Rug Burn Junky on 14/4/2007 at 15:44
Martek, perhaps you would be more comfortable (
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/teletubbies/) here, where your inability to discern irony, sarcasm, or even when people such as Lady Taffer (and yourself) deserve to be mocked, won't be the fatal drawback that it clearly is here.
Thank, and good day.
Oh yeah, and fuck you.
Vigil on 14/4/2007 at 15:56
this thread's become a two-for-one special
which is, you know, fitting
jimjack on 14/4/2007 at 17:23
It looks highly entertaining..the movie that is. Girls with guns. Where can you go wrong? So boo to the critics. Maybe the whole issue with all this is that Tarantino' take on what a Grindhouse movie is different from what people felt they were supposed to be getting. You look ath the trailers and all you get is Rose punishing zombies with her machine gun leg and thats how they've been selling it. Unsentimental, gritty and merciless. Kind of like this thread. haha
SubJeff on 14/4/2007 at 19:38
Grrr. Not out in th UK yet, and not even a "coming soon" on Odeon or UGC websites. I don't want to see it split!
Nice thread guys btw. At last a return to the commchat of old.
SubJeff on 14/4/2007 at 20:42
Thanks. How is Australia getting before us? Defer to your Imperial masters you phrenologised proles!
Ko0K on 14/4/2007 at 23:09
I regret that I wasn't able to see the humor in this a few years back. For what it's worth, I recant.
Scots Taffer on 1/10/2007 at 13:30
Arise ugly fuck of a fair thread!
I figure this may merit discussion again seeing as the unrated and extended editions of Planet Terror and Death Proof have hit the streets, plus I missed the theatrical release so sue me for necromancy.
I just watched Death Proof and mixed bag is the right way to put it. The first half was effectively what I was expecting: the distortion, quick cuts, skips in footage and stark graininess had the net effect of overlaying 70s film stock over present-day surroundings, evoking a seriously weird vibe. Plus, the subject matter was duly gritty, there ain't really anything pleasant about a psychotic former stuntman who stalks girls only to smash them into smithereens for his own pleasure. Up until the hospital scene, I was enjoying the movie, sure Quentin's dialogue was rambling worse than ever before, but it had a hook and I was enjoying the visuals (literally, haha; although that lapdancing chick seriously looks like she lost the front of her nose to coke-sniffing).
After the hospital scene, what happened to Death Proof? There was the jarring b&w to regular colour disconnect, was this Quentin's way of saying you didn't need the faux-grainy-filmstock and so on to make an effective Grindhousey movie? If so, I disagree.
The following thirty minutes of utter boredom that followed can't really be excused on any level. This isn't just a bunch of chicks talking crap, chicks talking crap can actually be barely palatable, but this was essentially female talking heads for Tarantino geekery when he's stoned, or on mushrooms, it was dreadfully painful dialogue with the added cringe-factor of an OH-NO-YOU-DI'INT-MUTHAFUCKA black girl for added sass.
Yes, the car chase is unbelievably awesome... but you kinda want stuntman mike to wipe the floor with the -frankly- annoying bitches. When the turnaround happened and the ladies came back (GIRL POWAH) to defeat Mike, I felt pretty deflated, and the way in which the women brought Mike to his knees just seemed completely lame too. Sure, it was the whole schoolyard bully who's floored by the first punch swung back at him plot-twist (if something that contrived can be seen as a twist, at all) but it just sucked. Combine the suckage of the talking uninteresting shit with the lack of grindhousey feel and a lame victory for the ladies, chalk up a second half disappointment that ultimately killed the movie for me.
Up next: Planet Terror.
Rodriguez is such a hit or miss director, I loved Sin City and Desperado, but thought Once Upon A Time in Mexico, Spy Kids and The Faculty are all terrible movies. At least he's also making Machete.
BEAR on 1/10/2007 at 14:46
Death Proof was by far the worst part of the entire feature. When I saw it at the theater it was all one big movie, and I enjoyed planet terror as well as the fake previews immensely. I was disappointed that Deathproof came at the end since it was a little bit of a downer, I could have almost taken it or left it, good as the car chase was.
