Death Proof

Finally watched Death Proof by Quentin Tarantino.

Quentin is definitely an extraordinary director/filmmaker. He can see things through his camera which is different from others and he tries to make us see those special angles which we seldom see on the big screen. As this is his tribute to the 70s B-grade Grindhouse movie, he started the show with lots of psychedelics and corresponding 70s large fonts and 70s “High Chaperal” type of music. I like those scratches that he made purposely to make it look like a film, or something you get to watch at a ‘Drive-In’ theater. I also like the way he shows us the vast difference if he showed us the film in black & white and then in color.

There are some “out of your imagination” action, so please ask your children to steer clear of this movie. You can be sure Quetins show has lots of blood and body count. Well, this one won’t fail you.

There are no real moral in this movie but the storyline is ok for a B grade movie. Kurt Russell definitely made this movie a little more interesting with his witty pick up lines…

Pity the version I watched doesn’t comes with Planet Terror, else I could kill 2 birds with 1 stone.

I would rate it B+ for overall content, directorship, castings etc……

Oh, and btw, the name of the show is such because the car driven by Kurt Russell (Stuntman Mike) is death proof... i.e. the car was used for stunts and thus is built to keep whoever in the car safe (from death).... And guess what, the car is a dear old Chevrolet.. :) a 1970 Chevy Nova... :) Chevrolets are featured in many movies lately, Transformers, Wild Hogs, and now Death Proof.. :)

Grindhouse 2007

Saw an interesting preview on Astro during the weekend... calledGrindhouse.

This movie is a 2 in 1,with 2 horror flicks; "Death Proof" which is written by Quentin Tarantino, and "Planet Terror",which is written byRobert Rodriguez, merged together cleverly with fake movie trailers.

Death Proof is about a psychopath/serial killer (Kurt Russell) who goes around stalking and killing beautiful women with his "death proof" car. On the other hand, Planet Terror is about a sheriff couple who has to deal with a zombie infested town.

Expect lots of saucy scenes and brutal attacks as this is Quentin's tribute to the 70s Grindhouse Cinemas aka B-Grade Movie Theaters aka Drive in theaters or Exploitation films as they call it in US.

Black Sheep - Violence of the Lambs

Now this is a bizarre comedy thriller that have washed up our shores from New Zealand. The casts are unknown to me, and even the director/writer Jonathan King doesnt seem familiar to me. Usually, I wont even go near such zombie-animal type of movies even with a 3 feet pole but since there's a demand for a review of this gory, stomach turning, B-grade movie, I relented and decided to give this movie a try.

Storyboarding is not bad, really. Storyboard is full and complete and tries to justify every scenes it projected.

The story is about 2 sheperd brothers, the Oldfields, who grew up in their father's New Zealand sheep farm. The older brother Angus, who has deep seeded insecurity due to his handicap, is the bully and killed younger brother Henry's pet sheep causing Henry to develop a phobia of sheeps.

15 years later, Angus, who stayed on to take over their father's farm offers USD2 Million to buy over Henry's share of the farm. Henry returned to the farm to accept the offer from Angus, who is now an established sheep farmer and researcher. As Henry was about to leave, 2 environmentalist, Grant and Experience, accidentally released a mutant sheep foetus while investigating Angus' genetic experiment on sheeps.

Weird experience with deadly meat-eating sheeps and face-to-face battles with violent man-killing sheeps follows. Get ready to be surprised by deadly Were-Sheeps transformation and gory "shot-guns-bursting-sheep-heads" scenes and expect lots of wild, murderous sheeps on a killing rampage.

I think you would like this one if you are a fan of those "zombie" movies or if you tend to "flock" to those "genetically modified mutants that goes on a killing frenzy" kind of movies. For me, I think there are better movies to watch than this "shear terror". BaaHahaha.

Preview : Shoot Em Up

Watched the preview on Astro Behind the scenes and thought it's worth mentioning and worth waiting for. What caught my eye was the abundance of action and gun shots and also the love story in the background.... kinda make it a movie for the boys (who goes for the action) and girls (love story maniacs, obviously) and family (baby and all)..... Also boasts some high class casts which the director and writer Michael Davis handpicked namely, Clive Owen (of Derailed, Pink Panther, Sin City and King Arthur fame), Paul Giamatti (2005 Oscar winner for best supporting actor in Cinderella Man) and Monica Bellucci (Oscar nominated for Matrix Reloaded, and The Passion Of the Christ) .

Will be waiting eagerly for its release in Malaysia... meanwhile, here's the plot sypnosis (source: imdb.com):

Mr. Smith (Clive Owen) is waiting for a bus when a pregnant woman runs by, chased by a group of thugs. Smith kills them and delivers the baby, but the mother is killed. Chased by the evil Mr. Hertz (Paul Giamatti) and an army of goons, Smith enlists DQ (Monica Bellucci), a lactating prostitute, to help him care for the baby.After a series of gun fights, Smith discovers the truth. A Democratic presidential candidate and supporter of draconian gun control measures is dying, but had several supporters impregnanted from his sperm so he could harvest the children. The women were killed by Mr. Hertz who was working for a wealthy firearms executive. However, Mr. Hertz and the Democratic politican cut a deal to work together. Smith kills every one of them personally, and in the end he reunites with DQ and the baby to start a new family.