Planet Terror out tomorrow

I just think we are in two VERY different places on this.

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	He's way too much fun to watch. Especially when he does his whole "book" bit.

I found that painful to watch. If it was any other movie, I would say "cut it", but considering the film is ...mocking... bad movies, it fits perfectly as it is horrible.

And get Eli Roth the F off that screen.

-GageFX

yep, rodriguez should work on a project written by someone else. i think most would agree that sin city was his best.

and tarantino should stick with his pul fiction royalties and get a job selling real estate or something.

it is a shame that grindhouse failed in theaters. it couldn't have been the quality of the movie that made it fail, it had to be the length. don't they know they NO ONE goes movies over 3 hours. Do you know anyone that went to the LOTR movies? Yeah those must have made NOTHING.

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(LOTR=poo)

I liked Sin City. I eagerly await the sequels. I dont think it had anything to do with DIRECTING, though.

I think it's that RR is just an internet forum "filmmaker" who has managed to get himself into a position to do it on a much bigger scale. Every once in a while an zero budget tinkerer will make something good. But most of it is bad and at best, interesting.

I think the biggest inspiration is that RR got to where he is from the steaming pile of poo which was Mariachi. Mariachi was something that if we saw someone post in in a forum tomorrow as their big summer project, we'd all say how intersting it was, ask about how they did various things, but then not give it another thought.

Strangely, I think I find the Spy Kids series his best stuff.

Sin City
Desperado
Spy Kids series

and that's it.

And I only say that Spy Kids is okay because I have no problems with them. I can name a million things I dont like about his other films that I think are bad. The Spy Kids films are decent KIDS films. They do that well. You also have to LOVE how he has the mother from his KIDS films NAKED in another film. Nice.

-GageFX

Excuse me while I steer a little OT here:

For those who picked up Death Proof at Blockbuster when it came out you should have received one of two cool little (18"x12") Death Proof movie posters. I think it was for rentals only but I got both of them anyway even though I purchased the special edition because I'm, like, cool (or maybe because I'm tight with the manager; whatever).

The same thing was set up for Planet Terror. The posters shipped to the stores but then Corporate decided that they were too graphic or something and decided not to offer them. The key word here is "offer."

Hit your favorite clerk or manager up and I'll bet they'll get them out of the back for you (mine did).

-- Bruce

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Cool. I will see 'bout that.

Now enough of this "Planet Terror" nonsense. Go buy a REAL movie. Transformers!

-GFX

Serously, RR and Tarantino need to drop all of this retro-crap and get back to making decent films. I am tired of these two (especially Tarantino) espousing all of this obscure 60s and 70s trash.

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	shaughan wrote:
	I am tired of these two (especially Tarantino) espousing all of this obscure 60s and 70s trash.

Why, you young whippersnapper, I remember back when I was your age...

Whoa! Sorry, I was channeling my grandpa for a moment.

I was actually sneaking into drive-ins (raised in the 'burbs, no grindhouses) back in the '60's and early '70's to oogle classics like "Last House on the Left" and "Invasion of the Bee Girls" (renamed "Graveyard Tramps" on the DVD for some unfathomable reason, but I digress). I thought RR did a great job capturing the cheesy dialog, the often left in bloopers, and a raft of other early R rated cinema artifacts. QT, not so much. Death Proof just seemed like another QT flick to me.

And I feel sorry for those rebels across the pond; the trailers in the US theatrical release was half the fun. Talk about waxing nostalgic...

-- Bruce

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	the trailers in the US theatrical release was half the fun.

Indeed. And this makes me remember on other thing I somehow forgot to comment on: Someone above, who will remain nameless, DJ, said:

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Oh, for the love of god, no. I hope that spells the end of his career. An I dont even think it is a career that necessarily needs ending, but MACHETE? It's time to lay the camera down.

The Butabi brothers every now and then on SNL? As funny as anything else on the show in the past 20 years. A Night At The Roxbury? So not necessary. Machete? I saw that already. It was Danny as Navajas in Desperado. Let's move on.

-GageFX

Sadly, Bruce, I suspect I am older than you.

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I'm 82 so I have you both beat.

who did machete? I didn't like the eli roth trailer, but eli roth is my least favorite director....ever. Hostel 1 and 2 i couldnt even watch, and it wasnt even because of gore, it was because of being ridiculously ed wood style awful.

i did like the DON'T trailer. Edgar Wright can do no wrong in my eyes. Awesome.

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Machete was RR's trailer.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0985694/

Which he is turning a feature "for the fans". All 12 of us that saw Grindhouse in the theater.

But really, THIS http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0808359/ has to be better.

-GageFX

Well I just watched PT on dvd, ya'll are crazy, that movie rocks. Smile

The film grain was much less visible than in the theater, but the hair, scratches, distortions and color held up well.

The thing that the film school section emphasized over and over is reference, reference, reference.

and (at least in CA at Blockbuster) the poster is $3.99.

What was the price at Blockbuster?

I went to two Targets and Walmart and they were all sold out.

On the positive side, I did get a copy of the SE Transformers. Rolling Eyes

Curses on you, dreaded DVD addiction. Twisted Evil

-GageFX

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	When all the characters (particularly the females) start sounding like QT, it gets a bit much.

THANK YOU. That is my main Tarantino gripe. It began bothering me for real in Kill Bill part II, and now I can't shake it off. And a café scene like Death Proof, I just see four Quentin Tarantinos talking to each other.

When I say that to people back home, they don't understand.

Having said that, I still enjoyed Death Proof. Smile

- Jonas

so are the extras and film school sections worth it? I'll buy it if they are...

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