I survived Grindhouse, huzzah!

[zouzounaki]

Note to may_child: My threshold of tolerance, officially an 8.5 outta 10. Usually, I wouldn't detract only a point and a half for passing out in the lobby (which I did, after stumbling out of the theater, thankfully I made the bench seconds before everything went black), but I did get right back up after it had passed and go back into that theater to watch the rest of Grindhouse. All in all I only missed about ten minutes of Planet Terror, so I'm good. The limit of my tolerance actually had little to do with the zombies and more to do with medical queasiness, suprisingly or not.

More in depth thoughts to follow, but I'll leave you with this thought: As with many of the stars who appear in the faux trailer, Nic Cage is onscreen for about five seconds, but makes an incredible splash as Fu Manchu, though Rob Zombie's trailer in which he appears is a real weak link in otherwise total excellentness. And Edgar Wright's... Bwahahahahaha! Love!

Peace, Ghani

Comments

[lastwordslinger.livejournal.com]

I saw it tonight! Twas awesome! There was hardly an audience at all, but that's the way I like it. The few that were there were laughing hysterically when Nic came on screen. We all were, lol. A couple of people even applauded, and I think that's a testament to just how jarring, hilarious, and awesome his cameo was. I heart him so.

[ghanistarkiller.livejournal.com]

The audience (what remained of it after Planet Terror, which a lot of people walked out after 0_o) went nuts when Nic came onscreen, the laughter was amazing. *ggg*

[may-child.livejournal.com]

Not to may_child: My threshold of tolerance, officially an 8.5 outta 10.

Good to know. ;-) I've yet to really gauge my own threshhold of tolerance. I mean, I've liked ultra-violent movies such as "The Crow," "Pulp Fiction," and the "Kill Bill" movies. However, when "The Passion of the Christ" aired on TMC recently, I could only stomach the first ten minutes.

"Violent" is not a monolithic term. For instance, the violence in "The Crow" is almost entirely bloodless. But even the addition of blood doesn't automatically make me turn away. "Pulp Fiction" is fairly bloody, but its most disturbing scene -- for me, anyway -- is the "adrenaline shot to the heart" scene, which involves no blood at all.

"Kill Bill" is probably as blood-soaked as "The Passion of the Christ," or at least close to it, but its violence is presented in an exaggerated, cartoonish, and sometimes even a comical manner. "Passion," on the other hand, presents its violence in a torturous, solemn manner...according to the people I've talked to who've seen it, and I've talked to quite a few. I somehow doubt they're all downplaying it.

[ghanistarkiller.livejournal.com]

Torture is my limit; I just can't stand it. It's grotesque and hits a little too closely to reality. Horror can make me squirm, it can make me queasy, but torture, I just don't want to watch that, you know? And The Passion definitely falls into that catergory, ew.