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post #31 of 116
11/25/07 at 9:14am

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I don't think it tanked, it was # 1 for 3 weeks straight. The only thing I could see that made it not do so well (as you all seem it bombed) was that it ran 191 mins. Most theater goers can't sit still for 3 hours and watch a movie.

That must be while Titanic did so poorly.

Seriously - what planet are you on? The movie was a financial failure. It never hit #1 in the US, much less spent 3 weeks at that slot. It earned a TOTAL of only $25 million - that's very little.

The movie bombed - end of story...

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Back in the 60's and 70's movies ran about 3hours long, so I was happy to see a movie run more than 90 min.

What 1960s and 1970s were THOSE? SOME movies ran three hours long, but very few - it was rare then and it's rare now. You seem to think the average movie was 3 hours back then, but that's way, way, way off-base.

You have some really... UNUSUAL opinions about movies...
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post #32 of 116
11/25/07 at 9:18am

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Double-post...
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post #33 of 116
11/25/07 at 9:29am

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Maybe they were wrong, but still Grindhouse was in the top 10, thats really good for any movie, especially a film like Grindhouse is.

No, making the top 10 isn't that big a deal - especially for a much-hyped film made by TWO major directors. Grindhouse should've been #1 its first week. Just making the top 10 - particularly at a slow time of the year like April - is meaningless.

I don't know why you seem so unwilling to accept that the movie was a financial flop...
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post #34 of 116
11/25/07 at 9:31am

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Maybe they were wrong, but still Grindhouse was in the top 10, thats really good for any movie



You amuse me...I may keep you!
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post #35 of 116
11/25/07 at 9:49am

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Another double-post - this site's acting screwy today!
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post #36 of 116
11/25/07 at 11:16am
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It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World ran 192 min., Grindhouse runs one minute short of Mad World. Some movies today are ok at 90 something mins, but I prefer sometimes to watch a comedy or action that runs 2 or 3 hours.
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post #37 of 116
11/25/07 at 5:12pm

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Originally Posted by darkrock17
It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World ran 192 min., Grindhouse runs one minute short of Mad World. Some movies today are ok at 90 something mins, but I prefer sometimes to watch a comedy or action that runs 2 or 3 hours.

No one's disagreeing with you that Grindhouse was a good movie. But the fact is, based on financial performance, if flopped. Others have already reiterated why that is the case.
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post #38 of 116
11/25/07 at 6:30pm

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It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World ran 192 min., Grindhouse runs one minute short of Mad World.

Okay - what's your point?

And movies are no shorter today than they ever were. In fact, the average movie is probably LONGER these days than in the past. I have no idea what point you're trying to make here...
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post #39 of 116
11/25/07 at 7:52pm

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Okay - what's your point?
Not to mention that Grindhouse isn't one three hour story- it's two 90 minute stories back to back.
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In fact, the average movie is probably LONGER these days than in the past.
[WAY OFF TOPIC]Unfortunate but true. In the last decade or so, movies have gotten really bloated and are running way too long. Sometimes less is more. A two hour comedy is now the norm (Did Wedding Crashers or American Pie 3 need two hours to tell their tale?). A two and a half hour action movie is the norm and even a 2 hour and 45 minute action movie isn't uncommon anymore. Of course, plenty of movies work fine at a longer running time but some are ruined because movie makers have been allowed to keep thirty minutes of fat in the movie.[/WAY OFF TOPIC]
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post #40 of 116
11/26/07 at 12:57pm
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Movies today are shorter than the way were back in 60's and 70's. The average film today runs 87 mins to 94 mins.

Anyways this topic is about why are both films separated on DVD? and will the movie be released on DVD as it was shown in theaters?
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post #41 of 116
11/26/07 at 1:01pm

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Originally Posted by darkrock17
Movies today are shorter than the way were back in 60's and 70's. The average film today runs 87 mins to 94 mins.
Where did you get those stats? I don't think I've seen a movie from 2007 that's between 87 and 94 minutes (not that there aren't any- I just haven't seen them) but it definitely isn't the average running time.
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post #42 of 116
11/26/07 at 1:37pm

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Movies today are shorter than the way were back in 60's and 70's. The average film today runs 87 mins to 94 mins.

You're just making up stats as this thread progresses, aren't you? It's clear you really have no clue what you're talking about...

No, the average film isn't between 87-94 minutes. I have no clue why you believe that. Honestly, I'm starting to think you're just a really specific troll...
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post #43 of 116
11/26/07 at 2:22pm

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Originally Posted by Travis Brashear
budget (pre-advertising and printing) $67,000,000; final domestic tally $25,037,897

The sad irony of it all is that, for $67,000,000, REAL grindhouse filmmakers could have pumped out 20-30 genuine grindhouse movies and if any of them grossed $25,037,897, that would have seemed positively glorious.
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post #44 of 116
11/26/07 at 3:21pm

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But since the grindhouses have long since been replaced by direct-to-video, such an exercise would be purely academic.
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post #45 of 116
11/26/07 at 4:57pm
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The thread I posted has nothing to do with run times or how much money it made. I doubt you people don't even remember what the questions where.
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post #46 of 116
11/26/07 at 5:25pm

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The thread I posted has nothing to do with run times or how much money it made. I doubt you people don't even remember what the questions where.

Ah, not just a troll, ladies and gentlemen, but a troll with poor grammar. It's as though Christmas has come early...
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post #47 of 116
11/26/07 at 7:28pm

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The thread I posted has nothing to do with run times or how much money it made. I doubt you people don't even remember what the questions where.

The original questions "where" answered a long time ago. Since then the thread got off on your tangent because you maintain a lot of odd beliefs about the movie's box office success and modern flicks in general. If this thread had nothing to do with those subjects, why did you pursue them?

Gotta give you consistency, though - your original post misspelled "split" as "slipt" every single time!

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Ah, not just a troll, ladies and gentlemen, but a troll with poor grammar. It's as though Christmas has come early...

Yes, trolls who can't write are truly the gift that keeps on giving!
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post #48 of 116
11/27/07 at 9:27am

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Let's bring this back on topic ...

Rumor has it that a GRINDHOUSE boxset is scheduled for 1st quarter of 2008 that includes everything you saw in the theater *PLUS* the faux trailer "Hobo with a Shotgun". No official release date has been announced.

On the record, GRINDHOUSE was a fun movie to watch in the theaters. Loved PLANET TERROR ... hated DEATH PROOF. The faux trailers in the middle were a laugh riot! I loved the whole look of the scratchy film and missing reels. Too bad it wasn't a hit. Maybe if it came out in the 80s it would have had a chance.

- Colton
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post #49 of 116
11/27/07 at 3:54pm
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Didn't Grindhouse Movies stop being made in the 1980's?

Hobo With A Shotgun? was that a trailer or an up coming movie?
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post #50 of 116
11/27/07 at 8:08pm

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Hobo With A Shotgun? was that a trailer or an up coming movie?
From Wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grindhouse_%28film%29 )
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Some screenings of Grindhouse (mainly in Canada) also featured a fake trailer for a film titled Hobo With A Shotgun. The trailer is the winner of Robert Rodriguez's South by Southwest Grindhouse trailers contest and was created by Dartmouth, Nova Scotia filmmakers Jason Eisener, John Davies, and Rob Cotterill. The general plot is that a vagabond with a 20-gauge shotgun is taking the law into his own hands. In the trailer the main character is seen killing numerous persons ranging from armed robbers, corrupt cops to a pedophilic Santa Claus. The trailer was available in certain selected movie theaters in the United States and Canada. There have been discussions about making the trailer into an actual movie.
If you want to check it out, it's on You Tube.
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post #51 of 116
11/28/07 at 11:44am
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Sounds interesting. Sure sounds like it would make a good movie, could possibly be the next Grindhouse movie.
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post #52 of 116
11/28/07 at 11:49am

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I saw that trailer when it played here. It came off as more authentic then the ones done by the pros. Would be a good show.
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post #53 of 116
11/28/07 at 12:33pm

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Originally Posted by TravisR
While running three hours didn't help the grosses, I think the main reason that it was a financial failure was that most people didn't want to see it.

If I may, I think the reason that - well, at least I didnt see it - was that I never heard about the damn thing. I love schlock, sleeze, B-grade drive in material of all sorts, but even for me, someone reasonably up on these things it was like 3 weeks after it had come out when my friend mentioned "Hey - did you see Gindhouse yet?"

"Huh? Whats that?"

Of course by the time I got around to trying to see it on the weekend, it had already sunk benieth the waves of cinematic oblivion.

Of course in the long run, it was a good thing. I got around to watching the film(s) on DVD and I thought that the damn thing was craptacular. Tarentino may emulate the schlock/blacksploitation/kung-fu genre dead on, but the man doesnt know how to edit a film. That thing could have been *EASILY* half an hour shorter than it was. And Planet Terror was trying too hard, too "look! Wink Wink! We're being schlocky! Arent we COOL!" to actually be good.

No thanks - if I want real explotation, I'll go put on Shaft or They Call Her One-Eye or something.
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post #54 of 116
11/28/07 at 12:50pm

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I think the difference is, Death Proof was pretty much a perfect homage too grindhouse pictures, Planet Terror I didn't see as a "wink wink, we're being shlocky", but more a case of "see that cool poster? We're actually going to deliver that", as opposed to most exploitation that has a clever title and poster, and completely fail to deliver anything that is promised.
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post #55 of 116
11/28/07 at 12:53pm

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Tarentino may emulate the schlock/blacksploitation/kung-fu genre dead on, but the man doesnt know how to edit a film. That thing could have been *EASILY* half an hour shorter than it was.

It was something like half an hour shorter in the theatrical release of Grindhouse.
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post #56 of 116
11/28/07 at 1:21pm

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Originally Posted by Tony J Case
If I may, I think the reason that - well, at least I didnt see it - was that I never heard about the damn thing.
Well, they had a major ad campaign for the movie. I was inundated with TV ads and internet ads/stories/interviews for weeks leading up to the release. It wasn't Spider-Man 3's ad campaign but it was well advertised.
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post #57 of 116
11/28/07 at 5:15pm

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Grindhouses and the films they showed were by nature not mainstream, so trying to recreate that experience and educating the mass public was going to be difficult.

I saw it at the drive-in and loved the whole thing.
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post #58 of 116
11/28/07 at 6:21pm

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Originally Posted by TravisR
Well, they had a major ad campaign for the movie. I was inundated with TV ads and internet ads/stories/interviews for weeks leading up to the release. It wasn't Spider-Man 3's ad campaign but it was well advertised.

Definitely. I honestly am not sure how a movie fan - especially one who apparently haunts places like this - didn't hear about it...
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post #59 of 116
12/1/07 at 11:33am
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I never saw any TV spots for Grindhouse, just what I read online and the write up the they did in Entertainment Weekly.
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post #60 of 116
12/1/07 at 12:24pm

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I never saw any TV spots for Grindhouse, just what I read online and the write up the they did in Entertainment Weekly.

Then I assume you're an avid viewer of "The 700 Club"...?
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