GRIND HOUSE -- Rodriguez and Tarantino get da horrors

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Ya know, I'm usually averse to horror flicks, but this sounds TASTY.

― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 15:16 (twenty years ago)

The former video-store clerk, clad in a white button-down shirt depicting a dragon attacking a tiger, said he and Rodriguez are particularly excited about shooting fake "trailers" that will enhance the "Grind House" experience. "That's one of the things we're looking the most forward to, shooting the phony trailers that will play in between the movies. I'm working out my blaxploitation trailer, and possibly a kung-fu trailer, a sexploitation trailer, a spaghetti-western trailer. I just need to kind of work them out a little bit. I'm just getting them down there, but I think for sure I'm going to do the sexploitation trailer, which is called 'Cowgirls in Sweden.'

― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 15:17 (twenty years ago)

Oooooh.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 15:26 (twenty years ago)

meh.

― 400% Nice (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 15:27 (twenty years ago)

So basically, this is Kentucky Fried Movie, but not funny?

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 15:28 (twenty years ago)

ding ding ding!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 15:33 (twenty years ago)

LAME.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 15:34 (twenty years ago)

Do you think Tarantino and Rodriguez have kissed yet?

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 15:35 (twenty years ago)

Like, they were watching GODZILLA VS MOTHRA and getting all hot and bothered and surreptitiously touching themselves and then BANG! they were all over each other?

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 15:35 (twenty years ago)

Don't! John Carpenter and Alex In SF and Ice Cube and Jackie Chan might want to join in as well!

― 400% Nice (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 15:39 (twenty years ago)

The former video-store clerk
Please tell me Tarantino's not still playing that card.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 15:39 (twenty years ago)

Do you think that when Hitchcock made Frenzy people went "set designer makes 75th feature film!"?

― 400% Nice (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 15:41 (twenty years ago)

It's like introducing OJ as "Heisman-Award winner".

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 15:44 (twenty years ago)

C'mon, I KNOW more of you wanna hate!

― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 10:53 (twenty years ago)

not really, some of us like fun

― Old School (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 20:58 (twenty years ago)

But this won't be fun. Rodriguez's films are never fun (post-The Faculty), when he got all serious in his one-man filmmaking compound. 'Pulp' Tarantino will just be overstuffed and boring.

Am I the only ILXor who went to see The Devil's Rejects? It was good modern grindhouse, really.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 21:08 (twenty years ago)

Sin City and Kill Bill rooled, doods

― Old School (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 21:10 (twenty years ago)

Alex and I were going to see it, then Alex saw House of 1000 Corpses and said it would be terrible, and something came up so I couldn't go anyway.

sp
Kill Bill sorta ruled
Sin City sucked

― 400% Nice (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 21:10 (twenty years ago)

I'll leave you to your hating, then. Enjoy.

― Old School (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 21:13 (twenty years ago)

Oh, I don't hate either of them. I just think this idea sounds boring.

― 400% Nice (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 21:14 (twenty years ago)

how so? horror anthologies sound boring?

― Old School (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 21:15 (twenty years ago)

House of 1000 Corpses is one of the worst movies I've ever seen (OK, saw half of), but Devil's Rejects is probably one of the five or six best I've seen this year. They're really nothing alike - none of the random film stock shifts, less gruesome, better acting, terrific cinematography.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 21:19 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

I swear there was another Grindhouse thread going, but I can't find it...

Saw a sneak preview of this tonight. Overall, it was fun and good and mindless and really long and pretty much what you would expect.

Rodriguez's half, "Terror Planet" was more succesful overall, just straight-out superviolent comedy horror. And when I say superviolent, I mean it - this might be the goriest movie I've seen since "Dead Alive" (with the lawnmower scene semi-recreated with a, um, heavier piece of equipment at the end). Not recommended if you have a weak stomach.

Tarantino's half, "Death Proof" ran hot and cold, basically depending on whether Kurt Russell was in the scene or not. Russell was great, of course, but there were loooong gaps without him that were really talky and don't contribute much to the movie. Tarantino could have easily cut 20 minutes and not lost anything important. The action sequences were pretty fun though.

Rodriguez seemed more committed to the "grindhouse" concept, using what looked like ancient film stock, warped scenes, faded colors, etc. Tarantino used some of that at the beginning of his half but seemed to give up on it after 30 minutes or so.

The "prevues" were great. Bizarro Nicolas Cage cameo in one of them.

― n/a, Monday, 2 April 2007 02:07 (eighteen years ago)

I swear there was another Grindhouse thread going, but I can't find it...

It's around but this'll do. Sounds great!

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 2 April 2007 02:21 (eighteen years ago)

using what looked like ancient film stock, warped scenes, faded colors

Rodriguez shot his film on digital video - it's all computer-processed. Tarantino's was shot on film.

― Ben Boyerrr, Monday, 2 April 2007 09:44 (eighteen years ago)

I'll stick with Movie Movie

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 2 April 2007 13:12 (eighteen years ago)

That's got to be the most obscure film reference in ILX history!

― Ben Boyerrr, Monday, 2 April 2007 13:29 (eighteen years ago)

Kurt Russell looked oddly like Morrissey in some of his scenes.

― n/a, Monday, 2 April 2007 13:30 (eighteen years ago)

six years pass...

Did we ever settle on a favorite half of Death Proof?

For me the first half was preferable on a bunch of levels, mostly having to do with story and character, though the writing/direction was excellent throughout.

― Raymond Cummings, Friday, 26 April 2013 11:45 (twelve years ago)

First half is great second half is the worst

― The Finnish Question........after question......after question....a (darraghmac), Friday, 26 April 2013 12:30 (twelve years ago)

Planet Terror's movie trick is still one of my favourite ways to let medium comment on genre (the comment in this case being "get to the good stuff!")

Rodriguez's films are never fun

Ooof, no points for Milo!

― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 26 April 2013 13:01 (twelve years ago)

have the fake trailers ever ended up on a disc, or was that theatre-only since the movies are sold separately? they're kind of all I want to see.

― brio, Friday, 26 April 2013 13:14 (twelve years ago)

There's a theatrical cut set that has the trailers on it, IIRC.

― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Friday, 26 April 2013 13:34 (twelve years ago)

http://www.amazon.com/Grindhouse-Two-Disc-Collectors-Edition-Blu-ray/dp/B003VMFWYI

― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Friday, 26 April 2013 13:35 (twelve years ago)

i don't hate death proof, but it's got serious problems, esp in the first half. planet terror is a blast from start to finish.

― controversial vegan pregnancy (contenderizer), Friday, 26 April 2013 14:53 (twelve years ago)

the first half and second half of Death Proof are both horrible for different reasons

― frogbs, Friday, 26 April 2013 15:24 (twelve years ago)

Rodriguez's films are never fun

^^^real talk

Planet Terror more like Planet Terrible

― four Marxes plus four Obamas plus four Bin Ladens (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 26 April 2013 15:48 (twelve years ago)

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