MudgeMalog It was the best of films it was the worst of films.....Planet Terror - Everything you could ever want from a "Grindhouse" film: action, gore, hot babes, explosions, plus the coolest characters and an overly-fantastic plot. My adrenaline was pumping throughout and I couldn't have been more content and satisfied with my ticket purchase.Death Proof - It's like having lunch with my aunt and her ugly friends. This was not Grindhouse at all. The energy that was built up from the A-movie was lost very quickly in this B-movie. I LOVE QT usually, but I can't defend this ISHTAR. This has everything you DON'T want in Grindhouse: ugly women, long-boring conversations, predictability, and characters I care nothing about.Overall, the movie is worth seeing, but I'd highly recommend to everyone just get the DVD of Planet Terror and skip Death Proof altogether.

dragokin I had the opportunity to see Grindhouse in its entirety. And i was grateful it happened at home since it turned out that the spoof trailers between Death Proof and Planet Terror were the best part of it.Death Proof would have went below any movie goer's radar hadn't it been directed by Quentin Tarantino. It was plain boring. I wouldn't be able to repeat Planet Terror was nice in it's own right if you like horror films. Otherwise it was a trashy flick which generally went unnoticed because Tarantino directed the other movie.Overall, Grindhouse wasn't total crap only because it was produced with an A-movie budget, i.e. moving pictures had nice colors.

billcr12 Grindhouse is two movies separated by a short, fake upcoming attraction Machete, which was later made into a real film a few years later. I'll start with Robert Rodriguez's Planet Terror first, which is a parody of the old science fiction zombie thriller's of the 60s and 70s. Rose McGown is Cherry Darling, a go go dancer wanting a change in her life. A scientist attempts to sell a deadly gas to a military guy and during a fight a chemical is released turning the public into flesh eating ghouls. Cherry and her boyfriend, El Ray become leaders fighting the evil dead. A bit bloody, but Rodriguez has an off beat sense of humorous, so it works.The second feature is Death Proof, Quentin Tarantino's tribute to Vanishing Point, even having the same Dodge Charger for a chase scene. Kurt Russell is stunt driver, Mike, who stalks a group of women in a specially built death proof, super reinforced car. The girls wind up in a demolition derby type of battle with the psychopath and the script is overly verbose, even by Tarantino's usual standards. This is not one his better works.

Narcissismandenvy While I consider myself an avid movie fan, I did not enjoy this movie for several reasons.The pointless stupid little things thrown into the movie for what seemed to be no reason whatsoever (IE the strippers making out in the back room, the using a grenade launcher as a jet-pack, the fact that each of these friends in a seemingly small town just happened to be immune, the rude attitude of the sheriff toward the 'hero', the utterly stupid fact that somebody's genitals were dropping off in a midst of an attempted rape), that these same directors seem to do in A lot of their movies.It just makes me scoff, and makes me think that these directors are less mature than the children they hire for their parts.