So uh, yeah, saw Grindhouse.
Aug. 31st, 2007 10:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
adiva_calandia*stares* Quentin Tarantino, did you just . . . did you just treat women with respect?
*slaps self* No, no, you spent three-quarters of that movie treating women just the way I expected.
But that last half of "Death Proof" is fucking up my image of you, man! The women were heroes! Granted, they were your heroes, meaning they were cold-bloodedly violent and swearing a blue streak . . . but they were clothed, and one of them was non-traditionally good-looking, and they were your heroes.
WHAT THE FUCK.
That's really all the coherency I can manage. There are a few notes below the cut that aren't really spoilery, but are kinda squicky.
I hope I don't have zombie nightmares tonight.
*slaps self* No, no, you spent three-quarters of that movie treating women just the way I expected.
But that last half of "Death Proof" is fucking up my image of you, man! The women were heroes! Granted, they were your heroes, meaning they were cold-bloodedly violent and swearing a blue streak . . . but they were clothed, and one of them was non-traditionally good-looking, and they were your heroes.
WHAT THE FUCK.
That's really all the coherency I can manage. There are a few notes below the cut that aren't really spoilery, but are kinda squicky.
- PRESTON. PRESTON WAS SO BADASS. And now he dead of zombie. D:
- Preston: "*pats Rose McGowan's stomach* I never miss."
EW. EW. EW. EW. - Design elements I really really liked:
- The use of '50s film screw-ups in "Planet Terror," particularly not shying away from mis-framing the sequence with Bruce Willis.
- The masterful use of missing reels to get away with not writing Preston a backstory.
- Kurt Russel breaking the fourth wall.
- The lack of music during most of "Death Proof."
- The subtle shots of Kurt Russel in the background of the stuntwomen's lunch.
- ZOE BELL Oh my fucking god Zoe Bell was the coolest fucking thing EVER. I want to be her when I grow up.
- DDDD: NAVEEN ANDREWS' HEAD.
- DDDD: BRUCE WILLIS IN GENERAL. AAAAGH. I love you, Bruce Willis, but AGH NEVERTHELESS.
- Oh Quentin Tarantino, you and your wacky self-insertions.
- NICOLAS CAGE AS FU MANCHU. AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAA.
I hope I don't have zombie nightmares tonight.
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Date: 2007-09-01 04:10 am (UTC)And then I think 'no no augh cognitive dissonance no whut!!!!!"
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Date: 2007-09-01 08:16 pm (UTC)....This movie defined cake and awesome AND YES now you totally know you wanna thread with Muldoon right? Right? RIIIGHT? :D
AND Preston inna head wishes to convey that he and El Wray are NOTHING ALIKE. absolutely NOTHING. NOTHING. The gun fu is not his! it's too choppy!
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Date: 2007-09-01 09:00 pm (UTC)*giggles* Different Preston. But AHAHAH THE RANDOM GUN FU.
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Date: 2007-09-04 06:35 pm (UTC)