GRINDHOUSE Part 1
This week I am gonna talk a little bit about Grindhouse. This is one of my favorite movies of the last couple of years, and is best viewed as the entire Grindhouse experience. Unfortunately I still have yet to see it that way (besides a bootleg at home) in a crowed theater. I don't have much more to say about the movie except that I got to see it over two nights. Anyways here are a couple of trailers before the opening trailer, I think that made sense...
The movie starts with a trailer for Machete, one of the best parts of the whole Grindhouse feature as a whole was the trailers. Machete is one if the most over the top kick ass action revenge "films" that was never made (at least yet). So here is the trailer in its entirety.
Now on to the first feature, Planet Terror. It starts out with a go-go dance by Cherry Darling (played by Rose McGowan) which I wouldn't mind if the credits actually ran a little longer.
It was her last night being a dancer, she repeatedly talks about being a comedian, starts walking home and gets run off the road by a military convoy. The convoy meets up with some shady dealer type characters and all sorts of bad stuff go down. People turning on each other, someone losing their balls and most importantly a deadly gas getting released, infecting people and stuff.
From here the movie goes into a bunch of side plots which don't really matter much, only one main one kinda touched on later. Cherry meets up with El Wray at a BBQ place and he gives her a ride home. On the way they get in an accident and Cherry ends up losing her leg, not from the crash but some zombies. El Wray takes her to the hospital and you see a lot more of infection spreading in the town. And he gets busted by the cops. Another plot point that you never figure out is why El Wray is in trouble and such a bad ass.
As some zombies attack the police station the surviving cops and El Wray make a break for it and go to pickup Cherry. There is some more pointless plot going on between the Dr. William Block and Dr. Dakota Block that makes fir some entertainment later, with Dakota hands rendered useless and the William gets infected.
The group that leaves the hospital all go to the BBQ place and hide out. Meanwhile the best part of the movie happens, where after Dakota picked up her son she gives him a gun to defend himself while she gets help and the boy shoots himself in the face.
After all that good stuff happens there is a scene where you figure out a little more about the relationship between El Wray and Cherry Doll. That turns in to a sex scene and just when it starts to get goo...
Okay what the fuck just happened? Zombies are attacking, more people showed up and the building is on fire. As they are escaping in a bunch of vehicles, even a mini bike, they are stopped and captured buy the military convoy. El Wray and the scientist escape and meet up with Bruce Willis and he unleashes the only plot point that really matters. The military convoy was infected with the gas because they killed Osama Bin Laden, and now they need it in small doses so they don't mutate and die. Then Bruce Willis mutates and they kill him.
They rescue the rest of the survivors and as they all are getting ready to escape El Wray gives Cherry a machine gun for a leg, yea I know what your thinking, freaking awesome. There is some impressive leg shooing going on as they make a break for the helicopters, and a couple of the main guys die as they escape. Then cut to about a year later and all the survivors are surviving in Mexico and Cherry has up graded the machine gun to a chain gun. Awesome!
I'm gonna end this post with the trailer of Werewolf Women of the SS. Now I love this trailer and I know a lot of people say that it was the worst of them all but I would have to disagree. I think it was over the top just as much as any of the others and you never see any new SS movies anymore. I thought it was a interesting take on them, my only bitch is that for the showing it cut early and I didn't even get to see Fu Manchu.
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