Sunday, April 08, 2007
Grindhouse a Go Go!
So my birthday is on Tuesday and we kicked off the celebrations this weekend in style. Namely we went and saw Grindhouse at the Studio Movie Grill in Arlington. And it was RAD.
Best. Movie. Ever. (I know I say that for a lot of movies, but I have a tally of the Best. Movies. Ever. and this made the list.)
Ben, Chris, Rich, Robert and Ashley were able to make it out for the movie, and everyone seemed to really enjoy it, which was good since I was a bit worried about making everyone go see a movie that not everyone might be into and guilting them into it because it was my birthday.
That being said, everyone needs to see this movie! Planet Terror kicked ass, and I freaking love Rose McGowan. The zombies were especially gross, which made it fun to eat dinner while watching pieces of people's bodies fall off in clumps of blood and pus! Since it's a double feature I was able to pace myself and even scored some dessert during Death Proof. Sidenote to Studio Move Grill: serving a brownie under ice cream without heating it up turns it into a hockey puck that's almost impossible to eat. I'm sure you've got a microwave back there, toss that bitch in there for 30 seconds, it will make a WORLD of difference.
Death Proof was good too, but not as good as Planet Terror. Though the pay off at the end was definitely worth it. Ben and I have been on this kick about spit takes and how funny they are so seeing Kurt Russell do a spit take near the end nearly sent me out of my chair.
The best part of the movie was before it even started, though, when the movie usher grabbed everyone's attention to make an announcement that the movie was filmed with scratches and burns and cuts in the film with missing reels and whatnot, and that the filmmakers shot the film that way and not to come out and complain about it. I thought this was extremely hilarious and if it were me, I wouldn't have made this announcement, and anyone that came out and complained would have been kicked out of the theatre because anyone that didn't know what the movie was going to be like going in shouldn't be allowed to view its awesomeness. But I'm just mean like that.
The other funny part came from the audience, which, as you all know, I loathe having to see movies with the general public, but sometimes they are good for a laugh.
There's no real "sex scenes" in Grindhouse, but when these scenes WOULD have come up in the movie they were "missing" and we got a 70's slide of "Sorry for the missing reel - Theatre Management". We saw this in Planet Terror, and in Death Proof there's a scene where Kurt Russell is going to get a lap dance from a trampy girl in the movie, and some asshat in the audience let out an excited "Whoop!" at the prospect of seeing this, which ended up being, of course, in a "missing reel". I SO wish we had been sitting closer to that guy to hear his sigh that he wouldn't get to see it.
Also, the spoof trailers were AWESOME!!!!!! I couldn't even leave during the intermission because the three trailers they played were so rad I was glued to my seat. If Rob Zombie decides to make "Werewolf Women of the S.S." I'm so there!
So anyway, go see Grindhouse, it's three hours of gold.
After the movie, Chris, Rich, Ben and I went to Caves, a bar in Arlington, where we met up with Lori and her boyfriend, Shawn. From there we shut the bar down with some hijinks and many, many gallons of alcohol. I'll let the pictures speak for themselves (there are many more, but some aren't suitable even for the internet):
Best. Movie. Ever. (I know I say that for a lot of movies, but I have a tally of the Best. Movies. Ever. and this made the list.)
Ben, Chris, Rich, Robert and Ashley were able to make it out for the movie, and everyone seemed to really enjoy it, which was good since I was a bit worried about making everyone go see a movie that not everyone might be into and guilting them into it because it was my birthday.
That being said, everyone needs to see this movie! Planet Terror kicked ass, and I freaking love Rose McGowan. The zombies were especially gross, which made it fun to eat dinner while watching pieces of people's bodies fall off in clumps of blood and pus! Since it's a double feature I was able to pace myself and even scored some dessert during Death Proof. Sidenote to Studio Move Grill: serving a brownie under ice cream without heating it up turns it into a hockey puck that's almost impossible to eat. I'm sure you've got a microwave back there, toss that bitch in there for 30 seconds, it will make a WORLD of difference.
Death Proof was good too, but not as good as Planet Terror. Though the pay off at the end was definitely worth it. Ben and I have been on this kick about spit takes and how funny they are so seeing Kurt Russell do a spit take near the end nearly sent me out of my chair.
The best part of the movie was before it even started, though, when the movie usher grabbed everyone's attention to make an announcement that the movie was filmed with scratches and burns and cuts in the film with missing reels and whatnot, and that the filmmakers shot the film that way and not to come out and complain about it. I thought this was extremely hilarious and if it were me, I wouldn't have made this announcement, and anyone that came out and complained would have been kicked out of the theatre because anyone that didn't know what the movie was going to be like going in shouldn't be allowed to view its awesomeness. But I'm just mean like that.
The other funny part came from the audience, which, as you all know, I loathe having to see movies with the general public, but sometimes they are good for a laugh.
There's no real "sex scenes" in Grindhouse, but when these scenes WOULD have come up in the movie they were "missing" and we got a 70's slide of "Sorry for the missing reel - Theatre Management". We saw this in Planet Terror, and in Death Proof there's a scene where Kurt Russell is going to get a lap dance from a trampy girl in the movie, and some asshat in the audience let out an excited "Whoop!" at the prospect of seeing this, which ended up being, of course, in a "missing reel". I SO wish we had been sitting closer to that guy to hear his sigh that he wouldn't get to see it.
Also, the spoof trailers were AWESOME!!!!!! I couldn't even leave during the intermission because the three trailers they played were so rad I was glued to my seat. If Rob Zombie decides to make "Werewolf Women of the S.S." I'm so there!
So anyway, go see Grindhouse, it's three hours of gold.
After the movie, Chris, Rich, Ben and I went to Caves, a bar in Arlington, where we met up with Lori and her boyfriend, Shawn. From there we shut the bar down with some hijinks and many, many gallons of alcohol. I'll let the pictures speak for themselves (there are many more, but some aren't suitable even for the internet):
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# posted by 
: April 09, 2007 9:24 AM
: April 09, 2007 9:24 AM
Yup, and I'll say it here that I think Death Proof would have been SOLID if it had been the first movie instead of the second one.
I was so geared up after Planet Terror that it was too big of a bring down, where if they were reversed I wouldn't have even noticed... but that's just my opinion, I still enjoyed the HELL out of myself!
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I was so geared up after Planet Terror that it was too big of a bring down, where if they were reversed I wouldn't have even noticed... but that's just my opinion, I still enjoyed the HELL out of myself!
HAHA! Don't!
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