Grindhouse

Pros: Hilarious fake trailers, Zoe Bell, and overall cheesiness
Cons: Rodriguez's tale is the lesser of the two features

When I was a young lad in the mid- to late 1970s, I was much too young to have been allowed to go to "grindhouses," those second-tier theaters and drive-ins where cheaply-made and cheesy "exploitation" flicks were offered to mostly young, mostly male ...

Pros: Freddy Rodriguez, McGowan, Russell, Bell, cameos and support, trailers, stories, direction
Cons: Some dead spots and lots of predictability

In my youth, I never had the opportunity to experience a grindhouse for myself. The same, I suspect, holds true for others of my generation, as well as for those younger than me. The closest experience I had to grindhouses, which showed low-budget ...

Pros: Tarantino and Rodriguez clearly had a field day with this project.
Cons: Tarantino cannot act!

Two directors I admire (for the most part) are Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez. Action, violence, witty dialogue these directors deliver the goods. Pulp Fiction, Desparado, Reservoir Dogs, Mariachi, Dusk til Dawn Sin City and Shark Boy ...

Pros: It's just like sitting through a double feature at a drive-in during the 70s.
Cons: It's just like sitting through a double feature at a drive-in during the 70s.

As a concept, Grindhouse is a reminder of how refreshing it is when something creative comes out of Hollywood. Writer-directors Quentin Tarentino and Robert Rodriguez are mavericks who have crossed swords before (Four Rooms, From Dusk Till Dawn). Each ...

Pros: fun, fun- Over-the-top homage to 70s exploitation films
Cons: Gets a little long

We have a running joke my film friends and I that in so many cases the trailers of new films are sometimes better than the feature we have paid to see, and sometimes the trailers are better than the features that they promote. Robert Rodriguez and ...

Pros: Two movies for the price of one, innovative, hilarious, edge-of-your-seat fun
Cons: Death Proof took a bit to get started, filtering techniques in Planet Terror

One of the biggest privileges that Americans have is the ability to go out to the movie theatre to see a brand new movie—it’s one of the best traditions available to us and I take full advantage of this past time many times a month. But as of late, the ...

Pros: Great gimmick is supported by very entertaining films from Rodriguez and Tarantino.
Cons: Tarantino should stay behind the camera.

The studios have had it all wrong for years. Instead of embracing the silly fun of the low budget genre pictures that sprinkled through the drive-ins and run down theaters in the 70s and 80s, they went in the exact opposite direction. What we got was ...

Pros: Just cheesy enough, great acting for the genre...
Cons: except Tarantino, and his movie's a little slow too.

Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez are movie geeks. Of course, they make no secret of that, and watching any of their films can bring some of that movie nostalgia to your life. Yes, some are better than others, but all of them have a certain style ...

Pros: Direction, Script, Trailers, Look, Performances, Music, Cars, Guns, Explosions, the Whole Shebang!!
Cons: None!!!!

Since their emergence at the 1992 Sundance Film Festival, Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez would become the faces that would help change American independent cinema. With their respective debuts Reservoir Dogs and El Mariachi, ...

Pros: Anything that Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez team up on...
Cons: ...is not going to be suitable for children or the easily offended.

Many moons ago, when Sin City came out, a friend of mine asked me how edgy it was. I replied that the movie was as "edgy as it gets in a Pulp Fiction sort of way". Well I just got back from seeing Grindhouse and find myself thinking of that moment. ...

Pros: Rollicking fun for a rowdy midnight movie house crowd
Cons: Tarantino's feature drags through "hip" (and completely superfluous) dialogue

Last night I enjoyed this double feature at a theater where you sit in sofas and eat pizza while you watch: MISTAKE. Grindhouse is not something to watch while you eat. Rodriguez / Tarantino clearly had fun making this double feature homage to ...

Pros: Brilliant works of homage.
Cons: Occasionally tedious.

In a world filled with laughable horror remakes, recycled love stories and endless barrages of book adaptations, it's always nice to know that there are two living directors who will refresh us throughout their entire careers: Quentin Tarantino and ...

Pros: Violent, Brilliant, Entertaining, Funny.
Cons: No Intermission...

I’ve seen many movies throughout my life, and I rarely ask myself how much bang I’m getting for my buck. In retrospect, I guess I’m usually just paying for a couple of laughs from Will Ferrell or some explosions via Vin Diesel.But in ...

Pros: Everything. It's a total blast.
Cons: Read review.

I was incredibly exited about this movie before I even knew what it was about. All I heard was the Tarantino/Rodriguez (Two of my favorites) were collaborating for a film called “Grindhouse.” Having just purchased the Grindhouse edition of ...

Pros: Captures the films of the era well.
Cons: Drags in places, thin plot and character development.

Back in the 70’s cheaply made independent films often came into their own. The studio released films were drawing smaller audiences’ thanks in large part to the arrival of color television and a greater variety of entertainment that people could ...