GRINDHOUSE / Robert Rodriguez & Quentin Tarantino (2007)
April 9th, 2007 by Scott Marks
Grindhouse (2007)
Planet Terror
Written & Directed by: Robert Rodriguez
Cast: Rose McGowan, Marley Shelton, Freddy Rodriguez & Josh Brolin
Death Proof
Written & Directed by: Quentin Tarantino
Cast: Kurt Russell, Sydney Tamiia Poitier, Vanessa Ferlito & Jordan Ladd
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Nowhere in the press notes does the normally verbose Quentin Tarantino properly define the term “grindhouse.” True, they were run down neighborhood picture palaces equipped with antique projectors that literally “grinded out” the prints.As soon as one film ended, the grindhouse would go straight to trailers and/or short subjects followed immediately by the second (or third, or forth) feature. The lack of an intermission is what put the grind in grindhouses.
The majority of the schlock that inspired Grindhouse is better than anything in the film If the goal of Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino was to make a couple of bad movies, they win. If you spend three-plus hours watching this bore fest, you lose.
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