But! Pus-spurting zombie people! Rose McGowan with a gun for a leg! One of the most exhilarating chase scenes I've seen!
Yeah. I was a bit hindsightedly wary recommending it to people at work, heh. Rave rave rave and then the careful addendum, "But you know me, that's completely my cuppa. They don't call me Princess Entrails fer nuthin'."
Heh. I feel like _Grindhouse_ and your pretty pre-Raphaelite icon are dueling for my SOUL.
heh. welcome to *my* world. tankgirl and morticia addams duke it out in my brain all the time.
basically, after "kill bill" -- well, to be honest the first half of it since i never was able to get all the way through it -- put the nail in the coffin for me re: terantino. i won't watch his films anymore. they're needlessly hyper-violent. as an extra-added bonus i have amputation issues. (this i found out after seeing "sin city" post operation. almost got sick in the theater. seriously. and i pride myself on my tough stomach or used to.) i can't even watch the previews, really.
Sadly, the conclusion to the duel's pretty much a given. Visceral always wins over elegant in my headspace. Needless hyper-violence is my middle name! Well, okay, not really. My middle name is Ann. It probably means 'needless hyper-violence' in SOME language, though.
The Tarantino half wasn't that bad at all, gore-wise. One scene, really. It was the Rodriguez half that had me squealing and putting my hands over my face. Which I NEVER DO, but it just seemed like the proper response. It was all so unrepentantly cheerful, like an eleven-year-old telling dead baby jokes. It really does depend for me on how it's played. Kill Bill (if I'm thinking of the scene you're thinking of, and I think I am) got close to my unnecessary threshold, but I don't know. The needlessness is so VERY necessary in Grindhouse. And I love me a good paradox.
But yes, if you've got issues with any of that, this movie is an utter lost cause. It's not like you can watch the edited-for-television version and get ANY sort of sense out of the mess. MAYBE the second half of the Tarantino one, with the knowledge that Kurt Russell's character is a murderous fuckhead.
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Date: 2007-04-10 03:39 am (UTC)Yeah. I was a bit hindsightedly wary recommending it to people at work, heh. Rave rave rave and then the careful addendum, "But you know me, that's completely my cuppa. They don't call me Princess Entrails fer nuthin'."
Heh. I feel like _Grindhouse_ and your pretty pre-Raphaelite icon are dueling for my SOUL.
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Date: 2007-04-10 03:53 am (UTC)basically, after "kill bill" -- well, to be honest the first half of it since i never was able to get all the way through it -- put the nail in the coffin for me re: terantino. i won't watch his films anymore. they're needlessly hyper-violent. as an extra-added bonus i have amputation issues. (this i found out after seeing "sin city" post operation. almost got sick in the theater. seriously. and i pride myself on my tough stomach or used to.) i can't even watch the previews, really.
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Date: 2007-04-10 04:21 am (UTC)The Tarantino half wasn't that bad at all, gore-wise. One scene, really. It was the Rodriguez half that had me squealing and putting my hands over my face. Which I NEVER DO, but it just seemed like the proper response. It was all so unrepentantly cheerful, like an eleven-year-old telling dead baby jokes. It really does depend for me on how it's played. Kill Bill (if I'm thinking of the scene you're thinking of, and I think I am) got close to my unnecessary threshold, but I don't know. The needlessness is so VERY necessary in Grindhouse. And I love me a good paradox.
But yes, if you've got issues with any of that, this movie is an utter lost cause. It's not like you can watch the edited-for-television version and get ANY sort of sense out of the mess. MAYBE the second half of the Tarantino one, with the knowledge that Kurt Russell's character is a murderous fuckhead.