[Movie] Grindhouse

I thought the entire experience was fantastic. I expected to be entertained by two amazing directors for 3+ hours, and that's exactly what I got! Planet Terror is perhaps one of the goriest flicks I've seen, and Death Proof was funny as hell and just as exciting. I don't think I went five minutes without laughing during the whole thing, and I didn't stop during the trailers. I've been a fan of mock trailers for a long time, so it was amazing to see them catch on. A well-done movie-going experience all around, and I'm definitely going again.

I can see why you might not like Grindhouse, but I think you might be missing the point a little. Grindhouse is an homage homage to an experience, and it delivers. If you were expecting something that would leave you pondering some of the finer points of existentialism, then you were sorely mistaken in your purchase of the ticket.

BTW, in case you've never heard of a Grindhouse, read this:

What is a "Grindhouse"?:

A "Grindhouse" was a type of inner city theatre that would play either all-day matinees or all-night marathons of low-budget exploitation films in the 60's, 70's and early 80's. Mostly comprised of formerly luxurious, old-time movie palaces, these 'down-'n'-dirty' theatres would often show offbeat, ultraviolent and sexually-charged films under the categories of Kung-Fu or "chop-socky" (Shaw Brothers films or martial arts actioners produced by outfits like The Cannon Group), Hixploitation (White Lightning, Gator Bait, Scum Of The Earth), Blaxploitation (Shaft, Coffy, Superfly, Dolemite, The Mack), Sexploitation (Supervixens, The Swinging Cheerleaders), Zombie and Cannibal films (Dawn of the Dead, Zombi 2, Cannibal Holocaust) Biker films (The Wild Angels, The Glory Stompers, The Savage Seven, The Losers) among hundreds of other subgenres.

Sometimes the films would combine all the sensational elements from different 'grindhouse' genres - inner city audiences flocked to such 'horror blaxplotation' classics like BLACULA, DR. BLACK AND MR. HYDE, or THE THING WITH TWO HEADS. 'Horror sexploitation' was combined in movies like THEY CAME FROM WITHIN and RABID, both early films by David Cronenberg. Crime/horror/sexploitation took things a step further with the infamous Sean Cunningham/Wes Craven co-production LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT, and the sensational I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE. Grindhouses and drive-in theaters were also like labs for filmmakers, as they mixed and matched different genres and story ideas to see what worked and what didn't, also exploiting the trends of the day as they incorporated them into these wildly plotted, cheaply made sagas.

In the suburbs during the 60's and 70's, Drive-ins were the equivalent to the inner city Grindhouses. You could see many of the same kinds of films from the convenience of your car. The title of Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino's first collaboration "From Dusk Til Dawn" (1996) was named after the catch phrase for the all night Drive-in movie marathons.

Both Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino grew up watching these kinds of films in Grindhouse theatres & drive-ins in the 70s-early 80s. When they became friends in the early 90's, they often held Exploitation film double-features in their own home theaters (and also at QT's Film Fests in Austin, Texas). Flash forward to 2006, when the two moviemaking pals decided to recreate these wild nights for movie audiences around the world, by making their own traditional Grindhouse-Drive-In double feature extravaganza complete with two raunchy horror films, fake Exploitation film trailers, ads and other cool treats.

Jam it back in, in the dark.