wheredwhogo?
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Just watched the movie deathproof......im glad i watched it. pretty good movie with some good ol american muscle cars in it too! i would recommend this movie for viewing.:rock: :rock:
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wheredwhogo?
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I didnt know it was filmed in Austin,TX. I am in Iraq now...so it kinda made me homesick....but after the lapdance scene...I was goog to go!!!:rock: :rock:
Ram From Hell
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Yeah, man. Saw it in the theater with "Planet Terror". Just the best worst movie making ever! Loved the rough edits and glitches!
Oh yeah. The MoPars rocked!:rock:
Oh yeah. The MoPars rocked!:rock:
wheredwhogo? said:
Keep your head down, come home safe...and tell everyone there thanks.
Roy
wheredwhogo?
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Prof said:
no problem....i will do my best to fullfill your three wishes...ill be really pissed if i dont make it home!!!!!!!
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Ram From Hell said:
Yea thats the stuff that made the movie. Saw it with the kid in the theater, and bought them when they came out. Best worst is right on the sopt.
Jeff
I went and saw it several months ago and thought it was utter shit. :laugh: Right up there with "The Village". I don't go to the movies much so was looking forward to "the comfy" seats (Laz-y-boys) and the V8s on surround loud sound. What a disappointment. 
Was around an hour & a half of boring dialog with chicks talking about guys and what-not with the odd (2 or 3) burnouts from Kurt Russel in his Nova. "Yay".
Luckily the so called "car chase" bought some kind of action into the movie, it wasn't what most would call a car chase, more like stunt woman on car for 60% of it and the rest filled with a few weaves and the cars banging into each other. If they had to destroy some classic muscle cars, Mopars no-less, they should have at least used them wisely and made a good job of the chase.
My rating - 4/10. Would have been less but since it had a White 70 Challenger 440ci in it and talked about Vanishing Point it saved itself (but I'm biased ) plus having Kiwi Joe Bell helped but couldn't save it, for me. I've spoken to many and all the ones I have spoken too agreed with me that it was boring as! So, I'm somewhat surprised at these "Reviews" of it being real good. Anyhow, different strokes for different folks.
Was around an hour & a half of boring dialog with chicks talking about guys and what-not with the odd (2 or 3) burnouts from Kurt Russel in his Nova. "Yay".Luckily the so called "car chase" bought some kind of action into the movie, it wasn't what most would call a car chase, more like stunt woman on car for 60% of it and the rest filled with a few weaves and the cars banging into each other. If they had to destroy some classic muscle cars, Mopars no-less, they should have at least used them wisely and made a good job of the chase.
My rating - 4/10. Would have been less but since it had a White 70 Challenger 440ci in it and talked about Vanishing Point it saved itself (but I'm biased
) plus having Kiwi Joe Bell helped but couldn't save it, for me. I've spoken to many and all the ones I have spoken too agreed with me that it was boring as! So, I'm somewhat surprised at these "Reviews" of it being real good. Anyhow, different strokes for different folks.
TREKER
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The face tire burn and the leg shear off was cool. The end chase was exciting. All I kept thinking was Kurt Russell was Snake from Escape from NY.
jtsdad13
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completely agree with carlwalski. it was even worse than kill bill. i guess those movies are an aquired taste. but i'll stick with "two lane blacktop" and "vanishing point"
Kill Bill had one redeeming value...
Yum!
Yum!
Ram From Hell
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jtsdad13 said:
I'd bet that the majority of people who saw and didn't rave really didn't understand the point of making the "Grindhouse" experience. In no way, shape or form were these movies intended to be evaluated for their "quality" of content or film making. The whole point was to make a couple of bad cliche'd movies reminiscent of the 70's B-Movies, only worse. The paper-thin plots, cheesy dialog, gratuitous violence, nonexistent character development, lousy editing and overly formulaic style were not only present, they were the main ingredients.
If you watched "Planet Terror" and/or "Deathproof" hoping to see anything else, you were watching the wrong movies. To even suggest a comparo between other genuinely classic films of that era, or other products of these writers/directors is truly pointless. Tarantino and Rodriguez made these movies for people who would enjoy all of the horrible stuff that makes the movies they modeled them on endearing.
So feel free to pan these movies if you so choose. We'll know you missed the point of them entirely.
To basically call others "theatrically blind" is a little arrogant, no? I understand what it's about and got the point, it's hardly a Mid Summer Murders plot is it. Yes it's a tribute to films of old, in that respect he did well and hit the nail on the head albeit parts could have been better IMO. Running flickers and bad film grains through every now and then doesn't mean much, has to have dialog. Fact of the matter is the so called "car chase" (or lack of one) was utter crap and lets face it, every red blooded male who has heard of this movie knows about this "car scene". Prior to release this was indeed the highlight and to whom must car lovers got their kicks over, some going so far as to say: "Bullitt, eat your heart out" Ah. Not even close. I'm a Tarantino fan but this was just boring. Even the original B grade flicks had some kind of action. If I want to see a bunch of tarts talking about finger nails and who they f#%ked last night, I'll watch Oprah.
jtsdad13
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even my closest friends liked em. just to cheesy for me. i understand they were made that way for a reason. its just personally i have not seen a quentin tarantino film yet that i liked. i should have learned my lesson from the kill bill movies. my best friend said it is awesome, so i watched it i wasnt thrilled, then the second one came out he told it was much better than the first and i beleived him, he lied. and that is 3 hours of my life i will never get back.
Ram From Hell
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Carlwalski said:
Nope. Many are, my dear Kiwi (I'd bet it's far greater than 50%, in the US at least). You may well understand film styles quite well, but that doesn't mean I can't disagree with your assessment of the film.
I'm certainly not going to disagree with your disappointment with it. However, that wasn't the main point I was trying to get across with that post. People saw the film with different expectations. Some knew that the film was supposed to be intentionally bad cinema. Others expected it to be more than it was. It's not so much about being able to understand the film, but rather being able to appreciate it for everything it was and wasn't, rather than panning the film simply because expectations weren't met.
Carlwalski said:
It's more than a tribute to "B" movies, it's a caricature of them. I'd go as far as to say it was a parody of them, in fact. Quentin could have easily made it way better, but that would have made it a worse film for what it was supposed to be. He's made some great films, and this was about taking that creativity to make an intentionally bad one.
Carlwalski said:
I think you're actually referring to "The View".
Ram From Hell said:Nope. Many are, my dear Kiwi (I'd bet it's far greater than 50%, in the US at least). You may well understand film styles quite well, but that doesn't mean I can't disagree with your assessment of the film.
However, that wasn't the main point I was trying to get across with that post. People saw the film with different expectations. Some knew that the film was supposed to be intentionally bad cinema. Others expected it to be more than it was. It's not so much about being able to understand the film, but rather being able to appreciate it for everything it was and wasn't, rather than panning the film simply because expectations weren't met.
It's more than a tribute to "B" movies, it's a caricature of them. I'd go as far as to say it was a parody of them, in fact. Quentin could have easily made it way better, but that would have made it a worse film for what it was supposed to be. He's made some great films, and this was about taking that creativity to make an intentionally bad one.
I think you're actually referring to "The View".
I know what you were meaning and I'm not disagreeing with what you thought about the movie and what it was indeed about. But, in my first post and others I would and have never said that others who have seen the movie "have no idea what it was about" because I thought their opinion of the movie was different to mine. To like or not like the movie is one thing, to say that others don't understand it came off a little wrong, is all. "The View"? LOL...... I wouldn't know. I was chuffed that I got the Oprah thing! :laugh:. For the record, I enjoyed the Kill Bill movies, they make you think. They're one of the movies (for me) that if I watch 5 minutes of it, I'll more than likely be sitting through the credits at the end. He definitely has a unique take on cinema and his work stands out, always a good thing. Still, my favourite black sheep director is Guy Ritchie with films like Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch and also movies like Danny Boyle's "Trainspotters" all great movies which I recommend. Witty, funny, black comedies.
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