Both of these films are terrific masterpeices and so great in their own way! But, when i ask other people which they think is better they say Death Proof. I live death proof but I can't decide which I like better! What are your favorites?
sharePlanet Terror no question. If Death Proof was showing second at the drive in, I'd fall asleep while the girls were debating which soft drink is superior in the parking lot of the mini mart.
shareAnything with Kurt Russell is going to be the better choice...just my opinion...
sharePlanet Terror, no question. Death Proof has a great car chase and a cool bad guy, and absolutely nothing else of merit. One of the most deflating experiences of my life, being on such a hilarious high with Terror and the fake trailers, then being absolutely bored to death with Death Proof.
shareDeath Proof is the better film, especially the Grindhouse version. The extended version is still great, but the dialogue does get a little unbearable.
A lot of people didn't like Planet Terror but it's a perfect homage to the brainless and fun zombie/biological horror movies of the 70s. Death Proof, while better, was a lot less 70s.
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Both films are really good, but "Planet Terror" feels at times like a parodic homage to cheap B movies while "Death Proof" looks and feels like it would have easily fit in alongside "Switchblade Sisters" and "I Spit On Your Grave" back in the 1970s.
Death Proof was the better film. I'm a bigger Robert Rodriguez fan than Quentin Tarantino, but Death Proof was brilliant and unconventional by using two sets of main characters. Also it was the best car chase I've ever seen.
First watching Death Proof, I was thinking all the talking was rather irritating but it was necessary to develop the characters that way. The far superior film to me.
Love them both equally.
sharePlanet Terror is extremely, undeniably better. Anyone who says differently is a Tarantino fanboy.
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Well, I won't argue which movie is better since it is all opinion. However, I think "Death Proof" was better and I am far from being a Tarantino fanboy. I liked Pulp Fiction and Death Proof and that's it from him. Haven't been able to sit through any of his other movies. "Kill Bill: Volume 1" is the only movie I have ever fallen asleep in at the theater.
I love Robert Rodriquez. He is the superior filmmaker, but in this case, Death Proof was better in my view.
I prefer "Death Proof." I liked them both but I just love the car crash scene. It's terrifically gruesome and splendidly macabre, total exploitation material and that's what these films are all about. I love Kurt Russell's twisted character and I love the girls sweet, sweet revenge on his ass! It starts with a bang and ends with a thud, quite a few of them in fact. Lol. Like em both but for me it's "Death Proof" all the way.
shareThat car crash scene is one of my favorite set-pieces/scenes of all time, and yet, it's one of the most tragic ones ever put on film.
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Not insulting you or anything, but I highly feel to compare the two goes against what makes Grindhouse a masterpiece. The movies weren't designed to work well on their own, they were designed to work as a combined whole so the viewer would laugh at the aesthetic similarities, hence it works as a parody of Grindhouse double features. It just cannot work as two separate films, because half the equation is missing.
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