It is worth checking out the Grindhouse Movie Connections: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0462322/movieconnections
That’s one tired expression that definitely does not fit in with the movie’s kickass women. Unless he was crying while riding the hood of a car or blowing someone away with a machine gun leg.
And the movie doesn’t seem to be doing great box office either. Was everyone not in the mood because of Easter or Spring Break? How well do Tarantino films usually do? Will it pick up next week?
These are his bigger films:
Kill Bill: Vol. 2 Opening Weekend $25,104,949 (USA) Gross $66,207,920 (USA) (22 August 2004)
Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003) Opening Weekend $22,089,322 (USA) (12 October 2003) (3,102 Screens) Gross $70,098,138 (USA) (23 May 2004)
Pulp Fiction (1994) Opening Weekend $9,311,882 (USA) (14 October 1994) Gross $107,928,762 (USA) (sub-total) Budget $8,000,000
Jim
A theatre near me is now showing and advertising these as two spearate films- does anyone know if this was approved, or the work of a rogue theatre manager?
Well, I’m going to see it again on Sunday-- doing my part to make its box office death a little less ugly. 
How about a little love for Tom Savini? (And I wish Rodriguez would do a Sex Machine movie.)
It was funny seeing (in Death Proof) one of the girls drinking a soda from a cup with the logo of the “Authentic Tex-Mex” restaurant that was advertised between movies.
The two directors took very different approaches: Rodriguez created the movie that a teenage boy wished he could see when he went to a hole-in-the wall theatre or the drive-in. Those movies, being outside the mainstream system, had more freedom than regular movies (and regularly broke cinematic rules, like having children, dogs, and little old ladies die brutally). They were advertised with lurid, sensational posters – but the actual product was made for very little money, often by people without tremendous professional skill, and thus could be something of a letdown. It seems like Rodriguez set out to deliver what the posters promised.
Tarantino, because he’s an obsessive geek, made an obsessively close copy of the kind of exploitation movie you might really have seen in 1970, right down to the blood that looked like bright red paint. I would have liked it better if he’d actually set it in that period; the mixture of very modern details and references was a little jarring. And I’ve really heard enough Tarantino dialogue to last me a few years; unfortunately he hasn’t advanced in that area in the past decade, and may actually have regressed.
But Kurt Russell is always watchable. I may have missed something; at first I thought Stuntman Mike had a vendetta of revenge for a tragedy inflicted in the past by a drunk woman driver – but then later it seems he’s just a misogynist psychopath.
I wanta see Cheech Marin as a priest with a trunk full of shotguns. “God has mercy – I don’t!”
Saw it today at the morning matinee. There were perhaps 10 people in the theater. Both halves were quite enjoyable, but I was getting a little antsy about the 150-minute mark…mother nature was calling, but I didn’t want to miss anything!
I got a huge laugh when they were trying to avoid the cows:
*My brother and I have been saying that to roadside bovines for at least 15 years.
We saw it tonight. The theater was about half full. My husband and I, and the two guys behind us, were laughing our heads off. I had tears rolling down my cheeks during Planet Terror.
I saw this yesterday. I had a blast.
One scene that I really wanted to see was where they bring the car back to what’s-his-name and pick up the cheerleader. If that is in the re-release I will watch it.
Yeah, but the ending was perfect. It might have been a great after-credits scene.
I watched all the credits with a bursting bladder for any ‘bonus’, to no avail. I really wanted to see how they would explain the condition of the Challenger to the ‘Tobacco Road Redneck’ Jasper.
Can’t wait for ‘Machete’ to come out on DVD.
After seeing her sex scene in Alexander, I thought she was the sexiest woman alive. Love how she looks in Death Proof.
I loved the trailers, especially Machete, but I was shocked to enjoy Robert Rodriguez’s Planet Terror a lot more than Tarantino’s movie. The dialogue was flat, IMHO, and the big car chase scene didn’t do for me what Rose McGowan blasting zombies what her leg did. Maybe I’ll think better of it when I watch it at home on DVD.
Damn you, Tarantino! I really wanted to see that lap dance!
Planet Terror: Robert Rodriguez writes THE book on retrofitting a genre while breaking the needle on the “gross-o-meter”. If you’ve found yourself killing spiders or cutting raw chicken for your partner, you may want to reconsider with whom you attend.
Death Proof: Ponderous yet ultimately redeemed by not taking itself too seriously. A lot of fun in the end.
Rose McGowan + Grindhouse = Instant A-List for Miss M. She is SO hot in this film she makes broccoli look like staplers. Doesn’t make sense, does it. Know what? It doesn’t matter, that’s how hot she is. I don’t even care if that sounds stupid. That’s how hot she is in this. You are not ready.
Fake Trailers: What a friggin coup. DON’T
Forgot to add this to Death Proof: The stunt work is amazing. Very well done. A tip of the hat.
Seconded – and I’ll agree with Stuntman Mike (and Tarantino) that it’s a lot more fun seeing real cars, driven by real people, racing around and smashing into things than seeing CGI. In a lot of modern movies, there might be a point where you see an impossible car stunt and realize you’re essentially watching a cartoon; totally loses its thrill.
Certainly.
I remember watching the chase scenes thinking, “What the fuck are they (the film’s creators) doing? That’s crazy!!” It was so obvious that it was 100.1% real.
My girlfriend wanted to leave when the Bishes were talking during Death Proof. I said no and it paid off. I was really hoping for more slo-mo deadly crashes
What are Bishes? Is that a band name? I’m so unhip about these things.
I noticed that too in the theatre – the over-the-top blood and guts led to laughter, but the scene where she slips and falls with her hand in the door handle had people moaning in sympathy. I noticed the same thing with John Carpenter’s The Thing – even with all the crazy monster-violence stuff, what got the most audible reaction was a character simply having his thumb sliced for a blood sample. I think it’s because these are things we can vividly imagine happening to us, and maybe have experienced, as opposed to zombies ripping our guts out.