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grindhouse: planet terror and death proof

short review...

planet terror = awesome.
death proof = not good.

planet terror is everything you want. zombies. shit blowing up. crazy folks. machine gun/rocket launcher leg. yes, it's a gross out flick. yes, it's an zombie action movie. but it rocks. it's just fun. one liners, cheeseball ending... it's all there.

death proof. let me start by saying, fast forward to 30-45 minutes in. you don't need the unnecessary back story of 5 useless girls. you just need their deaths. then, you move on, the movie gets better, but yet not good enough to salvage the half that's wasted. you get introduced to 4 more girls, and then you get to the action, which ends on a high that's so silly and so abrupt that you're wondering where your 90 minutes went. seriously. if I had seen it in the theatre, I'd want my money back, and I generally like Tarantino flicks.

Thank god, I have Crank, which at 89 minutes shouldn't be any worse. And Knocked Up should be arriving tomorrow. Thursday, I should have either Oceans Thirteen or Doctor Who: Robot, which is the first of the Tom Baker run on the show.

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