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Grindhouse
Year Released: 2007
Box Office Gross: $12.75
Awards Won: The Souls of Pretentious Young Potheads.

I believe that from this list you can gather that I'm a fan of Quentin Tarantino's work, and while I really haven't watched all that much of Robert Rodriguez, I was completely enthralled with the thought of two directors/writers whose styles are so connected teaming up to produce an old-school grindhouse theatrical adventure. It was obvious from the get-go that the movie wouldn't do well or even go over well - two full-length movies combined with an air of nostalgia that's only nostalgic for people who would never go see this movie was a recipe for box office disaster, but I loved the experience of going to a "grindhouse" with my brother while inebriated. (:

Rodriguez directed Planet Terror, generally perceived as the better of the two. It's a straight-forward zombie-ish movie that's full of OTTN5 blood and gore (and some seriously sick shit is in this movie) with lots of fun dialogue and hilarious moments. Let me run down a few of the movie;s best moments:

To name just a few. The movie's semi-amazing.



So in addition to Death Proof there's also some HILARIOUS "movie previews" interspersed in the beginning and between the films. They truly are amazing (a horror movie called Don't, a knife going into a girl's vajay as she jumps on a trampoline? "YOU JUST FUCKED WITH THE WRONG MEXICAN") and ought to be watched instead of explained. Death Proof was Tarantino's contribution to Grindhouse, and while not many care for it, I actually liked it a lot. It's very slow and the dialogue isn't as great as always, but it has a cameo by Cherry Darling <3 and also features one of the best car crashes ever seen in cinematic history (definitely the best one seen from five angles).

I could talk about this movie all day, but I won't. I know it's pretty much underappreciated by many and I understand how it's not for everyone, so for those reasons (and because I LOVE LOVE LOVE a lot of other movies on my list), I'm giving it "merely" an HONORABLE MENTION.

Oh, I leave you with a quote:
"If you're going to hire Machete to kill the bad guy, you'd better make damn sure the bad guy isn't you!"

Wildcat612 wrote:

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The Departed was 2006. It and Million Dollar Baby were both Best Pictures so they can't have come out in the same year.

You're totes right, I'll change it after work. Dunno how I got one so far off. *_*

BG. It is touching, and it is about Colombian drug smuggling. Don't know if they quite sound right in the same phrase, though. (:

HONORABLE MENTION

Hero
Year Released: 2003 (over here)
Box Office Gross: $53,710,019
Awards Won: Nom'd for an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film and got a smattering of other wins/nominations from an array of moderately respectable awards venues.

I consider Hero the middle of the trifecta of America's short-lived obsession with foreign language martial arts films. The three "big" ones (in my uneducated eyes) were Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon; Hero; and House of Flying Daggers. Tiger seemed like it pretty much was jacked by America and was not mainstreamed at all for US audiences. I appreciated it but was kinda meh on it. Hero knew that it would show up in America so it was produced a little differently and I think it was much more akin to what we would expect here in the EEU than Tiger was. And then Flying Daggers came along, which was totally an American movie and kinda sucked, I think (I don't remember, I just saw it once in theaters).

It is interesting to note, however, that Crouching Tiger made nearly $130mil, while Hero only got $50mil and Flying Daggers picked up a remarkably pathetic $11mil. Guess America wasn't as dumb as they thought.

Anyhow, I liked Hero the best because the story was so WTF and confusing (it's like eight flashbacks of the same events or something) and it overall was pretty epic. It also had the AMAZING Snowmance when the hottest old Asian broad hooks up with like eight other martial artists, or something like that.


(she gives me snow in my pants)

I think that a martial arts movie deserves a place on this list, and since I only saw Crouching Tiger once when I was young and thought it was really blah while I liked Hero and watched it multiple times, I gave it the spot.