I'm a huge Tarantino fan, and although I realize he doesn't have a lot of creative input here, I was wondering how it compared to Grindhouse as a whole, and to Planet Terror and Death Proof because Hell Ride seems kinda similar. Is it worth the buy for $14?
shareanyone?
I loved this movie. It's a modern-day tribute to 60's fare like "Hells Angels on Wheels" and "The Wild Angels," but with ten times the blood, nudity, and gunfire. HELL RIDE is over the top in every way. It's really a dark comedy, and what a glorious comedy it is. This is what Grindhouse should have been! Nonstop mayhem, gunfire, biker gang wars, exploding trailers, hot coke-snorting naked biker chicks, blood and death, flames and fornication. And it's got Michael Madsen, Dennis Hopper, and Keith Carradine. It also has one of the best bar fights of all time. Watch it once, then watch it again with the director's voiceover to help clear up the slightly tricky plot. This is pure dirty entertainment with no socially redeeming content whatsover. And come on folks, the actor/director Larry Bishop was in "Wild in the Streets" AND "Kill Bill 2." That's a career of sleeze spanning 40 years!
shareI'd rate it not as good as "Planet Terror" which I liked a lot and better than "Death Proof" which I thought was one of the biggest pieces of trash I've seen at a theatre in a long, long time.
I could see where it was paying homage to a lot of 60's/70's biker flicks.
Check out a 60's flick "Angels Hard As They Come" first and if you enoy that you'll probably enjoy this.
"one of the biggest pieces of trash I've seen at a theatre in a long, long time."
Completely the point of Death Proof, by the way.
But yeah, Hell Ride fits nicely with the grindhouse revisitations QT and RR have been flirting with since Desperado and From Dusk Till Dawn, but bests all of them, save maybe Planet Terror, for pure throwback thrills and over the top exploitation elements. The Devil's Rejects is still the best and most kitchen sink of the contempo 70s homage-ploitation bunch, though.
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