Death Proof

Pros: The car chase was awesome
Cons: The rest was not

Death Proof is Quentin Tarantino’s half of the movie collaboration Grindhouse that he did with writer/director Robert Rodriguez. Since Grindhouse was a complete bomb at the box office, due in large part to it being three hours long, ...

Pros: Kurt Russell; Sydney Poitier, Tracie Thoms; Zoe Bell; thrilling and very funny; landmark action sequences
Cons: May be too deliberate in its pacing for some viewers; Where's Planet Terror? No trailers

There's a moment late in DEATH PROOF that knocks me out whenever I see it. It's during the ecstatic "Ship's Mast" sequence, which is just the start of a legendary set piece that should redefine action pyrotechnics for future film generations. Stuntwoman ...

Pros: An amazing car chase!
Cons: The chase takes an hour and a half of skull-numbing boredom to get to.

Sorry guys - while I love exploitation cinema, horror, schlock, cheese, drive-in flicks, B-movies, blaxploitation and Kung Fu - I hated Planet Terror and Death Proof, collectively known as Grindhouse. Actually more accurately, I ...

Pros: Kurt Russell, Vanessa Ferlito, Zoe Bell and some stellar, old school, car stunts.
Cons: Pacing.

I’m a large fan of the new school of Independent Film Directors. Kevin Smith, Eli Roth and Edgar Wright are all rising stars that need to be watched. I imagine great moments in film from these guys. One thing that they all have in ...

Pros: Great writing, one of the best endings to any movie, Kurt Russell
Cons: Overlong and slow in pace, too self-aware and self-referential

Quentin Tarantino has (deservingly) built a reputation for himself as an explosive, entertaining, and often brilliant filmmaker. He's also built a reputation as a self-loving, somewhat egotistical filmmaker whose love for movies clashes with his love ...

Pros: Car chases, Kurt Russell, Tarantino dialogue
Cons: Where are the trailers? WHERE ARE THE TRAILERS???

As anyone who read my review of the theatrical version of Grindhouse knows, I thought it a pastiche of gore, car crashes, cheesiness, and complete awesomeness. I don't think I'm overstating when I say it gave me more moviegoing pleasure than anything in ...

Pros: For its unusual purposes, this is a very entertaining film.
Cons: This is just a car-crash thriller. No mystery, no subtlety, no higher aspiration.

GRINDHOUSE (2007) by Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez was a deliberate attempt to create the atmosphere of those battered films that show up in double features in those wretched movie houses that play films six months or more after they debut at ...

Pros: Amazing (and old-school) car chase scene, satisfying ending
Cons: The first half of the movie

When I saw this in the theater I had actually thought the first half of the movie was a completely different story than the second part until Kurt Russell enters the scene. Both parts start off with a group of girls hanging out, etc. etc. The first ...