I just got this from Blockbuster, and was disappointed to not be able to find any of the fake trailers. I assummed that at least half of them would be on here. I found 4 trailers, but 2 are for movies that I know are real (1408 and Planet Terror). I assummed the other 2 were real as well. How do I get to see the fake trailers?
When will Planet Terror be out on DVD? [OK, according to Blockbuster.com, it will be out on 2 disks on Oct 16.]
Why weren’t these released on DVD the same way that they were released at the theaters? I wanted the full experience, except from my den, where the popcorn and drinks are cheaper, and I can take a leak without missing anything.
Oh yeah, the movie itself was decent. It was almost 2 hours by itself, though, so I can imagine that what I saw was shown in the theatres, plus Planet Terror, plus a bunch of fake trailers, in about 3 hours.
The fake trailers won’t be included on the Planet Terror disc either. The Weinsteins fully expect Tarantino and Rodriguez fanboys to “double-dip” – to buy these individual releases, and then spring for a fully-combined Grindhouse Special Edition a year or two down the road. But the movie bombed in theaters, and Planet Terror and Death Proof were released individually in other countries, so I guess the current DVD release goes along with their “Plan B” release strategy. At least both DVD releases have extra footage, so the version of Death Proof you just saw on DVD was longer, with new stuff you didn’t see in the theater, and Planet Terror will be the same way.
I was extremely disappointed with this DVD. Not only were there no fake trailers, but I found the movie to be unforgivably boring. It took a long time before anything interesting happened, I couldn’t have been less interested in the unremarkable “girl’s night out” that seemed to go on forever.
I’m a big Tarantino/Rodriguez “fanboy”, but I gotta give this one a thumbs down.
Part of the entertainment of Grindhouse was the recreation of the experience. I’ll wait until they release the movie I went to see on DVD before buying it. And if they never do then I’ll just have to live with that.
People who missed the experience of Grindhouse in the theater deserve what they get. The whole point of the experiment was to evoke the days of seeing double features in, well grindhouses. As a theater experience, it worked (for most people) exactly the way it was meant to work and those people had a blast. These are not great movies and should not be seen alone. Both films together, PLUS the fake trailers, and seeing it with an audience, made the whole a much more fun experience than the sum of its parts.
I hope Planet Terror is better, because this one was pretty bad. A hour and a half of “girl talk” written by someone who either only knows dumb girls or no girls at all, was beyond boring.
I agree that the theater experience was the entire point of this project. However, Death Proof stands up–and then some–on its own, on disc. Unfortunately, the extras suck: no commentary track. As annoying as QT is (I’d rather watch 24 hours of a Jerry Lewis telethon than 24 minutes of QT talking about movies), it would have been fun to have heard all the referents checked off, as on the Hot Fuzz disc.
These ridiculous DVD releases are just the final nail in the coffin of creativity in movie releases; the studio was so terrified of taking even the smallest risk that they had already split the films and started showing them sans trailers during the initial theatrical release, destroying the entire concept.
But maybe we should just blame the American Public for demonstrating that they prefer Daddy Daycamp and Norbit.
Well, that’s just it. People pay to see Little Man; Grindhouse not so much. Still, Hollywood deserves some blame, for putting all their commercial might behind the almighty blockbuster, rather than spreading the marketing effort around a little.
I have to speak up for the studio a little here - and I liked the Grindhouse idea, and Death Proof in particular. The double-feature plan was a guaranteed money-loser. Tarantino and Rodriguez’s core audience is probably too young to remember grindhouses in the first place, and by definition they were an underground thing.
The machine gun leg sunk both those movies, thats the one and only reason ive ever heard for people not seeing it in the theater. Most people had no idea about the concept, they just saw the trailer with rose mcgowan mowing down zombies and then rocket jumping with her fake leg and inmediately wrote it off.
Another interesting example of anecdotal subjectivity: for everyone I know, Rose McGowan’s prosthetic gun was the primary reason they stood in line at midnight on the first day. So, I’m not sure how generally apt your theory is.
Hell, one of my female coworkers has a machine-gun leg sticker on her car.
Two thumbs down on this release. It’s bad enough they’re not releasing both at once, but no fake trailers? Laaaaame.
The main reason I’d even want the damn DVD’s is to show both movies back to back to friends, with the fake trailers. It’s not like I’m going to ever have the urge to watch Death Proof by itself.
