Grindhouse Presents, Planet Terror - Extended and Unrated (Two-Disc Special Edition)
|
List Price: Our Price: $9.99 You Save: $4.96 (33%) Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Buy Used: from $2.46 (click here) Category: DVD See more DVD releases |
|---|
Buy this DVD movie at online store in your country
Canada
Canada
Movie Reviews of Grindhouse Presents, Planet Terror - Extended and Unrated (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Movie Review: Planet Terror
Summary: 2 Stars
I think I was 48 minutes into this gem when I got smart, hit stop and ejected it out of the DVD player. Although not great Quentin Tarantino's Death Proof at least had some catchy dialog.Movie Review: The 70's are alive and well...
Summary: 4 Stars
There's a good reason that the style of film-making from the 70's died out. For the most part, it was puerile crap!
Exploitation, racism, plot holes that you could fit the Death Star in, terrible acting, worse lines, special effects that would cause someone with lactose intolerance to suffer a major attack...
Hey, who am I kidding? It had its charm. Face the music, back then, people really didn't know much better. God, listen to me, I sound like it was in another century for the love of god, not only a couple of decades ago.
When you consider the more refined tastes of the movie going public today, movies done in that old style, well, it's laughable.
And now, who's kidding who here? You want crap that is as bad, if not worse than what was produced way back in the age of decadence, just go to your local video store right now and take a good long look at some of the titles that are sitting on the shelf.
Many of these titles try to pass themselves off as a serious movie, but don't kid yourself, they're as bad, if not worse, than many of the B rate movies that we saw all those years ago.
Back in the 70's, those types of movies were made very cheaply, and were pretty much mass produced for pure entertainment value.
Sort of like many of the movies you see that are direct to DVD today, especially ones that try to cash in on a major motion picture. A perfect example is this - the Transmorphers. A play on the title the Transfomers, which made an obscene amount of money in the theatres last summer.
I shouldn't judge, considering that I haven't seen this direct to DVD flick, but when you have a title like that, you know that the producers are simply trying to ride the coat-tails of a successful movie, hoping that the less informed members of the public will pick it up and watch it.
However, when you get a director like Tarantino, someone who absolutely loves that style of movie, and has gone out of his way to emulate it over the years, it's no wonder he's trying to revive that old style of film-making. Take his movie Deathproof as a perfect example.
So, consider that his friend and fellow director Robert Rodriguez have made movies now that fit that billing. Mr. Rodriguez made a downright terrible B rate movie. He didn't pull any strings making it. He even went out of his way to use terrible acting, worse dialogue, completely over the top effects.
And he got away with using familiar (Michael Biehn, Rose McGowan) and in one case a famous actor (Bruce Willis). Even Tarantino had a cameo in this film.
Was it terrible as I said? Damned straight!
The movie is pretty simple. A crazy, money obsessed bio-chemist (Naveen Andrews of Lost fame) is working with a rogue military unit, providing them with a dangerous chemical that they require.
The chemical gets loose, and suddenly this quiet little Texan town is hit with a plague of zombies.
You get the drift.
Again, it was terrible, but strangely enjoyable. The reason is that, as is the case with many of the movies that I've watched over the years, it was done this way on purpose. Mr. Rodriguez and the cast must have had a blast (once again, pun intended), making the movie.
It was totally over the top and it wasn't sorry in the least. If anything, it basked in the bygone glory (gory?) of the lost (and please, stay lost) 70's.
Nostalgia comes to mind. Nostalgic memories of sneaking out on my mom and going with my friends to the drive in on the weekends (when they could sneak me in, considering I was under-aged at the time) to see these terrible movies. It brought back many fond memories.
Taken in small doses, these movies are fun. But, I don't know if I could handle seeing these movies return full strength to the big screen. If the Grindhouse wants to get back into business, pump out these terrible but oddly enjoyable films for direct to video release.
And don't ever try to apologize, for trying to bring back the 70's style of movies. Just - as I said above, let's do it in moderation, and don't try to pass it off as serious film-making. That would be an insult to the viewers.
3.5 out of 5
Movie Review: Truly aweful !
Summary: 1 Stars
This is really one of the worst action movies I ever saw. There is really no plot to it, just endless senseless action scenes in which hundreds are killed. It seemed to me that the makers had just decided to throw all sorts of potential scenes from other action movies into this one.
But I should have known it better, when I read that Quentin Tarantino was behind this flick. Avoid at all cost, or else be sorry for wasting your time.
Movie Review: The dvd arrived in good conditions
Summary: 5 Stars
The dvd arrived in good conditions and originaly packed. I didnt have dvd regions reproduction problems even tho i live in chile.Movie Review: Gory but unique
Summary: 4 Stars
Other than Peter Jackson's "Dead Alive," this is the goriest movie I have ever seen, but it was bloody and gory for a reason. This really is a unique and imaginative film. My only complaint is that Rose McGowan looks like she's had too much plastic surgery.