November 3 movie: From Dusk Till Dawn. When this movie came out, I had the idea in my head that it was the ultimate scary, gory horror film that I should never, ever watch. Well I was either much more squeamish then, or the people who told me about it thought I was. It wasn't scary at all. It was gory, but not too much. My friend Jason P. didn't like it because it was silly, but that's exactly why I did like it. I thought it was silly good fun. I think the Netflix DVD package perfectly set my expectations by describing the movie as a parody of 60s Mexican horror films. With that in mind, I enjoyed it immensely.
Georg and I watched the commentary together and I have to say, it wasn't a very good commentary. It was basically two old friends (Tarantino and Rodriguez) sitting around chatting for two hours & congratulating themselves for being so clever. There were a few interesting tidbits here and there; for instance Tarantino said the stuff at the beginning, about the hostage, was there to make us see the Gecko brothers as truly bad people, not just roguish bad boys. Well, if that was the goal then they failed, mainly due to casting George Clooney. It's impossible for him to be anything but a rogish bad boy. And good thing too: I don't think I would have enjoyed the movie nearly as much if both brothers had been creepy and villainous like Tarantino's character.
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