Robert Rodriguez' Planet Terror

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Because Robert isn't as fame hungry as Quentin, and because their producer Harvey Weinstein clearly thinks a lot more of the Golden Child than Rodriguez, Planet Terror, his half of Grindhouse has been pushed back.

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Planet Terror is miles better than Death Proof. Better action, a brilliant script. (I was sent the script last year by an insider on the movie set and I remember reading it, thinking it was Robert's best script he's ever produced)

I hope you all get to see Planet Terror soon, because it is really worth the price of a cinema ticket. A total ride from start to finish and absolutely hilarious.
 
Its the extended version that available on Region 1 DVD and here is what it says on DVDWorldusa website about it:

"2 Disc Extended Director's Cut UnRated

Maverick filmmaker Robert Rodriguez details the violent struggle between a ravenous army of zombie-like humanoiRAB who have taken control of the planet and the remaining survivors who refuse to go down without a fight in this nonstop action-horror hybrid originally released as part of Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino's ambitious Grindhouse double bill. A dangerous government experiment has unleashed an abominable contamination that turns normal people into murderous mutants. Now, as an infinitely multiplying horde of frenzied psychotics flood the Texas plains, a dangerous outlaw named Wray (Freddy Rodriguez), a sexy stripper named Cherry (Rose McGowan), an unscrupulous smuggler named Abby (Naveen Andrews), and the curiously incapacitated Dr. Dakota Block (Marley Shelton) must try and make their way to the helicopter that could provide their only means of escaping to a place untouched by this nightmarish scourge that threatens to wipe out all of humankind.

Features:
Audio Commentary with Writer/Director Robert Rodriguez
International trailer
Deleted Scenes
Cooking School
10-Minute Film School
The Stunts
The Make-up and Effects
The Badass Babes
The Renegade Guys
The Costumes
The Production Design"

SounRAB like some decent enough extras on the DVD!
 
Do you all agree that this is a better film than Death Proof?

Because sitting through the extended version of that - has put me off going to see Planet Terror, to be honest.
 
I hope you see PT, Cylinder because it is great!

Death Proof was a total failure and now Quentin has shown himself to be totally unworthy as a peer to Scorsese/Spielberg/Coppola etc.

Robert might not be the best filmmaker around, but Sin City was inspired and Planet Terror was a hell of a lot of fun.
 
Having just watched it tonight I have to say that it's a peerless recreation of movies that weren't very good in the first place, so it's bound not to be received all that well. Having watched the extras disc it's a shame as obviously a helluva lot of effort, sweat and creativity went into making it.

I've also coincidentally this evening just received word that Planet Terror Unrated is posted and on its way from PlayUSA. I look forward to it.

RegarRAB

Mark
 
Unless your a fan of those kinRAB of movies you wont like Death Proof.Movies like that back then were dialogue driven,coz they didnt have the budgets for the special effects,hence they were used at the end of the film.
Yes the dialogue can be bad and boring.........they were like that back then too,thats what made them fun!!

For people like me,we are the ones who pay to see Death Proof.Reviews are not needed.Opinions are not needed.We know what to expect and we love it and appreciate it for what it is.

Its just a shame we live in a time were CGI rules and peoples attention spans dont last longer than 2 hours.

The fact that Quentin and this film got a 10 minute standing ovation at Cannes this year says it all.And also why would it be sooo succesful in this country? Most people arent even old enough to remember what a double feature is.Heck this is probably the first time they even knew what a double feature was at the cinema.This film was never intended to be a standalone film.

As they said last year when making it........they dont expect it to break box office recorRAB.They made it for fun.They made it inspired by the films they loved growing up for themselves and people like me who love them too.And maybe..........they thought people might like to see something different in the cinema.

As always people follow the franchises.How many more Harry Potter movies will there be? Shrek movies? Transformer movies? Spiderman movies? What happens when they die out? What will the next big thing that everyone clings onto be? I look forward to a time when theres nothing to look forward to.When the next time people wanna watch any of those movies theyll have to dig them out of their collection.When going to the cinema is when your interested in a good story with good actors.
 
Death Proof and Planet Terror are different movies. i wouldn't put one above the other. They were meant to be together!!
Planet Terror felt like it should have been made by John Carpenter. I did enjoy it, but after awhile it kind of got tiring to watch!
Both RR and QT work best with limited budgets. I hope their next films are better than these two.
 
I think the whole exercise was a waste of time. Tarantino and Rodriguez' entire fimographies are "tributes" to these kind of films, only giving them there own twist and update. Making carbon copies was just lazy and sh*t.

I haven't seen Death Proof, but PT stinks, and almost unbearable to watch. Just because it's done with a knowing wink, doesn't make a chessy, done-to-death story with terrible dialogue and acting that makes you want to vomit suddenly a work of art.
 
Spoken like a true fanboy.

I have a back catalogue of a lot of grindhouse movies and they were not all dialogue driven to save money. They were made so cheap that directors couldn't care less about making the action look cheap and fake.

Quentin decided to write a tribute, not to grindhouse movies, but to his own movies. He referenced Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill etc more than any other movies he normally references. This was called "Quentin runs out of ideas"

I am not a great fan of CGI (which Quentin has expressed reserve about, funnily enough) but Sin City was one of the most visually stunning films ever made and guess what? Quentin directed one scene of it as a test to see how he'd do on green screen.

Quentin getting a standing ovation at Cannes doesn't speak volumes about that film, but more his celebrity. Hence why he slaps his name on so many movies what appeal to him but wouldn't to a larger audience. Yes, I do blame him for Eli Roth.

Pay your money to see Death Proof and well done you for 'getting' the grindhouse genre, but there are many out there, including me who GOT what he was trying to do and accepted that it was a total failure.
 
From what I understand its about some nutter chasing around a bunch of teenage girls or something, it's hardly intellectually challenging.

Tarantino made a real classic in Pulp Fiction, I'll never forget the impact it had on me at the cinema when it was first released. But his output sincve has been mediocre at best.

The trouble with him, and more so his acolytes is that they want there cake and to eat it too. On the one hand they say they're just dumb-ass fun, but on the other they claim them to be "classics". "Grindhouse" (or "straight to video shit" as we call them in the UK) films have no artistic merit, if you like you're dumb-ass fun then all power to you, but stop trying to turn it into something its not.
 
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