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...Planet Terror” involves zombie-producing toxic gas (just go with it) released by renegade military gang led by a gun-totting Bruce Willis, a knife wielding hero and his one-legged Go-Go-Dancing biddy with a machine gun prosthetic (Freddy Rodriguez and Rose McGowan, respectively). Add blood, guts, brains, shooting, and general goopy splattering all around, and the result is, above all, ridiculous. And that’s exactly what makes it so fantastic, as Rodriguez understands. He mines the genre’s strict rules of convention, form, and plot for all their ludicrous, disjunctive, delightfully...
...pulpy heart the movie is a display of grotty special effects: legions of lesions on the zombies' faces and lots more. There's a dead woman a hospital orderly refers to as a "no-brainer ... her brain's scooped clean out of her skull." Rose McGowan, who's the movie's cynical, go-go-dancing heroine, loses most of her leg to the zombies. "I ain't never seen me a one-legged stripper," observes an evil guy played by Tarantino, "an' I been to Morocco!" Soon, but not soon enough given Tarantino the actor's tendency to slaver...
...another article this week, I wrote about the dearth of strong roles for women in today's movies. Well, the women in Grindhouse are strong, indeed macho, and I'd love to see that as a good thing. But except for McGowan, whose grownup sultriness gives her character some emotional heft, the women here are voluptuous stick figures, living out a guy's idea of excitement. I think that many American filmmakers of the past 30 years have this view of women: comic-book superheroes; Ultra-man with breasts...
...Planet Terror, Rodriguez's half of Grindhouse, a go-go dancer (Rose McGowan) loses a leg when zombies chew it off--wait, it gets weirder--and instead of a prosthetic limb has her stump fitted with a machine gun, which she uses to mow down acres of the undead. Death Proof, Tarantino's contribution, presents two trios of high-adrenaline chicks menaced by a psycho stunt driver. The women in both entries love guns and cars and don't mind using them for righteous vengeance and reckless thrills...
...year,” Murphy said. “He’s a threat to take off with the ball every time he touches it, and that’s always a huge concern.” This is all in addition to tailbacks Marques Thompson and Matt McGowan, who have each rushed for 150-plus yards this season. But the threat of the run should not scare a Crimson defense that has is ranked first in Division I-AA. The team has allowed just 75 rushing yards and has posted 10 sacks for 61 yards in the first...