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...double on Kill Bill) hears that 1970 Dodge Challenger, just like the one in Vanishing Point, is for sale. She and her girlfriends visit the peckerwood who has the car, and three of them take it for a test drive while one of them stays behind to keep the guy company. Zoe has a mind to perform a stunt on the hood of the car: strapped to it at high speed. This caprice naturally attracts the attention of Mike, who is either in the neighborhood or has truly amazing car-dar. The chase consumes the last half-hour...
...Tarantino does offer an explicit poetic reference: one of the girls is supposed to give a lap dance to the first guy who comes up to her and quotes lines from Robert Frost's "Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening." (The QT version of that poem might end: "The road is kewl for this white trash / But I've a Challenger to smash /And miles to go before I crash...") But there's not much poetry, I mean of the pulp variety, in Death Proof. It doesn't show me much innovation, or much fidelity to the old grindhouse...
...women in today's movies. Well, the women in Grindhouse are strong, indeed macho, and I'd love to see that as a good thing. But except for McGowan, whose grownup sultriness gives her character some emotional heft, the women here are voluptuous stick figures, living out a guy's idea of excitement. I think that many American filmmakers of the past 30 years have this view of women: comic-book superheroes; Ultra-man with breasts...
...digressions, and unassuming nature suggest that he truly believes in the controlling forces of destiny—for good or ill.IT IS YOUR DESTINY“First Snow” is a movie about fate and the inevitable consequence of one’s decisions. The main character, Jimmy (Guy Pearce, of “Memento” fame), is haunted by the grim predictions of a roadside fortune teller who warns that his life is safe only until “the first snow.”At first a quick-talking and overconfident salesman, Jimmy grows paranoid...
...This is kind of a throw-back to that,” Wahlberg says, explaining that “Shooter” offered the rare opportunity to emulate his favorite childhood characters. “You’ve got a guy’s guy who’s all about honor and integrity, and it reminded me of the great films that I grew up watching. It’s much more of a Travis Bickle [from ‘Taxi Driver’] or a ‘Dirty Harry,’ than...