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Old 09-15-2008, 09:26 AM   #36
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Yes, but keep in mind as awesome of a thing as a lot of those movies were, a lot of them sucked.
Rolling Thunder and Vanishing Point are stand out gems, but not all of them were like that.
Death Proof is great don't get me wrong, I'm just saying I don't feel like it captured the grittiness and audience involvement the way Planet Terror did. Planet Terror embraced being a bad movie, and did so for the crowd, which made it amazing. It was a tribute to those movies through imitation and tongue in cheek parody.

I think Death Proof tried to be an overall tribute and something more. It still turned out great, but it was heavily injected with attempted art.

Planet Terror was Zombi all shot up with steroids and some Carpenter and Raimi sprinkled on top.

I like them both equally, so I'm not really disagreeing. As I said earlier, theres a part of me that even likes Death Proof more. But I don't think it fully exploited the fact that it was a balls to the wall crowd pleaser and gritty as fuck.
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