Sentences with phrase «own death proof»

But all varieties of horror flick are easily identifiable at this point, whether they're spooky, low - budget films (numerous); viscera - stained slasher movies (more numerous); quick - cut zombie flicks (even more numerous); macabre sci - fi, floating - in - space efforts (somewhat less numerous than they should be); sexualized vampiric tales (I trip over one of these whenever I get the newspaper); films of the more critically favored retro - mashup variety (Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez's Death Proof plus Planet Terror feature Grindhouse); or foreign entries of the psychological horror variety (the works of Dario Argento, of course; Alexandre Aja's films, which have their defenders; and Juan Antonio Bayona's El Orfanato, which only someone who truly dislikes cinema can dismiss).

After the box office failure and, in some circles, critical pummeling heaped on «Death Proof,» he had something to prove.

As it stands right now, in this writer's opinion, «Death Proof» still remains his worst movie, but none of his flicks are flaccid.

Director / Director / Producer / Producer / Written By (Segment «Death Proof») / Written By (Segment «Death Proof»)

Cherry Darling (Segment «Planet Terror») / Pam (Segment «Death Proof») / Cherry Darling (Segment «Planet Terror») / Pam (Segment «Death Proof»)

I suspect that Death Proof will throw some of its director's admirers for a loop, though it may be the most revealing thing Tarantino has yet done — a full - throttle expression of a singular artistic temperament disguised, like so many gems of grindhouses yore, as a glittering hunk of trash.

In Death Proof, it was too academic, but here's it's successful — a critic would be hard - pressed to mistake this sweaty, desperately protracted sequence for mere sadistic directorial indulgence.

Commercially — and probably artistically — Tarantino hit his nadir with 2007's Death Proof.

While Death Proof engaged in simple repackaging for its home - theater release, Planet Terror uses the opportunity to add another twist of fun to the mix.

In his mid-60s, Russell seems to be on the verge of legend status, but though his career has noticeably thinned in recent years (he hardly acted between Tarantino's Death Proof and this year's Furious 7), this does not quite feel like the revival that Tarantino is credited with extending to John Travolta and, less permanently, Pam Grier and Robert Forster.

While I agree very much with Eric Snider's assessment of Django Unchained as «lesser Tarantino» - I place it above on Death Proof on my own personal rankings - I also agree with his further assertion that it is a...

Stuntman Mike, pompadour'd with a long scar decorating the left side of his face, drives a car he's «death proofed»: reinforced for stunt work to the point that almost no auto - related calamity could claim the life of its driver.

Planet Terror's not nearly as smart as it thinks it is; Death Proof's smarts are so edged and complicated that they could only be the product, unintentional, of an auteur who's assimilated the undertow of his favourite films and, rarest of the rare, is able to reproduce those undertows in works that, however familiar, are completely original.

For a director ever - willing to transpose his gobbiness to the screen, Death Proof provided Quentin Tarantino with his best opportunity to date to exercise his considerable action chops.

Its conclusion an ejaculation of complicated genre reversals and confirmations, Death Proof is a film about courtship, untimely intoxication, bad decisions, and testosterone as a literal elixir taken like a shot of Jaeger when you need to seal a deal.

Tarantino's feature in the project is the story of three women harassed by an old movie stunt that uses his «death proof» car as a murderous weapon.

This is the biggest problem with Death Proof — Tarantino can't write for women.

Movies: Death Proof, django unchained, Inglourious Basterds, Jackie Brown, Kill Bill, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, True Romance

If it had relied less on special effects and more on actual stunt driving (Tarantino did it a hell of a lot better in Death Proof), then it may have been a great popcorn flick.

Like most Tarantino, Death Proof is a love letter to movies of yore, and this try - hard b - grade throwback to trashy 70s movies certainly succeeds on that level.

Okay so now that I've gotten over the Weinsteins cutting up Grindhouse, I can get down to appreciating the «extended version» of Tarantino's half of the double bill concept, Death Proof.

Take the following examples of modern campfests: Drag Me To Hell (2009), Death Proof (2007), You're Next (2013), Slither (2006), Fright Night (2011), Shaun of the Dead (2004), Zombieland (2009), Planet Terror (2007), Red State (2011) and Cabin in the Woods (2012).

For the first half hour, Death Proof's running on attitude alone.

Simple and to the point, Death Proof is the menacing, yet at times very funny, ordeal of a man using his talent for evil.

Real - life stuntwoman Zoe Bell (who doubled for Uma Thurman in «Kill Bill» and Lucy Lawless in «Xena: Warrior Princess») and Tracie Thoms (whose role would have been played by Pam Grier or Samuel L. Jackson in any other movie) deliver great performances throughout their half of the film, but it's Kurt Russell who walks away with «Death Proof» as Stuntman Mike, yet another excellent addition to his rogue's gallery of classic characters.

Even though he's still not quite over his break - up with Natalie (Brie Larson) and is currently dating a 17 - year - old Chinese schoolgirl (Ellen Wong), everything changes when he meets Ramona Flowers (Mary Elizabeth Winstead, the cheerleader from «Death Proof»), a crazy / beautiful hipster goddess he falls desperately in love of with, in spite of the disapproval of his band - mates (Mark Webber and Alison Pill), his bitchy gay roommate (scene - stealer Kieran Culkin), his sister (Anna Kendrick), the girl at the record store (Aubrey Plaza) and just about everyone else.

Unlike «Death Proof,» which reinserted the «missing reel» back into the film, «Planet Terror» keeps things the same.

Tarantino's film, «Death Proof,» is a rip - roaring slasher flick where the killer pursues his victims with a car rather than a knife, while Rodriguez's film «Planet Terror» shows us a view of the world in the midst of a zombie outbreak Read the rest of this entry»

The second half to the much - publicized split of «Grindhouse,» Robert Rodriguez's «Planet Terror» may have arrived on DVD a whole month after Tarantino's «Death Proof,» but it more than makes up for it with a bevy of cool special features.

If you're a fan, you'll know Bell from a number of Tarantino films, including «Death Proof.»

For as much as fans of Tarantino love his scene - chewing dialogue (even if people don't really talk like that in real life), there's almost too much in «Death Proof.»

After false starts in troubled productions (The Thing; Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter; A Good Day to Die Hard) and great work in little - seen pics (Death Proof; Smashed; Alex of Venice), the wait is over for patient fans that have known her A-list status was inevitable.

As they drink and smoke their way into oblivion, a borderline - creepy stalker named Stuntman Mike (Kurt Russell) plans a head - on collision between the women's car and his own death proof stunt car.

Tarantino's «Death Proof» is up next, and while the first half of the film is so boring it might cause some people to walk out early, it's well worth it to stick around for the adrenaline - pumping finale.

If you're the kind of moviegoer who got restless during the more dialogue - heavy sequences of «Death Proof» or «Reservoir Dogs,» you may find that there's too much talk and not enough action in a movie that teeters on the three - hour mark.

Jordan is known for her roles in the films «Cabin Fever», «Club Dread», and «Death Proof».

Having previously appeared in supporting roles in some entertaining (Death Proof, 2006) and positively sub-par (Scott Pilgrim vs. the World in 2010; The Thing in 2011) mainstream efforts, Winstead gets to show that she's quite talented.

Russell and Tarantino have collaborated previously on 2007's Death Proof, in which Russell starred the bad guy, aging stunt double «Stuntman» Mike.

Machete was born in 2007 when the Grindhouse double - feature hit theatres (Planet Terror and Death Proof).

The Wrap says Russell, who worked with Tarantino on his 50 % of «Grindhouse» (as the lead maniac Stuntman Mike in «Death Proof»), will play the villain of the piece, Ace Woody.

It was released theatrically in North America as part of a double feature with Quentin Tarantino's Death Proof under the title Grindhouse, to emulate the experience of viewing exploitation films in a «grindhouse» theater.

Outside the U.S and released separately, Planet Terror and Death Proof screened in extended versions.

DVD Review by Kam Williams Headline: Robert Rodriguez Homage to Zombie Genre Released on DVD This Robert Rodriguez tour de force was originally released in theaters paired with Quentin Tarantino Death Proof as the better half of Grindhouse, a double feature of deliberately low - grade throwbacks designed as an homage to the B - flicks from the Fifties.

Ruth, a blowhard and bully (who reprises the John Wayne drawl Russell brought to Tarantino's «Death Proof» in Grindhouse), is escorting the murderous termagent Daisy Domergue (Leigh, provocatively used as a comic punchbag by Tarantino) to her hanging in Red Rock.

Now, a natural name has come into the frame with Quentin Tarantino's stunt muse Zoe Bell (KILL BILL, DEATH PROOF) confirming, while promoting her survival thriller RAZE, that she's been approached and met with the producers, and she'd love to be involved:

The only features he alone directed that miss the cut are Death Proof and Jackie Brown.

besides Death proof and to a milder extent Jackie Brown Quentin has made mostly good movies.

Marley Shelton, who played the lifeguard all the boys go gaga over in «The Sandlot» Wendy Peffercorn, has starred in «Sin City,» «Planet Terror,» «Never Been Kissed,» «Death Proof,» «Scream 4» and more.

He's appeared as Mr. Brown (Reservoir Dogs), Jimmie (Pulp Fiction), a Crazy 88 gang member (Kill Bill), Warren (Death Proof), a scalped victim (Inglourious Basterds), and a member of Big Daddy's mob (Django Unchained).

I don't think you can make The Artist as a «regular» film, and I don't think it's any more of a gimmick than Death Proof, Machete, Hobo...