Posts Tagged ‘quentin tarantino’

Quentin Tarantino’s Death Proof

Saturday, June 6th, 2009

Wow.  A 70’s style B movie with great actors and actresses.  I think I am in love with Rosario Dawson.  From IMDB synopsis Written by Mike Weiner:

Stuntman Mike is a former Hollywood stunt race car driver who targets and kills women with his “death-proof” stunt car. In Act I, Mike surfaces in Austin, Texas to target a group of women whom he knows; Jungle Julia an outgoing, dope-smoking, radio DJ/fashion model meeting her old school friends for a night on the town whom are sentimental model Arlene, and local bad-girl Shanna, as well as bar-nut hippie Pam who tries to make Mike notice her, unaware of his sociopath and misogynist tendencies. In Act II, Stuntman Mike surfaces in Tennessee where he randomly picks another another group of women to stalk all of whom work in the motion picture business; Abernathy is a make-up girl and stand-in wanting a change of pace in her life. Lee is a naive B-movie actress. Kim is a tough-minded stunt woman always wanting action. And Zoe is a fellow stunt woman from New Zealand visiting her friends. However, the second set of girls proves more though to get, and because of a combination of bad luck and Stuntman Mike’s carelessness, the girls decide to turn the tables on their tormentor for revenge of their own…

Great movie, lots of action and some great stunt scenes.  By far one of the most intense movies I have seen in awhile.  I hope that Tarantino and Rodriguez bring some more Grindhouse Features to the big screen!  Just awesome.  Together the films work really well – a throwback to double features at the drive in.  5 out of 5 stars!  If you like action and car chases this film is for you!

Check it out on IMDB for more info: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1028528/plotsummary

Planet Terror

Saturday, May 2nd, 2009

Ok – I have now seen the most disgusting and totally AWESOME movie I have ever seen.  Planet Terror, directed by Robert Rodriguez (my new favorite director), is gruesome and intense.  Created to mimic 70’s B movies, Planet Terror was great.  Rose McGowan is awesome in this flick – sexy and comical – she brings just the right mix of sultry and humor to this role.  Planet Terror is not really scary, but it is an intense thrill-ride of gruesome horror.  This is the first scary movie that I have ever seen where I actually gagged at one scene with Quentin Tarantino where he is attempting to rape Rose McGowan and his ’stuff’ starts to disentigrate.  Awesome effect – more than a little gross.  If you like zombie movies and you like blood and guts and a little humor with your horror then this flick is for you!

Here is what IMDB.co has to say about Planet Terror:

“After an experimental bio-nerve gas is accidentally released at a remote U.S. military base in Texas, those exposed to the gas turn into flesh-eating, mutating zombies out to kill. An assortment of various people who include stripper Cherry, her shady mechanic ex-boyfriend Wray, a strong-willed doctor, the local sheriff, and an assortment of various people must join forces to survive the night as the so-called “sickos” threaten to take over the whole town and the world. Written by Anonymous

In Texas, the gang leaded by the black market dealer Abby faces a group of renegade militaries leaded by Captain Muldoon in an abandoned military base. During their shootout, Abby shoots a recipient of biological weapon, releasing an experimental highly-contagious gas that turns humans to flesh-eating zombies. Meanwhile, in the local hospital, Dr. Block sees an epidemic with many patients with the same nasty symptoms. When the outbreak affects most of the local population, a group of people with immunity leaded by the mechanic Wray, Sheriff Hague, the stripper Cherry and the Dr. Dakota, fight to survive and become the last hope to save the world. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

In a rural town in Texas, go-go dancer Cherry Darling (with a leg/machine gun), decides to quit her low-paying job and find another use for her numerous ‘useless’ talents. Cherry’s ex-boyfriend, El Wray, at the Bone Shack, a restaurant owned by J.T. Hague, a group of military officials, led by the demented Lt. Muldoon, are making a business transaction with a scientist named Abby for a deadly biochemical agent known as DC2 codename “Project Terror”, but when Muldoon learns Abby has an extra supply on hand, he attempts to take Abby hostage and Abby intentionally releases the gas into the air. As gun-legged Cherry Darling and one man wrecking crew El Wray try to save the world from a horde of flesh-eating zombies. Written by Anthony Pereyra {hypersonic91@yahoo.com}”