Exactly What You Expect

Rating: Null/10 (8 April 2007)

While I thought this film was an excellently executed piece of entertainment, there are so many other people that have praised this film before me, so I will leave it at the point of saying that I enjoyed myself.
With that said, I would like to address the people that gave this film a negative review. I have read some of these negative comments and would just like to respond to some of the accusations, because I feel like certain things need to be said. This film, or series of films, was made for the purposes of enjoyment and entertainment, simple as that. I think we, as a society, have taken things a little too far with the over-analyzing of different art forms and we have somehow lost some of the essence put into the actual art. Film-making is a completely polarize art form, there are the average movie-goers who like to see action and romance and things that they don't get in their everyday lives; these people are frowned upon by the "mature" film community. Now there are the people that watch films for the artistic nature of the film, the art-buffs, the people that consider themselves well-versed in Ingmar Bergman and Fellini, typically the people who turn up their noses at the common people looking for a cheap thrill. This film was made to cater to the everyday type emotions, no subtle subtexts, no symbolism, just blood, guts, boobs, and one-liners, with a couple of rambles of banter. I read a previous reviewer who used the word Grindhouse as a marketing ploy to attract young viewers, which shows the ignorance of people. "Grindhouse" was the term to refer to a sleazy 42nd Street-esquire movie house that would "grind" together (hence term "grindhouse") two completely different films into a double feature. They were typically seedy places which would be frequented by low-lives and were common places for missing reels, terrible projection quality, and film strips burning, hence the constant references throughout the film. I am very aggravated by the people that have shunned this film, calling it low and stupid and all these things that it aims to be on purpose. Some people need to get off their high horses, it isn't cool just to go against popular opinion, though I'm sure some people are saying they hate the film just because it has gotten so much recognition. And yes, the only reason this film is making so many ripples in the media is because Tarantino's name is on it, which is a great thing, because maybe people will start to revert and stop making this watered-down crap, bring back the old aesthetics, you know?