Why doesn't QT have people around him that can say 'no'? It's like he believed the lie that he writes the best dialogue in the world and so went apesh*t with it, right from the beginning of the film. It opens and then drags and drags. Then rewards you with a bit of action, then drags a whole lot more.
Could have been a good flick with less talk, a LOT less. I gave it a 4.
'Then' and 'than' are different words - stop confusing them.
As I've indicated before, you obviously don't understand this film. I'll give you a hint: this film pays homage to old B-films.
shareYeah, nah. I know all that and it's still a mess.
'Then' and 'than' are different words - stop confusing them.
Dummy,
The "mess" is intentional. Duh!
You're the one that's missing how it attempted to be a homage and failed. Planet Terror did it right. DP didn't.
'Then' and 'than' are different words - stop confusing them.
I have to disagree. I love both films but "Planet Terror" felt like a director watched a billion grindhouse movies and one upped the icky and ludicrous aspects to almost spoof levels where "Death Proof" could easily be found alongside "Switchblade Sisters" or "Don't Answer the Phone!" in the cult section at Blockbuster Video (if they were still around).
shareSwitch Blade Sisters and Don't Answer The Phone are both good movies. Especially in comparison to Death Proof. Death Proof isn't. It's just god-awful.
http://chucky-blackheart.blogspot.co.uk/2009/04/prison-dramas.html
Yea B-Movies where always famous for the trivia filled over complicated dialogue. So often people seem to think they can defend anything bad by saying 'Oh its meant to be bad.'
All the female characters sound like Tarantino with a wig. It's the most forced dialogue of any of his movies. "Men, Bitch, Car Trivia, Men, Bitch, Car trivia.."
Duel, The Hitcher, Halloween, Black Christmas, Road Games... that's what I was expecting a genre blender of. Lets not forget that Kill Bill, Dusk Till Dawn, then later Inglorious and Django are all also heavily influenced by exploitation cinema and QT handled them far better.
Could you please stop replying to every post that contains the slightest piece of critique on this movie with "you don't understand it"?.
I think most people understand the "hommage" thing but still can't appreciate the endless and pointless chitchat in this movie.
You like the movie, everyone got that already.
Dummy,
Soodinum posted the same crap more than once and indicated that he/she/it doesn't understand the film. That's why I replied to Soodinum. In the interest of fairness, you should reply to Soodinum and tell him/her/it to stop posting the same thing, too.
By the way, the "pointless chitchat" was the point. Duh!
Intentionally making a movie as crappy as how they made them 40 years ago isn't a "point". Now the scratchy film and the "missing reel" and everything that makes it look like a drive in theater from the 70s is clever but you'll notice the movies themselves, especially Planet Terror", have 2007 visual FX. Making the audience sit through endless pointless dialog isn't clever.
Even so, Tarantino always has pointless dialog in his films but it's usually entertaining.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAvaecNOgME
I think Kermode sums it up nicely...
As I've indicated before, you obviously don't understand this film. I'll give you a hint: this film pays homage to old B-films.
Stigger...it's time to face a fact; it's a piece of garbage. Aquire some taste. Stop trying to think yr intelligent, and superior compared to other people by keep assuming people don't get it. There's nothing to get. It's killed with long, not very good diatribe. Qt has done much better.
shareStop trying to think yr intelligent, and superior compared to other people
I love this movie; of course I'm also a big fan of Herschel Gordon Lewis flicks, 70's quasi B-movies like Charlie Varrick, The Driver, Vanishing Point, Rolling Thunder, The Warriors, etc., and genuine B movies like Deadly Weapons, Dr. Gore, and Bummer. Most people I know consider it torture to sit through most of the movies I like, but that's cool.
I think Tarantino hit it out of the park with Death Proof. Everything that most people think makes this movie terrible is there intentionally. Tarantino is a lot like Kubrick in this way.
agreed, its a terrible film
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