Pass it by!

Rating: 3/10 (25 June 2010)

Let me make this review short and sweet. "Grindhouse" was a mess. But was it supposed to be? That seems to be the bigger question.
In some ways, I almost considered "Grindhouse" to be a spoof of bad B-movies from the 1970s and that's why I can't necessarily criticize the scripts for "Planet Terror" or "Death Proof" since they might be satirizing the genre.
However, I can say that I didn't really enjoy myself while watching them. That's something I can criticize. I thought overall "Planet Terror" was somehow more entertaining than "Death Proof" which was odd because I was looking forward to seeing the latter more than the former. Don't misunderstand me, though, both movies were pretty awful.
I was looking forward to seeing Kurt Russell back on the big screen and playing a badass again but what they did to his character at the film's end was unforgivable and the main reason I disliked "Death Proof".
The only thing I can say about "Grindhouse" I liked was it provided me my first "double-feature" experience. Never before or since have I been able to go into a movie theatre and sit through two movies in a row in the same room. That was pretty cool, I thought.
Disappointingly, when the films were released on DVD and Blu-Ray, they were split up. No longer did the "Grindhouse" experience exist. You now had to buy two separate movies to have the same effect. Clearly, it was an attempt by studios to make more money but it also caused it to lose its sole redeeming quality, in my opinion.
Overall, I'd say the only reason to see this would've been to be able to say you saw a double-feature on the big screen. That's the way it was intended to be seen and it loses that drive-in type ambiance in your own home. I would not recommend this movie to others, in fact, I'd say to avoid it because it's quite frankly a waste of time.