I just watched Grind House: Death Proof and the description said “An ex-stuntman kills women with his car throughout the south”
Well, thank you very fucking much for spoiling the whole first half of the movie for me. They do that with their Twilight Zone and Outer Limits summaries as well.
Don’t spoil the fucking thing for me in the description!
Considering that the trailers and TV commercials for Death-Proof ALSO reveal that plot twist, and that Tarantino and Russell were pretty open about it in pre-release interviews, I think the idea is that you’re supposed to know the plot twist before you see the movie.
My condolences. Planet Terror is fucking awesome, but Death Proof was just 80-some-odd minutes of ol’ Quentin jerking off all over the screen.
(Hint: There’s a reason why certain movies were released in grindhouses. It’s because they sucked.)
Robert Rodgriguez managed to take the good parts of sucky movies, like ridiculous, over-the-top stories, comical dialog, sex scenes and explosions, and make an entertaining homage. Tarantino just tried to make a grindhouse movie, and seemed to be surprised that people reacted badly to 50 minutes of boring-as shit dialog in which nothing happens, followed by a 20 minute car chase and sock to the noggin.
Exactly. Death Proof was like if Lucas had made star Wars with string suspended spaceships that had sparklers shoved up their asses.