"Don't" was my favorite, followed by the creepy pictures of the food at the end of Werewolf Women of the SS for the restaurant ad. Classic!
--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > For your information, the following post is Restricted. No > admittance to persons who might be disturbed by graphic > images of sex, violence, or other aspects of real life. > > > Well, I finally saw "Grindhouse," and, although I enjoyed > it thoroughly, being a big fan of both Tarantino and Robert > Rodriguez, my first thought when it was all over was, "Man, > I really want to see the flick in the first fake trailer." > > http://youtube.com/watch?v=HpKfN3V-44k > > Well, it looks as if I'm not the only person to have reacted > that way: > > http://www.slashfilm.com/2007/03/12/grindhouse-rodriguez-to-turn-they-call-him-machete-into-feature-length-movie/ > > or > > http://tinyurl.com/2335lg > > I couldn't be more pleased. I love Danny Trejo. I met him > once briefly in Santa Fe, and a nicer, sweeter, funnier guy > you'd have trouble finding anywhere else. It's just that he > *looks* so mean! This could make him a star, in the mold > of other not-particularly-good-looking stars like Charles > Bronson. And I just can't wait to see Cheech as a...uh... > priest with a mission. > > I actually enjoyed the film a lot. And although Taratino's > is the better movie as movie, I enjoyed Rodriguez' film more. > He's funnier, and often gets better performances from his > actors, because they love working with him so much. They're > having FUN, and that comes through in the final product. I > mean, few would list Rose McGowan as a great actress, but > the sight of her camping it up as a one-legged avenger with > a submachine gun as a replacement limb was To Die For. > > Lots of blood and gore, natch, because the whole thing is an > homage to the genre of the grindhouse films, made with low > budgets and no stars and hoping to recoup their investment > on sex and violence alone. But because actors love working > with both Tarantino and Rodriguez, they got to make these > grindhouse flicks with actors like Bruce Willis and Naveen > Andrews and Nicolas Cage and Rosario Dawson and Kurt Russell. > That said, my favorite performance in the film is by a first- > time actress (or at least one of her first performances > *billed* as an actress), Zoe Bell. Zoe is a stunt woman. > Suffice it to say she does all of her own stunts in the > driving sequences of "Death Proof." It brings an element of > credibility to the flick that is missing in many others. > > The other "Grindouse" fake trailers: > > http://youtube.com/watch?v=Ka83i_e_v8M > > http://youtube.com/watch?v=XQifXaOboMU > > And a few of the real grindhouse trailers for the 70s films > that inspired this one: > > http://youtube.com/watch?v=sNfNevVeebc > > And you wonder why I'm so weird. This is the sorta stuff > I grew up on. They'd be playing every weekend in a double > feature at the local grindhouse theaters. Oh, for the > good old days of cinema... :-) >
