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Sunday, January 7
Jeff's post, The First Sign That I'm Going to Have a Problem With 2007:
Welcome to the Grindhouse Teaser Trailer. (How it's a teaser at 1:41 is beyond me, but that's really not the problem.)My response:
One of my biggest problems with Kill Bill Volume 2 was the inclusion of a schlocky 17-minute kung fu movie crammed into the middle of an already over-long "epic" that should have been a lean, 2-hour revenge flick. But cutting that completely useless pastiche would have required Tarantino to sit down and think hard about whether thoroughly reproducing his inspirations - no matter how poorly-made and unnecessary they actually are - is really necessary to tell the story. And that is not how Quentin Tarantino likes to treat himself.
So now here we have Grindhouse. Which is that shitty kung fu movie-within-the-movie...except now, not only is it the whole movie...it's TWO of them.
Everyone has thought about what a movie with Rose McGowan wearing a machine gun for a leg might be like, but we let the idea go. Chasing that idea down does not make you a cinematic maverick. It means you have poor impulse control.
I have to say, Jeff, I think you are overthinking this one. I can't think of what drug one should be on to enjoy these movies but there surely is one. Perhaps no drug, instead they should be accompanied by adolescent hormones or adult guilty-pleasure excitement and a gal in a tight shirt beside you crunching on popcorn, but I think these movies are going to be some good dirty American fun-- assuming you don't take them seriously. At all.
