The Weinstein Company // R // April 6, 2007 Review by Jamie S.
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Graphical Version I'll say this up front: I was skeptical of
Grindhouse, and so I'm surprised I liked it as much as I did.  I
went to the new B-movie "double-feature" by Robert Rodriguez and
Quentin Tarantino with my eyebrow raised and my arms folded.
This exercise in recreating legitimate cinematic trash as a big-
budget event picture seemed like a dubious notion. Grindhouse
cinema was born of filmmakers working with the tools available
to them, not a genre to be adopted as kitsch with all the money
and opportunities in the world. Was this a case of rich boys
driving into poor neighborhoods in their fancy cars and trying
to act like they belonged? Corporate punk rock without the
authentic spit or spirit that forced the kids to head out to the
garage and make a racket?  Truth be told, it kind of is. It's
also kind of a blast, too. I'm not going to call it an homage,
because that might