What a Grind....

Just after I finish with one rant about the questionable decisions of film studios another rant begins. This time I'm airing my frustrations at the decision by god knows who to release the double feature splatter extravaganza Grindhouse as two seperate films in Australia. I mean as if it wasn't bad anough that Grindhouse was coming out a good five months after the U.S. release, we now have to wait for an inferior product as the directors in no way intended originally. The newly seperated films will also come out at different dates, forcing australian audiences to wait even longer to see both of them.


The decision has obviously been made after the poor box office that Grindhouse recieved in America, and naturally instead of giving the film a chance with audiences over here, the studios would rather take the safer option, so even if the films do poorly atleast the will have double what they would of had. Half the attraction of this Grindhouse project was the fact that it was a double feature and it even had fake ads and traliers inserted into the intermission, and now we might not even get these extras thanks to the new format of release. What can you do? Studios can make whatever decisions they want and the cinema viewing public just have to wear it and fork up the money, and at any rate, Australian's have gotten used to paying for America's mistakes.

Grindhouse is coming...

Looking at the lineup of films coming to cinemas in recent times can be a depressing activity. I can't remember the last time I was genuinely excited about a film and that worries me considering that films are one of my favourite things I reckon, well I don't reckon, I know!
There's been a few exceptions here and there:
Pan's Labyrinth
Casino Royale
Babel
Well the next little glimmer of hope comes in the form of a double feature directed by filmakers Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino. Its called Grindhouse, and its a film nerds wet dream. It harks back to the days of the drive in exploitation films of old where you would get two films for the price of one. Tarantino directs serial killer story Death Proof whilst Rodriguez' entry is a zombie film titled Planet Terror. Both will be very gruesome, very camp and extremely cool and for me August, 2007 can't come soon enough. Do yourself a world of good and see it when it comes out..don't download it!