Reviews

I've read a few comments on here about how bad this looks, how the actors suck but people seem to forget this was a first movie made for $79,000. The actors were mainly amateurs, for most of them this was their first film. People who have commented on this would be the kind of people to dismiss Clerks because it's black and white and looks crap. With low budget movies you have to judge them by different standards. The film isn't going to look like a Hollywood picture, the actors aren't going to win any Oscars. In this kind of film you to have to look at potential and this film shows that Jody Hill and Danny Mcbride have bags of the stuff. The execution may not be perfect but this is a funny film, it's wrong in so many ways, it'll upset and offend but I think that's the point. But for all the swearing, the granny beating and the kid beatings the movie has it's heart in the right place. Danny Mcbrides Fred Simmons is a looser but he's been able to find himself with the help of martial arts and now he wants to help others do the same. It's a good film maybe not to everyones tastes but a good example of first time film making.

So I just watched death proof yesterday for the first time. When Grindhouse was released I was really excited, I love QT and Rodriguez. These types of films I thought would suit them down to the ground. I watched planet terror and loved it so i had high hopes. boy was I disappointed. Death proof lacks in a lot of places, nothing happens for the first 45 minutes, then you get about 5-10 minutes of some very cool stuff then another 45 minutes or so of dullness until the 20 minutes or so at the end which again are pretty cool. Normally QT doesn't need a lot going on in his movies to make them interesting, his scripts are enough to keep everything moving along nicely. Not so here I'm afraid, the script is dull. We spend so long with the girls before Mike arrives yet we find nothing out about them apart from they're not as slutty as they look and they drink and smoke pot. It's just really uninteresting. I know grind house movies aren't' known for their character development but why spend 45 minutes with them when we could spend 10 minutes with them and find out all you need to know. I can't really say much more(nothing much more happens) but I think I'm glad they ended up splitting the 2 up because I think this would of soured my enjoyment of Planet terror.

In conclusion there is only about 30 minutes of this film worth watching.

I'm honestly not sure if I watched the same film as most of the other people here. It seems just because this is a Renoir film it has to be a masterpiece. I had what i thought was going to be a pleasure of seeing this on Sunday at a great little cinema I know. The few Renoir films I'd seen in the past were good and this was supposed to be another classic. I couldn't of been more wrong. This was dull from the very start. Unimaganitive script, hammy bad acting and even though it was filmed in a country as beautiful as Indian the direction was flat and very much uninspiring. There didn't seem any point this. The characters were never really explored, you only had the most basic of knowledge about who they were and what drove them. I came out of this utterly disappointed. I know I'll probably be blasted on here for being an uneducated heathen who could never understand the subtleties of a master like Jean Renoir but I just really didn't think this was a very good film.