Outside of Once Upon A Time In Hollywood… I don’t think there’s a more personal, more fanboy love letter to movies in Quentin Tarantino’s filmography than Death Proof. With overt callouts and structural similarities to the films he loves, much of this is readily obvious. But in making his Grindhouse genre offering not only working within the exploitation genre but also the car film, Tarantino luxuriates in the fetish of real honest to go stunt work. It’s there where I think this movie really shines the brightest.

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Hooptober 11.0 – Planet Terror (2007)

Being Film #15 for Hooptober 2024

I wish Grindhouse didn’t fail as bad as it did at the box office. I remember seeing the entire experience in theaters and it was incredible. For every pale imitation (Hobo With a Shotgun, Rodriguez’s own Machete) it spawned, it also remains a singular experience, both taken as a whole and divided into their individual components. Planet Terror, the Rodriguez segment, plays like exploitation through a kid’s eyes, and I think on this watch that’s entirely intentional. It’s way more goofy fun that I remembered, and his stacked cast makes a meal out of every moment. If it doesn’t exactly match the grimy vibe of those films, it definitely matches the sense of fun folks get watching them for pleasure now.

ChrisSeptember 28, 2024Leave a comment

Cinema Dual (TEST SITE)

Examining a life through the media we consume. In other words, I’m reviewing all of my physical music media in alphabetical order, one day at at a time. Except when I don’t, as has been the case for the past few years. Still, we march onwards…Coffee essential, but not mandatory

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Hooptober 11.0 – Death Proof (2007)

Hooptober 11.0 – Planet Terror (2007)