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Originally posted by: Nanner Split
Anyone who goes into a Tarantino movie and doesn't expect more dialogue than actual plot need to do their homework a little bit.
The only problem was that the dialogue in this particular movie was awful. It was about nothing. It was exactly like the conversations about nothing that real people have. For a fucking hour. It wasn't funny, interesting, and it did not advance the plot or give you more insight into the characters. The dialogue, which is usually the highlight of any Tarantino movie, was the thing that ruined it.
Also, "Death Proof" was more like an actual grindhouse movie; most of the old ones had a whole lot of talking because it was cheaper to shoot, and most of them were made with shoestring budgets.
Anyone who goes into a Tarantino movie and doesn't expect more dialogue than actual plot need to do their homework a little bit.
The only problem was that the dialogue in this particular movie was awful. It was about nothing. It was exactly like the conversations about nothing that real people have. For a fucking hour. It wasn't funny, interesting, and it did not advance the plot or give you more insight into the characters. The dialogue, which is usually the highlight of any Tarantino movie, was the thing that ruined it.
Also, "Death Proof" was more like an actual grindhouse movie; most of the old ones had a whole lot of talking because it was cheaper to shoot, and most of them were made with shoestring budgets.
You're forgetting of course, that Grindhouse movies usually didn't include two big name stars (Rosario Dawson and Kurt Russell). The cost of them alone probably was more than the entire budget of many actual Grindhouse movies. There's no way a real Grindhouse audience would have sat through forty minutes of dialogue before anything happened, and then another forty minutes of dialogue before the finale.
