Hey, everyone. ”Moriarty” here. This guy sort of says it all. I sense a simmering resentment building with UK readers regarding this issue (and with other international readers as well), so here’s the place to vent that frustration and tell The Weinstein Company how much you want to see the whole film the way it was supposed to be seen:
Hi guys, I am so incensed about the news I read today that Grindhouse would be split for the UK audience. Releasing the films not as they were originally intended just doesn't make any sense to me. A big part of the whole point of these films is that they are a homage to the back-to-back Grindhouse features of the past. Now I don't know much about that but the little I do know is that they were two b-movie films shown together in one sitting. So why the hell would you then go and release two b-movie like films with small name stars and one with a director (Rodriguez) who is only semi-known in the UK at best, separately?!?! It just completely destroys a big part of what these movies are about and that is the Grindhouse experience. If someone had gone to Miramax with the script for Planet Terror with a view to making a film very similar to how it has turned out it never would have got financed and made. For what it's worth, personally I think a Grindhouse double bill would have done better in the UK than in the US.
