I think I’m in love with Rosario Dawson. Not only was she great in Clerks II, not only has she been in movies by Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez, and Kevin Smith, but on **Conan O’Brien ** this week (all the actors represented quite well in their late night talk show appearances this week to promote Grindhouse) she said that she loves to spend her time watching Law & Order, Star Trek, and Battlestar Galactica. She even dropped in a few words of Klingon. Does it get any better than that?
Don’t!
My favorite moment of the trailers might have been Nicholas Cage as Fu Manchu. It was just so random and strange.
So, any talk about Grindhouse 2?
Maybe other famous directors/writers will try their hand at making a movie they just want to make?
Will the “missing reel” be on the DVD in the supplemental stuff? I hope so! 
Wow, I just saw it today and my theater had missing reels too! What are the odds?
Even considering all the gore in the fake previews and in both movies (especially “Planet Terror”), I thought the most nauseating scene was the one showing the food available from the “concession stand” (or restaurant, whatever it was). <shiver>
I saw the opening with some friends and a lot of people won’t like this movie - people who don’t like AWESOMENESS!!!
Oh, gee. What kicked ass about this movie? Let’s see:
Tarantino
Rodriguez
Machete
Rose McGowen Go-Go dance
Zombies
Bruce Willis
Michael Biehn
Sexmachine from From Dusk Til Dawn
Fergillicious torn apart by zombies (a no-brainer)
Lesbians
[SCENE MISSING]
Give him the gun…give him ALL the guns!
Rose McGowen with a machinegun for a leg
Exploding heads
Helicopters
Werewolf Women of the SS
Nicolas Cage as Fu Manchu
Don’t
Thanksgiving
Deathproof
It’s blood…God DAMN it!
Kurt Russel
Chevy Nova to the face
[SCENE MISSING]
Rosario Dawson
Zoe Bell
1969 Dodge Charger
1970 Dodge Challenger
Car chase
Kurt Russel screaming like a bitch
Hatchet kick to the face
Just got back. Mostly loved it, but Tarantino really needs to cut some of the flapping lips. That scene where the girls were discussing how they were going to go about asking for a test drive drove me nuts. Just get to the part where you ask him and he says yes, ok.
In the end it was worth it cause a truly great car chase scene came out of it.
I was very surprised to find that the theater was practically empty, surprising cause I saw it at local casino, on a Saturday afternoon, and on opening weekend, I figured it would be wall to wall with cheering nerds like myself. A majority of the people walked out during the middle of planet terror, and some people left before Death Proof even began. (Maybe they didn’t know there was another movie coming up) Anyway, from the reviews I’ve read, it seems like the enjoyment of these film is highly dependent on the audience. The room was mostly silent. The biggest laugh was when Machete got slapped with the ‘rated X’ thing.
I’ve been twice already.
Last night’s midnight showing was racous (sp), the sort of audience participation that Snakes on a Plane dreamed about. Tonight, the audience was milder, less film-oriented… a number of people walked out in the middle, prompting me to ask one person “you do know the film still has over an hour to go?” They still left.
At least nobody in these audiences brought four year-olds, unlike my Kill Bill viewings. :rolleyes:
The second time is when you start seeing some of the connections…
[spoiler]Were the victims that James Brolin examined, (the “this one’s a no-brainer” victims), the dead girls in the first half of the Tarantino movie? Looked like it to me.
If so, I wonder if there are there any background sightings of a blue-shirt clad Earl McGraw and Son # 1 in Planet Terror?
The blast of radio when Tammy (Stacy Ferguson) turned on her car definitely had a DJ memorializing Jungle Julia.[/spoiler]
SAW IT!! Oh my, where to start? Lessee, Rose’s ass has to be the most perfect creation known to humanity. Most of the actors in PT were incredibly impressive… Rodriguez, Shelton, McGowan, Fahey, Biehn and almost-as-good-as-them Brolin. As a horror fanatic, I loooooooved Tom Savini having a role. From this job, I think Fergie might have a chance, but if anyone went off of Titanic, her career would sink. Bwahahaha!
The violence was perfect and the whole missing reels bit got loud hoots. That 70s outlaw feel to it was da bomb! The overall funny in this was making me split my sides and then hold them to prevent doubling over in agony and, Og forbid, miss something. Oh, hell no.
I’ve already professed my love for Mr. Trejo somewhere else on the board today, so just let me say that I really appreciated “Machete.” However, I about wet myself for the upcoming attraction that would be “Thanksgiving.” Probably just because Eli Roth has generally won my favor (mostly a hit on Hostel, only thing worth hitting on in Wrong Turn is the ex-Faith and/or Jeremy Sisto), but I do give props to “Don’t” for everyone rolling around amongst the seats. I looked it up and that was directed by the same guy who did Shaun of the Dead. Who can blame them? Zombie’s segment fell flat, leaving me totally disappointed. I had been hoping for something so much more… something.
Too much talk in DP (hehehehe – oh, c’mon! you know people are just waiting to use that in regard to this!!) and I felt it really struggled a lot. Portier’s daughter is a GODDESS, and although I don’t think I’ve ever encountered her work before, the chick playing butterfly was pretty lush too. I thought Ladd’s accent was pretty adorable and, as usual, Quentin should probably just stick to directing. Although I don’t mind his cameos, I’d much rather prefer to never think about his dangly bits.
Y’all share the brain bleach, wouldja? [ ::: shudder ::: ]
I didn’t much buy Russell’s bad guy. He had his moments, but to me he just seemed overly campy. Not Nicholson worthy scenery chewing, but plenty of fat on that ham. The car(s)… killer. Though I think I’d prefer the 'Stange. Zoe Bell is my new hero, Rosario can throw a mean ass punch and everyone has abs I’d die for. They should’ve given the cheerleader more than her poms to work with and the gun enthusiast said one fuck over the line. I know, how can there ever be too many? There can’t actually, but she deserves her due here too. 
Oh, and RMG held her own this time around as well. I totally bought the transition, although at first I wasn’t sure. Good on her.
Anything to do with the car(s) sequences will rock those interested right out of their worlds. The entire theatre (which sadly wasn’t nearly as many as there should have been – bad audiences, no wooden leg peep shows for you!) got to their feet and cheered when the beating took place at the end. Ahhh, how satisfying. And I think I’ll have to add Vanishing Point to my already burgeoning ‘me decade’ Netflix section. It sounds so unbelievably cool and one should never just limit themselves to everything else of that era.
For what the goal was, I preferred the outrageousness of Planet Terror. I think I got the moral for Tarantino’s, but I was only really hooked once the driving truly began. I even cared more for those fighting off the mutant zombies, but I gotta admit that the first car creamed was amazingly phenomenal. So where does that leave me? Craving BBQ, looking at vinyl records on eBay and wondering if stripper (oh sorry, go-go) boots would look good on me. Or perhaps my BH. 
P.S. I’ve just now learned something about myself. Watching someone hold a firearm authoritatively is hawt! If there’s lots of folks doing that same thing, at the same time, looking the same way and slo-mo -ing about like a scene from Tombstone, well, that my friend is cinematic wet dreamin’ (in the spirit of the thing, old chap) made real. Sort of.
I know, I was looking at her, and thinking that Rosario Dawson was in this too, and thinking it was Asymmetric Nostril Theater.
Anyway, we really liked it. Unfortunately there were only about ten people in the theater - it certainly would have been more fun with a crowd. Nevertheless, it was entertaining.
As a whole I liked Planet Terror better, but I liked the second half of Death Proof just as well as PT. If the stupid DJ bitch had died sooner, DP would have been better. I just didn’t care about that group of girls at all. But I didn’t mind the second group’s chitchat so much - they were more interesting people, and a lot of it did act as foundation for the later action.
I do think DP is a little - well, “deeper” doesn’t seem to apply here, but it’s the best I can do. My brain is still cramping trying to reconcile the jiggle-vision sexploitation elements with the deliberate play on the same (“Reel Missing” :D), and the feminist rage fantasy that sums up the movie. But I mean that in a good way.
My only complaint about PT is that there isn’t enough zombie movie in it. Something just seemed off. Maybe it was the cuts were too quick, and not enough quiet moments of dread, or just that there wasn’t a great feeling of being overwhelmed by the zombies. It just didn’t quite capture the feel. Oops, I have two complaints - the other being of course Tarantino’s turn. He can have his uses, but here he was goddamn distracting. When I first saw him with the respirator on, I thought, “This will be the best Tarantino cameo ever!” Unfortunately he took it off and talked.
But on the whole - machine gun leg, paralyzed hands (she should have taken off her shoes!), BBQ recipe - it was great.
It made me want some fuckin’ Texas barbecue, Rose McGowan, nachos, and chili, I’ll tell you what.
Haven’t read the rest of the thread yet, I just wanted to say Word to what you said above, Mr. Bunny and I agreed with all of these sentiments immediately after viewing. Planet Terror was absolutely fantastic from start to finish, wouldn’t change a thing. My personal favourite trailer was a tie between Machete and Don’t!, but Thanksgiving was close behind and all were infinitely better than Rob Zombie’s offering, which, like most of his stuff these days, just seemed like another excuse to show off his Hot Wife Who Can’t Act. Loved the Acuna Brothers mexican food add!
Death Proof was odd, for all the reasons you mentioned above. I couldn’t put my finger on it while we were watching it, but you are absolutely correct that it seemed out of spirit and time with the rest of the film, and the “missing reel” felt totally forced. I was beginning to really hate the direction it was going in in the beginning, as I don’t care for torture films and didn’t feel like watching Kurt Russell stalk and then obliterate these girls, but once the second group started chasing him it got much better.
Brilliant film, all told.
No. The “no-brainer” was Tammy (Stacy Ferguson aka Fergie). Tammy was Dr. Dakota Block’s (Marley Shelton) lesbian lover, who was supposed to stop by the Blocks’ house to pick up the kid so they could all run off together later that evening. Tammy’s car overheated and broke down and she was attacked by zombies. I don’t know who the other dead people in that emergency room scene were.
[spoiler]Yes but not as a background sighting. Earl McGraw was Dakota Block’s father (making her maiden name the very cool Dakota McGraw). I didn’t see her brother (Son #1) in Planet Terror, though it was nice that we got to see Mrs. McGraw (before she sadly turned into a zombie).
So, chronologically, if we were to go by McGraw’s character who’s involved in all three, the events of Kill Bill come first, then Death Proof, then, of course, Planet Terror.[/spoiler]
I missed that! Wow, thanks. I’ll have to listen more closely next time.
I guess From Dusk Till Dawn would come last, then, as he was shot in the head if I remember correctly.
Ah, I haven’t see that movie. I didn’t know he was in it. That does put a wrench in the works doesn’t it? Well, the miracle of modren medicine and all that…
I think the continuity is fuzzy on purpose. I vaguely recall QT saying that From Dusk Till Dawn and Kill Bill were movies that people in the shared Reservoir Dogs/Pulp Fiction/True Romance (I’m assuming the latter) continuity would watch. And From Dusk Till Dawn is cheesy, but required viewing now if you enjoyed Planet Terror at all.
Yes, but in PT Earl McGraw was wearing a white shirt. In DP he was wearing a blue shirt. In going with my previous (likely incorrect) assumption (that the dead girls in DP were brought into the same hospital on the same night as the events in PT), my question was kind of along the lines of “I wonder if that meant that, on that night only, there were two Earl McGraws in the PT universe?”
I can’t wait to see it, but it’s dying a painful death at the box office.
From Deadline Hollywood :
Too narrow a target audience, maybe? I hope this doesn’t discourage the Weinsteins from more Tarantino ventures, he’s served them well in the past.
Wha??? Our theater was packed - not sold out, but definitely full, and everyone there was cheering and enjoying the hell out of it.
What a bummer. 