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Grindhouse only Tarantino could love....

posted 14 years ago by singjohn
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.....WOW! What a load of crap!

Shelley Winters is no surprise here: Fat, slatternly, whiny, and pathetic.

Why Leslie Uggams would agree to do this is beyond me! Fresh from her squeaky clean "Sing-A-Long With Mitch" days, and a Broadway show to boot: Miss Uggams is raped by a hillbilly in her screen debut. WTF!

Veteran cowboy funnyman Slim Pickens as the sheriff interviews freshly raped Leslie with sensitivity: "Did he bite yer titties?"

Even the print that TCM showed was grainy, filthy, and poorly edited.

Get drunk with some friends and put this on late at night. They'll wake up swearing that they dreamed it.

[–] G-Man-25 14 years ago

Hard to imagine that all the principal actors needed the money THAT bad to star in something like this...and given the obviously shoestring budget, they couldn't have gotten ALL THAT much money. It truly boggles the mind. What's even MORE mind-boggling is that it shows up on TCM (although it WAS confined to their Friday late-night/early morning "TCM Underground" time slot. The film actually supposedly earned a reputation as a drive-in classic, particularly in the Southern states....go figure.

[–] jbbeverley 13 years ago

"Go figure"..

NEWS FLASH - There are plenty of people from down south who don't fit in to the stereotypes and caricatures that some of you so easily eat up. As a matter of fact, I know a lot more who don't than who do.. So "go figure", another know it all from "up yonder"... :)

[–] G-Man-25 13 years ago

Sorry, did not mean to perpetuate stereotypes...honest!

[–] Antoine_Bugleboy 14 years ago

Michael Christian nearly made me vomit last night. I don't think even Tarantino or his Mexican pal would go for this dreck.
Why hasn't Mr. T gotten Rolling Thunder a good DVD release yet, with all his money?...

Come on, everybody, see The Square !

[–] shadycady 14 years ago

This sounds like a bunch of trash then..

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[–] questar 7 years ago

The blow-job for a car-ride somehow did something strange to the movie. It took away from the terror and replaced it with errotica. Perhaps because she seemed a little too willing to do something for that old red headed fella.

Anyway, it's not a good movie, but it had the potential to be at least average. What did it for me was how retarded everybody seemed to be. If the supporting cast had been a little more realistic and a little less stereotypical, this may have been a much better film.

04/10

[–] krakanova 14 years ago

....WOW! What an awesome movie!

I heard about this on one of the 42nd Street Forever 70's exploitation film trailer documentaries. Since the subjects of the movies seemed similar, a Texan theater played the trailer for this before some family outdoors type movie!

Oh man, was this a surprise! If you liked Day of the Woman, They Call Her One Eye and other rape and revenge movies (and Rolling Thunder), you've got to see this!

Everybody overacts perfectly and Leslie Uggams is perfect. There is hillbilly craziness, stabbin' and a great climax that is so cheeseball its fantastic!

See this movie if you like that. 8/10

[–] titanosaurusfan 13 years ago

Are you sure you and I watched the same movie? The Poor Pretty Eddie I watched was so bad I could barely finish it; this celluloid waste heap was filled with lame, lifeless "acting", piss-poor editing, and sickeningly grainy cinematography. How dare you compare with considerably better films like Rolling Thunder or I Spit on Your Grave!

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[–] krakanova 13 years ago

Nope.
You watched a different movie.

What you watched was The Whole Ten Yards.

[–] orchidclub 13 years ago

Yeah um... y'all are insane 'cause this movie is AWESOME! Since when are trashy movies a bad thing? I loved how nuts this one was. Bless everyone involved for agreeing to make it.

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