Grindhouse Presents, Death Proof - Extended and Unrated (Two-Disc Special Edition) | 
 enlarge | Director: Quentin Tarantino
Actors: Kurt Russell, Rosario Dawson, Rose Mcgowan
Studio: The Weinstein Company
Category: DVD
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Rating:  402 reviews
Sales Rank: 1154
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Widescreen, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: Unrated
Number Of Items: 2
Running Time: 113
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: WEID80388D
UPC: 796019803885
EAN: 0796019803885
ASIN: B000R7HY0K
Theatrical Release Date: April 6, 2007
Release Date: September 18, 2007
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Product Description
A deranged stuntman stalks his victims from the safety of his killer car but when he picks on the wrong group of badass babes all bets are off in an adrenaline-pumping high speed white-knuckle automotive duel of epic proportions where anything can happen. Studio: Genius Products Inc Release Date: 09/16/2008 Starring: Kurt Russell Rose Mcgowan Run time: 117 minutes Rating: Nr Director: Quentin Tarantino
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Loud, fast, and proudly out of control, Grindhouse is a tribute to the low-budget exploitation movies that lurked at drive-ins and inner city theaters in the '60s and early '70s. Writers/directors Quentin Tarantino (Kill Bill) and Robert Rodriguez (Sin City) cooked up this three-hour double feature as a way to pay homage to these films, and the end result manages to evoke the down-and-dirty vibe of the original films for an audience that may be too young to remember them. Tarantino's Death Proof is the mellower of the two, relatively speaking; it's wordier (as to be expected) and rife with pulp/comic book posturing and eminently quotable dialogue. It also features a terrific lead performance by Kurt Russell as a homicidal stunt man whose weapon of choice is a souped-up car. Tarantino's affection for his own dialogue slows down the action at times, but he does provide showy roles for a host of likable actresses, including Rosario Dawson, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Rose McGowan, Sydney Poitier, and newcomer Zoe Bell, who was Uma Thurman's stunt double in Kill Bill. Detractors may decry the rampant violence and latch onto a sexist undertone in Tarantino's feature, but for those viewers who grew up watching these types of films in either theaters or on VHS, such elements will be probably be more of a virtue than a detrimental factor. -- Paul Gaita
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 The one star goes to the car chase scenes. January 4, 2009
I'm watching it now and my initial reaction in the theater is much magnified. This movie has the worse dialogue I have ever heard. It's worse than an eighties sitcom or an after-school special. It's worse than most of the movies I cable-surf every weekend. What women talk like this? And as I listen to it go and on, who cares?
Reservoir Dogs = brilliant dialogue
Samuel Jackson and John Travolta = brilliant dialogue
Kill Bill (both movies) = sparse but effective dialogue
The dialogue in this movie makes my ears bleed. On to the car chase, please. Hurry!
 One of the Greatest Car Chases in Film History December 25, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Yeah yeah, there is a lot of talking and there is also a lot of talking. This is a Tarantino movie, and his characters love to talk. But if you didn't spend the time hanging out with the girls of Death Proof, then you wouldn't give two s***s about them when it all hits the fan.
As Stuntman Mike, Kurt Russell owns this film - until Zoe Bell shows us what she's made of.
If you are a fan of classic movie stunt work, with the raw energy and brutal force that is Tarantino - then you will dig this flick!
 That bad acting in the second half . December 21, 2008
If it wasn't for the bad acting in the second half of this film - Rosario Dawson excluded - i would've given it a five star .
The film in short is about psycho stunt man stalker , who kills women using his stunt car . How ? watch the film .
And since it's a tribute to the exploitation films of the past , you'll be treated with coloring problems , sound problems , glitches and that old films lines that shows up on the screen every now and then .Nice .
What ruined the film for me is the bad acting from Tracie Thoms in the second half of the film . She was like a bad female version of Samuel L. Jackson . You can forgive Zoe Bell because she's a stunt woman and Mary Elizabeth Winstead for having a small role , unless Mr. Tarantino wanted them to act like that , But we can't know that . Commentary denied .
The extras are not much . Come on Mr. Tarantino , give us a commentary man .Be generous like your brother in arms Robert Rodriguez , His dvd extras rock .
Driving lessons December 18, 2008
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
The whole of the Grindhouse combi pack is in terribly bad taste. The film marketers should have let them out together, not in this separate version. Who can take this stuff twice! Well, I could. Admittedly, I needed about 15 months rest between the two parts.
While the other half, Planet Terror, is an awfully disgusting 'instant modern classic' (what a lovely word combination!) of the superlative zombie genre, in Death Proof we have essentially a combination of substantial boredom with shocking surprise and for some time great suspense.
Nice man Kurt Russell turns out to be a raving mad serial killer. I am not giving away much here, since we are let into the secret fairly early, we only need to sit through endless girl talk in a bar and in a car. I guess it serves to build up suspense. Well. Do women talk like that? What a strange sub-species of homo sapiens. But in all fairness, their talk is just nutty, that does not justify Kurt's behaviour. He really shouldn't do that!
Well, he does do it. And he gets away with it to try the same in another state. Again we get girl talk and cars, and then Kurt tries it again, and then the girls teach him a lesson. And let me tell you, that is about the most suspenseful driving lesson that I have watched in the movies.
For sure not the top of Tarantino's career, but not without impressive scenes.
If Boredom Were a movie... December 14, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is not a slasher movie. If it was there would be about 2hrs less dialogue and triple the body count. There is absolutely no pathos to this movie either. What if fails to accomplish by sharing the joy of a psycho who likes killing with his car, it fails to turn over when the girls start chasing the psycho. The dialogue is much like watch a very shrivelled, ugly person masturbate for 113 minutes while the eye candy saves nothing. If you have a choice between talking to a vapid moron with no sense of reality and a vast case of apathy or watching this movie, shoot the moron, burn the movie go out and get a few beers. There is absolutely nothing about this movie worth recommeding except NOT WATCHING IT. If you do, at least fast forward and save yourself 45minutes of your life;)
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