{ 2008 04 26 }

‘Grindhouse’ – possibly the best cinema experience?

As I’ve already talked about a bit, I went to see ‘Grindhouse’ last night. Now I know the film didn’t do brilliantly as a double feature, but the only thing that proves is that people are fucking idiots. I cannot remember the last time I was at a movie where the audience burst into applause at various points during the films. Now personally I can’t recommend both films enough, though ‘Planet Terror’ is clearly the better of the two and you really need to watch the whole thing as the single film experience, and preferably in the cinema to get the full value of it. There are a few things that I should mention though:

  • Tarantino should lay off the dialogue – ‘Death Proof’ & its first 30 minutes are pointless. Somebody should have told Tarantino that the dialogue, while ‘clever’ gets boring and it was really noticable in the cinema that the audience were really bored in that opening part. When that opening part is following the genius of the end of ‘Planet Terror’ – it’s even more noticable
  • ‘Death Proof’ should be the first movie. It’s only towards the end that it really starts to become tremendously fun, but ‘Planet Terror’ has a similar tone to the end of ‘Death Proof’ nearly from the start.
  • More children should be killed in films. You’ll know what I’m talking about when you see it.
  • The method of advancing the plot in ‘Planet Terror’? Genius. Though, this is one of the few sections where having ‘Death Proof’ first would ruin that joke, as the two of them do it, but ‘Planet Terror’ does it better.
  • It’s amazing how much those trailers become much more fun when your watching them with other poeple.
  • Finally, you should see this film first in the cinema. I don’t care how crap your cinema is, but these movies need to be watched with other people. I can’t see how the fun of these movies works unless you have at least 3 people watching them together. Definately an all-to-rare example of a ‘cinema movie’

    • Posted by John on Saturday, April 26th, 2008, at 12:52 pm, and filed under Comics, Films/Tv, Horror, Humour, Media, censorship.

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