Movie Review: Grindhouse

[hetzakoatl]

Ah, the era of exploitation films, gritty B movies made on the cheap, starring actors that may or may not be famous, with questionable plots and usually violent and bloody. The seventies seem so far away now, eh?

Grindhouse fulfills those expectations and more.

Robert Rodriguez and Quinten Tarantino teamed up to make this double feature, Rodriguez'

Comments

[vamour]

I'm very much looking forward to this one. Tarantino and Rodriguez are both very skilled in creating homage and pastiche of other genres, as we've seen from past works like Dusk Til Dawn and Kill Bill.

[hetzakoatl]

Hehehe, well, up until the vampires showed up, I thought From Dusk til Dawn was the most awesome movie ever. I seriously wish he'd thought it out a bit more, and had made the vampires more subtle, more insidious, more cunning... rather than "RAAAAWWWRRRRR... *bitebitetearstabstab*BOOM*splatter*" Cause George Clooney and Tarantino were making quite the interesting pair of no-gooders.

[ferburton]

I loved it so much. Saw it the day it hit theaters. ._.

[hetzakoatl]

*hugs and squeezes* Yush, awesome movie. ^^ I laughed my behind off, I think I forgot it in the theatre! o.O

[blayzebright]

Its so bad that its good? :)

[hetzakoatl]

Yes, most definitely. You cannot go into the theatre expecting a serious movie. This one is an homage to cheesy-but-awesome B-movies. ^^