…cos, ya know, them’s good eatin’
It’s 1:25 AM and I just got back from seeing Grindhouse. Excellent flick/flicks, with Planet Terror being the superior piece of film making. I loves me some Robert Rodriguez, I does. Be warned tho, that even Uncle Doc, with his notoriously high gore threshold, flinched a couple of times. So yeah, very gory, but fun as all hell.
The Tarantino piece, Death Proof, was a well made homage to the 1970’s car chase/maniac driver genre, but perhaps a bit too close a copy. The first half or so of the flick was full of talk, like those old movies usually were. Still, both the car chase and Kurt Russell were damned fun to watch.
The fake coming attraction trailers ran from “Ooh, I’d like to see that one” (“Machete” and “Werewolf Women of the SS”) to funny (“Don’t) to mildly amusing (“Thanksgiving”).
As for the real trailers, the ones for “Pirates of the Carribean 3”, “Next” and the new “Die Hard” entry all looked good. The trailers for Rob Zombie’s remake of “Halloween” and “Hostel 2”, however, got nothing but the big yawn from me. Today’s modern “torture people and call it a horror film” genre does nada for me and I have no desire to see Rob Zombie fuck up a remake of what still is a damned creey and scary movie.
Anyway, if you have a strong stomach (and bladder, cos the flick runs 3+ hours), go see Grindhouse.
And now, I’m off to hit the sack.
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Thanksgiving made me go WTF? with some of those scenes. What a wild film.
We felt pretty much the same about the movies and the trailers. Machete? Cheech Marin as a gun-wielding priest? Sure, sign me up! I thought Planet Terror was damn funny, and Death Proof had its moments (the last half-hour was great.)