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Re: Top 10 Grind House Films
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Dear God.
British Cinema Hooligans. They set fire to the theatre if the movie sucks. Broken beer bottles are used as weapons if the projectionist fucks up. Tell me about it. I went to go see the Brady Bunch movie back in the mid-90s, and they lost reel six. All hell broke loose. A gang of sly-talking cannibals were in the front row eating triple-stacked sheets of high quality blotter. In a matter of moments, they were going from row to row, stomping on miscellaneous infants, raping the elderly, and shoving whole buckets of popcorn down the throats of anyone who had a complaint. Fuck, I watched them slice a poor girl's chest open, and remove the breast plates so they could be fashioned into some sort of outlandish European hat design. We're living in sick and desperate times, I'll tell you that, friends.
"Somebody told me when the bomb hits, everybody in a two mile radius will be instantly sublimated, but if you lay face down on the ground for some time, avoiding the residual ripples of heat, you might survive, permanently fucked up and twisted like you're always underwater refracted. But if you do go gas, there's nothing you can do if the air that was once you is mingled and mashed with the kicked up molecules of the enemy's former body. Big-kid-tested, motherf--ker approved."
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Re: Top 10 Grind House Films
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Based on these figures, yes I think so. How or why I have no idea. The whole "it's too long" it such a f*cking weak argument. Like the Lord of the Rings were each 90 minutes  Besides, it switches things up. It opens with a trailer, then Planet Terror, 3 more trailers and then finally Death Proof (so it's not like it's one big, long 183 minute movie).
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Re: Top 10 Grind House Films
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Oh please Irish.
Robert Rodriguez famously went way over-budget with his PLANET TERROR, and all told $70-80 million was spent on GRINDHOUSE(which is ironically funny, since that flick is a love letter to those cheapo Z-grade films).
Interestingly, both GH flicks are being released seperately over in Europe and other foreign territories. Maybe that was the path that should have been taken, split the fake trailers with each film
Anyway Irish, go and rethink your ill-advised LOTR analogy.
That fantasy shit was released at the Christmas season, when there wasn't much competition. Plus, it was a PG-13 3-hour fest.
I'm not surprised that GRINDHOUSE isn't the steamroller that many expected, I'm just surprised it opened at Fourth Place.
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Re: Top 10 Grind House Films
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Interestingly, both GH flicks are being released seperately over in Europe and other foreign territories. Maybe that was the path that should have been taken, split the fake trailers with each film
As I said over on the Film boards, I think that's a mistake. Other than Tarantino's name on the billing, the fact that it's stylistically being presented as a double feature is really the only appeal this movie has on me.
"Somebody told me when the bomb hits, everybody in a two mile radius will be instantly sublimated, but if you lay face down on the ground for some time, avoiding the residual ripples of heat, you might survive, permanently fucked up and twisted like you're always underwater refracted. But if you do go gas, there's nothing you can do if the air that was once you is mingled and mashed with the kicked up molecules of the enemy's former body. Big-kid-tested, motherf--ker approved."
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Re: Top 10 Grind House Films
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I'm hardly an expert on the genre but I think that 3 hours is just too long for such a film. It's hard enough to sit through an "epic" for that long. But you are aware it isn't one film, right?
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Re: Top 10 Grind House Films
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Running-time has never bothered me. I still contest that Once Upon a Time in America is not only the best film of the 1980s, but it seems to go by too quickly, and OUATIA is nearly four hours long... There was a period in my life where I would watch it everyday, directly after school, for about four or five months.
But even if this film is as painfully-mediocre, as I am mostly expecting, I don't think time will be an issue for me, based upon the fact that it consists of two films and a handful of fake trailers.
Although, I'm slightly surprised by the running-time... I thought I had read that Tarantino and Rodriguez's segments were 60 minutes a piece?
"Somebody told me when the bomb hits, everybody in a two mile radius will be instantly sublimated, but if you lay face down on the ground for some time, avoiding the residual ripples of heat, you might survive, permanently fucked up and twisted like you're always underwater refracted. But if you do go gas, there's nothing you can do if the air that was once you is mingled and mashed with the kicked up molecules of the enemy's former body. Big-kid-tested, motherf--ker approved."
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Re: Top 10 Grind House Films
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Again, RR can be really good when he gets someone else(i.e. anyone but HIM) to write the script. Look at him using the great Frank Miller for SIN CITY, or even FROM DUSK TILL DAWN which Tarantino scripted. Come on, Ronnie, From Dusk Till Dawn sucked.
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"Somebody told me when the bomb hits, everybody in a two mile radius will be instantly sublimated, but if you lay face down on the ground for some time, avoiding the residual ripples of heat, you might survive, permanently fucked up and twisted like you're always underwater refracted. But if you do go gas, there's nothing you can do if the air that was once you is mingled and mashed with the kicked up molecules of the enemy's former body. Big-kid-tested, motherf--ker approved."
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Re: Top 10 Grind House Films
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I'm hardly an expert on the genre but I think that 3 hours is just too long for such a film. It's hard enough to sit through an "epic" for that long. But you are aware it isn't one film, right? Yeah Capo, thanks. Like I say, I still think it's too long for those who aren't fans of the genre. Whether it's a "double feature" or whatever. I'm gonna see it this week in the afternoon because I'm off this week. I'll post a review for sure.
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Re: Top 10 Grind House Films
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Besides, imagine if RR had written FROM DUSK TILL DAWN. Jesus it would be whole lot worse.
More strippers with fangs?
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"Somebody told me when the bomb hits, everybody in a two mile radius will be instantly sublimated, but if you lay face down on the ground for some time, avoiding the residual ripples of heat, you might survive, permanently fucked up and twisted like you're always underwater refracted. But if you do go gas, there's nothing you can do if the air that was once you is mingled and mashed with the kicked up molecules of the enemy's former body. Big-kid-tested, motherf--ker approved."
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Re: Top 10 Grind House Films
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To be honest, I wouldn't mind seeing Leone's rumored 6-or-more hour cut, if it even exists.
"Somebody told me when the bomb hits, everybody in a two mile radius will be instantly sublimated, but if you lay face down on the ground for some time, avoiding the residual ripples of heat, you might survive, permanently fucked up and twisted like you're always underwater refracted. But if you do go gas, there's nothing you can do if the air that was once you is mingled and mashed with the kicked up molecules of the enemy's former body. Big-kid-tested, motherf--ker approved."
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Re: Top 10 Grind House Films
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Actually, wasn't Leone's prefered cut 20-35 minutes longer?
I had heard he wanted to release it in two three hour installments. But who knows. There are so many rumors floating around that film, I just can't keep up. I will say this though; I don't think there is a better film to possibly end your career with.
"Somebody told me when the bomb hits, everybody in a two mile radius will be instantly sublimated, but if you lay face down on the ground for some time, avoiding the residual ripples of heat, you might survive, permanently fucked up and twisted like you're always underwater refracted. But if you do go gas, there's nothing you can do if the air that was once you is mingled and mashed with the kicked up molecules of the enemy's former body. Big-kid-tested, motherf--ker approved."
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Re: Top 10 Grind House Films
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Wouldn't be surprised.
If memory serves, he filmed 10 hours of material total. It's been a little since I've seen the film, so I cannot remember her name, but the blonde girl Noodles was seeing at the end of the film, Leone supposedly had filmed a more in-depth story on her.
"Somebody told me when the bomb hits, everybody in a two mile radius will be instantly sublimated, but if you lay face down on the ground for some time, avoiding the residual ripples of heat, you might survive, permanently fucked up and twisted like you're always underwater refracted. But if you do go gas, there's nothing you can do if the air that was once you is mingled and mashed with the kicked up molecules of the enemy's former body. Big-kid-tested, motherf--ker approved."
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