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[gnommi]

I have Had My Hair Cut, seen Grindhouse in its entirety at the Stoke Newington Rio and eaten a lot of very cheap but mighty fine Turkish food. All of these turn out to be Good Things.

Special mention goes to Edgar Wright's trailer for "Don't". My hair is Rather Different That It Has Been Of Late.

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[gnommi.livejournal.com]

Hm, difficult question. I thought that Planet Terror was a better film when longer (i.e. by itself), but the effect is different than when you get two shorter films back-to-back with the silly trailers in the middle, because the pacing is different. Also, I LOVE Robert Rodriguez films, so anything that has more film is good by me. Having said that, I didn't overly notice what was cut out in the shorter double bill version, the film just seemed to flow a little less smoothly. Of course, given the whole remit of Grindhouse, that may well be the point!

I haven't seen Deathproof by itself, but I can't really see how it would benefit from being longer. I believe that the longer version has more lapdancing and a little more Kurt Russell. I liked Deathproof more than I thought I would, but as usual got irritated by the obligatory way-too-long self-indulgent round-the-table-conversation scene about retro films that the characters seem to have in every Tarantino film. It felt a bit long even in the truncated format tbh!

Erm, that didn't help much did it!?

[purplecthulhu.livejournal.com]

I am at least better informed!