I felt strangely compelled to write a follow-up to my review for Grindhouse. The Eric that wrote that review resembled that of an overly-energetic 12 year old boy who just got the final UPC he needs to send in for the official Karate Kid headband (actually, I just got it online). He had hope for the future of cinema. Today, Eric is back to his grizzled, cynical, misanthropic self. Granted my prediction proved true, "Grindhouse" did indeed make more money than "The Reaping", but unfortunately they only pulled in $12 million. More money than any of us have ever seen, but only a nickel in the bucket for the evil Weinsteins. And of course, the so-called "insiders" at movie geek websites are already coming up with reasons as to why "Grindhouse" didn't make the money we all thought it should have.
One popular reason is that the movie-going public just didn't get the idea of a double feature. Read that again. Didn't. Understand. A. Double. Feature. Whoa, dude, that's like, a lot of words for me. I'm going to go back to playing Halo. Granted, there's a good load of inside references for the geeks in Grindhouse, but the main concept of the two movies are not that deep. A zombie movie and a guy who kills with his car. Holy shit, it's so multi-layered and complicated, just thinking about it gives me a headache. It's Quentin Tarantino, not Salvador Dali.
The only reason Grindhouse didn't make much money as predicted is because of the Easter holiday. People were busy with family celebrating the worthless death and fake resurrection of a 2,000 year old corpse. Here's a radical idea! How about before we make all this speculation and circulating news about Harvey wanting to split the movie in two, let's see how it does the next weekend!
My grindhouse dreams are shattered. I thought Rodriguez and Tarantino had started a new exploitation and it was my destiny to keep it going. No more. Well, I'll still keep writing Labor Day and The Violence of Mr. Phibes. And please, Mr. Weinstein, please take the time to think before attacking any more films with your magic scissors.
That's all for now, I'm going to rent either Porky's or Black Christmas. Bob Clark RIP.
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Well it lost my $10.50 because I was sick over the weekend. I'm going to try to see it Thursday.
Dude, did you read my LiveJournal post today? I went all "Eric" on Weinstein.
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