The official Grindhouse thread

[tzarinna]

I took these while in Prague waiting to see Spider-Man 3,could I look more like a geek. I'm sure you guys have seen them already but I took the time damn it.

 

[Darth Elektra]

lol,

 

[The Storm]

I'm not sure if we had Grindhouse posters in work, I know we had the trailer because I sneak in films to watch it and it always had a good reaction. So they are getting released separate meaning Tarantino can add extra bits but a separate DVD release as well. Thats just ridiculous, shame on the American people for not watching this. Thanks a bunch you selfish buggers!

 

[Darth Elektra]

Cannes: Death Proof Extra Scenes Revealed... Reaction?

The other day we reported that the fate of Quentin Tarantino's "Planet Terror" would ride highly on how well it played at Cannes this week. According to the Hollywood Reporter boos and applause would mingle at the end of the new 113-minute cut of the film, which features Kurt Russell as Stuntman Mike, a riveting portrait in grizzled, pathological evil, stalks two sets of beautiful young women in his "death proof" stunt car. Inside you'll find details on what was added to the film and the Reporter's thoughts on the addition. "Death Proof" was one half of the US release of Dimension Films' Grindhouse, with the other being directed by Robert Rodriguez ("Planet Terror").

The new version clocks in at 113 minutes. Only two notable additions have been made to "Death Proof," one in each act. In both, Kurt Russell's Stuntman Mike, a riveting portrait in grizzled, pathological evil, stalks two sets of beautiful young women in his "death proof" stunt car.

In the first act, these chicks, out for a night of heavy partying in Austin, Texas, are lead by Sydney Tamiia Poitier's bad-ass drive-time radio DJ and local celebrity, Jungle Julia. The ongoing intrigue is whether any male listener to her program is going to take up her challenge that evening to buy a drink for her female companion -- Vanessa Ferlito's 'Butterfly' -- while quoting a Robert Frost poem and thereby win a lap dance.

In the earlier version, Butterfly agrees to give the winner, none other than Stuntman Mike, that lap dance. But this proves to be one of the print's "Missing Scenes," as some projectionist long ago snipped it for his own private collection. In the Cannes version, that scene is no longer missing. Let's just say that Ferlito's sexy dance routine proves worth the wait over these several months.

In the second section of the movie, 14 months after Stuntman Mike's car has killed all the girls in a head-on collision, he has moved on to Lebanon, Tennessee. Here he stalks a new set of hot babes -- this time crew members of a movie shooting locally -- as well as one stuntwoman. This proves to be Stuntman Mike's undoing as they are better at this game than he.

The addition here doesn't really add much. Before the game gets underway, there is an encounter between Mike and his new intended victims at a roadside convenience store. The sequence goes to black and white. While one woman goes to buy a magazine, Stuntman Mike menacingly plays with the dangling bare feet of another girl as they hang from the backseat window. About all this adds is an opportunity for Mary Elizabeth Winstead to sing, quite well by the way, the classic rock ballad "Baby It's You."

The final chase duel of the Dodge Challengers in the thrilling climax still bothers you a bit since some logic drops away. Stuntman Mike's car is reinforced everywhere since it is a stunt car. The girls' Dodge is not. So how does it survive?

You can shrug that off to movie magic, but more problematic is how the women allow Stuntman Mike to toy with them in the initial moments of the showdown. By simply applying the brake, their car could fall suddenly behind so New Zealand stuntwoman extraordinaire Zoe Bell, basically playing herself, can climb down off the hood where she has been fooling around in a deliberate death-defying stunt.

Oh well, Tarantino would probably argue that logic was always missing in grindhouse movie action, and he wouldn't be wrong. If "Death Proof" is his way of marking time before his next big project, it is certainly interesting that at this stage of his career he can throw together such a compelling and funny time marker.

http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/news/8934

 

[TNC9852002]

Hmmm...I'd like to see this 113-minute cut.

-TNC

 

[Darth Elektra]

Pics from Cannes:
http://www.moviehotties.com/2007/05/2007_cannes_film_festival_death_proof_photocall_1.html

and...

http://www.moviehotties.com/2007/05/2007_cannes_film_festival_death_proof_premiere.html

 

[Golgo-13]

Has Tarantino spoken out about the films less-than-stella B.O?

 

[ghost_x]

I would just like to get the full movie when it finally arrives in UK

 

[The Apatow Crew]

I heard its being released on dvd in the states around September or so.

 

[black_dust]

Well seeing as its being split in the uk i decided to watch it on the internet seeing as im not paying twice to see the same movie (or once to see half of it!!)


And it was ****ing amazing! i loved both films they were fantastic and the trailers were cool as hell as well. Soon as this hits dvd im getting it!

 

[TwilightPro101]

I honestly don't blame you there. Such a bad marketing ploy on Dimension's part.

 

[Mr. Socko]

I want to see the missing reel from QT's film!

 

[Darth Elektra]

*Interview: Eli Roth

Let’s talk about Grindhouse. How was that experience?

Roth: Acting in Grindhouse was like a master class in directing. I remember going to see Munich last Christmas and thinking, ‘Wow, how cool would it be to be Mathieu Kassovitz?’ You get to work with these master directors as an actor and then you get to go and apply that to your own films you direct. Then I was sitting there in August and Quentin said, ‘I want you to be in my movie.’ I had to leave prep on Hostel: Part II to do it. I was in Prague and I had to take a week and fly to Texas to be in Quentin’s film. I was like, ‘Oh, man, be careful what you wish for!’ But it was so much fun. Quentin’s sets are like a party and it felt like making a movie with your friends. Literally, my part was to be dorky Jewish guy trying to have sex with Jordan Ladd and failing miserably. That was like a role I’d been training for five years, so I felt very comfortable doing it. It was so much fun. I loved watching Quentin work. He really let me go. He knew exactly how to use me and he let me improv a lot of stuff and go wild and try takes where I just made stuff up, different insults of Kurt Russell. It was really, really fun.

Word is out that you loved directing Thanksgiving so much for Grindhouse that you want to do a whole movie of trailers called Trailer Trash. How would you put it together? What are you considering?

Roth: I have a great wrap-around. I want to make a movie that would be like Jackass or Borat, but literally just fake trailers from all different eras, all different genres. It’d be like a Kentucky Fried Movie-style movie. I’ve already talked to Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead) and he’s going to do one. That way I’ll feel like made 30 movies. We’ve been talking about doing Thanksgiving action figures and tee-shirts. We’re making the trailer and the merchandise, and the movie doesn’t even exist. But everyone feels like they’ve seen the movie because you just remember the best parts.

 

[TwilightPro101]

Thanks for posting the Eli Roth interview, Darth.

 

[Rac]

I saw the extended cut of Death Proof last friday. I gotta say it worked so much better on its own, without Planet Terror (& the trailers). DP was such a letdown to me (you and everyone we know) after the adrenaline pump PT. But I didn't hate it like some of the people. I still liked it. But now seeing it in theaters (with subs and the extra stuff) it was fcking better! Me and my friends laughed with tears in our eyes to the end scene. To the Grindhouse DP I gave 3 out 5 but this'll I give 4 out of 5.

Can't wait for the extended Planet Terror. If it is extended. That's pretty unclear still, right?

Oh and at least we Finns didn't got any of the fake trailers. Dunno about other countries.

 

[Darth Elektra]

Tarantino's 'Death Proof' Gets September Release
So much for a re-release of Dimension Films' Grindhouse (review) as it appears that Genius Entertainment and The Weinstein Co. will release Death Proof - Quentin Tarantino's segment - on DVD September 18th, according to Davis DVD. No word yet on Robert Rodriguez's Planet Terror, but this seems to confirm the rapid speculation that the theatrical double feature will be split up for the initial home video release. Death Proof is a rip-roaring slasher flick where the killer (Kurt Russell) pursues his victims with a car rather than a knife.

 

[Rac]

Death Proof tributed at second place on its opening weekend in Finland.

1.6.-3.6.2007 Top 10 Weekend

1. Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
2. Grindhouse: Death Proof
3. Spider-Man 3
4. Mr. Bean's Holiday
5. Zodiac
6. Epic Movie
7. Perfect Stranger
8. La Môme
9. The Painted Veil
10. The Queen

 

[WorthyStevens]

Tarantino's 'Death Proof' Gets September Release
So much for a re-release of Dimension Films' Grindhouse (review) as it appears that Genius Entertainment and The Weinstein Co. will release Death Proof - Quentin Tarantino's segment - on DVD September 18th, according to Davis DVD. No word yet on Robert Rodriguez's Planet Terror, but this seems to confirm the rapid speculation that the theatrical double feature will be split up for the initial home video release. Death Proof is a rip-roaring slasher flick where the killer (Kurt Russell) pursues his victims with a car rather than a knife.

Ugh. The Weinsteins = bastards.

Here's to hoping they don't f**k up the new Halloween.

 

[Catman]

4. Mr. Bean's Holiday

hahaha! t:

 

[ghost_x]

Seriously, if Grindhouse isn't released as the double feature in UK, I'm going to be seriously upset. I want to experience the whole package

 

[CrypticOne]

So the DVD release date is September 18th?

 

[The Apatow Crew]

So the DVD release date is September 18th?

For Death Proof it is.

 

[Catman]

So the DVD release date is September 18th?

For Death Proof it is.

Meh. Call me when Planet Terror is released.

 

[Joker]

I'm not buying seperate DVDs...I've been playing the waiting game with Kill Bill, waiting for both of them together, for years now, and I can do the same with these. I'll rent, and copy them, and have those till they release a GOOD DVD with both movies on it, as god intended

 

[Catman]

I've been playing the waiting game with Kill Bill

Same here, but I can make an exception with Grindhouse. I loved Planet Terror. I loved the fake trailers. I hated Death Proof. So, I wouldn't mind just buying Planet Terror.