# Tarantino/Rodriguez - "Grindhouse" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 12, 2006, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tarantino-rodriguez-grindhouse/376181 "2006-10-12T13:26:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![UntouchedTakeaway](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d78d45/32.png) [@UntouchedTakeaway](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UntouchedTakeaway)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2006, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tarantino-rodriguez-grindhouse/376181/1 "2006-10-12T13:26:32Z")
[http://defamer.com](http://defamer.com) (first video clip as of 9:26 AM EST today) :eek: VCNJ~ ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2006, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tarantino-rodriguez-grindhouse/376181/2 "2006-10-12T14:06:11Z")
“They call him Machete.” That trailer already rocks about 80 different kinds of balls and that’s just for the Rodriguez movie. It Tarrantino’s _Death Proof_ is as cool as _Planet Terror_ looks, this might well be the coolest movie ever made. By the way, that link didn’t play for me for whatever reason but [here’s](http://www.aintitcool.com/node/30358) another link to the YouTube video on AICN. ---
**Author:** ![beowulf573](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e7dd6/32.png) [@beowulf573](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulf573)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2006, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tarantino-rodriguez-grindhouse/376181/3 "2006-10-12T14:23:07Z")
Oooh, excellent. This and “Sin City” make up for “Once Upon a Time in Mexico”. Rose McGowan looks great in this, unlike the recent pics I’ve seen where she’s lost a ton of weight. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2006, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tarantino-rodriguez-grindhouse/376181/4 "2006-10-12T14:34:58Z")
I will go on the record right now with my prediction that this will be the greatest work of art ever created in any medium in the whole perpetuity of time in the entire universe. ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2006, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tarantino-rodriguez-grindhouse/376181/5 "2006-10-12T14:42:15Z")
Oh. My. God. Cool isn’t the word. Fuck me that looks great. ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2006, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tarantino-rodriguez-grindhouse/376181/6 "2006-10-12T14:45:41Z")
No amount of screen time is too much for Danny Trejo. I IMDBed him and found out that there’s a _Sin City 2_ in the works (that was probably obvious to most people, but I don’t really follow the industry), and a movie he’s in called “North by El Norte”. Don’t know anything about it, but that’s a great title. ---
**Author:** ![audiobottle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bc8723/32.png) [@audiobottle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/audiobottle)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2006, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tarantino-rodriguez-grindhouse/376181/7 "2006-10-12T14:46:20Z")
I’m at work so I can’t watch the video, but I’m assuming this is some sort of horror film? I tried googling it but my google-fu is weak today, and I only got that Tarantino and Rodriguez directed two movies and now it’s one? I feel like I might have missed something here. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2006, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tarantino-rodriguez-grindhouse/376181/8 "2006-10-12T14:50:55Z")
WTF was _that_? ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2006, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tarantino-rodriguez-grindhouse/376181/9 "2006-10-12T14:54:36Z")
It’s splat-o-licious! I’m there, baby! ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2006, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tarantino-rodriguez-grindhouse/376181/10 "2006-10-12T14:55:13Z")
[QUOTE=audiobottle] I’m at work so I can’t watch the video, but I’m assuming this is some sort of horror film? I tried googling it but my google-fu is weak today, and I only got that Tarantino and Rodriguez directed two movies and now it’s one? I feel like I might have missed something here. [/QUOTE] > [@IMDB](#): > > Plot Outline: Two full length feature horror movies written by Quentin Tarantino & Robert Rodriguez put together as a two film features. Including fake movie trailers in between both movies. n/t ---
**Author:** ![audiobottle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bc8723/32.png) [@audiobottle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/audiobottle)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2006, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tarantino-rodriguez-grindhouse/376181/11 "2006-10-12T15:00:23Z")
[QUOTE=Trunk] n/t [/QUOTE] I have no idea what that means, but I actually did read that. Any more info on what kind of horror film it is, or why everybody seems so excited about it? I’m gathering from the comments that it’s a gore-fest, but what makes this stand out? ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2006, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tarantino-rodriguez-grindhouse/376181/12 "2006-10-12T15:08:51Z")
[QUOTE=audiobottle] I’m at work so I can’t watch the video, but I’m assuming this is some sort of horror film? I tried googling it but my google-fu is weak today, and I only got that Tarantino and Rodriguez directed two movies and now it’s one? I feel like I might have missed something here. [/QUOTE] _Grindhouse_ will actually be a double feature with one film directed by Rodriguez and one directed by QT. There will also be some fake trailers for other fictional movies in between. The concept is to recreate the grindhouse, exploitation movie experience of the 70’s. The RR movie appears to be a sort of action-revenge type movie, QT’s movie (_Death Proof_) is reportedly a zombie movie. Stylistically, they are consciously imitating the look and style of 70’s exploitation films with grainy, scratchy film, intentionally bad edits, etc. (some of which QT did in _Kill Bill_), but they’re also really trying to amp up the “exploitation” factor. In they’re words, they want to deliver on the movies that the posters only used to promise. If you ever liked movies like _Death Race 2000_, that’s the sort of thing they’re going for. ---
**Author:** ![teemingONE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b4bc9f/32.png) [@teemingONE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teemingONE)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2006, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tarantino-rodriguez-grindhouse/376181/13 "2006-10-12T15:22:59Z")
This blew my mind. **Diogenes the Cynic** , I believe it is the other way around. RR is the zombie movies and QT is the a serial killer kind of movie. ---
**Author:** ![audiobottle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bc8723/32.png) [@audiobottle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/audiobottle)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2006, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tarantino-rodriguez-grindhouse/376181/14 "2006-10-12T15:31:20Z")
Ah, thank you **Diogenes**. So it’s not going to be campy horror gorefest, but instead serious horror gorefest? ---
**Author:** ![UntouchedTakeaway](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d78d45/32.png) [@UntouchedTakeaway](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UntouchedTakeaway)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2006, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tarantino-rodriguez-grindhouse/376181/15 "2006-10-12T15:33:02Z")
[QUOTE=audiobottle] Ah, thank you **Diogenes**. So it’s not going to be campy horror gorefest, but instead serious horror gorefest? [/QUOTE] And it has Tom Savini in it! He doesn’t appear to have contributed to the make-up effects, but I’ve always thought he was a looker. And Danny Trejo - uglyhot! 😃 VCNJ~ ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2006, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tarantino-rodriguez-grindhouse/376181/16 "2006-10-12T15:40:53Z")
[QUOTE=teemingONE] This blew my mind. **Diogenes the Cynic** , I believe it is the other way around. RR is the zombie movies and QT is the a serial killer kind of movie. [/QUOTE] According to [this QT interview](http://www.timeout.com/film/news/652.html), you are correct, sir. > [@](#): > > Speaking to MTV News, Tarantino explained: ‘His [Rodriguez’] movie is called ‘Planet Terror’ and mine is called ‘Death Proof’. Mine is sort of a slasher film, but instead of a knife, it’s a car. > > ‘He’s dealing with zombies and all that stuff. think his might end up being more violent, but I’m not finished with my [script] yet, so you never know.’ My mistake. **audiobottle** , I guess you could call it a homage. There definitely appears to be a camp factor, but it’s affectionate rather than mocking. ---
**Author:** ![psiekier](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psiekier/32/116_2.png) [@psiekier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psiekier)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2006, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tarantino-rodriguez-grindhouse/376181/17 "2006-10-12T18:43:54Z")
[QUOTE=Diogenes the Cynic] There will also be some fake trailers for other fictional movies in between. [/QUOTE] Coming soon to a theater near you: _[Buckaroo Banzai vs. the World Crime League](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Buckaroo_Banzai_Across_the_8th_Dimension)_. 🙂 ---
**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:** [October 13, 2006, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tarantino-rodriguez-grindhouse/376181/18 "2006-10-13T17:31:07Z")
In addition to the actors we saw in the trailer (which was just for Rodriguez’ conribution, the zombie movie _Planet Terror_), Tarantino’s movie \*Death Proof \* will also star Rose McGowan’s character (most likely explaining how she gets the assault rifle leg) and \*\*Kurt Russell \*\* as the killer! ---
**Author:** ![NailBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecae2f/32.png) [@NailBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NailBunny)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2006, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tarantino-rodriguez-grindhouse/376181/19 "2006-10-13T17:50:30Z")
This movie looks absolutely friggin’ brilliant! _This_, my friends, is what _House of 1000 Corpses_ should have been. Rob Zombie tried to make a tribute to 70’s style exploitation horror, and wound up making some silly disjointed really long music video. Just one question though: how does the girl with a gun for a leg fire it? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2006, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tarantino-rodriguez-grindhouse/376181/20 "2006-10-13T18:27:20Z")
[QUOTE=NailBunny] Just one question though: how does the girl with a gun for a leg fire it? 😃 [/QUOTE] Apparently she has a hair-trigger clit. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tarantino-rodriguez-grindhouse/376181.md?page=2)