http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/grindhouse...g10Qn_6I.RfVXcA

This thing looks off the hook.

Also, was that Bruce Willis?

Yes, that is Bruce Willis.

And that right there is the reason why Bruce Willis is the only mainstream actor that I can tolerate.

From Page Six, today's NY Post...

"People who dole out ratings at the Motion Picture Assn. of America just might flip out when they see "Grindhouse," Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez's tribute to the ultraviolent, nudity-drenched pictures that once screened 'round the clock in the grungy movie palaces of 42nd Street.

The Weinstein Company, which is releasing the picture April 6 through its Dimension Films arm, needs an R rating for the flick to get into mainstream theaters. But, "some of it is so graphic and outrageous for a major Hollywood studio, there's no question it's headed for an NC-17 without big cuts," says a Page Six operative, who got a sneak peek at the most over-the-top footage.

"Grindhouse" is actually two short movies - one directed by Tarantino, the other by Rodriguez - with an intermission between them. During the break, a series of fake trailers will be shown for such fictitious titles as "Werewolf Women of the SS," directed by Rob Zombie.

"In one scene, a cute, topless girl is roughly tied down on a table by evil female Nazi experimenters who begin draining her blood and, as she screams in agony, they brand her like livestock with a coal-hot steel swastika," our source said. "And every girl in the Nazi concentration camp is topless."

Another trailer, directed by Eli Roth, of "Hostel" fame, is called "Thanksgiving," in which a town's celebration of Turkey Day is interrupted by a mad slasher.

"There's a part where Jordan Ladd [daughter of Cheryl Ladd of 'Charlie's Angels'] is in a car with her boyfriend and giving him [oral sex] when she lovingly reaches to stroke his hair and discovers his neck is just a bloody stump - some maniac had just cut off his head while she was in the act."

Later, a frisky cheerleader climbs onto a trampoline and begins stripping naked as she jumps up and down until she does a split and her skirt blows up without panties underneath. "You get the full 'Britney Spears-getting-out-of-the-limo view,' " our source says. Another jolting scene shows a grossly obese man chewing on a baby.

How much of these moviegoers will end up seeing is anybody's guess. "Some cuts definitely will have to be made. There's no question," conceded one studio insider. A Dimension rep declined comment. "

I can foresee umpteeth director's cuts and SEs of this on DVD, but for now, just bring it...that an alleged $100 million (or about $99 million more than the total cost of the 50 or so films that will likely be referenced :) ) has been lavished on a grindhouse recreation is something to get behind...interesting that the made-up trailers are causing more conniptions than the "features," but wasn't that sometimes the way of it?

I suspect the "operative" who caught the "over-the-top" footage wa only privvy to the trailers.

Sounds like they made it out alive. Grindhouse just got its R for "strong graphic bloody violence and gore, pervasive language, some sexuality, nudity and drug use." If they'd had to cut it I'm sure we'd have heard about it.

And according to Ain't It Cool the runtime is 3 hours and 5 minutes.

I decided to throw in Stanley Donen's 1978 film "MOVIE MOVIE" tonight as it has a similar structure to "GRINDHOUSE" (a fake double-feature with trailers in-between). MOVIE MOVIE was a comedic take-off on 30's films (a boxing drama and a musical) and I think it was a boxoffice bomb at the time and then had a very brief video release from Magnetic. It's a decent watch overall and features an early role by Harry Hamlin as the boxer fighting to get money for his sister's eye operation - ha! Are there any other films that attempted this 'double-feature' structure as a single film? I'm going blank on this and can't think of any others.

Definitely looking forward to "GRINDHOUSE", although I don't know if general audiences these days will be thrilled to sit through 3 hours of this kind of thing, even if it's all a spoof. And when did the word "grindhouse" begin? I never called them that when I was visiting seedy downtown theaters in the 70's.

According to Page Six I guess there were some cuts after all:

Variety started using the term at least as far back as the 1960s (when I started reading it). I don't recall the word ever being used by those of us who actually WENT to grindhouses. Nobody said, "Let's go to the grindhouse to see the Bruce Lee triple feature." But people did say, "Let's go down to the Deuce," when their intended destination was, in fact, the strip of grindhouses on New York's 42nd Street. But the term was handy for those who spoke (or wrote) Variety-ese when people wanted to refer to those theaters that ran films back-to-back ("grinding" up against each other) in double or triple features, usually seedy downtown strips like 42nd Street and San Francisco's Market Street or sub-run neighborhood theaters in the outer boroughs.

I'd love a DVD of MOVIE MOVIE, which, flawed though it is, has a crackerjack cast and some great Larry Gelbart lines. I laughed at this one, between Art Carney's doctor and George C. Scott's fading theatrical producer, something like this:

DR: You have one month to live, Spats.
SPATS: One month...30 days, to live.
DR: Spats, it's February.

The boxing half is supposed to be in black-and-white, but I've read that the whole film is sometimes shown in color, which ruins the ambiance.

3 hours and 5 minutes, fellas, according to Ain't It Cool. :blink:

Break it down: it's two feature-length movies, broken up by at least 4 faux trailers. It's kinda gotta be.

This is interesting - just read in the new Fango (first time I picked up one of these in a loooong time) that Tarantino is acting as cinematographer for the first time on DEATH PROOF. Didn't see that one coming.

That's no surprise to me. I can totally see him doing lines of coke off the storyboards. ;)

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Well, damn... that sort of takes a little bit of the wind out of my sails. I was hoping that this might bring back the days of the double feature with two 70 minute features.

The trailer still gives me chills, though. That's seriously a rare thing, anymore.

Jeffrey Wells at Hollywood Elsewhere raves about the Tarantino, and rages against the Rodriguez...says DEATH PROOF's car chase finale is one of the very best ever...

Jeffrey Wells on GRINDHOUSE

Eli Roth's faux Grindhouse trailer for THANKSGIVING... NOT SAFE FOR WORK. The full uncut version that played @ SXSW should be on the DVD.

http://uk.media.movies.ign.com/media/749/7...id_1950729.html

Hey, that's incidental music from CREEPSHOW in that there THANKSGIVING trailer!

Not clicking on it - that's officially too much info on this flick now. I'm calling a personal moratorium on all things GRINDHOUSE 'till I'm sitting in the theater. I've made the mistake of oversaturating before, and gotta start learning from it.

HOLY CRAP! I wish Roth's actual movies were as entertaining as that trailer. That trailer was hilarious.

Seems like what I'd expect from Roth... pretty much nothing but a retread of the late night comedy shows riffs on holiday-themed slasher films that were all over the place back in the late 70s. Of course, but with boobies and blood.

If I was judging Grindhouse off of this, I wouldn't bother... but I'm not, so there you go. But at least I know where I'll have a few minutes to take a bathroom break.

Actually, at the Monday night premiere of GRINDHOUSE in L.A., Quentin told the audience if they have to go to the bathroom, just go anytime they liked, presumably because the traditional grind house viewing experience involves missing some part of the movie anyway.

Although Robert Rodriguez countered him and said for people to wait until his segment was over. :D

Damned if I *whatever* then, I suppose.

From an MSNBC article on the film:

If KILL BILL was any guide, I think I'll pass on DEATH PROOF VOL. 2. :lol:

Alan Ladd and Sidney Poitier starred together in the Korean War movie, ALL THE YOUNG MEN (1960). Two of the actresses in DEATH PROOF, who I believe play in scenes together, are Jordan Ladd, granddaughter of Alan Ladd, and Sydney Tamiia Poitier, daughter of Sidney Poitier.

I like when that happens.