'Grindhouse' Provides Something New

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   In an age of feel good movies, loosely based on a true story films and chick flicks, “Grindhouse” offers the change needed to get the testosterone pumping regardless of your gender. 

   Set in a 1960’s-1970’s double feature B-movie style, Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez made two films that were distinctly different but work together so well that audiences would feel something missing if they were separated. 

    “Planet Terror,” the first movie in the double feature, began with Rose McGowan in a strip club and quickly progressed to fast-pace zombie thriller that ranged from funny to disgusting and back to funny.  

   A military scientist, played by Naveen Andrews, released a biological chemical that turned 98 percent of the world’s population into zombies. A small collection of survivors in a small town led by a mysterious stranger, Freddy Rodriguez, set out to save humanity by killing everything in their path on their way to a paradise in Mexico. 

   R. Rodriguez added multiple story lines into the intense thriller but, in humorous fashion, left most of these hanging.  

   Tarantino disappointed in his latest work “Death Proof.” The movie started out slow with a lot dialogue that was not written as well as his previous work, but the action sequences make up for some of the long-winded monologues.  

   Kurt Russell played a retired stunt man that stalks and murders young girls with his supped up stunt car. During his second murder, the roles reverse and Russell is set in a fast-pace race for his life. 

   Between the two movies the audiences are treated with an arrangement of fake movie trailers that are both entertaining and well made. Most of the movies would do well in a similar format as “Grindhouse.” 

   “Grindhouse” is well worth a movie ticket if you are an action junkie or if you like the zombie-movie genre. If you do not like blood and guts, “Grindhouse” is not the movie for you.

 

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