Grindhouse Presents: Death Proof (Extended and Unrated) (Two-Disc Special Edition)

I was honestly dead set against seeing this for the past few years because for one it being attached to Robert Rodriguez's "Planet Terror" (which may be a good movie, but it looked like a gore-fest, and I was taking a stance against those back when "Grindhouse" came out), and also because of all the negative reviews I've read over the past couple of years.However, I finally relented and let curiosity get the better of me and ordered a copy and watched it yesterday. And let me just say: WOW! WOW!! WOW!!! I fkg LOVE it! Did I say WOW?! Best movie I've seen in ages. True story!From the opening animated credit sequence to the final frame of closing credits, this is such a breathtaking, riveting masterpiece! And there are so many iconic images from everything 1970's drive-in cinema, and includes one of the greatest soundtracks ever committed to film. Tarantino even made use of Pino Donnagio's awesome score from Brian De Palma's "Blow Out" (the small piano piece that plays while one of the female characters reads a text message early in the film).Since pretty much every reviewer has mentioned the plot in pretty much every review since the movie came out, I am not gonna bore you with repeating that here. I will, however, say that I have never seen some of these actors in a better film. Ever! This is the best work from Kurt Russell since his glorious work in John Carpenter's classics, like "Escape From New York".And every single female in the cast is riveting! (Excuse me if I've used that word already.) Especially Zoe Bell, playing herself. You may recognize Zoe from her stunt work being Uma Thurman's stunt double in Tarantino's "Kill Bill". She is simply electrifying as an actress!Anyways, really don't know what else to say except that if you haven't already seen this movie, don't wait another minute: See. It. NOW! And I am gonna go now and watch it again (for the third time since yesterday afternoon).HIGHLY RECOMMENDED! Thanks for reading! :)The EndRandall Brooks(author, "The Two Worlds of the Mind")

The price was great for a quality product. It was shipped quickly and arrived in time.

The best thing about this movie is the debut of Zoe Bell as an actress. She's already a well-established stunt woman (she did all of Uma Thurman's stunts in the Kill Bill movies, for example) but here she essentially plays herself so the phrase 'doing her own stunts' takes on added meaning. And we're not talking about falling off a four-story building, we're talking about hair-raising, throat-constricting, white-knuckle car chases and smash-ups and....No, wait. The best thing about this movie is that all of the stunts are 'real'...no CGI, no animation, no robots, nothing but great stunt people who made this movie the way movies used to be made...for real and for certain. No, wait. The best thing about this movie is the creation of yet another unforgettable character by Kurt Russell. He started making his mark as far back as 1965's Guns of Diablo in which he plays a young boy, Jamie McPeeters, on a wagon train wrangled by Charles Bronson, and of course he went on from there to give us a string of heroic figures (all of which adorn my DVD shelves) from Jeff Taylor to Snake Pliskin to Jack Burton. But now comes Stuntman Mike to break the mold, raise the bar, go over the top. This psychotic serial killer will go into my book for sure (inside joke). No, wait. The best part of this movie is the resurrection of a 1970 white Dodge Challenger 440. Just like the one Barry Neuman and Cleavon Little made famous in 1971's Vanishing Point. The Tarantino/Rodriguez/et al crew don't do nearly as much harm to this Dodge as Newman did to his but oh mama! will you not bother to count body dings along the way. Come to think of it the best part of this movie is that it IS a Tarantino/Rodriguez/et al movie, done with all the usual care of a 'family' production. I'm not suggesting that Quentin and Co never miss....I'm still trying to figure out what the heck Inglorious Basterds is all about...but Deathproof ranks right up there with their best. I'd tell you to buckle up but chances are you'll find that hard to do that while you're sitting on the edge of your seat, which is exactly where you'll be for most of this movie, that is when you're not daydreaming about all the dreamy eye-candy or grinning at Michael Parks and Son doing the Greek Chorus number that bridges the two parts of the movie, or feeling great sympathy (and empathy?) with the guys who mostly fall flat on their faces as they try to...well, you know, score. I score this movie 10.

The Movie got to my home very fast.It's an insane movie with Extreme Girl Power! Russell got his fate at the end & karma kicked his butt,Ha ha!Recommended for mature audiences!