"Where is the thing ?", asks Bruce Willis to a lost Saïd. But it's way too late : the thing is everywhere and slowly turns every inhabitants of a small Texas town into zombiesque creatures. Everyone ? No : a dozen of people seems to escape the contamination, and they might be the last hope to save the earth. Just give them guns, and let them shoot every motherf***er Zombies.
"Planet Terror" is a crazy/serious pastiche and a beautiful homage to the Grinhouse Z-movies, with it's stupid situations, stereotype characters, out of the blues dialogs, extremely gore and fun action scenes, and beautiful woman with gun-legs. It's a little bit like "From dusk 'till Dawn", only in better.
Extremely funny and fun, the movie also manages to be a sincere homage to the genre as well as an experimental movie, that beats the Tarantino's one in its own field (the "mising reel" is a real post-modern sabotage of the movie, like the scratches on the film, that gives "Planet Terror" a magnificent vintage look). But there's no need for a fight between the two movies here : "Planet Terror" and "Death Proof" are like brother movies, that were thought together, and were meant to be seen together in the double feature "Grinhouse" Project. QT works on the script of "Planet Terror", and I'm sure lots of the great ideas of the movie came from him. And the difference is here : with "Grindhouse", Tarantino made its worst movie, whereas Rodriguez made its best one ! That means that in the end, "Planet Terror" is an excellent movie, and that "Grindhouse" was a hell of an experience.
"Planet Terror" is a crazy/serious pastiche and a beautiful homage to the Grinhouse Z-movies, with it's stupid situations, stereotype characters, out of the blues dialogs, extremely gore and fun action scenes, and beautiful woman with gun-legs. It's a little bit like "From dusk 'till Dawn", only in better.
Extremely funny and fun, the movie also manages to be a sincere homage to the genre as well as an experimental movie, that beats the Tarantino's one in its own field (the "mising reel" is a real post-modern sabotage of the movie, like the scratches on the film, that gives "Planet Terror" a magnificent vintage look). But there's no need for a fight between the two movies here : "Planet Terror" and "Death Proof" are like brother movies, that were thought together, and were meant to be seen together in the double feature "Grinhouse" Project. QT works on the script of "Planet Terror", and I'm sure lots of the great ideas of the movie came from him. And the difference is here : with "Grindhouse", Tarantino made its worst movie, whereas Rodriguez made its best one ! That means that in the end, "Planet Terror" is an excellent movie, and that "Grindhouse" was a hell of an experience.