up for it. I mean...OUCH! Though I agree the first part could've been cut shorter by a few minutes.