I finally broke down and saw Grindhouse a while back. I liked
Rodriguez's entry. It had some truly inspired background
bits, like a cereal named
"Great White Bites," and a lounge version of the Dead
Kennedy's "Too Drunk to Fuck," on the radio during an
attempted rape scene. Tarantino did a great thing casting
Kurt Russell in his half, but wasted him. Russell has been in
a couple of B Movie classics (Escape from New York and Big
Trouble in Little China). It's too bad that 3/4 of "Death
Proof" was dialogue and shots of women's feet. Tarantino hit
his peak with Jackie Brown. I think a lot of that had to do
with the source material. Elmore Leonard's books make better
movies than they do books.
On 5/13/07, William Ahearn <
williamahearn@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
> --- Kevin Burton Smith
> <
kvnsmith@thrillingdetective.com
<kvnsmith%40thrillingdetective.com>>
> wrote:
>
> > His
> > first three films all seemed witty and smart
and
> > fresh (and were all,
> > coincidentally, crime films) whereas both KILL
BILLs
> > and GRINDHOUSE
> > seem like adolescent, self-indulgent
wallow
> > disguised as "homage".
>
> Kill Bill would have been a dazzling long
single
> movie. I saw them back to back and came away
thinking
> I needed to learn a video editing system so I
could
> release a viewer's cut. Lucy Liu would end up
with
> about 5 minutes of screen time and no backstory.
That
> whole section was dreadful.
>
> William
>
> Essays and Ramblings
> <http://www.williamahearn.com>
>
>
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