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Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Planet Terror!


"Planet Terror" is a 2007 film written and directed by Robert Rodriguez, about a group of people attempting to survive an onslaught of zombie-like creatures as they feud with a military unit. The film, a tribute to the zombie film genre, stars Rose McGowan, Freddy Rodriguez, Josh Brolin, Marley Shelton, Michael Biehn, Jeff Fahey, and Bruce Willis. Planet Terror was released theatrically in the United States as part of a double feature with Quentin Tarantino's "Death Proof", fucking bad-ass, under the title Grindhouse in order to replicate the experience of viewing exploitation films in a "grindhouse" theater.
I loved just about everything Robert Rodriguez has worked on, Desperado, "El Mariachi", "Once Upon A Time", "From Dusk", I can go on and on. "The Faculty", while it was directed by him, I know he didn't have the complete control he should have. Maybe it was the music, at least Salma Hayek was there; so I guess he pulled more strings then i saw come through. Its just not the same without his music and Tarantino's screen play on it. They should just get married, Robert and Quintin...they make good babies lol!
I noticed Rodriguez pulled lots of inspiration from "John Carpenter"! The special FX were very "The Thing", several shots and angels were like right out of a "Carpenter" movie; major thumbs up for that! Marley Shelton was so good in this movie. Rodriguez worked with her on "Sin City"; she's the one that gets killed in the opening, by Josh Harnet's character. What ever it is that she brought to the film was great, I loved her as "Dakota", I can't say anything bad about this movie! Its slowly becoming one of my favorite movies of all time! "Planet Terror" is just so good and so much fun to watch...well you might feel a little prick.

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