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Grindhouse Presents, Death Proof - Extended and Unrated (Two-Disc Special Edition) |  | Director: Quentin Tarantino
Actors: Kurt Russell, Rosario Dawson, Rose McGowan
Studio: The Weinstein Company
Category: DVD
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Rating:  433 reviews
Sales Rank: 1259
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Widescreen, NTSC
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: Unrated
Region: 1
Discs: 2
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Running Time: 113 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 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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 Redundant!!! August 30, 2010
Christine Simes
This has got to be the most redundant waste of time of a movie ever. Most of the movie is a bunch of stupid woman spewing pseudo-intelligent dialogue that has to do with nothing! Not only that, but you can hear quenton tarantino speaking through every character. It's not original, not even for tarantino. It's utterly stupid. He easily turns Kurt Russell's character into a whiny turd by the end. Tarantino needs to leave!!!
 Well made but dull July 26, 2010
Christopher Hivner (Dallastown, PA USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Death Proof has a simple concept. Kurt Russell plays a stunt man who has rigged his souped-up car with roll bars and other safety devices so that during an accident it will be "death proof". He then travels the south looking for attractive young women he can terrorize and kill with said car. The movie is broken into 2 parts with Kurt stalking one group of 4 women, then starting over with another group.
Death Proof is photographed beautifully, acted well and has some interesting dialogue but overall is very boring. The only part that leaves a lasting memory is a head-on car crash shown over and over from different angles. It takes about 45 minutes to get to the crash and its over in 15 seconds. Tarantino is so enthralled with the dialogue he wrote he lets the movie meander around like it's out for a Sunday stroll which is boring to watch.
The start of Tarantino losing it July 12, 2010
BackToGood (PA)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Although I think Quentin Tarantino is an overrated filmmaker, most of his films, even some of his weaker efforts, have some interesting things in and going for them. I'd say the "first half" of his career is way superior to the "second half". The first half starts with RESERVOIR DOGS, a very unique and groundbreaking film, immediately followed by and improved upon in the stellar and engrossing PULP FICTION, and then culminating with KILL BILL VOLUME ONE, which I think is Tarantino's best film. I think VOLUME TWO is where he began to show signs of decline, but this film, DEATH PROOF, is really the "proof" (pun intended!) that he was spiraling downward as a good filmmaker!
The thing is, though, as bad as I think DEATH PROOF is, I think his most recent INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS is just as bad and perhaps even worse! And I know there are a LOT of people that do not think this. But here's part of my reasoning...DEATH PROOF at the very least has what I think can be called an actual "plot" and additionally, unlike INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS, DEATH PROOF actually has a true central character that the viewer can latch onto, aka, Stuntman Mike (played wonderfully by Kurt Russell, who is woefully trapped in this weak film). The ONLY reason that DEATH PROOF gets the extra star is because of Stuntman Mike! HE is an interesting character. Russell conveys his creepiness effectively and gives one of the very few REAL performances in the film. I think Russell is just as good in DP as Christoph Waltz was in IB, but Waltz was considered to be in the better film, so his performance got more praise and accolades, while Russell was stuck in a film that was both critically and financially unsuccessful. Waltz's character Landa in IB, although a standout, was not really the central character that drove the story; Tarantino didn't have one! So one common thread of DP and IB is that both films have a single great character in the midst of a sea of lesser characters; the other common thread is that both films have endless, go-nowhere, empty dialogue being quoted mostly by Tarantino pupils.
In addition to Russell, honorable mention should also go to Vanessa Ferlito, who authentically plays Butterfly, and Rose McGowan, who, aside from being stuck in a terrible blond wig, gives a good performance. But the rest of the female characters in DEATH PROOF range from being annoyingly nonessential (Jordan Ladd, Mary Elizabeth Winstead) to just plain ANNOYING (Rosario Dawson, Zoe Bell, Sydney Tamii Poitier, Tracie Thoms)! They are cardboard cutout characters that are simply there to quote Tarantino-esque dialogue. The first set of girls (Ferlito, Poitier, Ladd) are definitely more interesting than the second set (Dawson, Bell, Thoms, Winstead) simply because we can latch onto Ferlito's Butterfly through the first hour to keep us intrigued by what's to happen when Stuntman Mike arrives, when things actually get interesting. Sadly, Ferlito's character gets diluted somewhat by the very weak characters played by Poitier and Ladd, neither of whom are interesting in the least! Poitier's character talks too much and Ladd's character is just there.
But then here is where I think Tarantino really screws up b/c instead of going the direction of delving deeper into Stuntman Mike's story and connection to the first set of girls, he shifts the focus to the second group, NONE of whom have any interesting traits or qualities. All they do is just ramble on about nonsense (difference between Aussies and New Zealanders) and do nonsensical things, like randomly drive through the backwoods of Tennessee and just HAPPEN to run across a guy with a Dodge Challenger in pristine condition just to set up the climax! The second hour is a total, unwatchable snoozefest that drowns DEATH PROOF! I know I said that DP has a plot and it does and it is simple...Stuntman Mike! He's the driving force of the story and Tarantino SHOULD have kept the focus on him and the somewhat interesting first story. I still think DP would have suffered from some of the amateurish acting by a couple of the first set of principal characters, but at least the movie as a whole would have been a lot better!
DEATH PROOF is the beginning of Tarantino showing signs of being nothing but a gimmick filmmaker who over-borrows from older movies and genres, including his own!
An enjoyable ride July 7, 2010
Ben Richie (Houston, TX USA)
Great throwback to those 70s car chase movies, with a tarintino flair, also nice to see the Austin locations. If you only see one campy Tarintino movie from 2007 this would be the one to go with.
 The bottom line. June 6, 2010
A. Koenig (Alaska)
I am a student of motion pictures and a Tarantino fan. I could go on and on about homage and other details to show how brilliant QT is. I won't. The movie is fun. That's it, fun. You want deep or profundity, go elsewhere. This movie is about smashing, rip-roaring, here-it-comes Fun. That is Fun with a capital F.
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