No, that's not some new utility to keep your computer from crashing. It's Tarantino's half of the Grindhouse movie that did an enormous belly flop earlier this year.
He expanded his half of the movie and released it separately from Robert Rodriguez's Planet Terror, even going so far as to submit it to Cannes. My question is: why?
Maybe I'm too old to be a Tarantino fanboy anymore, or maybe I'm just getting cranky. But I was expecting more than the same old Tarantino stuff. There's a fine line between tossing out references to your previous movies to make the fanboys happy, and rehashing all your old material yet another time. Let's make a list: foot fetishes, foot massages, out-of-trunk shot, Big Kahuna burgers, "tasty beverages," Red Apple cigarettes... I'm sure I'm forgetting quite a few at this point.
I also found the ending annoying on multiple levels. I won't go into specifics to avoid spoilers, but my many many MANY readers can always ask for them. The abruptness alone was annoying. Maybe it's something that grindhouse pics do, but it was annoying nonetheless.
The only scene that did anything for me was when Kurt Russell was talking to "Butterfly" just before the lap dance--tension-filled and menacing. Other than that? Didn't like it at all.
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