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Grindhouse (Blu-ray Review) (thedigitalbits.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The 4-Disc Blu-ray release of Grindhouse from Via Vision Entertainment was originally produced as a Limited Edition of 2,000 units only, with a set of 8 photo cards and a thick, lenticular case. That set appears to be out of print on Via Vision’s website, but is still available elsewhere. The standard edition replicates the insert and disc-based contents, but with a slipcover instead.

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This is a substantial amount of bonus materials, culling together most, but not all, of the previously-available extras on DVD and Blu-ray. The BD Live option is no longer viable, but there are also some scattered extras from various releases across the world that didn’t make it onto this set, specifically in Japan. That Blu-ray release contains a number of on-set and red carpet interviews with the cast and crew, as well as B-roll, and several Japanese TV spots and trailers. The German Blu-ray release includes a Music Jukebox option, the What is Grindhouse? featurette, and several US TV spots and trailers. The Tarantino XX: 20 Years of Filmmaking also includes an additional Extended Music Cue, which is Unexpected Violence by Ennio Morricone. Outside of that, everything else is here and accounted for in one package.

Despite my own personal mixed feelings about how well Grindhouse holds up in light of events that came much later that are not its fault, it’s still a great package that’s been highly influential on filmmakers of all sorts. Via Vision’s Blu-ray package offers the finest visual and aural quality available with all of the various versions and a massive extras package to boot, making it the definitive release of the film on Blu-ray.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, until then he'd been hitting it out of the park and it felt like every film he was ever going to release was guaranteed to knock it out of the park. Then came Death Proof...

As far as I'm concerned he's only made one great film since, Django Unchained, so I see Death Proof as some kind of turning point.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I pretty much feel the same. I loved Pulp Fiction, then my friends turned me onto Reservoir Dogs, then unbeknownst to me I saw Natural Born Killers and couldn't figure out why I liked it so much, of course who can't love From Dusk Till Dawn, I was in! At university I acquired a copy of Jackie Brown and loved it. That was kinda it for me. By Kill Bill 2 I was getting a little weary but was mature enough to understand not everything can be to everyone's liking all of the time. I was willing to give him another go. Then I saw Death Proof in the cinema. I lied to myself for weeks afterwards telling myself that I didn't understand the art, my friends didn't understand the art, the reviews didn't under the art. I saw QT lash out at anyone that said anything against it in interviews. It was kinda sad.

I love the early movies, I still do. The latest ones just feel like he likes the smell of his own farts. The stories about him on set with Uma Thurman turns my stomach. But he has his own cult around him. Such is life.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Then I saw Death Proof in the cinema. I lied to myself for weeks afterwards telling myself that I didn’t understand the art, my friends didn’t understand the art, the reviews didn’t under the art.

I saw it and went "all those people that said he had a foot fetish were right". Also "and the rest was pretty poor too." My love for his earlier works didn't buy him enough slack for me to try and justify it.

By Kill Bill 2 I was getting a little weary but was mature enough to understand not everything can be to everyone’s liking all of the time.

I enjoyed it because I like Japanese and Chinese exploitation films but it didn't need to be 2 films and at veered away from his earlier films where you'd appreciate his jackdaw eye for excellent ingredients that he forged into something new and interesting (as George Lucas does) and too close to a Family Guy style "I liked that because I got the reference to that thing that I liked better".

The latest ones just feel like he likes the smell of his own farts.

In some ways it's a classic story of a creator who comes in with fire in his veins, dropping hit after hit. At some point, they often seem to buy the hype that they can't go wrong and everything seems to get very self-indulgent.

I thought Death Proof was a one-off misstep as he was trying too hard to ape, then subvert genre movie tropes. Then "twist" at the end of Inglorious Basterds made me go "oh fuck off" almost out loud and he did the same rewriting of history in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (the handling of the Bruce Lee scenes were painful no matter how he has tried to explain it since). I left both films very disappointed. Hateful Eight is an odd one as I still fail to see what the point of it was - it felt like more of a meandering sketch of a film not the finished product.