Now is the time where you come anticipate GRINDHOUSE with me

http://youtube.com/watch?v=XlKUPBfzIXw

Probably won't be as good as The Devil's Rejects (serious take on grindhouse vs. ironic, serious is gonna win).

-- milo z (wooderso...), October 12th, 2006 5:24 AM. (mlp)

this still cracks me up. dude it ends with a montage set to "freebird."

Rodriguez recalled Zombie's pitch: "He goes, 'It's called 'Werewolf Women of the SS.' I said, 'Say no more. Go shoot it.' "

And shoot he did. While all three trailers were shot in just two days apiece, Wright and Roth essentially shot only what ended up on screen. Zombie estimates that he had enough footage to make a solid half-hour movie and was particularly pained to whittle it down.

Zombie assembled quite a cast for his mini-movie, including Udo Kier and Sybil Danning, B-movie character actors Bill Moseley and Tom Towles, and his wife, Sheri Moon Zombie. Best of all, however, is an appearance by Nicolas Cage as Fu Manchu.

How exactly one gets from Nazi scientists to topless superwomen, machine-gunning werewolves to Fu Manchu remains delightfully obscure in the trailer, and that confusion is not only intentional but, as Zombie explains, a tip of the hat to exploitation convention.

"I was getting very conceptual in my own mind with it," he says. "A lot of these movies, they would be made cheaply. The real famous Nazi-type movie, 'Ilsa, She-Wolf of the SS,' was made on the leftover sets from 'Hogan's Heroes.' That's why that movie, for a cheap exploitation film, it looks pretty nice.

"A lot of times these movies would be made like, 'Well, you know, I've got a whole bunch of Nazi uniforms, but I got this Chinese set too. We'll put 'em together!' They start jamming things in there, so I took that approach."

I swear there was another Grindhouse thread going, but I can't find it...

Saw a sneak preview of this tonight. Overall, it was fun and good and mindless and really long and pretty much what you would expect.

Rodriguez's half, "Terror Planet" was more succesful overall, just straight-out superviolent comedy horror. And when I say superviolent, I mean it - this might be the goriest movie I've seen since "Dead Alive" (with the lawnmower scene semi-recreated with a, um, heavier piece of equipment at the end). Not recommended if you have a weak stomach.

Tarantino's half, "Death Proof" ran hot and cold, basically depending on whether Kurt Russell was in the scene or not. Russell was great, of course, but there were loooong gaps without him that were really talky and don't contribute much to the movie. Tarantino could have easily cut 20 minutes and not lost anything important. The action sequences were pretty fun though.

Rodriguez seemed more committed to the "grindhouse" concept, using what looked like ancient film stock, warped scenes, faded colors, etc. Tarantino used some of that at the beginning of his half but seemed to give up on it after 30 minutes or so.

The "prevues" were great. Bizarro Nicolas Cage cameo in one of them.

-- n/a, Sunday, April 1, 2007 9:07 PM (4 days ago)

I picture Morbs printing out hard copies of every ILX film thread ever so as to literally shit all over them.

how nice 4u

MACHETE looks like it will be the greatest film ever made... Wikipedia claims that it may actually go into production. Fascinating.

I so want this to be true.

Apparently, Machete has already been made.

But not starring Danny Trejo.

WELL JEEZ

Dear Oxford's Ultimate Picture Palace, you rule.

June 13th, 11.30pm
GRINDHOUSE
(Rodriguez & Tarantino / 2007 / USA / 191 mins / Cert 18)
The original double-bill as it was meant to be seen, complete with fake trailers by Eli Roth and Edgar Wright, Grindhouse finds its true home at the MIDNIGHT MICROPLEX!

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/196/440912046_f0a4dbc044.jpg

that was awesome, by the way. the cinema itself is a real dump which is basically a booth on the street and then a fire exit which leads into the theatre with about 70 seats. that's it. the ladder that leads up to the projector is under an awning outside. me and my friend were sober, but pretty much everyone else was slaughtered. funnest cinema crowd I've ever been in outside film festival late screenings.

the girl next to me had a carrier bag with twelve beers and gave me two during the intermission because she heard me complaining I was thirsty! unfortunately I was a Michael-Cera-in-Superbad style idiot and did not hit on her because she was drunk and I was sober :/

when we left at 4am the sun was well and truly up, so apart from that missed opportunity, v. good times.

Are we anticipating that shoddy piece of thievery by whatshisfacewiththehugejaw OR reminiscing about 70's grindhouse?

YES

hhah

Death Proof was the least sexy movie I watched today, and the other two were One Day In September and The Counterfeiters.

which was the most?

I bet it was One Day In September or The Counterfeiters.

ya but which was the most

haha

Just saw "Death Proof" this weekend. MASSIVE LOLZ

yeah - I prefer the theatrical version (with the "reel missing"/striptease scene removed, among other things)

The bit right before he fucks up the first group of girls with his car, when he's doing the "now you're just gonna get scared faster" speech, was genuinely chilling!

The subsequent ass-whooping from girl group #2 was pretty fucking hysterical. Also, I really REALLY liked the second series of extended dialogue scenes as they did actually establish those girls as people who shouldn't be trifled with.

I can't believe the second set of girls left their model buddy to hang out alone in the middle of the woods with creepy Jasper.

^^haha in a cheerleader outfit no less! @ the time i SO wanted to know more of that storyline

Does the expanded version make any effort to explain it? It really bothered me - made me feel like these girls were thoughtless assholes instead of loyal buddies.

just watching planet terror, so far it's garbage but entertaining.

i think there might be a little more on the dvd but nothing that ties up the loose end or makes it less icky

Finally saw this. Had to watch it over two nights though.

I probably liked Planet Terror better as a whole than Death Proof. It just seemed more like a genre movie. The BBQ shack on the hill, the dirty hospital (even before the virus hit). The static Bruce Willis cameos. Little details like that big square florescent light fixture in the doctors' kitchen, scenes from a tense marriage in that late-70s architecture. the constant sound of the 'cue cooking (didja notice the "that's our cue!" line after the cook blows himself up?) Even better was the modern elements like the cellphones and Iraq references, telling us that omg this is happening NOW.

I don't want to sound like my mom, but exactly was necessary to the plot to have the kid shoot himself? That burst of gunshot from behind the windshield was the most disturbing shot of the whole movie.

You could tell in Death Proof that lol hey look QT's making a drive-in movie. The early shots of poor editing, where the car suddenly disappears or the line of dialogue repeats itself, seemed a bit more for the yuks than it did to cast a cheap feel to the movie. The fact that the scratches and everything eventually disappeared shows that the cheap editing was just kinda put in there to yank the chains a little bit.

Someone quoted a review of Tarentino constantly trying to "educate" his viewers on the finer intricacies of slop-house cinema and vinyl music with his clever references. It reminds me of dudes in college that would trap me in a dorm room and force me to listen to The Pretty Things or somebody, all the while watching from a corner with a demented smile and a look of "See? SEE?" It especially gets old when the old movies QT references are his old movies.

ANd talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk TALK TALK TALK. I'm just glad that they didn't get together with Richard Linklater to make a triple-feature.

ALL THAT SAID, the car sequences were great. The first crash was legitimately scary, especially watching Butterfly's fate after getting to know her character the most. Kurt Russell is the man. He's an underrated actor, having just seen Miracle not too long ago as well.

One more thing: Forget the Red Apple cigarettes or the Big Kahuna burger. Tarentino does this thing in each of his movies that always surprises me when they happen. It's watching his characters break through the wall of his little QT Universe and into ours. From the shock of the woman who shoots Mr. Orange, when Butchie hits Marcellus with the car or even just Jackie Brown walking around a shopping mall, that sudden reappearance of the world outside of the theater - the world we belong to - always jars me a little, in a good way.

I liked seeing the SUVs and minivans as well as the texts. It's going to make a film intentionally made to look dated look authentically dated here in another decade or so.

(And I'm so glad I didn't know about the Nic Cage cameo before I saw it!)

Nic Cage cameo? did I miss this or totally forget it....

It's in the Rob Zombie fake trailer for Werewolf Women of the SS. He of course plays Fu Manchu.

ANd talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk TALK TALK TALK. I'm just glad that they didn't get together with Richard Linklater to make a triple-feature.

Hahah so true.

He's in Rob Zombie's fake trailer with the Nazi werewolves.

Shit. X-post.

oh right, the trailer - for some reason I thought PP was still talking about Death Proof.

Death Proof is sooooo much better guyz, sorry.

there's a lot of talking in B-grade 70s car chase movies

Curious to know where/how you saw this with the Nic Cage trailer, I thought only the Machete trailer was included on the DVD/Blu-Ray releases.

It was on Encore. Double-feature with Machete at the beginning and the other three at intermission.

Thanks, I'll have to watch out for that.

I find "Death Proof" truly unbearable but thought "Planet Terror" was a blast, and way closer to getting the spirit of the grindhouse circuit.

Forgot this: Kurt Russell's John Wayne impersonation was dead-on as something a scary old guy in a bar would do.

T/S: Planet Terror, Death Proof

also fwiw most of my thoughts are here: Planet Terror versus Death Proof

Apparently the big news out of SXSW is that Rodriguez is finally going ahead with making a full-length "Machete"

do not want

Honestly I want that full thirty-minute version of Werewolf Women of the SS more.

what is the Austin bar in Death Proof?

Machete looked great! Totally want. Don't care if Rob Zombie releases another film or not.

to be fair I kind of don't want any more movies from Rodriguez period

The Texas Chili Parlor?

That's mean.

there's a lot of talking in B-grade 70s car chase movies

the only thing that makes me glad I saw Death Proof is that I probably wouldn't have checked out Dirty Mary Crazy Larry otherwise. Then again, I might have come across it on some Peter Fonda kick eventually.

first half of 'death proof' - p good, better than 'inglorious basterds'
second half - opened another tap, clicked ilxor.com, jesus this is boring