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Tarantino and Rodriguez's 'Grind House' Getting Rave Reviews


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The 1970s exploitation movie gropes, bites, kicks, slugs, blasts, smashes and cusses its way back to life in "Grindhouse," a "Rodriguez/Tarantino double feature" that lovingly resurrects a disreputable but cultishly embraced form of era-specific film production and exhibition. A pair of pictures devoted to re-creating their progenitors' grubby aesthetics and visceral kicks, but with vastly greater budgets, higher-end actors and a patina of hipster cool, they part company when it comes to talent and freshness. The numerous marketing problems for this bizarre pop-culture artifact begin with the three-hour-plus running time and young auds' unfamiliarity with the format. But the B.O. strength of "Sin City" and "Kill Bill" alone suggests the helmers' loyal followings will produce a very potent opening frame, with fairly steep fall-off thereafter in the manner of most horror films.

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You can make drive-in movies again, but bringing back the thrills inherent to the drive-in experience will be difficult for the mall theaters to match... :(

They can't duplicate the backseat action :lol:

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out of all of Tarantino's films, i hated the Killl Bills.

*ducks* just sayin'.

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out of all of Tarantino's films, i hated the Killl Bills.

*ducks* just sayin'.

I like his dialogue, choice of music, and how he structures his stories - BUT... his work is just a sort of knee jerk reaction to whatever is pop, and when you strip the candy from the movie, there is not much of any substance.

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  • 1 month later...
out of all of Tarantino's films, i hated the Killl Bills.

*ducks* just sayin'.

*throws but misses* No! These are the best!

I have not seen Grindhouse...I'm hoping the trailers just made it look horrible, but actually it's brilliant. I just am too creeped out by the chick with the gun for the leg. Too far.

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