Django Unchained (film)

[krisvds]

Naaah. Death Proof is great. It's as if Godard made a tacky seventies grindhouse feature which is exactly how it was advertised. The dialogues in that film to me were comedy gold. All these chicks were talking like white guys trying to be cool street wise guys but failing to hide their overall geekiness (Dirty Mary Crazy Larry references and all). I found it very self indulgent on QT's part but also very, very funny. Plus: I dare you to name a better filmed, staged car chase in recent memory than the finale.

[EvilNed]

I cant even remember the car chase. While its probably good, i doubt it's excellent. The only car chase that sticks out in my mind is the one in Matrix Reloaded which is awesome. There's also more going on there. Death proof is just a car chasing another car, on empty roads, isn't it?

[MinionZombie]

Death proof is just a car chasing another car, on empty roads, isn't it? I disagree. It's an old-school-feeling car-vs-car cat & mouse game, just two burly muscle cars growling at the camera as they yomp along back roads (there's a whole sequence where they weave through traffic and cause various accidents, including a motorcyclist smashing into a building), and with one of the lead actresses (also a stunt woman in real life) clinging to the bonnet (hood) of one of the cars (as previously featured in Vantage Point - one of the, if not the, greatest car movie(s) ever) for dear life as they charge along at I-don't-know-how-fast-but-it-was-ruddy-fast speeds. The hunted become the hunters and then its arse-kicking revenge. Yeah, DP is probably one of QT's more indulgent flicks, and probably one of his most laid back films - but that's part of the reason I dig it. It's a movie I can kick back with, and then get a couple of jolts along the way. There could be more action peppered throughout, sure, but even still I just totally dug it. The music, the style, being able to just hang out with these two groups of chicks like a fly-on-the-wall, Mary Elizabeth Winstead in a cheerleader outfit, the kick arse car sequences, Kurt-fucking-Russell being all kinds of dangerously cool ... I just really dig that movie.

[EvilNed]

Ok, I see your point. I still don't like the film that much because I found it very boring. I also disliked Planet Terror, but from different reasons. I might rewatch Planet Terror sometime, båand maybe DP in some QT marathon. I hear there's a shorter version. - - - Updated - - - Ok, I see your point. I still don't like the film that much because I found it very boring. I also disliked Planet Terror, but from different reasons. I might rewatch Planet Terror sometime, båand maybe DP in some QT marathon. I hear there's a shorter version. Pardon my spelling, i blame the iPad.

[MinionZombie]

Ned - there's the stand-alone version and then there's the Grindhouse cut (Machete trailer, Planet Terror's shorter version, fake trailers, then Death Proof's shorter version). The stand-alone version of DP is 27 minutes longer than the Grindhouse cut of the movie. Go here: http://www.movie-censorship.com/report.php?ID=5013 Scroll down to the Death Proof section, and you can see a report on what is missing in the shorter version. I've actually only seen the shorter version twice, but I've seen the longer version a good 4 or 5 times, so I'm more familiar with the longer cut. I'll have to pop in my Grindhouse Blu-Ray and give the DP section another spin out of interest.

[LouCipherr]

The stand-alone version of DP is 27 minutes longer than the Grindhouse cut of the movie. Oh, excellent.. .an additional 27 minutes of talking that goes nowhere! Just what that movie needed! </sarcasm>

[AcesandEights]

Oh, excellent.. .an additional 27 minutes of talking that goes nowhere! Just what that movie needed!

[bassman]

An issue with 27 additional minutes of really hot women?!? What is the world coming to?

[MinionZombie]

An issue with 27 additional minutes of really hot women?!? What is the world coming to? It's a madhouse! A madhouse!

[LouCipherr]

An issue with 27 additional minutes of really hot women?!? What is the world coming to? 27 additional minutes of women that won't STFU? Yeah, that's what ALL us guys want, right guys?!

[bassman]

27 additional minutes of women that won't STFU? Yeah, that's what ALL us guys want, right guys?! Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Rosario Dawson could read sleazy romance novels or the Twilight books to me for weeks and I wouldn't mind....

[LouCipherr]

Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Rosario Dawson could read sleazy romance novels or the Twilight books to me for weeks and I wouldn't mind.... I never knew you were a Twilight fan, bass! ***edited to add: I saw what you did there, Aces.

[AcesandEights]

Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Rosario Dawson could read sleazy romance novels or the Twilight books to me for weeks and I wouldn't mind.... Damn, we're on the same wavelength today, Bass.

[MoonSylver]

27 additional minutes of women that won't STFU? Yeah, that's what ALL us guys want, right guys?! If only it WERE just 27 minutes... Instead we've got... ...women that won't STFU. Done.

[Neil]

Seeing it next Thursday... Looking forward to it...