Limited Edition, Six Disc, Complete GRINDHOUSE DVD Release Coming To Japan!

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1. flyboy 01/02/2008 @ 5:20am

   On the 2 Disc special edition of Planet Terror, if you watch the 10 minute film school with Robert Rodriguez… at the end he says something to the effect of “Look out for my 10 minute school on Texas BBQ… on the upcoming double disc edition of Grindhouse”..... Could be complete bull though!! :(

   I will prob buy this japanese set if I can get hold!!

2. kungfueurotrash 01/02/2008 @ 7:14am

   I’m definitely buying this Japanese edition.... I’m glad i waited for something like this to come out…

3. Collin Armstrong 01/02/2008 @ 9:59am

   Wow.  Looks to be worth the coin.  Think I will pick it up…

4. Collin Armstrong 01/02/2008 @ 10:13am

   Also, hilarious that Tarantino apparently mentions a Death Proof sequel.  Hopefully he can squeeze it in between The Vega Brothers, his slasher film, Inglorious Bastards, his proposed reboots for Friday the 13th and Bond, The Man From U.N.C.L.E.... yeesh.  I don’t hate him for it though - just wish he was actually prolific enough to make it all happen!

5. flyboy 01/02/2008 @ 10:31am

   I think all filmmakers wish they could make more movies than they actually make. He’s just so open about what he wants to do and your always going to hear about ideas he has and think of them as films that are in the works.... he prob just gets a little over excited. I personally wouldn’t want to see a second Death Proof.

   I read something the other day where this guy suggests that the Grindhouse ‘thing’ becomes a franchise.... allowing other filmmakers to add their own installments… so it becomes this massive movement… like Dogme 95… (Although I’m not comparing this to Dogme)… Just thought it was a good idea.

6. Swarez 01/02/2008 @ 11:15am

   I seriously doubt that will happen as the films bombed like nobodies business in the states. The biggest loss the Weinsteins have faced.

   It’s a great concept but far too film geeky for the mainstream audiences. It might work if they would actually make the films with similar budgets as the films they are trying to emulate. I could never see the point of doing a 50 million dollar movies based on films that were usually made for less than one.

7. KIRA 01/02/2008 @ 3:11pm

   Already Pre-Ordered this on CDjapan.

   Damn, I need to see the artwork for this set immediately!

8. Garth 01/02/2008 @ 6:03pm

   So it’s the DP and PT releases from the US, plus the theatrical and an underwhelming 6th disc?  For “Under $100”?  I got each of the US releases for less than $20 each, so a 6-discer for less than $100 doesn’t exactly blow my skirt up.  I’ll wait for the 2-disc GH theatrical that is bound to come out soon.

   Also, of the 6 films listed, Tarantino has basically admitted that Travolta and Vega are too old for the Vega Brothers, he has already made his slasher movie (a little movie called Deathproof...you might have seen it, since you’re discussing the movie in this thread), the Bond movies have already been rebooted without him (and he’s publicly bitched that they used his idea and didn’t give him credit for it) and he publicly said that he was never planning on rebooting F13, he just tossed some ideas around.

   And lastly, the point of doing GH the way they did it was, as Rodriguez said, the movies always had great posters but the movies could never live up to them, and they wanted to make movies that were able to live up to the posters.  Hard to make PT as written for under a million and have it be what he envisioned.  I love it how people miss the point of that when bitching about Grindhouse.  There’s nothing ironic about doing what they did since they basically told us at the beginning that they were making homages to the movies.  Why didn’t people bitch out Tim Burton when he made a huge budget homage to Hammer Films with Sleepy Hollow (or for that matter, Sweeney Todd)?

9. Todd Brown 01/02/2008 @ 6:42pm

   Key phrase in the cost comment:  “for a Japanese import”.  Japanese discs don’t come cheap, particularly not a release that combines three separate releases into one package.  I was expecting this to run in the $150 range when I heard it was coming.

   And, honestly, I think the chances of a US release of the theatrical cut coming are about as likely as the loooooooooong promised complete edition of Kill Bill.  As in it aint ever gonna happen.

10. Tuan Jim 01/02/2008 @ 8:29pm

    Plus for a Japanese 6 disc box, I expect it to be mighty pretty to boot.  Can’t say I’ve been too disappointed with Japanese SE packaging in the past.  No word if there’ll be anything fancy though unfortunately.

11. Swarez 01/03/2008 @ 2:58am

    “Why didn’t people bitch out Tim Burton when he made a huge budget homage to Hammer Films with Sleepy Hollow?”

    Because Burton never made it known that he was doing a homage and didn’t make a big deal out of it. And also the film fit in to Burton’s already established look and feel so people think this is just another good looking Tim Burton film, not that most of them know what Hammer is to begin with. Sleepy Hollow also wasn’t released as “The Hammer Experience”.
    I don’t think Burton was making an homage to those films to begin with, if anything he was in Mario Bava territory but then all the Hammer horror films are using that formula. Sweeny Todd is an admitted Hammer homage, by the screenwriter, but it’s also within Burton’s look.

    Death Proof certainly was successful in not living up to the awesome poster art as the film was in my opinion one of the worst this year. Planet Terror, didn’t emulate any 70’s action film that I’ve seen but paid homage to tons of 80’s action cinema and was a load of fun.

12. Collin Armstrong 01/03/2008 @ 8:15am

    Garth - only attempting to comment on the absurdity of Tarantino potentially talking up yet another project unlikely to see the light of day.  Circumstances are what they are - bottom line is he opens his mouth, a lot, and it’s often years before anything (if anything) comes from it.  Again, I don’t hate him for it - think of all the shelved projects from all the different filmmakers we’ve all discussed here or at AICN or wherever in the past - tons of stuff people talk about never happens.  I think with Tarantino - at least for me - the thing is I’d love to see all of it happen.  It can be frustrating when you appreciate the work and wish there was more to enjoy.

    And DEATH PROOF is a lot of things to a lot of people, but explain to me how it’s a slasher film???

13. Garth 01/03/2008 @ 8:56am

    Colin: Death Proof is an homage to slasher films.  It is slasher films filtered through Tarantino’s brain.  Read any interview with Tarantino and he’ll outline the research he did into slasher films and how he applied what he saw.  It’s a slasher film.  It’s not a conventional slasher, but it’s a slasher.

    To say it’s not a slasher film is like saying that Reservoir Dogs isn’t a heist film just because the heist happens off-screen.  It’s still a heist film.

    And to pick on (poor phrase choice, I know) Tarantino for being enthusiastic is ridiculous.  It’s not like he’s the only director to talk up potential projects.  Guillermo del Toro just announced his approximately 33rd “next film” the other day, David Fincher discussed about a half-dozen potential “next films” in his Aint It Cool interview, and Steven Spielberg has about a dozen directorial projects on his plate.  To name but three…

    Swarez: Wow, Burton never made it known that he was doing a Hammer homage?  He practically shouted it from the rooftops.  Where where you?

    Yeah, they released Grinhouse as a grindhouse homage.  Of course they did.  But they never said they were making shoestring budgeted movies.

    And you may not have thought that DP didn’t live up to the poster, but other did.  I would say that not only did it live up to the poster, but it lived up to the standards of being an excellent movie.  PT was nothing special.

    Todd: I know next to nothing about Japanese disc pricing, so I’ll shut up about that, except to say that to me, it’ still ridiculous, considering how relatively cheap the North American releases were.

    And I’ll have to disagree with you about the theatrical cut.  There will definitely be one.  If the first releases did even passably well, there will be one.  Since the movie flopped, the Weinsteins can justify a “double dip” easily.  They know that just about every one of us that bought one or both of the 2-disc editions is likely to pick up a copy of the theatrical cut.

14. Collin Armstrong 01/03/2008 @ 9:32am

    I’ll look into the slasher angle - I always heard referencing the film with regard to its stunts, etc. and talking up the VANISHING POINT / TWO LANE BLACKTOP / etc. homages - I will definitely check it out.

    And I hear what you’re saying about filmmakers always having a lot on their plates which remains unrealized - like I said, I think my issue with Tarantino isn’t so much a problem as it is the desire to see him be able to put together some of the things he talks about (of course it isn’t all on him).  Is it fair to single him out?  No, but I’ll probably always be more jazzed for QT’s next project than, say, Fincher’s.  Just wishing there were more is all…

    Del Toro is another filmmaker who frustrates me in this way - I’d much rather see MEPHISTO’S BRIDGE or AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS instead of HELLBOY 2, but the game is what it is, and I’ll take what I can get when I can get it!

15. Ardvark 01/03/2008 @ 10:26am

    By the way, the Japanese dub listed here would definitely add to “The Grindhouse Experience”!
    

16. Swarez 01/03/2008 @ 1:20pm

    “Swarez: Wow, Burton never made it known that he was doing a Hammer homage?  He practically shouted it from the rooftops.  Where where you?”

    Apparently nowhere near him when he did. Not that I give a shit to begin with.

17. Garth 01/03/2008 @ 2:10pm

    Colin:  I totally get what you’re saying and frankly, I don’t disagree.  I also understand singling him out, since this is a Grindhouse thread.  I sort of wish (well, not even sort of) that guys like Tarantino, del Toro and Fincher could find a way to do a movie a year.  Either that or that their desires not be made public until they’re committed or actually shooting.  Fucking lazy bastards…

    Swarez: Makes me wonder why you’re arguing a point with me when you admit you don’t know and apparently don’t care…

18. Swarez 01/03/2008 @ 2:57pm

    The point is that Burton and the studio didn’t marked the film as a Hammer homage. QT and RR pimped the concept like crazy like it’s the best thing in the world. It isn’t and the wast majority let it be known.

    Making a film look and feel like a low budget movie for 50 million dollars is moronic and they could have made the same films for less, they’d just had to try. Their heroes did it, why can’t they?
    True the films would have been slightly different but they’d would have been more honest and last but not least...not the huge financial failure that they were.

19. justinslot 01/03/2008 @ 6:05pm

    “By the way, the Japanese dub listed here would definitely add to “The Grindhouse Experience”!”

    Hee hee. That makes me wish he’d shot Death Proof with an entirely foreign cast with the intention of dubbing it into English--that really would have been authentic.

20. Swarez 01/03/2008 @ 8:34pm

    What they should do as cool extra would be to put the films on VHS in big boxes like they had back in the day. Wasn’t there a book released with all the marketing material or was I dreaming. I would love to have as the posters and the rest of the print material is fantastic.

21. Ardvark 01/04/2008 @ 3:33am

    “That makes me wish he’d shot Death Proof with an entirely foreign cast with the intention of dubbing it into English--that really would have been authentic.”

    Or an extra mono English soundtrack, one third of a second out-of-sync! Almost the same effect.

22. Canfield 01/04/2008 @ 9:43am

    What I want to know about is the packaging. I better get something awfully nifty for $100 bucks.

    And why don’t they do these super limited editions in the states anyway?

23. Garth 01/04/2008 @ 9:56am

    Why is it moronic to use the tools they have at their disposal?  Would Planet Terror have been better if the CG and the prosthetics were worse?  Would Death Proof have been better if Tarantino had shot the car chase in front of a rear projection and had people at the sides of the car rocking it?

    They’re making an HOMAGE.  They’re not making 70s low-budget movies, they’re making HOMAGES.  Maybe you didn’t understand that?  Maybe you want to revisit the movie, knowing that it was meant as a love letter to those movies?  Maybe you’ll understand it a little better?

    Maybe Burton didn’t market Sleepy Hollow as a Hammer homage because it wasn’t conceived as one.

    If Grindhouse was conceived as an homage, should it not have been marketed as such?  And also, should they not have marketed them as good movies?  Should they have gone out and said “Hey, we made some shitty movies, it cost us a lot of money and it’s three hours long.  You’re going to hate them because they suck.  Come out and see ‘em!!!!!”?  Would that have made you happy?

    Let’s face it, both Tarantino and Rodriguez think they’re fucking great filmmakers and they’re both incredibly enthusiastic about everything they do.  Should they lose points for that?  Should the movies?

    Shit, you know what though?  I’ve been thinking about it and I’m starting to agree with you.

    Pulp Fiction was an homage to pulp crime novels and 50s crime movies?  Bullshit.  It wasn’t an homage to 50s crime movies because not only was it not black and white, but it starred actors who weren’t even alive then!  And as for the pulp crime novels, it can’t be an homage to those because it wasn’t even printed on paper.  It was printed on celluloid.  Fucking asshole, that Tarantino.

    And don’t get me started on Kill Bill.  How is that supposed to be an homage to Kung Fu films?  Most of it was in English!  And the stuff that wasn’t in English was subtitled, not poorly dubbed.

    And so on and so forth…

    Having said all that, I love the idea of releasing them in those oversized VHS cases…

24. Swarez 01/04/2008 @ 11:26am

    Then what’s the idea behind the missing reels and film damages? They were trying to emulate the Grindhouse feel. The Grindhouse feel is two or more LOW BUDGET movies shown in a row in a run down theater. So if they truly wanted to make true “Grindhouse” films (none of the original ones were trying to do that) they should have made them low budget and used the technology that was available in 70’s to get the true look and feel, instead of spending millions of dollars in post production trying to emulate that. Tarantino didn’t even let that gimmick last through the whole movie as it became pristine half way through.

    But anyway. Let’s agree to disagree.

25. Garth 01/04/2008 @ 8:58pm

    Yes, emulate.  They were trying to emulate.

    All they were trying to do was recreate the type of experience they had in grindhouse theatres or drive-ins.  Except that they have the resources that the filmmakers in the 70s didn’t have.

    I’ve got my own theory about the movie becoming pristine halfway through, but I’m not going to get into it.

    But anyway, I agree to disagree.  Agreed?  Cool.

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