Grindhouse Presents, Planet Terror - Extended and Unrated (Two-Disc Special Edition)
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Features
• Closed-captioned
• Color
• Director's Cut
• Widescreen
• NTSC
In Theaters : 06 April, 2007
DVD Release : 16 October, 2007 |
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Grindhouse Presents, Planet Terror - Extended and Unrated (Two-Disc Special Edition) Customer Reviews
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A good effort, but could have been better.....
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This second part of the two part "Grind house" project of Tarantino/Rodriguez was not as enjoyable for me as Death Proof. The story was about a group of people trying to save the world from flesh eating zombies. As in original Grind house movies, good actors were scarce and the good ones were seen in almost all of the movies in various character roles, same types of roles, even with the same clothes on. Such is the case in Planet Terror. We once again see the attractive Dr. Dakota and also the mumbling local cops with the southern drawl at the same hospital as in Death Proof. In this movie Dr. Dakota and the cops have more of a speaking role and contribution to the movie. A big disappointment was not seeing Bruce Willis for more than what seemed a total of 10 minutes in the whole movie and with not really much to say. Obviously he was added to the bill to attract paying customers. He was much more entertaining as the boxer in Pulp Fiction.
There were a number of things I didn't like about this movie. The first and most noticeable was the ever present lines, threads, static, and shaking of the film so as to give the effect of an old 35mm movie. In Death Proof, Tarantino had the good sense to stop that effect halfway through his movie. Unfortunately, Rodriguez didn't. The effect is twice as bad and annoying from the very beginning to the last credits. I understand that using the effect is to make us feel we are watching an old film, but the acting is good, they are using high tech weapons and cell phones, so I think subjecting the viewer to that distraction is a mistake. Especially if a viewer has paid a lot of money for a high definition plasma screen TV and has to suffer through that for 90 minutes. We get it, use the effect for a few minutes and then stop it please. An aside here, it looks like the movie Machete will be made. Please, please, don't have all that annoying static, threads, and garbage on the screen again for that flick. Why cant these directors give us the option on the DVD of seeing the movie with or without that effect.
Another annoyance with Planet Terror was Quentin giving himself a large speaking and acting role as "rapist #1". QT is very good at writing and directing scary villains. But trying to act as one is laughable. His lispy voice, unconvincing acting, combined with the fact he has packed on the pounds since Kill Bill is just a joke. Quentin, please just stick to the writing, casting, and directing because you are a master at that. You suck as an actor and it comes across as being just a little too self indulgent. Alfred Hitchcock would place himself in his movies as an extra about 100 feet away from the main actors as they were saying their lines. He would appear on a park bench feeding the birds, or just walking down the street. An example of a brilliant director who knew his limitations.
I am also unhappy that faux trailers, i.e. Werewolf Women of the SS were missing from both DVD's. I suppose I have to wait for these two directors to re-release the two movies together on a new DVD including the trailers as they showed in the theatres so they can suck another wad of cash out of their adoring fans. Too bad.
I give this movie two exploding heads out of five. Save your money and buy Death Proof.
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