Oh whew I saw GH this friday and man I must say that I didn't imagine I was gonna have so much fun, I mean these movies are definitely crowd pleasers specially PT. I mean if you haven't seen it yet and are planning to go make sure to be in an all sold out/packed theater to get the full experience. My favorite of the two movies I would have to say is planet terror. It has everything and in spades, the overthetopness is what I liked most, its hilarious and yet cool and badass. The thing that surprised me the most was not the action or the gore but that it actually had some great character(believable)moments that I didn't expect.
The performances where top notch everywhere from FR to MS but the best by far for me was rose mcgowan she was awesome in every way possible. Also I don't understand the hate from most critics of quentin appearing in front of the camera
I though his part in PT was one of the most hilarious things in the movie, and he clearly played it for laughs which is what's supposed to be.
I came to the movie prepared to see a brainless, cool entertaining ,action/zombie flick and that's exactly what I saw and **** did Robert rodriguez delivered on all levels. I had so much fun that i was exausted after it ended.
then the trailers... well I won't say much only that they where great, machete was well, it simply had RR's stamp all over it exagerated action stunts in other words, perfect for what it was trying to acomplish,
Edgard wright's don't was the funniest little trailer I have ever seen, it reminded me of all the 70's hounted house horror movies. But by far the best trailer for me is thanksgiving period. I mean the final scenes of the stuffed human where just super bizarre, sick and really creative. IMO Roth totally nailed that late 70's early 80's slasher feeling and I really liked the narrator's voice.
Now comes death proof. I've read some reviews about how the movie was aftected by the pacing and the structure of it, and that some of the dialogue scenes dragged on forever. and really to be honest I think they're mostly right. The movie is greatthe and I specially loved the concept behind it and I understand what quentin was trying to do with the dialogue and where he wanted to take it. But sometimes it's just too much to take and some of the dialogue was just pointless the buildup took simply too long the first group of girls with jungle julia started with a greta set up and the exposition was needed plus this where the scens in which we are introduced to stunt man mike in which kurt russle totally shinned though out. Heck I will say that he should have had more exposition than he had. after the first group was killed thigns started to pick up really nice. But then it went on and on and on and... well you know anyway I remember people starting to get up and leave the room its just too much to take specially after the wild ride that was planet terror.
Now the final half of DP this is where things finally got really interesting and where the film paid off. Here is where Kurt russel's performance takes the wheel(no pun intended) seeing him become the "victim" and a total ***** is where totally nailed the character for me. Zoe bell is great as well herself the stunts where great and the car chase really was exilarating and very well shot it was and adrenaline rush but unfortunately the first two halfs went on for far too long and by the time we got to this part I(as well as my friends) didn't care much for waht happenned to the characters anymore. However the final retribution saved it for me a bit. it was inspiring. all in all quentin did more justice t othe GH era than robert did(as robert went more with an 80's action film grindhouse wannabe movie and quentin actually did the closest thing to grindhouse) but still the more entertaining movie goes to PT. But this doesn't mean that I didn't enjoyed death proof it was awesome still.
That had to be the most horrific/funniest sight i have ever seen...ever!
