Grindhouse

Grindhouse is fucking great.

The trailers are brilliant. The first movie, Planet Terror, is good, better if you like zombie movies or Fallout.

But Tarantino's "Death Proof" is what it's all about.

Personally I think Tarantino himself is sort of a ponce. He comes off smarmy and insincere in interviews, and his acting makes me wince. Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs, good movies. Kill Bill I, good. Everything else, eh. But Death Proof is, except for some gratuitous foreshadowing, about as good and tight as movies get. It's rough stuff; low on gore but psychologically rougher I think than anything he's done prior, and with less Tarantinoesque dialogue than usual. There's a ton of dialogue, but it's the best and most naturalistic in a film in a long time.

And holy shit Zoe Bell and the stunts. Or, 'stunt'. Un fucking believeable.