Would have preferred "Boredom Proof"

Rating: 4/10 (8 May 2007)

I am not really sure what saddens me more... Is it that Tarantino has produced an unbelievably boring movie, or that the majority of people is even granting high scores to such a waste?!
I do not have much to say about the Rodriguez movie, as it was OK. Not good...but OK. I could have even liked it, had Rodriguez tried to come up with anything original instead of reproducing scenes that were not funny in the 70s. It was not far enough over the edge to really be entertaining. "Planet Terror" has to compete with Peter Jackson's "Braindead", regarding splatter & humor. Braindead is now 15 years old, but still shows a lot better how to make fun of that genre. Planet Terror lacks the wits. It is certainly still funny enough to entertain adolescents...But that is the best I can say about it.
Tarantino is apparently getting lost in something like arrogance. I have no better explanation. When a filmmaker writes a "grindhouse"-screenplay that consists of 80 percent dumb dialog, he must either be too full of himself or he hates his audience. Normally I would say "Ok. Let him do that. He may learn something from mistakes.", but the majority of his audience actually liked listening to groups of young women talking about pointless crap...for an hour...in a splatter movie...
Many people seem to have had the impression that the 20 something minutes of action made up for the preceding boredom. I must assume that many of those people were children (or have been until recently). As arrogant as that sounds...I have no better explanation. That car chase was a "nice" idea...for maybe 5 minutes...After that it was about as exciting as the hour of dialog beforehand. And I never could have imagined the final scene to be created this boringly.
You do not even need a scriptwriter for this nonsense!
And thanks to all the thousands of people who praise such dung, we will likely see more of its kind in the future... Tarantino will look at the user ratings and revel further in his arrogance and ignorance. How sad!
Damn...I can already hear Uwe Boll say "Vy are zey givink me so lo ratinks? My movie was many betterer zan Deaz Proof."