Grindhouse Presents, Planet Terror - Extended and Unrated (Two-Disc Special Edition)
by Robert Rodriguez
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Actor: Bruce Willis, Freddy Rodr?guez, Josh Brolin, Marley Shelton, Rose McGowanDirector: Robert Rodriguez
Brand: Planet
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Director's Cut, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 105 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-10-16
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: The Weinstein Company
DVD Reviews of Grindhouse Presents, Planet Terror - Extended and Unrated (Two-Disc Special Edition)
DVD Review: "I'm going to eat yer brains and gain all yer knowledge." :)
Summary: 5 Stars
As a zombie fan, Planet Terror exceeded by expectations and even brought back some nostaglia. Growing up on TNT's MONSTER VISION with Joe Bob Briggs and USA's Up ALL Night with that Rhonda whats-her-face, I was treated to the worst B-movies and heavily edited for TV movies than you can shake a stick at and Planet Terror would truly fit the bill for either show.
Filled with hilariously ridiculous moments and buckets (literally gallons in cases when someone getting machine-gunned to death) of gore per foot of celluloid, and more of Rose McGowan than you ever dreamed seeing, this is one hell of a fun film. I laughed... and laughed... and come to think of it laughed some more at how authentically bad it was, right down to the warping film and missing reels. Even the joke trailers that could only be seen in theaters (though rumor has it they will be releasing the movie as it played in theaters sometime soon, fingers crossed) were downright ridiculously funny.
So if you're looking for a bad B-movie just for giggles, this is probably the best you'll find that it's in the bargain bin.
DVD Review: WOW! 9.5 OUT OF 10
Summary: 5 Stars
Planet Terror quite simply is an UNBELIEVABLY AWESOME ZOMBIE FILM! This is one of the most violent, most bizarre, and most action-packed zombie films ever made. It's bloody, it has a cast of demented characters, lots of guns, a hot one-legged woman with a gun for a leg, and it even has a small guest appearance from Tom Savini (The make-up and gore effects maker for Romero's Dead franchise, and makes small guest appearances in both Dawn of the Dead films). What is there not to love about this film?
WHAT IT'S ABOUT: When a container is broken, a deadly gas is released and it starts turning people in the nearby town into the hungry undead. Now a rogue group of survivors must kill their way through the undead and fight off another group from killing them. The cast of characters is insane. One is girl with a gun for a leg, a woman who is a former doctor who has obsession with needles and likes women, a criminal who is a very good shot with his guns, a man obsessed with keeping his barbeque recipe secret, a cop who hates the criminal, two angry and abusive twin sisters, an owner of strip club, and a man who cuts the balls off of his enemies and keeps them in jars or bags, and even crazier characters are in this film.
MUSIC: This film has music similar to films from the 70's, and it fits the mood quite well.
ACTION: The film has a grainy quality to it like a 70's film. This film is very bloody, loaded with blood, guts, and severed limbs all over the place. This film is also loaded with shootouts and mature material that certainly earns the Unrated label. This is no film for kids for its mature material and disgusting bloody violence. This film is absolutely awesome, but is only for adults.
ACTING: This is an all-star cast, and with them comes great acting with their roles. I loved the actors and I loved the demented characters they played.
OVERALL: Fantastic! Nearly perfect! A must-have for any zombie fanatic.
THE GOOD: Lots of blood, lots of guts, lots of guns, great acting, great storytelling, lots of action, the 70's retro feel, and the mock trailer for the mock film Machete (Really funny and vulgar).
THE BAD: Some scenes go a little too far over the top.
DVD Review: A bit of a disappointment for me
Summary: 3 Stars
Well, I finally got around to watching this movie and I was kind of disappointed. Yes, I knew going in that it was deliberately cheesy, but the grainy, scratchy look got old fast, and the story line is weak and jumbled. Plus, the incessant gore got disgusting fairly quickly. Loved Rose McGowan; she's super-hot and comes across as a sharp, funny lady. Otherwise, I found the movie kind of tiring after a while. I'd give it 2.5 stars if Amazon allowed half-star ratings.DVD Review: Minus Zero Rating!
Summary: 1 Stars
I forced myself to watch it a second time to figure out WHY I could NOT stand it because a zombie film has to be ultra bad for me to give it a one rating. I would now rate it a MINUS ZERO if I could.
That gun on a STUMP was just too stupid to happen. Rose McGowan who plays Cherry Darling is the laughable lead character who amazingly has NO PAIN when that gun is jammed onto her leg within weeks of amputation. This actress was just INCREDIBLY AWFUL in every aspect of this movie! I would give it a 3 if the "boyfriend" lived and SHE DIED! Normally, an actress is judged on her acting ability alone BUT her character is laughingly portrayed as sexy, strong and a leader which Rose McGowan NEVER pulled off. She is NOT sexy. She is NOT very attractive and in fact in some shots looked tired and too old to wear leather mini skirts. Viewers can't tell the difference between her original wooden stick leg and her stick looking real one. Her face is concave (especially visible in the scene where 2 soldiers are about to rape her) and her googly eyes are the WORST part about her face. She is an awful actress and the script was bad which made the whole thing worse. Viewers are supposed to believe this incredibly short, stupid, unattractive woman can THINK let alone defend herself. Not gonna happen. In fact, Planet Terror reminds me of 2002 Atomic Twister where Sharon Lawrence plays a similar "strong manager leader female" character and who has similar awful eyes (too bulging) and she did NOT pull it off either. Both woman played characters that are hilariously reminiscent of Nancy Pelosi who isn't fooling anyone either!
Worse, this walking worthless piece of humanity named Cherry Darling has a daughter and passes her genes onto another generation. Please no sequel!
DVD Review: just buy the thing!
Summary: 5 Stars
It seems there are plenty of people here wading in with opinions that could possibly be kept to themselves. First of all I will qualify my perspective; even though I was a kid of the eighties and didn't get into exploitation movies, I did develop a massive love of the horror genre, especially the earlier films of Raimi, Romero, Carpenter and Wes Craven. I later came to Dario Argento, Lucio Fulci and Lamberto Bava but I can honestly say it is a genre I know quite well.
I also went to art school in my 20's, doing both undergraduate and then my masters in fine art, which I continue today professionally. So when I say this is a 'great' film I really mean it. But what do I mean by that? These films are never really about people, or characters or even anything external in a linear way. This is by no means Greenaway or David Lynch (although I have 'issues' with Lynchian opacity in some respects) but Rodriguez is a dynamic, visceral film director that does things visually and impulsively in a way that recalls, at least to my mind, elements of Fulci and Jeunet and Caro at their best.
An earlier review stated that this film was 'artistically inferior' to Tarantino's offering... and I would strongly beg to differ. On what grounds could this possibly be the case, with Tarantino's usual visual didacticism and overstated irony? To my mind Tarantino has very few strengths as a director but seems to have a huge audience amongst ill-educated 'nascar' males with misogynistic and slightly racist world views, but that's just my opinion!
If you have a passion for and knowledge of certain aspects of the horror movie genre, or even if you have the most basic intelligence and aesthetic understanding of things visual, get the film and enjoy the EXPERIENCE, for really this is what these films are about. They enter the mind peripherally through the eye... making sense of them does not come from the frameworks of narrative that are mostly excuses to explore inner sensibilities and emotional states. Trust me, from someone that knows Heidegger from Husserl and Deleuze from Barthes, you sometimes have to let go to get in.
Description of Grindhouse Presents, Planet Terror - Extended and Unrated (Two-Disc Special Edition)
(Horror) A fun zombie film that busts at the seams with gross special effects, amazing action, and deliciously over-the-top moments, as gun-legged Cherry Darling and one man wrecking crew El Wray try to save the world from a horde of flesh-eating zombies.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. Rodriguez's Planet Terror is a rollicking horror/sci-fi/action piece about a plague outbreak that turns citizens into cannibalistic murderers; it's heavy on the gore and explosions but also features a terrific cast of A players (Freddy Rodriguez, Naveen Andrews, Marley Shelton) and B-movie vets (Michael Biehn, Jeff Fahey, Tom Savini) and the indelible image of Rose McGowan as a stripper whose torn-off leg is replaced by a high-powered machine gun.
If Tarantino's feature was a nod to the moody, genre-jumping exploitation of the early '70s, Rodriguez's contribution to the Grindhouse aesthetic pays tribute to the manic gorefests from Italy and the States in the early '80s. And much like the film itself, the supplemental features on Terror's double-disc Extended and Unrated presentation have a loose, action-packed and familial vibe that gives fans full access to Rodriguez's one-man-studio approach to moviemaking. The director is featured twice on audio tracks: first, on the feature commentary, which provides a fun tour through the picture's production (as well as information on the upcoming Grindhouse DVD set, which will reunite the two pictures in their theatrical format), and later on the "10-Minute Film School," a fascinating breakneck run through the numerous visual and CGI effects that produced the film's most eye-popping effects, including McGowan's leg/machine gun. Most of the extras echo Rodriguez's informative and entertaining vibe--two featurettes cover the picture's male and female cast (the former offers affectionate tributes to the exploitation vets in the company, including Biehn, Fahey, Michael Parks, and Savini), while "Casting Rebel" is an amusing discussion of how Rodriguez came to bring his own son into the movie, as well as his refusal to disclose the fate of Rebel's character. "Sickos, Bullets, and Explosions" takes a look at Terror's extensive special effects through interviews with stunt coordinator Jeff Dashnaw and members of the visual effects team, while "The Friend, The Doctor, and The Real Estate Agent" chats with three non-actors, all pals of Rodriguez, who wound up with small but significant roles in the picture. The Extended and Unrated aspect of the set is limited to a few extended scenes and extra splatter (sorry, the infamous "Missing Reel" is not recovered for this set), while Grindhouse fans bemoaning the absence of the film's hilarious faux trailers will appreciate the inclusion of Rodriguez's hilarious Machete spot, with Danny Trejo as a death-dealing, lady-loving tough guy gunning for double-crosser Fahey. The set also includes an "Audience Reaction" track: Essentially, it's a whole track of whoops and hollers that allows the viewer to "experience" the film as if they were watching it in an actual grindhouse from back in the day. Its inclusion neither adds to or detracts from enjoying this DVD, but it's wholly indicative of the level of fun Rodriguez had making the picture--and wants to share with his fans. -- Paul Gaita
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