Andrew B (andrew485)

What do you get when you mix a high speed car chase, a machine gun leg, the best barbeque in Texas, alot of blood and dismemberment, fake movie trailers, two features, and cameos from the likes of Nicholas Cage, Bruce Willis, Eli Roth, Cheech Marin, and Quentin Tarantino? You get Grindhouse. Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez's tribute to the original grid house cinema of old (yes I consider the 70's and 80's as old now). This is the type of originality that I was mentioning in my previous blog that I see as missing in Hollywood. The only thing that would have made this movie better would to have seen it in a old beat up theatre where the seats have tears in them, your feet stick to the floor and there's a slight haze that has no explainable origin... for that authentic grid house feel. If you have a weak stomach when it comes to blood and violence, I'd stay away from this movie (or movies as the case is). But if you can stand carnage that makes Nightmare on Elm Street and Friday the 13th seem like the latest Disney flick, then by all means SEE THIS FILM!!! I guarantee that you'll enjoy this movie. It's so well put together that you don't notice the aging of the films (scatches and dust) after the first minute and it seems like the 3 hour and 15 minute run time goes by in no time at all, leaving you wanting to see more.

I consider this to be a cinematic masterpiece (and no I'm not overrating it). The way in which director Robert Rodriguez very literally put Frank Miller's graphic novels on to the big screen is amazing to say the least. As Miller says in an interview on the DVD, "When we were casting... people showed up who looked like my drawings." The casting, cinematography, loyalty to the books... everything was beyond what anyone could ever expect from a movie rendition of a book.