# "Death Proof" DVD - from "Grindhouse" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 23, 2007, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-proof-dvd-from-grindhouse/420215 "2007-09-23T18:28:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Rucksinator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/898d66/32.png) [@Rucksinator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rucksinator)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2007, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-proof-dvd-from-grindhouse/420215/1 "2007-09-23T18:28:07Z")
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](http://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. ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2007, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-proof-dvd-from-grindhouse/420215/2 "2007-09-23T18:38:01Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2007, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-proof-dvd-from-grindhouse/420215/3 "2007-09-23T18:58:51Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2007, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-proof-dvd-from-grindhouse/420215/4 "2007-09-23T19:00:48Z")
Haven’t seen “Grindhouse”, but I’ll be waiting for the edition that combines them with all the extras down the road. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Some\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ad7895/32.png) [@Just\_Some\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Some_Guy)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2007, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-proof-dvd-from-grindhouse/420215/5 "2007-09-23T19:06:58Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2007, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-proof-dvd-from-grindhouse/420215/6 "2007-09-23T20:41:29Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2007, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-proof-dvd-from-grindhouse/420215/7 "2007-09-23T21:14:10Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2007, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-proof-dvd-from-grindhouse/420215/8 "2007-09-23T22:29:20Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/51bf81/32.png) [@TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2007, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-proof-dvd-from-grindhouse/420215/9 "2007-09-23T23:21:26Z")
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_. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2007, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-proof-dvd-from-grindhouse/420215/10 "2007-09-23T23:42:42Z")
[QUOTE=VCO3] 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_. [/QUOTE] 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. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2007, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-proof-dvd-from-grindhouse/420215/11 "2007-09-23T23:47:24Z")
[QUOTE=VCO3] 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_. [/QUOTE] 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. ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2007, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-proof-dvd-from-grindhouse/420215/12 "2007-09-23T23:59:47Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2007, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-proof-dvd-from-grindhouse/420215/13 "2007-09-24T01:04:09Z")
[QUOTE=DigitalC] 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. [/QUOTE] 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. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2007, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-proof-dvd-from-grindhouse/420215/14 "2007-09-24T06:41:53Z")
[QUOTE=Equipoise] 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. [/QUOTE] A lot of us never got the chance to have the theatrical experience. ---
**Author:** ![slortar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@slortar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slortar)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2007, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-proof-dvd-from-grindhouse/420215/15 "2007-09-24T12:28:47Z")
[QUOTE=lissener] 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. [/QUOTE] 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.