So this got it's official UK premiere on Thursday with Edgar Wright introducing it down in London. I saw it Yesterday in Leeds, obstensibly the second time the film was being shown in this country.
And there were perhaps 50 people at the cinema for it. Still it was an awesome experience, it started at like 11pm and just carried on into about 2:30am (with a break inbetween to get tasty beverages).
I'd already seen Planet Terror and found it amusing enough, but it was only when it was paired up with Death Proof that it became truly great. Having these two films operate and interconnect in the same world is kinda awesome and it was neat to see Dakota Bloc and Earl McGraw appear in Death Proof.
I still loved Death Proof more than Planet Terror though, it almost feels a little Funny Gamesish in how it wants to comment on the violence we're seeing. It's like Tarantino sets up this first group of girls who are just aggressively irritating and sort of wills us to want Mike to destroy them, showing the fatal car crash four times and preceding the chaos with Mike's wink to the audience.
Having seen Death Proof my reaction to the people who were upset at how Mike acted in the later half of the film is heightened. I sort of viewed them as being creepily misoginistic before, but you must really, really, really, hate women if you can't take some satisfaction in Mike being deconstructed.
And there were perhaps 50 people at the cinema for it. Still it was an awesome experience, it started at like 11pm and just carried on into about 2:30am (with a break inbetween to get tasty beverages).
I'd already seen Planet Terror and found it amusing enough, but it was only when it was paired up with Death Proof that it became truly great. Having these two films operate and interconnect in the same world is kinda awesome and it was neat to see Dakota Bloc and Earl McGraw appear in Death Proof.
I still loved Death Proof more than Planet Terror though, it almost feels a little Funny Gamesish in how it wants to comment on the violence we're seeing. It's like Tarantino sets up this first group of girls who are just aggressively irritating and sort of wills us to want Mike to destroy them, showing the fatal car crash four times and preceding the chaos with Mike's wink to the audience.
Having seen Death Proof my reaction to the people who were upset at how Mike acted in the later half of the film is heightened. I sort of viewed them as being creepily misoginistic before, but you must really, really, really, hate women if you can't take some satisfaction in Mike being deconstructed.
