You people are stupid... I don't get it...

Rating: 3/10 (12 April 2007)

OK, this isn't going to be just one of those, quick, insulting rants of a review... But most of the people reviewing this movie are just silly, and it shows.
First off, if you had seen either of these movies on their own and under the guise of being normal movie fair... Not from Rodriguez and Tarantino... You would have called them both a piece of crap and not worth your time... The 8.6 Grindhouse has on IMDb is utterly ridiculous... And ol' QT would point at you and laugh if he saw it... It's one thing to pay money for it and go and see it to make fun of it or try and understand what it's doing... But another thing to call it a great film...
That having been said... The only good moments in the film are Nicolas Cage's bit... (Which was really, genuinely funny...) and the part where Kurt Russell impersonated John Wayne...
By the way, Russell did a really good job... And now will probably be offered some genuinely good roles in the following years because of it... (You wait and see)... Just like what happened to Willis and Jackson because of Pulp Fiction... I think Tarantino knows this too... And looks for the actors he sees potential in... And could further their career... Props to Russell, really... Even tho this movie is a piece of crap, he had the presence of mind to realize it would be a huge asset to himself to play in this film...
If this film is legit... It isn't as a film... It's legit in perhaps helping us understand Tarantino's purpose in his art... I would dare say, this film is really the epitome of QT's film philosophy... Quintin, like his favourite director Sergio Leone, takes the stereotypes and the archetypes from different genres and combines them... And amplifies them... Without regard to depth of content... As if to say... "Look, this is what cinema really is... Right here... And this enough to keep you coming back..." And the truth is, he's right... And it is enough... But that doesn't mean we should then call it good... An accurate social commentary on the entertainment driven society of America? Yes... Good movie? NO... All his works have been in the end, content-less... With no depth... All tantalization...
Tarantino is a brilliant man for understanding and exploiting this... And in that way, I might appreciate him as a philosopher... One day, I actually look forward to reading a book he would hopefully write about himself...
But I don't like meaningless, content-less movies... And I have yet to watch a Tarantino flick that I felt like it wasn't...
I give 3 points because Kurt Russell was genuinely interesting to watch and Nicolas Cage made me laugh my ass off...