Comments on: New Grindhouse Teaser Absolutely Owns You

By: Henrik

Henrik — Sat, 23 Dec 2006 04:06:48 +0000

Ouch.

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 12:49:38 +0000

I think Henrik is wound too tight. Maybe he needs to get laid.

By: Henrik

Henrik — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 06:26:16 +0000

What movies are fun to me? The Departed was fun to me. I laughed alot when Jack Nicholson was on screen. Especially the scene with the chinese. Also Alec Baldwin was funny in it.

Sideways is funny. Pulp Fiction is funny. Dr Strangelove extremely funny. Some Like It Hot, Borat, The Little Mermaid… Tons of movies are fun to me.

From Dusk Till Dawn was very good, and a more honest Grindhouse movie than this will be.

What does litmus test mean? I do agree that something is up with me though. What it is remains to be seen.

By: Goon

Goon — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 06:07:50 +0000

Henrik, you seem to have a strange litmus test on movies. after what you say about the Departed, and now Tarantino and Rodriguez, somethings up with you. What movies are fun to you then?

By: Henrik

Henrik — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 02:57:59 +0000

Hey, I don’t look for a story everytime I see a movie. It’s Tarantino who was complaining about how he felt people were telling situations. He defined a story as something that was unfolding. Not a quick left-turner or right-turner but something that kept unfolding before you. And then he went and made Kill Bill (vol 1 and 2 *sigh*).

By: Ian

Ian — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 02:43:27 +0000

Well Pulp Fiction was a collection of “situations.” Is it greater character development, in a more drawn out narrative that follows the Aristotlean arch, which makes something a true “story”?

By: Henrik

Henrik — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 02:06:52 +0000

The machine gun leg does nothing for me. I don’t think it’s a cool idea at all. I just think it’s weird.

I think that Tarantino has shown with Kill Bill that he is not able to ‘pay tribute’ to something and still make a good movie. I thought Kill Bill 1 (sigh) was painful to sit through… After Kill Bill 2 (sigh) got so many good reviews, I watched it and thought it was painful to sit through. I remember him on Charlie Rose going on about how americans used to tell a story, and now they only told a situation. Will Kill Bill (BOTH OF THE PARTS OF THE FUCKING MOVIE) are just a situation. There was no story, and the characters were far from real or even interesting enough to follow them through the simplest of plots.

I hope that Tarantino will try and make a good movie again (Pulp Fiction is in my top 3 comedies of all time I’d say) instead of all these fucking experiments.

I have never been a big fan of Rodriguez… Of his trilogy, I only liked Desperado. The faculty wasn’t a great movie either. I never saw his Spy Kids movies, and didn’t see Sin City.

By: Ian

Ian — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 23:10:09 +0000

I think it might be a pseudo-spoof, you know something like Escape from L.A. which worked as a spoof on New York but also was an awesome movie in it’s own way. I think directors like Tarantino and Rodriguez have shown in past flicks that they can reference old material and still keep it interesting and exciting even with the *nudge nudge*. My only problem is that Kurt Russel is such a great action star I’d have trouble if he were gonna be playing the bad guy … not Jack Burton. Still Machine gun leg seems kind of hoaky.

By: Henrik

Henrik — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 20:22:52 +0000

The more I see from this, the more it feels like a spoof. This didn’t seem like it was a real grindhouse movie, this just seemed like a *wink wink, nudge nudge – look fanboys aren’t we cool?* trailer.

Pick something for crying out loud. Do you want to make a grindhouse picture, or a spoof-movie? The voice-over totally ruined everything for me, but to be fair, I have been skeptical from the beginning.