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TravisR

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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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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... :rolleyes

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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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.:crazy:
 

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But since the grindhouses have long since been replaced by direct-to-video, such an exercise would be purely academic.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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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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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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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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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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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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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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It was something like half an hour shorter in the theatrical release of Grindhouse.
 

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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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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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Definitely. I honestly am not sure how a movie fan - especially one who apparently haunts places like this - didn't hear about it... :confused:
 

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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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