THIS MOVIE FLIPPIN' ROCKS!!!!!!!! There may be some potential SPOILERS ahead, so continue reading at YOUR OWN RISK !

First up, "Planet Terror". This one was disgustingly gory. There is pus, blood, & testicles galore. This one isn't for the weak, but if loads of gore don't affect you, ENJOY ! I loved it! This is exactly what I expected, ACTION PACKED! Freddy Rodriguez is an excellent action star in this one! Give this guy a butterfly knife, a gun, & stand back, he's ready for anything! My man, Tom Savini was great in this movie as a Deputy who learns first hand what these nasty creepies are capable of! Bruce Willis doesn't have a big part as expected, but he's good, nonetheless. The Babysitter Twins were a nice touch ! Don't expect a thought provoking experience, just turn off your brain & enjoy the gore!

Next, "Death Proof". Ericg75 was right, Tarantino has a whole lotta dialogue in this one & you really get to know bunches about the women in this film. It actually builds to the inevitable crashes & this is a very good thing. That first crash is violent & SWEEEEEEEEEEEEET! Kurt Russell was fantastically crazy as Stuntman Mike & the women he pissed off were even crazier! I almost forgot this was a modern movie until they hit the highway & there were modern cars all about! I found this to be the strongest of the two, but I still liked them both!

The "Previews" were great as were the "missing reels". I must say this is one movie I would love to see as a series! The scratches in the film, the "burn out" part way through "Planet Terror", it was truly authentic! Everything about this movie was nostalgic. I am going again!A++

This film was everything I expected and more. For all the Tarantino haters out there, they can go watch this movie, and if they still dislike him then, well, they can just shove it. Rodriguez is no slack either. I loved it, can't wait for the DVD and I will also be going to watch it again.

I heard there's a MAJOR Director's Cut headed to DVD. This is gonna be too good!

By the way, Ishmael, there was a comment made about the consequence of mistaking a kiwi for an Aussie: you get your @ss kicked. Is this true the other way around?

Well, I go see my friendly neighbourhood bootlegger every 2nd day, so I await with fingers crossed!

And re: f***** Kiwis, they can suck my f*****..ha ha, in other words, yes, to be an aussie mistaken for a Kiwi is an insult only just below being mistaked for a Pom!!

Kiwis are 20 yrs behind Australia. We call them on our mobiles, and they answer on one of those old curly cord beasts sitting in the corner of the lounge room...

That's cool! I was in New Zealand in August of 2005, and the Kiwis call Oz "the West Island". I'd love to spend my life in New Zealand, but I haven't been to your earlier neck of the woods, Ish. Come clean now. You've been to Kiwiland and you liked it, right?

Don't tell any of my countrymen, but I was engaged to a Kiwi gal! See the Kate Winslet thread for a tale of the shaky isles..

Lovely scenery....I recommend a trip there to see how Australia was 50 yrs ago......

I was completely out-of-my-mind drunk last night when I saw this and only made it through the Rodriguez movie... but hot damn, it was AWESOME!!

I'll have to go back to see the Tarantino one.

Ooh, P.Q.'s pullin' an Ishmael! Fallin' asleep is a NO, NO! You missed out on a car wreck for yo' @ss & some hilarious trailers!

I didn't fall asleep!! I left with a friend to go get food, but we didn't get that far... Just outside the theater, we found a scooter just chillin in the parking lot and we ended up playing with/on that for, like, 30 minutes or so.

I know it doesn't make much sense, but hey, like I said, I was DRUNK.

Oh, I see. The way you said you were drunk & didn't make it through to the second movie, it sounded like you fell asleep. MOST of my friends pass out after drinking alot. I apologize for my misunderstanding on how well you can hold your liquor . Still, to play on a scooter just doesn't compare to that flippin' crash in "Death Proof"!

No worries, Monkey_Boy!

And, to be fair, I ended up passing out shortly thereafter -- just not in the theater

Hey, guys, I was reading the user comments over in the reviews section & there was one that just had me rolling! Apparently this guy went to see the movie with a girlfriend & was just disgusted 30 minutes into it, so they left & demanded a refund. He rated it a 2, which seems a tad odd. If I walked out of a movie because it was just that awful, it would be an automatic ZERO. Get this, they then went to see "Firehouse Dog" & found it to be entertaining ! In case you don't know about this flick, it's basically "Air Bud" at a Fire House. This let's you in on what they think to be entertainment, but it's a bit confusing . At first it sounds like he could be an old man (no offense, Mark F ), but the second part makes him sound like a pre-teen. Strange. I read a similar comment on "Ghost Rider". They hated the movie, but were looking forward to "Resident Evil: Apocalypse". Um, okay .

Okay. Planet Terror was absolutely gory, stupid, and awesome. It was hilarious and a ton of fun.

Death Proof, on the other hand, was exasperating. I love Tarantino, but somehow he convinced himself that he could write "girl talk", and so a good hour of the movie is spent with agonizingly bad dialogue. Coming from the fellow who wrote dialogue for Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, and Reservoir Dogs, this was a huge disappointment. By the end I was cheering for Kurt Russell's psychopath to murder all the females in the movie and ease my suffering.

Except for Zoe Bell. She was awesome... and I'll admit, the driving and stunts were fantastic. I didn't want to wait through an hour of shit for the movie to be worthwhile.

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Originally posted by Chamberk:
By the end I was cheering for Kurt Russell's psychopath to murder all the females in the movie and ease my suffering.

Maybe that was Q.T.'s intent ! I gotta admit, I felt for the guy when those women turned the tables on him !

***BEWARE, DO NOT READ THE FOLLOWING IF YOU HAVE NOT SEEN THE AMAZING, GRINDHOUSE***

I don't know if you all know, but what happens at the end (everything they show after Kurt Russell gets out of the hospital from killing the first four girls) is what would have happened at the end of the movie, had it been shot chronologically. In other words, when Russell is getting beat up by the girls and the whole last car chase happens, that happened before he kills the first four girls. If you to notice, in the last half of the movie his huge scar in the middle of his face (subsequently from when Rosario Dawson's character kicks him with the heel of her boot--last shot) is missing. Thus, when he is talking to Rose McGowan's character--in the beginning of the movie--and she asks about the scar, he says something to the effect that he is embarrassed about it, well at then end of the movie that's where he got that scar from. So in the end, Russell doesn't die, the girls only brutally beat him up but don’t kill him and he goes on to kill the first four girls, gets away and is still being Stuntman Mike somewhere out there.

Now, is that cool or what?

FragileKidA, have you already gone to see this a second time to notice this or what? I didn't notice he didn't have his scar in the second half! NOW I'm gonna HAVE to get back in the theater before the week is out! It wouldn't be Tatantino's first time to do something outta sequence. That tricky bastard!

No, I caught it the first time but you guys were all saying how you felt bad for him and stuff to get beat up, so I wanted to let you know that they don't kill him but that they should have. Yep, that Tarantino is a genuis and he loves Shiner Bock, even better!

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Originally posted by FragileKidA:
No, I caught it the first time but you guys were all saying how you felt bad for him and stuff to get beat up, so I wanted to let you know that they don't kill him but that they should have.

You eagle-eyed, son of a--! To think he went through that & didn't learn his lesson! Still, he was scared outta his mind to the point it made him pathetic. I couldn't help BUT feel sorry for the sadistic turd!

I thought it was hilarious how hysterical he was. Especially when he cries for mercy to not be yanked out of the car because his arm is broken. Though it wasn't as funny as when El Wray drives that tiny bike, everyone laughed hard and long!

Oh, yeah! I couldn't believe he pulled that outta the trunk! I was expecting a bicycle, but a mini-bike ! In my theater, there were major laughs during the "lovemaking" scene. When that peg leg went in the air, the entire theater was rollin'!