Thread: Tarantino film Grindhouse aka Death proof (2007)

this Quentin Tarantino film delivered ! I really enjoyed . Tarantino can sure make a film intresting !

anyone else seen this ?

Love that film.
The girl with the machine gun leg is fit as fuck

Ah I watched this a couple days ago, typical Tarantino self absorbed, self congratulatory 'oh I'm so clever' type directing.

It was classic Tarantino at his most annoying, ultra retro and 'clever' ageing technology with really grainy footage early on, missing scenes, wavy lines and interference that made the first half virtually unwatchable.

He also managed to throw in his usual million and one foot shot's a fetish that is getting bigger with every film.

Around 75% of the film is filled with the most benile and inane conversation between unnattractive women who you just wanted all to get killed.

I watched it with my brother and we practically had to have matching sick bags to sit through it.


Then to cap it all, the chase sequence at the end was ironically absolutely brilliant, possibly the best car chase I've ever seen.

I wanted to enjoy it, but the rest of the film just wasn't worthy of such a great chase and soundtrack at the end. It was 1 hour 10 minutes of absolute torture followed by 20 minutes of inspired film making that should have been the showcase to a better film.

Overall 10/10 for the last 20 minutes, 1/10 for the rest of the film.

I F****** hate Tarantino

Originally Posted by Bilbo

Ah I watched this a couple days ago, typical Tarantino self absorbed, self congratulatory 'oh I'm so clever' type directing.

It was classic Tarantino at his most annoying, ultra retro and 'clever' ageing technology with really grainy footage early on, missing scenes, wavy lines and interference that made the first half virtually unwatchable.

He also managed to throw in his usual million and one foot shot's a fetish that is getting bigger with every film.

Around 75% of the film is filled with the most benile and inane conversation between unnattractive women who you just wanted all to get killed.

I watched it with my brother and we practically had to have matching sick bags to sit through it.


Then to cap it all, the chase sequence at the end was ironically absolutely brilliant, possibly the best car chase I've ever seen.

I wanted to enjoy it, but the rest of the film just wasn't worthy of such a great chase and soundtrack at the end. It was 1 hour 10 minutes of absolute torture followed by 20 minutes of inspired film making that should have been the showcase to a better film.

Overall 10/10 for the last 20 minutes, 1/10 for the rest of the film.

I F****** hate Tarantino

I'll cc you there bilbo I hate him as well. His out of order movie direction was fresh when it first came up but it gets old fast.

Originally Posted by Punisher136

Originally Posted by Bilbo

Ah I watched this a couple days ago, typical Tarantino self absorbed, self congratulatory 'oh I'm so clever' type directing.

It was classic Tarantino at his most annoying, ultra retro and 'clever' ageing technology with really grainy footage early on, missing scenes, wavy lines and interference that made the first half virtually unwatchable.

He also managed to throw in his usual million and one foot shot's a fetish that is getting bigger with every film.

Around 75% of the film is filled with the most benile and inane conversation between unnattractive women who you just wanted all to get killed.

I watched it with my brother and we practically had to have matching sick bags to sit through it.


Then to cap it all, the chase sequence at the end was ironically absolutely brilliant, possibly the best car chase I've ever seen.

I wanted to enjoy it, but the rest of the film just wasn't worthy of such a great chase and soundtrack at the end. It was 1 hour 10 minutes of absolute torture followed by 20 minutes of inspired film making that should have been the showcase to a better film.

Overall 10/10 for the last 20 minutes, 1/10 for the rest of the film.

I F****** hate Tarantino

I'll cc you there bilbo I hate him as well. His out of order movie direction was fresh when it first came up but it gets old fast.

Yep it's funny, him and Eli Roth I just plain can't stand. They both did one good film (Pulp Fiction/Hostel) that could be termed genre defining and they let it totally go to their heads and now they try and do the same shit in every film.

Tarantino thinks his films are ultra stylish and trendy whereas I think they suck.

Eli Roth likes to think he shocks people with his over the top gore and mindless killings, as if he's some kind of anti hero whereas I think it's bascially just the equivalent of pornography film making. He has no talent for direction whatsoever so he just ups the blood and gore as if it makes him cool. It does not, he's merely the Peter North of cinema.

Oh and whilst I'm on the topic don't even get me started on M Night Shylaman.................


I'll take Ridley Scott, Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese over those three jokers anyday.

I don't even think hostel is that good. It comes in the foot steps of saw which, despite its excessive gore, is light years ahead of hostel in plot value. Making hostel after saw deserves 0 credit. Besides isn't roth like a 24 yr old frat boy?

I have to disagree about the chase scene and i didn't even see it. The chase at the end of the blues borthers is untoppable. Nazi's, police, the army using machine guns to destory like an endtable thats barely blocking a door. That is true brilliance.

Death Proof was average but Planet Terror is wicked imo

Originally Posted by Smashup

Death Proof was average but Planet Terror is wicked imo

Not seen that one yet.

Have you seen straightheads? That's a good film. Watching Gillian Anderson anally rape the man who raped her by ramming a sniper rifle repeatedly up his ass before Danny Dyer cuts out his eyes. Quality

And how smokin is Anderson by the way

She's still got it, you see her tits and she's got inch long nipples, films don't get any better than this

Originally Posted by Bilbo

Originally Posted by Punisher136

Originally Posted by Bilbo

Ah I watched this a couple days ago, typical Tarantino self absorbed, self congratulatory 'oh I'm so clever' type directing.

It was classic Tarantino at his most annoying, ultra retro and 'clever' ageing technology with really grainy footage early on, missing scenes, wavy lines and interference that made the first half virtually unwatchable.

He also managed to throw in his usual million and one foot shot's a fetish that is getting bigger with every film.

Around 75% of the film is filled with the most benile and inane conversation between unnattractive women who you just wanted all to get killed.

I watched it with my brother and we practically had to have matching sick bags to sit through it.


Then to cap it all, the chase sequence at the end was ironically absolutely brilliant, possibly the best car chase I've ever seen.

I wanted to enjoy it, but the rest of the film just wasn't worthy of such a great chase and soundtrack at the end. It was 1 hour 10 minutes of absolute torture followed by 20 minutes of inspired film making that should have been the showcase to a better film.

Overall 10/10 for the last 20 minutes, 1/10 for the rest of the film.

I F****** hate Tarantino

I'll cc you there bilbo I hate him as well. His out of order movie direction was fresh when it first came up but it gets old fast.

Yep it's funny, him and Eli Roth I just plain can't stand. They both did one good film (Pulp Fiction/Hostel) that could be termed genre defining and they let it totally go to their heads and now they try and do the same S*** in every film.

Tarantino thinks his films are ultra stylish and trendy whereas I think they suck.

Eli Roth likes to think he shocks people with his over the top gore and mindless killings, as if he's some kind of anti hero whereas I think it's bascially just the equivalent of pornography film making. He has no talent for direction whatsoever so he just ups the blood and gore as if it makes him cool. It does not, he's merely the Peter North of cinema.

Oh and whilst I'm on the topic don't even get me started on M Night Shylaman.................


I'll take Ridley Scott, Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese over those three jokers anyday.

I agree with both of you guys on all acounts! Couldnt have said it better myself!

Luckily, Eli Roth shot himself in the foot with Hostel II, it completely bombed and caused a bit of a backlash against him.

Ive yet to see a college dorm room without either a Pulp Fiction or Scarface poster in it

I dont like Robert Rodriguez either. He, Tarantino and Roth are all friends. "Great minds think a like" They love to pat themselves on the back.

I think many people who think they are artsy, stylized, indie arent even very creative minds. The real creative minds are too suffered to make it in hollywood..so we get these watered down self congratulating "indie" thinkers.

Another trio I dont like is Matthew mcconaughey, Lance armstrong, and Jake gyllenhaal...never liked any individually and the fact they are friends makes it worse. Arrogant douchebags.

You want a real horror film, look at something made by John Carpenter (or mustaffa akkad the dude who took over the halloween film franchise from 4 on i believe) or Wes Craven.

No one does horror like the Japanese. Takashi Miike has got a twisted mind. He's one of those guys that probably gets a little overrated, but asian horror pours in a lot of violence, sex, and various taboo subjects that western horror wont touch!

Originally Posted by dasamm

No one does horror like the Japanese. Takashi Miike has got a twisted mind. He's one of those guys that probably gets a little overrated, but asian horror pours in a lot of violence, sex, and various taboo subjects that western horror wont touch!

I agree with you on this, the Ringu trilogy in Japan completely owned the American Ring, even though that was probably my favourite Hollywood horror for years.

The original's though have so much more back story and atmosphere that you don't get with the American remakes.

Plus Ringu's Sadako is 20 million million times more scary than Hollywoods Samara.

The American one was just a cute little girl covered in mud, you couldn't see how she could make anyone die of fear, the Japanese Sadako gave me nightmares for months

The creepiest girl of all time.

I happen to like Tarantino.

I'm not going to go overboard on him but his films are so refreshing. I love how he drives his plots with pure dialog, I love that stuff. He is overrated, Pulp Fiction was good but was more of a status movie like said earlier. I personally think Kill Bill is one of the greatest movies ever though. I literally had goosebumps when I left the theatre for the second one.

Scorsese is great and he proved it again with The Departed. He really changed with the times and still managed to make an all time great movie. And there is no way that any director has as many great movies to their name as he does. My favorite being Goodfellas.

Hollywood's really got a good core of directors right now though.

Christopher Nolan is one of my personal favorites. He directed Momento which if you haven't seen, please do. I've got mixed feelings on it myself but it's something like you've never seen in a movie before and the cinematography is some of the best ever. And he really had to do a great job directing or the movie would have fallen to pieces. Not my favorite ever but it's different and definitely worth watching.

He also brought life to Batman which I've never been a fan of. He made Gotham City come alive and brought out the grittiness in Batman instead of dressing it up. It's pretty much universally loved, I'm not a fan of franchises like that but Nolan's Batman is definitely an exception.

Then he did what was my favorite movie of last year, The Prestige. Awesome movie, awesome plot and AMAZING acting. Christian Bale (favorite actor) and Hugh Jackman both put in the best performances of recent times and really made the movie come alive.

Next year he has the Batman sequel releasing with Heath Ledger as The Joker and the film's tagline is I Believe In Harvey Dent. This one should be awesome.

There's also another guy I really like who has made 2 of my favorite movies now, James Mangold. He's the guy who directed Identity and Walk The Line. His latest movie is the remake 3:10 To Yuma, and again, great acting. Mangold has made 3 movies now in the past 5 years that are in no way similar to each other and required a completely different style of direction for each one and he managed to make them all very good. I haven't seen many westerns but 3:10 To Yuma was one of the best I've seen. I think Tombstone was the only modern western I liked and to be honest, this blows that out of the water.

David Fincher has been around for a while, the director of Fight Club and Se7en, two more of the best movies of recent times. He directed Zodiac last year which was a lot different then I expected but still very good and told a side of things that I've never seen in any of the hundreds of documentaries on the thing.

What I'm really looking forward to though is Torso, a film based off the comic book about the Cleveland Torso Murderer. The comic books are...well they are more like movie story boards to begin with really. They have real pictures and all that, and with Fincher's dark directing, I'm really looking forward to this.

Honestly, I don't think there are to many bad directors in Hollywood anymore. And I haven't seen a truly attrocious new movie in a long time.

Originally Posted by dasamm

Originally Posted by Bilbo

Originally Posted by Punisher136

Originally Posted by Bilbo

Ah I watched this a couple days ago, typical Tarantino self absorbed, self congratulatory 'oh I'm so clever' type directing.

It was classic Tarantino at his most annoying, ultra retro and 'clever' ageing technology with really grainy footage early on, missing scenes, wavy lines and interference that made the first half virtually unwatchable.

He also managed to throw in his usual million and one foot shot's a fetish that is getting bigger with every film.

Around 75% of the film is filled with the most benile and inane conversation between unnattractive women who you just wanted all to get killed.

I watched it with my brother and we practically had to have matching sick bags to sit through it.


Then to cap it all, the chase sequence at the end was ironically absolutely brilliant, possibly the best car chase I've ever seen.

I wanted to enjoy it, but the rest of the film just wasn't worthy of such a great chase and soundtrack at the end. It was 1 hour 10 minutes of absolute torture followed by 20 minutes of inspired film making that should have been the showcase to a better film.

Overall 10/10 for the last 20 minutes, 1/10 for the rest of the film.

I F****** hate Tarantino

I'll cc you there bilbo I hate him as well. His out of order movie direction was fresh when it first came up but it gets old fast.

Yep it's funny, him and Eli Roth I just plain can't stand. They both did one good film (Pulp Fiction/Hostel) that could be termed genre defining and they let it totally go to their heads and now they try and do the same S*** in every film.

Tarantino thinks his films are ultra stylish and trendy whereas I think they suck.

Eli Roth likes to think he shocks people with his over the top gore and mindless killings, as if he's some kind of anti hero whereas I think it's bascially just the equivalent of pornography film making. He has no talent for direction whatsoever so he just ups the blood and gore as if it makes him cool. It does not, he's merely the Peter North of cinema.

Oh and whilst I'm on the topic don't even get me started on M Night Shylaman.................


I'll take Ridley Scott, Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese over those three jokers anyday.

I agree with both of you guys on all acounts! Couldnt have said it better myself!

Luckily, Eli Roth shot himself in the foot with Hostel II, it completely bombed and caused a bit of a backlash against him.

Ive yet to see a college dorm room without either a Pulp Fiction or Scarface poster in it

I dont like Robert Rodriguez either. He, Tarantino and Roth are all friends. "Great minds think a like" They love to pat themselves on the back.

I think many people who think they are artsy, stylized, indie arent even very creative minds. The real creative minds are too suffered to make it in hollywood..so we get these watered down self congratulating "indie" thinkers.

Another trio I dont like is Matthew mcconaughey, Lance armstrong, and Jake gyllenhaal...never liked any individually and the fact they are friends makes it worse. Arrogant douchebags.

My favourite trio of friends was Warren Zevon, Dave Barry, and Stephen King.......they seem like they would have some wierd cool fucking conversations....

why didnt Grindhouse do better in theaters