Sure, I can understand why Grindhouse bombed in America. Just because Death Proof and Planet Terror were intended as a double feature, it doesn’t mean that Tarantino and Rodriguez were stingy on the length. Grindhouse, as it was intended, is not physically manageable for most people. It takes a good chunk of hours out of your day to watch both movies. And to be honest, if I had seen both of them back to back, I would have been killed or at least crippled by the dangerous overexposure to sheer awesome.
So you’ll understand that the project was not tailored to your average movie-goer and his/her needs, during life. What remains a mystery to me is that Death Proof got a release over here and Planet Terror didn’t. Both of them were fantastic fun but I think that Planet Terror was the better movie. The only vaguely logical explanation I can think of is that Tarantino is of course the bigger name, and Death Proof’s ticket sales would reflect how many they’d sell for Planet Terror if it were released. If you’re going to see one then you’re going to see the other, right? So that can only mean that Death Proof didn’t do very well in cinemas over here, which really just confirms my suspicions that everyone is retarded. Stupid humanity. Oh well....
Five out of five Bill Cosbys.
