Waste of Money, not just mine, the budget!

Rating: 2/10 (15 April 2007)

I am a filmmaker and I went with a filmmaker friend wanting to like this movie. We kind of liked Planet Terror, and hated Death Proof. It made us very sad to see that this is the state of movie making. Just very sad.
Planet Terror isn't bad. But it isn't any better than the movies it is a tribute to. But they spent a boat load of money to NOT MAKE IT GOOD. The movies they are doing homage to? Those films were done on the cheap. These films were done for $53 million dollars! That doesn't include P&A, $53 million to achieve a look, feel and lack of quality of movies that cost much less.
What's the freaking point? And as for Death Proof, it's a movie with a lot of women sitting around talking like QT. Nobody is talking about anything interesting, and they are all basically the same person. 4 people at a table who all act, think and talk alike is a boring conversation. Put that into a movie TWICE, with two different sets of actors, and man are you making a mistake.
I have lost all respect for QT. Despite liking most of his other stuff, he's no longer going to take money from me at the box office. And I'm quite happy this movie is flopping, because it's going to make it a LOT harder for him to get funding next time.
Remember how good his early stuff was with no money to spend (and Rodriguez too) and then try to tell me how "great" this double feature was. Like many others out there, I wanted to leave during Death Proof, but hung around thinking it must get better. There must be a reason for Kurt doing what he's doing. But there was no reason, it doesn't get better. It's just a dumb movie with no plot that just ends.
Oh, and while they may think they were clever with their trailers, I've seen "the Kentucky Fried Movie" and well, these guys were 30 years late. Samuel L. Bronkowitz makes better films than those 2 movies, and better trailers too... ;)