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Movie Critic Review: Death Proof (2007) Part Two

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The Movie It appears that there is no point in praising a movie that was meant to look like some cheap movies that were made in the seventies unless this new movie will disprove the cheapness of those movies and make us love them and live happily ever after! Yeah, it just appears! Quentin Tarantino Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez decide to make two movies to be shown back to back in one program and even put them under the title Grindhouse- a term used to describe theaters that showed low-budget, low-quality movie genres in the seventies. Of last century, I should regretfully add. And, better still, confuse the viewers by showing additional transient titles on the screen. Just like the way popular genres of movies were made and shown to the audience, sometimes with a whole reel missing! Apparently the two filmmakers had no other intentions for their double-movie production! It wasn't like a project or anything big! Rodriguez even once said about cheap movie genres...

Movie Critic Review: 21 Grams (2003)

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                                      Soul-lite: A Plot To Reweigh! Mexican Filmmaker Inarritu Sean Penn I don't know how to calculate 40 minutes in grams but that's how much it took me to disentangle the dark threads that made this gritty mishmash of a plot for this film. But only a little bit. It is probably wiser to listen to those critics who believe you need to see it at least two times. Hence is my invitation to you to get a copy for your own personal library. And you are lucky. There was a time when some very unconventional movies where simply no where to find following their exit from the market cycle of distribution. Now you can find virtually any movie, any time, any where by a few clicks and for a few dollars! Benicio Del Toro 21 grams is basically what every man needs to be alive...