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hbrennan
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
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Capt. Nemo
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
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 Posted - 03/27/2007 : 12:28:30 AM
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Why does Jeff Fahey and Michael Biehn working in the same film feel so right?
Besides, they could use the work.
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Bobby-G
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
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Posted - 03/27/2007 : 03:49:49 AM
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The commercials make it look delightfully insane.
And checking IMDB, I see that Michael Parks will once again appear as "Earl McGraw"
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Neville
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
Spain
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Posted - 03/27/2007 : 07:43:53 AM
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Originally posted by Capt. Nemo
Why does Jeff Fahey and Michael Biehn working in the same film feel so right?
Besides, they could use the work.
If that feels, right, the whole cast listing provides more interesting names: Sydney Poitier, Nicolas Cage, Sheri Moon Zombie, Udo Kier and "Hostel" filmmaker? Eli Roth. |
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Citizen Carrier
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
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Posted - 03/27/2007 : 09:21:04 AM
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I was intrigued until I saw the part in the trailer where they attach an M16 to the leg stump of a woman so she can twirl around on one knee and spray 360 degrees of bullets.
Ridiculous and probably a deal-breaker for me. Too much like some of the dumber aspects of "Desperado", which I despised. |
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The Rev. D.D.
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
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Posted - 03/28/2007 : 3:26:29 PM
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I probably would've seen it just based on the two guys putting it together (I adore From Dusk Til Dawn with no reservations), but the scenes of Rose McGowan defying the laws of physics with her machine gun leg had me laughing and hooting so hard that it pretty much sealed the deal for me.
I mean, come on--grenade launcher as a pogo stick? That's gold, baby!
Of course, if this was meant at all to be a serious film, I'd be jumping all over it for those sorts of things. But since it clearly isn't, I'll be happy to go along for the ride. (I haven't seen Desperado so I can't comment.) YMMV naturally.
I have to admit to being more interested in the "Death Proof" half of the film. A serial killer who murders his passengers by crashing his tooled-up car...if I'm understanding the trailers correctly...is a pretty unique concept, and Kurt Russell doin' his thing's always a plus for me.
It's been years since I've wanted to go see so many movies in the theater. This year's shaping up pretty good so far. Borat, 300 (still need to see that!), this, The Host, Spider-Man 3 to come...good times.
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Edited by - The Rev. D.D. on 03/28/2007 3:29:42 PM |
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R. Dittmar
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hbrennan
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
Philippines
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Posted - 04/08/2007 : 10:33:56 AM
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It's not surprising that the numbers would be low. The presentation, after all, is a bit avant garde - certainly removed from standard public fare. Great stuff for cheesy movie fans - but not for the short attention span "300" crowd. Which, by the way, I saw last night at the AMC theater in Downtown Disney (yes, I just moved to Florida)- good flick,too, even though it's a bit simplistic it's something to see.
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CDiehl
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
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Posted - 04/08/2007 : 12:23:36 PM
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Looks like thing could end up a bit of a box office bomb:
That's probably true, but I can't imagine Tarantino or Rodriguez minding that much. It seems like it's intended to become a cult classic, like the kinds of movies they based it on. I'd bet they intend this to make a profit once it's on DVD, and if anyone else had made this, it would have been direct-to-DVD.
You know Grand Funk, don't you? The wild, shirtless lyrics of Mark Farner? The bong-rattling bass of Mel Schacher? The ... adequate drumwork of Don Brewer? |
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Sardu
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
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Posted - 04/08/2007 : 12:53:54 PM
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Also, it's not an Easter weekend kind of movie. I know a lot of people who would have loved to see Grindhouse but wound up going to see Blades Of Glory with their families. I rarely go to the theater (I have a pretty nice home theater and I wait for stuff on DVD and HD cable) but I'm definitely going out to see Grindhouse. I bet the numbers will be relatively low but solid over the next weeks and by the time it hits DVD it will have turned a solid profit which is all QT and RR really need to keep working.
Oh, and I just read the film is over three hours long- that means less showings per night- probably not such a great move. I know it's a "double feature" but I can't believe they couldn't have cut it to a brisk one hour per feature, plus trailers. I don't mind long films and even to me that sounds excessive...
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Greenhornet
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
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Posted - 04/09/2007 : 07:57:43 AM
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This was ment to be a mockery of the drive-in fare of old, it's NEVER a good sign when Hollywood mocks itself! The only good ones I've seen to do that were Mel Brooks' "Silent Movie", the Three Stooges "Movie Maiacs", "Abbot And Costello Meet The Keystone Kops" and "Nickleodian".
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Gristle McThornbody
Preeminent Apostolic Prelate of the Discipleship of Jabootu
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Posted - 04/09/2007 : 2:04:22 PM
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Oh, and I just read the film is over three hours long- that means less showings per night- probably not such a great move. I know it's a "double feature" but I can't believe they couldn't have cut it to a brisk one hour per feature, plus trailers. I don't mind long films and even to me that sounds excessive...
"Meeting you makes me want to be a real noodle cook"
--Tampopo
That's the main reason I'll be waiting for it to come out on DVD - I just can't sit in a theater for three hours if I want to be able to walk out of it, as my knees would go on strike.
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Citizen Carrier
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Posted - 04/10/2007 : 7:52:51 PM
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Well, I saw it Friday and it wasn't near a sold out crowd.
I was amused by the 1970s affectations and I was able to ignore the too silly leg stump antics of Rose McGowan. My friend wasn't. He started exhaling loudly through his nostrils every 3 minutes or so during "Planet Terror".
"Death Proof" was the marginally better of the two. My biggest gripe was the seemingly interminable conversations between characters Tarantino subjects the audience too.
Yes, lengthy conversation scenes appear to be a trademark of Tarantino's, but these ones between the various female characters just wasn't doing it for me and my mind started to wander.
In "Pulp Fiction" you felt almost like you were a participant in the conversations between Travolta and Jackson. They were at the very least captivating of your attention.
Much of the conversations in "Death Proof", with one or two exceptions, felt like being trapped on an elevator going up 200 floors at slow speed with the entire cast of "The View" chatting away loudly on cell phones. |
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R. Dittmar
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
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RossM
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Posted - 04/16/2007 : 1:38:07 PM
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Just because a movie is a financial bomb does not mean that its not any good. We have discussed this hear many times. One of my all time favorite movies is Matinee with john Goodman playing a character based on William Castle. I think that I was the only person on earth to see that movie. Its great fun. I have not yet seen Grind House but it looks like a hoot, an over the top version of the kinds of movies that we used to sneak into the Palace Theater to see when I was a kid. Its just not a movie that the mass audience will get. One really has to be of a particular age and mindset to fully get it.
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R. Dittmar
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