colinr0380 wrote:However I still don't think Planet Terror reaches the craziness of something like Nightmare City
And thank god for that!
Antoine Doinel wrote:Perhaps you're right domino. It's just as the films have gone overseas virtually nothing has been heard of in terms of discussion or promotion of Planet Terror. It may be happening but I haven't seen it.
It was promoted at the same time Death Proof was. Just about all the UK magazines I saw mentioned both, even if they gave more attention to panderous Tarantino worship.
I've just heard an interesting rumor - Larry Bishop's Hellride (produced by Tarantino; he was also supposed to be acting in it but dropped out) is going to be presented under the "Grindhouse Presents..." banner.
More to the point, it's the only way at present to get the theatrical cut (with all the trailers) on DVD.
Thanks for the heads-up. I just checked amazon.co.jp and they are selling it for 600 yen cheaper. Waiting until March 21, though, is gonna be hard . . .
I decided to finally watch Planet Terror from my small kevyip pile last night and I had to turn it off halfway through. I was suprised at how long and dull it plays at home. The first act takes so long to get going that I didn't even to make it to the part where McGowan gets her new leg. Actually, a couple of weeks I made another attempt to watch it but didn't make it past the Machete trailer (I skipped it this time around). I'll try and give the second half of the film another whirl but this may be up on the trading block soon.
I popped in the extras and watched Rodriguez's always fun 10-Minute-Film-School and had to chuckle at the end when he mentions the Film School he's shot for the "forthcoming 2-disc Grindhouse DVD set" that will include his authentic Texas BBQ recipes. I'll believe that, when Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair sees the light of day.
I decided to also journey to the kevyip and watched Death Proof. What to me seems to be the biggest downfall and what probably others have said is that Tarantino has these amateur actors or people he decides are good choices to read this dialogue of his and they all deliver it so stiff and seem confused on how to act it out. By clearly never allowing any improvisation or change of dialogue with these amateurs it seems to force the whole thing to be uninteresting and rather dull. If you are going to put this much dialogue on actors it'd be nice if they seemed just mildly comfortable doing it. Granted even if they were comfortable would this droning perceived cool dialogue be mildly interesting? Probably not but Sam Jackson made it work before and made it worth watching.
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Thanks for the clarification...and the entertaining link to a fascinating discussion. It almost made me embarrassed to be a white male in Criterion's "target" demographic, but fortunately I don't embarrass that easily. Usually.
Does anybody know how to find the score for the Kurt Russell "fifty fifty chance" scene? That's the scene where Rose Macgowan realizes Stuntman Mike's real intentions.
It's listed as the soundtrack from the movie Dragon's Claws on IMDB but I can't find it anywhere. Does anyone?
AttitudeAJM wrote:I hope not. I actually enjoyed watching Planet Terror and knowing that nothing followed it. I found Death Proof to be rather dreadful.
You can always, you know, not watch Death Proof and turn off the DVD after the trailers or just hang on to your lone Planet Terror DVD.
AttitudeAJM wrote:I hope not. I actually enjoyed watching Planet Terror and knowing that nothing followed it. I found Death Proof to be rather dreadful.
You can always, you know, not watch Death Proof and turn off the DVD after the trailers or just hang on to your lone Planet Terror DVD.
Clearly you didn't read the whole tweet where he goes on to inform us that previous dvd owners will not only be required to purchase this new version, but forced to sit through, listen and take a quiz on his commentary. So AttitudeAJM can now look forward to having a lot following 'it'.
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