best film all year

Rating: 10/10 (6 April 2007)

without having seen or even knowing about most of the movies coming out this year, i can already tell you that Grindhouse will entertain you more. a double feature from Robert Rodriguez and Quintin Tarantino, and with almost no break in the action, a keen eye for what grindhouse cinema is all about, and more blood than one can handle, Grindhouse takes the cake.
first (after a hilarious trailer for Machete) comes RR's "Planet Terror," a non-stop fast-paced exploitation film set in a zombified Texas town. in Rose McGowen as a sexy go-go dancer who loses her leg. next is her crazy boyfriend who eventually straps on her famous gun-leg. they, along with a few other survivors, are against the whole town in stopping the spread of zombies before they infect the planet. very reminiscent of a Geroge A. Romero flick (pacing included), RR decides to take that concept and add as much blood, gore, and pus as possible. no one will come out of this without feeling even a little squeamish. 10/10.
last (after more insanely funny trailers, including Rob Zombie's "Werewolf Women of the S.S. and Eli Roth's delightfully disgusting "Thanksgiving") is QT's "Death Proof," a carsploitation (i can make that word work) film. not nearly as fast-paced or engaging as its predecessor, one might think that QT had failed us. not quite. although the middle 30 minutes bored some people to sleep, the ending car-chase makes up for it, using real stunts instead of CGI. 8/10.
the trailers get a 10/10 by the way.
my personal opinion is that they should have switched the orders of the films, considering the fact that as an audience, we are extremely pumped up after the first film only to be led into a slower-paced, but still fun, movie. as i said before, nothing will even come close to the exhilaration you'll feel when watching this. it's the first, and probably only, time this year i can say i will see a movie again before it's out of theatres. 10/10.