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Now that's what I call a fucking show! 4.5 G's out of 5. This film was exactly the uber cool show I was expecting. I would have paid to see each one of these separately. Personally I liked Tarantino's Death Proof more than I did Rodriguez' Planet Terror. I really thought going into it, it would have been the other way around. While Death Proof may not have had the non-stop action Planet Terror did, it did have the cool Tarantino dialogue that you come to expect from his films. However when the action did happen your jaw just drops on how cool it looks on screen. The film also has probably one of the most gruesome and fantastic car wrecks ever.

When it comes to zombie films I tend to be very critical. When it doesn't fit my cookie cutter shape of what a zombie film should be in my books I will end up having a lower opinion of the film. Unfortunately that is what happened with Planet Terror for me. To me a zombie is a dead body that comes back to life to eat the flesh of the living. In this film the zombie creatures are humans who have been infected with a biochemical agent that mutates them physically and as a result become cannibalistic creatures. Unlike Death Proof, Planet Terror has a few subplots that end up all coming together. I really felt like all three of the subplots were missing something. If this individual film was longer maybe I would have seen the things I felt were missing. The effects for both films were once again topnotch from the guys at KNB.

Sadly the film isn't doing to box office it should be, probably due to it's 3hr length and it's 18A rating. I actually showed up early b/c I thought the film was going to be packed. In total I think there was about 13 other people. I also found out that opening night didn't even sell out. I think I was told only 30 or 40 people went. This was by far the one film I was looking forward to. If I knew it was going to be so dead I would have saw it last night. No don't that if this film doesn't end up being huge it certainly will be when it's released on DVD. If your like me and really wanted to see it your going to have a great time... If not...then there is something wrong with you. :)

Attached to 150 copies of Grindhouse is the faux trailer for Hobo With a Shotgun. Fans could make their own faux trailer and the winner would then be added to the film. Unfortunately my theatre was not one of the 150 but you can still check out the faux trailer here.