http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUuuBe4Glmk Grind House (2007) Grind House One Sheet STARRING: Marley Shelton, Josh Brolin, Danny Trejo, Michael Biehn, Zoe Bell, Freddy Rodríguez, Rose McGowan, Naveen Andrews, Rosario Dawson, Stacy Ferguson, Michael Parks, Tracie Thoms, Jeff Fahey, Kurt Russell, Vanessa Ferlito, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Sydney Tamiia Poitier, Michael Bacall, Eli Roth, Omar Doom, Jordan Ladd DIRECTOR: Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez STUDIO: Dimension Films RATING: NR GENRE: Horror RELEASE DATE: April 6, 2007 SYNOPSIS: Grind House – noun – A downtown movie theater - in disrepair since its glory days as a movie palace of the '30s and '40s - known for "grinding out" non-stop double-bill programs of B-movies. From groundbreaking directors Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez comes the ultimate film experience: a double-bill of thrillers that will recall both filmmakers' favorite exploitation films. Grind House will be presented as one full-length feature comprised of two individual films helmed separately by each director. Tarantino's film, Death Proof, is a rip-roaring slasher flick where the killer pursues his victims with a car rather than a knife, while Rodriguez's film explores an alien world eerily familiar to ours in Planet Terror. Welcome to the grind house - it'll tear you in two. http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/movies.php?id=2571
Danny Trejo was also named "Machete" in Robert Rodriguez's Spy Kids 3-D, and "Navajas" (blades) in Rodriguez's Desperado. Is the casting person the same for ALL of Rodriguez's movies? I likes me some foot action, as well. Question: Is the chick with the shooting leg the same as the chick that gets out of the flying car's way?
How annoying. 1. Though they are good directors, they still insist on doing B movies. 2. Why can't directors now even maintain an attention span for 2 hours. If I watch a feature length film, is it so much to ask that it is a single coherent story instead of a bunch of pieces of story stuck together. These two have been especially bad about this -- Pulp Fiction, Dusk to Dawn, Four Rooms, Sin City.... At least with Pulp Fiction, Tarantino put some effort into tying his stories together.
And I loved every second of them.. To be fair Kill Bill was so much of a story it had to be split into two movies..
i thoroughly enjoyed every one of those movies. Four rooms is underrated. From Dusk till Dawn is probably the weakest of the bunch but it was entertaining.
I didn't say they were bad, I said they multiple stories stuck together in a single film. And, Tarantino and Rodriguez have done it enough times to make me wonder if it is because they have trouble concentrating on a single project well enough. I'll give them some credit since, as Da-Glyde pointed out, Kill Bill, Spy Kids, Desperado, Jackie Brown and others did not have this problem. So, I'll just call them intellectually lazy instead.
I think it's more about the style they prefer rather than lack of ability. Pulp Fiction, as the name implies, was supposed to have a feel of pulp magazines where the stories are told in a similar way to the film. Sin City was actually based on multiple graphic novels with independent story arcs, hence it was filmed as three separate parts. And I don't think something being shorter necessarily means it's not as good. If it only takes an hour to tell a story don't add useless padding just to fill up time. There's plenty of novels that are great but not 1000+ pages, I don't see why movies shouldn't be the same.
Hold on now. With Pulp Fiction, that was kind of the charm of the movie. Dusk to Dawn was one story, bank robbers kidnap a family to escape to Mexico only to wind up in a bar that's a front for feeding vampires. Four Rooms was a concept thing. It's 4 stories directed by 4 directors, I don't see how that applies to their regular body of work. Now Sin City, it's based on graphic novels, emphasis on the NOVELSSSSSS. It's 3 completely different stories that make up one movie because alone, they aren't really long enough for a whole movie. As for Grindhouse, the whole point is to give people a chance to experience what they did, going to a theater and watching 2 shlocky B movies for the price of one. It's 2 completely different movies that are not related at all except that they are being released as one entity.
So, "Machete" is one of the fake trailers that are going to run between the "movies," right? How long are each of the "features?"
No, but Mary Vernieu has been a casting director for alot of Rodriguez's films, including the Faculty, the Spy Kid Films, Sin City and now Grindhouse. The son of one of my mother's friends has worked on a bunch of Rodriguez films and he is extremely loyal to his crew. But I'm kinda surprised Rodriguez didn't make a horror film about divorce - I've heard he's going through a really nasty one right now.
Yes on the Machete question and from I've read I think each film is going to be around 1 hr 1/2 to 1hr 45
Rodriguez's are neatly put together but they're sooo boring. If they wanted authentic grindhouse Tarantino should've hired the guy who made those Basket Case movies.
I actually think Tarantino is overrated. Aside from Pulpfiction, I haven't really liked anything else he has done...that I've seen. I wasn't a fan of Kill Bill, or..didn't he do Sin City?...or no? ...I can't remember. This looks like crap, but does look interesting. I might have to see this film.
