[In Death Proof, Tarantino] gleefully subverts the genre to keep us thoroughly entertained.
Grindhouse (2007)
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Starring: Rose McGowan, Freddy Rodriguez, Marley Shelton, Kurt Russell, Bruce Willis
Screenwriter: Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez
Producer: Elizabeth Avellan, Gabrielle Roth, Erica Steinberg, Eli Roth, Philip Waley, Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez
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A mediocre attempt to play with exploitation fire without getting burned. A pair of anti-septic fakes that miss the entire point of exploitation.
3-D Naughtiness! Perverts in Revolt! Sinful Dwarfs! And Even a Movie Review, Why Not?
This is a movie theater experience. It needs to be seen at night, with a big screen and lots of friends.
The trailers for grindhouse movies were always better than the films themselves. Sadly, the same is true of Grindhouse.
Grindhouse is both impressive and disappointing. From a technical and craft point of view it is first-rate; from its standing in the canon of the two directors, it is minor.
It is a movie about watching itself, and that is both solipsistic and pure genius.
While I believe Tarantino to be a far greater artist when it comes to lining his cinematic and pop culture channelings with elements of profundity, Rodriguez is something of a master at to-the-point entertainment.
I almost feel bad for Robert Rodriguez, insofar as he has the misfortune to make a generally entertaining feature only to have it eclipsed by some sublime genre work by Quentin Tarantino.
An intriguing package of faux trailers and senseless violence. Rarely is there a film that is so unquestionably enjoyable. Might give the '70s grind house flicks a good name.
The numbness of sitting through nearly two hours of dreck isn't all that kills the momentum going in to Death Proof.
A long, blood-splattered stunt of a movie, Grindhouse, may be something only critics and film nerds can love.
What amazed me however, was the unexpected feeling of feminine empowerment.
What we're mainly getting is two big directors with expensive movies pretending they're niche directors with low funding. It's an act, but an enthralling one.
A unapologetically entertaining double feature that, despite its drawn out runtime and clunky moments, has an inventive take on an old and often cringe-worthy genre
Raging at you harder than a televangelist on an overdose of Viagra, Grindhouse pulverizes the audience with a bombardment of hyper-violence, buxom babes, gnarly zombies, and enough exploitation to fill two movies.
Grindhouse is more fun than an army of toxic zombies, or a shapely severed leg hitting the highway with a thump.
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