Not only was the Robert Rodriguez / Quentin Tarrantino Double-Feature Grindhouse the most fun I have had at a movie theater in forever, it also has a bad ass website which features, quite possibly, the coolest-looking load screen ever.
Oh, if anyone was wondering: Rose McGowan is still super hot with a peg leg and Kurt Russell is still the best B-Movie actor to come out of Walt Disney Pictures. Period.
Pay special attention to the phony trailers at the beginning and middle of the film. According to imdb.com, Robert Rodriguez has Machete scheduled for 2008, but we will be cheated if Eli Roth never makes Thanksgiving into a feature film. I guess I’ll settle for Hostel 2.
all I have to say is: “Dont’, Don’t, Don’t, Don’t, Don’t, Don’t, Don’t, Don’t, Don’t…
Don’t.
I hope “Thanksgiving” becomes a reality.
I hope “Thanksgiving” becomes a reality, too. It’s been a long time since I’ve seen a man hump a turkey carcass with a human head on it. Wait, I’ve never seen that…but I do believe it would be awesome.
touché.
There’s a buzz on the web about how Tarrantino may have lifted the Grindhouse idea from a bunch some guys who made a 4,000 dollar slasher flick. More info can be found here.
In the letter written by the director of this film, he states that, apparently, Tarrantino stole the title and concept of a homage to the grindhouse B-Movie genre, but he goes on to call Quentin a hack and a thief in one paragraph and then confess that he was a huge fan of Tarrantino’s and the whole reason he was able to be ripped off was because he sent the DVD to Tarrantino in the mail.
I don’t know how things go down in the film industry, but, for musicians, sending unsolicited work through the mail is the short and quick path to getting seriously fucked over. Good job, dumbass.
As I said, the content of the films have nothing to do with one another, it’s just the title and concept. I don’t understand why he couldn’t have saved himself some energy and changed the title of the fucking movie, paid a few more bucks for a new copyright, re-released it and have never said anything about it. He alludes to some personal difficulties that resulted from making his film, maybe this was just the last straw.
But, dude, you made an exploitation film and got ripped off. Big surprise.
I am announcing that I am going to make my own low-budget film this year. It’s like Shakespeare but I am using teenagers (or robots, or animals, or hobbits, haven’t decided yet) instead of drag queens to play the women. I’m calling the movie ‘Shakespeare’ because it’s based on the work of William Shakespeare. Now if someone makes anything like that this next year, I can write a whiny hate letter on the internet and bitch about how someone stole my idea.
nobody likes a crybaby.
nobody
i just saw ‘these’ films - loved it. if anyone is considering seeing it they should go do so in the theater and not wait for it to come out on DVD. I’ll probably end up buying the DVD, but most likely won’t enjoy it as much as the theater experience.
machete looks badass.
thanksgiving was disturbing enough as a preview.
if you are thinking about ripping justin’s shakespeare idea off - don’t.
I know Joe is joking around but:
My implication was that people use Shakespeare as a “reference” all of the time. In teen girl flicks, in war movies, in everything– sometimes the films are reworked versions of Shakespeare plays. The fact that the “grindhouse” genre isn’t as well known as Shakespeare doesn’t make it any more exclusive. Tarantino obviously knows about that kind of filmmaking as evidenced by his previous body of work. I’m not saying he didn’t lift the idea from the cover of an unsolicited DVD he received in the mail and probably never watched, I’m just saying it’s not a big deal that he did it and this other whiner should get over it, chalk his mistake up to experience and make another movie.
As for Thanksgiving, well… go here and see what we’re talkin’ bout. (Definitely not for moms. )