The Grindhouse Download

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An homage to exploitation B-movie thrillers that combines two feature-length segments into one double-bill designed to replicate the grind house theatergoing experience of the 70s and 80s. In "Death Proof," a psycho named Stuntman Mike stalks and kills beautiful women with his car. In "Planet Terror," a small-town sheriffs' department has to deal with an outbreak of murderous, infected people called "sickos." A gun-legged woman named Cherry and her martial arts-wielding partner take on the zombie army. The two films will be fused together by fake movie trailers.
A double-bill of thrillers that recall both filmmakers' favorite exploitation films. "Grindhouse" (a downtown movie theater in disrepair since its glory days as a movie palace known for "grinding out" non-stop double-bill programs of B-movies) is presented as one full-length feature comprised of two individual films helmed separately by each director. "Death Proof," is a rip-roaring slasher flick where the killer pursues his victims with a car rather than a knife, while "Planet Terror" shows us a view of the world in the midst of a zombie outbreak. The films are joined together by clever faux trailers that recall the '50s exploitation drive-in classics.
Why would you give this movie a 10? The Godfather, Citizen Kane and movies of those caliber aren't even considered 10's, so why would a movie which was intended to be a b movie in the first place, get a perfect score, when others, which are as close to perfection as a flick can possibly get, receive lower? Just because someone goes out aiming to make a piece of **** and succeeds, doesn't mean they deserve the same rating as someone who aims for greatness and actually delivers. It's funny how movie-buff retards will pick apart every masterpiece, and find any way possible to **** on it, yet at the same time mess themselves over some intentionally flawed piece of **** just because their movie-geek, pop-culture-junkie idol churned out another coke-induced stink nugget. It was meant to be ****, it should be rated as ****, otherwise we might as well put porn on here and start dropping 10's, because I feel a whole lot more fulfilled and satisfied after watching that kind of **** than I ever have from watching any movie. I don't really think this movie deserved a 1, probably a 5 or 6, but I just want to cancel out one of you morons who gave it a 10 ;)
Planet Terror: Wasn't impressed. The "Missing Reel" kind of killed it for me. You don't have to skip a sex scene, just use the "fade to black" method, and yes. We get it. They screwed. Okay, now tell us why the place is on fire and why the cop suddenly respects this juvenile deliquent. The zombies were exaggerated but that was FUNNY and I enjoyed that. Wasn't expecting the women doctor to prevail. After killing her kid (Basically) by giving him a gun, breaking her hand (Which magically fixes later! Yay?!) and cheating on her husband, I was expecting her to die. Could have been better. The Missing Reel thing really did kill it for me, as I hate unexplained and incomplete movies. Deathproof: Much more clever, my only gripe is the second set of girls talked entirely too much. I pressed fast forward for a few seconds, I came back to them and they were talking about boys. I fast forward'd again, and they were talking about cars. I pressed it again and it came back to them actually doing something. I was NOT expecting the first set of girls to get slaughtered, even though I should have after the Planet Terror segment. I was expecting the second set of girls to get ruined, but they prevailed. It was an interesting and unexpected contrast. With all the useless talking, I was hoping the second set of chicks would just die already, but with the sweet car chase I found myself CHEERING for them. I was shocked to see the girl on the hood survive.
Grindhouse raises the bar for a certain kind of movie lollapalooza (and also for the kind of filmmaker who is also a showman, along the lines of a William Castle or Cecil B. De Mille). It's this injection of playfulness and fun and attention to the entire movie-going gestalt that will probably become Grindhouse's lasting contribution to movie history rather than any on-the-screen content of the movie itself.
A "Grindhouse" was a type of inner city theatre that would play all night marathons of low-budget exploitation films in the 1960s, '70s and early '80s. These down 'n' dirty theatres would often show offbeat ultraviolent and sexually charged films under the categories of Kung Fu (Shaw Brothers films), Hixploitation (White Lightning, Gator Bait), Blaxploitation (Shaft, Coffy, Superfly, Dolemite, The Mack), Sexploitation (Supervixens, The Swinging Cheerleaders), Zombie and Cannibal films (Dawn of the Dead, Zombi 2, Cannibal Holocaust), Biker films (The Wild Angels, The Glory Stompers, The Savage Seven, The Losers) among hundreds of other subgenres. In the suburbs during the 1960s and '70s, Drive-ins were the equivalent to the inner city Grindhouses. You could see many of the same kinds of films from the convenience of your car. The title of Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino's first collaboration From Dusk Till Dawn (1996) was named after the catch phrase for the all night Drive-in movie marathons. Both Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino grew up watching these kinds of films in Grindhouse theatres and drive-ins in the 1970s and early 1980s. When they became friends in the early 1990s they often held Exploitation film double features in their own home theaters (and also at QT's Film Fests in Austin, Texas). Flash forward to 2006, the two moviemaking pals decided to recreate these wild nights for movie audiences around the world by making their own traditional Grindhouse-Drive-In double feature extravaganza complete with two raunchy horror films, fake exploitation film trailers, ads and other cool treats. First: Robert Rodriguez brings us "Planet Terror" in which a town is overrun by disease infected sickos. Then comes Quentin Tarantino's "Death Proof", in which a serial killer named Stuntman Mike murders people by the use of his stuntcar instead of a knife or machete. "Robert's film is Horror, it couldn't happen, but mine is Terror because it could."–Quentin Tarantino Before or in between the movies, there will be a series of fake movie trailers (as it was customary in old grindhouse theatres to show coming attractions in the double features). Robert Rodriguez presents a Mexploitation trailer starring the hard boiled actor Danny Trejo in the title role of "Machete". Edgar Wright (director of Shaun of the Dead) presents "Don't", a "70s style British horror film". Rob Zombie presents a Nazisploitation-sci-fi-horror flick "Werewolf Women of the S.S.", starring Sherri Moon Zombie, Sybill Danning, Udo Kier, Bill Mosely and Nicolas Cage as the legendary Asian mastermind Dr. Fu Manchu. Eli Roth's (Hostel) fake trailer is an ultraviolent homage to 1970s/'80s holiday themed slasher films called "Thanksgiving". An additional fake trailer called "Hobo with a Shotgun", created by Dartmouth, Nova Scotia filmmakers Jason Eisener, Rob Cotterill, and John Davies for Robert Rodriguez's SXSW Grindhouse Trailers contest, has been included in Canadian theaters. "Hobo with a Shotgun" is attached to the other regular trailers played before the main feature presentation which begins with "Machete". (1) Jason Eisener's, Rob Cotterill's and John Davies' "Hobo with a Shotgun" trailer [Canada only?], (2) Robert Rodriguez's "Machete" trailer, (3) Robert Rodriguez's "Planet Terror", (4) Rob Zombie's "Werewolf Women of the SS" trailer, (5) Edgar Wright's "Don't" trailer, (6) Eli Roth's "Thanksgiving" trailer, and (7) Quentin Tarantino's "Death Proof". Contrary to popular rumor, the missing reels idea in "Death Proof" and "Planet Terror" were not true staples of Grindhouse moviegoing. While many Grindhouse films would be missing frames, they were never missing entire 20-30-minute reels. The concept for this came from a film Quentin owns ("The Sell Out" starring Oliver Reed) which had a missing reel. He found he enjoyed watching the film with a chunk of the film's plot missing because it created an interesting mystery about what actually happened in that part of the film. This idea was then transferred to the two Grindhouse features. It also helped cut down the runtime for the movie's theatrical run. There was some controversy in the distribution overseas for Grindhouse. Because most non-English speaking territories might not understand the tradition behind a double feature, the underlying concept might be lost. There were decisions being made as to which countries will get Grindhouse, and which will get "Grindhouse: Planet Terror" and "Grindhouse: Death Proof" After the Boxoffice flop in the North America, Weinstein decided to split up the movie in all other countries, including earlier announced double feature countries like the UK and Australia. Although some people have criticized, sometimes harshly, the look of the film because of its manual "aging" process, it is actually a good thing. First of all, they helped in the rating procedure of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA). There had been a concern about the nudity and violence during one of the deaths in Roth's segment "Thanksgiving". Before the final submission to the MPAA, "age" spots were strategically placed on the area of frame where it showed the nudity and violence, where it suddenly became implied instead of being visual. Secondly, it keeps with the presentation as Tarantino and Rodriguez intended the film to look like, as if you got a well worn print of a film that had been making the distribution rounds for a good while and decided to show it one day. Since the theatrical version of the film is what they strived for to presented to the public, it would be considered their "director's cut". The DVDs will have two versions of each film: the theatrical version and a "restored and remastered" version of the film which is basically the films before undergoing the "aging" process. Also, take into account there are versions of both films pushing 2 hours, due to the fact they are being split up in other countries. So, the DVD may incorporate these versions as well, making a 250-minute version. Only 18 seconds is supposedly deleted from the original cut from an interview on G4TV. a5c7b9f00b

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