Lame in 2007: Grindhouse (#13)

This is ignorant and shameful, Cinematical. Your primary reason for bashing "Grindhouse" was that it didn't do well at the box office. True, it didn't do well, but it was a good movie anyway and if you had any cojones you'd say so. It's safe --and cowardly -- to bash it now. Worse than that, it's gallingly self-righteous of you to lecture Tarantino and Rodriguez for "forgetting why we loved them" or some such crap. Clearly, all you care about is box office. We're so focused on the "exterior life" of a movie -- its grosses, its ad campaign, the press it got, the personality of its director, etc. -- that we're no longer focusing on whether the movie itself is any good or not. None of that exterior stuff matters, Cinematical. What matters is that "Grindhouse" was some of the most fun I had at the movies this year, and it contains a mini-masterpiece in "Death Proof." In ten years, who gives a flying fuck what it did on opening weekend?

The author of this list is a total hypocrite and a spineless wimp. I'll prove it: Had "Grindhouse" made money, there's no way it would have wound up on your list. In fact, had this movie been a hit, you'd be kissing Tarantino and Rodriguez's asses right now and praising their brilliant decision to do big budget B movies. Admit it. You're just a fickle mushhead, to borrow a term from Diamond Joe Quimby. You have no strong ideas of your own, so you rely on the box office numbers to tell you what's good and what isn't. Pathetic. Go watch "Norbit." It made tons of money. You'd like it.

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Yeah, this was the one entry that was just off base and without intelligence. Who cares if the movie didnt make money, plenty of good ones dont. So Tarantino and Rodriguez made a big budget B flick that felt cheaply made and rocked at the same time. Too bad more horror movies are not done this way. Replace this entry with a better one. Quickly.

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I 2nd what Joseph Andrew Blevins said. This list of lame is crap. Shame on you cinematical.

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Well said J.A. Blevins. I agree with you totally. How Cinematical can allow this post to be featured is very lame. Next time let someone who knows what they are talking about put up their entry. Grindhouse was one of the best movies of the year and they knew (Tarantino and Rodriguez) exactly why we like these type of movies! Later H.

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