First of all, we need to understand the meaning of the title "Grindhouse": it refers to some movie theaters in American cities in the 1960s and 1970s that specialized in showing restricted-level (strong violence and pornography) movies. In this sense, this extra-long film is a throwback and parody of the R-rated films of that era.
Secondly, if you like movies like "Titanic" or "Forrest Gump", please don't watch this movie. It's an extremely violent and bloody movie - the level of R-rating is evident from the first time I've ever been asked to show my ID at a ticket check. It should also be specially reminded that girls with poor psychological tolerance are forbidden to watch. Don't take it literally, though, and think this is a pure horror movie.
The film is made up of two full 90-minute films, one over the other, so the total run time is over 3 hours. The upper "Planet Terror" is directed by Robert Rodrigue, the famous director of "Once Upon a Time in Mexico", "Sin City", etc.; the lower "Death Proof" (Death Proof) Directed by Quentin Tarantino, director known for Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, and more. Among them, some of the main actors who participated in the upper part also participated in the lower part.
"Planet Terror" tells the story of a place contaminated with chemicals, humans mutated into zombies, and some uninfected people start to escape. The most impressive thing here is the blood of the zombies, and the girl who lost a right leg was charged with a machine gun by her boyfriend;
"Death Proof" tells the story of a perverted killer who uses his sports car to kill women. This time he met three unexpected opponents...
I don't want to go into detail about the storyline because the plot doesn't seem to be the main thing. In my opinion, this film has several special characteristics: the
first is the extreme imitation of the style of the R-rated movies in the 1960s and 1970s: from the opening subtitles to the soundtrack, from the film shooting techniques and the description of the characters' personalities, and even The production of the post-film rendering effect looks completely like a movie produced in the 1960s and 1970s - the most "wonderful" places such as pornographic scenes even deliberately appeared "film is lost, please forgive" subtitles, let the audience A sound of disappointment. The two films above and below are also interspersed with fictional movie trailers that also imitate the projection method of the Grindhouse auditorium. Although they are only in series, they are short and concise, and each one is more exciting, violent and funny. In other words, leaving you no time to go to the bathroom in the middle.
The second is the distinctive characteristics of the director. The upper "Planet Terror" epitomizes Robert Rodrigue's consistent, unreserved style of violence. Although the plot of the film is similar to "Land Of The Dead", if you think that the film is bloody enough, or that "Sin City" is violent enough, or that "Saw" (Saw) , The "Human Skin Inn" (Hostel) series is considered violent and bloody, then, compared with this film, it is still insignificant. At the same time, the film also has unexpectedly rich jokes. The lower "Death Proof" is not so much a tribute to Grindhouse by Quentin Tarantino as he is to his masterpiece Pulp Fiction 14 years ago. In this film, which is not "bloody" compared to the upper part, he once again exerted his skillful skills in character dialogue description, deliberately setting almost two-thirds of the scene in the gossip dialogue of several women, and the most The wonderful car scene is at the end, which tickles the audience's appetite, but the excitement won't let you down--the film ended, and I heard whistles and applause from the cinema for the first time in several years. Its infectious power even made me step out of the movie theater and drive home, involuntarily accelerating the accelerator.
Finally, a quote from the movie review of the sexy magazine "Maxim": "A movie lovers dream come ture". It's also a "dream come ture" for people who are living in the age of violent movies, or for those who like to play violent PS2, X-BOX360, PC games: you will see that only in the game Violence that can only be seen on the screen by the people of the people - not the appearance of the appearance and the repetition of the game's plot, but a film version of a completely new game.
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