Wow, DeathProof Sucks

Rating: Null/10 (8 April 2007)

I am not going to sit here and judge both movies as a whole. In no way were they similar. First I want to make it evident that I am not only a big Tarentino fan, but also a Kurt Russel fan. I went into Grindhouse thinking distinctly that I would hate Planet Terror and love Death Proof. I thought Planet Terror would be down right awful and Death Proof would deliver thrills and chills. Wow, was I wrong.
You walk into this film with a trailer that goes right along with this campy, gritty, grind house style. Then you follow that with Planet Terror, which ended up being stellar in fitting its place as a "grind house" flick. You follow that with even more crazy trailers. But wait, the best part, a long boring dialog driven chick fest called Death Proof. Imagine the Britney Spears's movie Crossroads, with one car crash and you have Death Proof. Yes, Quentin Tarentino is the master of dialog, but he always delivers dialog with purpose. Why in the world did we need an hour of dialog and 1 car crash? It was the Spice Girls get revenge. Way to make Russel the biggest whiny piece of garbage. Way to take pointless characters and make them more important than they need to be. What's with the text messaging from a character that we have no reason to no other than that she is going to die. Sure that car crash was great, but than to follow it by having the most boring girl talk ever created. Here would have been a better ending and plot, as soon as Kurt kills his first and second victims, we show a montage of other killings leading to the last girls. They do there thing and when Kurt comes at them it leads to a chase, which the, terrible actress/stunt woman, dies horribly. And as the two muscle cars are side by side fighting to survive, the white car speeds past Kurt's car and over a train track. A train slams into Kurt and blows him into little pieces. The two remaining girls get out of their car, covered in blood, terrified at the last few minutes, and than they drive away, the end. Did I miss the part where Kurt cut their brakes too? With Planet Terror perfectly using the grit of what should be a Grindhouse movie, with it's missing scenes, bad camera work, and the sheer fun. While Death Proof failed in spades with it's terrible dialog, terrible placement of key action moments (ie the climax), horrible pacing, and it did not stay true to anything that one would imagine from a grind house flick.