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    Thoughts on Death Proof?

    Okay, tell me if this makes sense. As far as the two whole movies are corncerned, I liked Planet Terror better than Death Proof. But! I like the first half of Death Proof better than all of Planet Terror. :wideeye:

    I'm just kind of wondering if anyone else feels the way I do. Basically I see Death Proof in two different parts (because there are). The first part was in Austin, Texas with the first group of girls. The second was Lebanon, Tennesse with the other girls.

    When I first saw the movie in theaters, I was in love with it. Jungle Julia, Shanna, and Arlene were as real as characters can get in my eyes and knowing that something bad was going to happen to them had me on the edge of my seat.

    The first half had some excellent lines and great shots/scenes. And from the moment when the TX girls and Stuntman Mike hit the highway... just wow. Everything seemed to be so real. The music, the dark night, girls actually acting like real girls just driving along and feeling the music... then the spectacular crash sequence. It's film-making like this that gives me shivers and makes me strive harder to break into the business.

    Then here comes the second half of the film. New group of girls and Stuntman Mike watching them. But I honestly can say I didn't care one bit for the rest of the movie. It seemed to come from a whole new film. The mood went from a dark, yet fun thriller to a (kind of) light-hearted action flick. Stuntman Mike lost his cool and turned into a baby and these girls didn't interest me.

    I honestly think that if you shut off the movie when the Sheriff and his son finish talking about Stuntman Mike, it's pure gold.

    Anyone else share this view point or care to counter it?

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    With the exception of the the wreck scene, which was nicely done, the entire thing was a bunch of abysmal boring blathering bullshit... nothing but a collection of random, meandering, meaningless, monotonous, pointless, tedious Tarantino dialog...

    If I want to see a movie about tough chicks beating men to death, I'll watch Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill! It's obvious that Tarantino tried to capture the essence of that sort of film, but in my opinion, he failed miserably by tripping over his overblown dialog.

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    Quote Originally Posted by WarBeast View Post
    It's obvious that Tarantino tried to capture the essence of that sort of film, but in my opinion, he failed miserably by tripping over his overblown dialog.
    I thought the same thing. And while too much dialogue was present in both parts of the film, I found the TX-Girls' blabbering interesting and funny.

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    Death Proof was serviceable for one watch.

    Wouldnt watch it again though. As Warbeast his lined out. Dialogue not particularly relevant to anything just started to become too much of a tax IMO.

    Planet Terror was fun, it probably wasnt the better film persay but sure as hell more entertaining IMO.

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    I know I'm in the minority here but I thought Death Proof was a lot better than Planet Terror.

    But I feel the exact opposite about the two halves. I thought the first half was pretty lame because the first group of girls were disgusting crack whores with no personalities. I couldn't wait for them to die. I really, really hated them. But then once the second half came around I started to really enjoy it. The second group of girls were freakin hilarious and pretty damn awesome imo. Without them, the movie would have sucked major ass.

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    Quote Originally Posted by APoL CoLD View Post
    I know I'm in the minority here but I thought Death Proof was a lot better than Planet Terror.

    But I feel the exact opposite about the two halves. I thought the first half was pretty lame because the first group of girls were disgusting crack whores with no personalities. I couldn't wait for them to die. I really, really hated them. But then once the second half came around I started to really enjoy it. The second group of girls were freakin hilarious and pretty damn awesome imo. Without them, the movie would have sucked major ass.
    I agree with everything you said here.

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    I loved it actually. More so then Planet Terror. And it had one moment that actually made me think about being scared for a second. When they are sitting at the end of the parking lot, and he asks right or left, and that whole dialog. It was awesome, and was just freaky cause I can picture that actually happening.

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    Death Proof is one of those movies were the good parts are really good, but it takes to damn long to get there. I mean 45 minutes just sitten in a bar shootin the shit? I can do that with my friends, why would I pay to watch somebody else do it. Amd then after that great crash scene what do they do? They basically do it AGAIN. 30 more minutes of blah blah blah blah. I thought the acting was good, and Kurt Russell was great. But the movie was just way way to boring.

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    I liked the first half a lot, didn't expect them to be taken out so fast and be replaced by another group like that.

    Hated the 2nd group, even the accents annoyed me so much that I almost did turn off the movie but didn't because of my high hopes that Stuntman Mike would get the better of them and walk away in the end.

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    Deathproof was ok. I was expecting better though. I preferred Planet Terror.

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    thought it was way boring. The last chase scene was amazing but doesn't make up for the boringness. Unlike Pulp Fiction, which had great characters and excellent, funny dialogue, this one was meh

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