Grindhouse

Grindhouse is what I can only describe as a cinephiletic orgasm. If you watched the trailer you either had no interest in it or you thought it was going to be the event in your life that you needed to see. Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez directing 70s style exploitative violent films. This film delivers although at a 191 minutes long it doesn't give you everything you wanted in a reasonable time.

Rodriguez' Planet Terror is a send up and take on zombie films. It's high intensity and has a lot of humor and beautiful women to fill the screen. As a fan of the zombie film, I was watching eagerly watching the creative ways of killing zombies and the over the top acting from such classic B movie actors as Michael Biehn and Tom Savini!!.

Tarantino's Death Proof is the second film and it has the classic dialogue you expect from his films. It however goes a bit too long and after the no stopping intensity of Planet Terror, this film starts to drag a bit. The action scenes are well done and the film has a largely satisfying ending but it felt a little too self indulgent from Tarantino.

The film also has several fake trailers which are fun to watch from various directors. If you like Tarantino, Rodriguez or film in general (and can stomach a lot of gore) then this is definitely a movie to see, in a large audience if you can manage it.