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Posted Sunday, April 8, 2007 11:30pm

Grindhouse D.O.A.

So I went to see "Grindhouse" on Friday. Enjoyable enough flick, but not great. I wouldn't buy it on DVD, which is saying a lot. Anyone who knows me knows I buy almost anything. I just don't see myself watching his more than once.

Robert Rodriguez's Planet Terror was fun. Quentin Tarantino's Death Proof was just an excuse for a cool car chase. Q.T.'s half of the movie was completely devoid of any sort of plot.

The good news is that it failed miserably at the box office. It stunk the place up, finish fourth for the weekend. Maybe now we won't have to see any more Tarantino "homages" for a while.

"Are we disappointed about the gross?" studio co-chairman Harvey Weinstein told Reuters. "I'd be lying to you if I said I wasn't. I am disappointed."

If you're a long time reader of this blog you already know about my hatred of Quentin Tarantino. Has the guy ever made a movie that wasn't an homage to something else?

Resevoir Dogs = City on Fire
Pulp Fiction = Kiss Me Deadly, Charley Varrick, American Boy
True Romance (screenplay only) = Badlands
Jackie Brown = Coffey
Kill Bill = 70's Shaw Brothers films
Death Proof = Vanishing Point

Enough. I get it Quentin... you like old movies. Great. Now stop ripping them off.

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John McCain, once the shining beacon of "moderate" conservatism, is pretty much done as a presidential contender.

Unable to raise campaign financing, it looks like he's decided to embrace the big money donors. This is contrary to his historical disdain for sketchy campaign financing.

McCain's also gotten into bed with the religious right, a group he previously shunned.

And last weekend, he had his "Dukakis" Moment as he strolled the streets of an Iraqi market and declared Baghdad safe. Only problem was that he strolled the market only after it had been closed to the public. And he was wearing a bullet-proof vest, surrounded by 100 armed U.S. troops. And there were two military choppers overhead. And snipers positioned on rooftops to protect him.

He's done.

Meanwhile, Rudy Guliani... the pro-choice, pro-gay rights candidate... well, I can pretty much stop right there. He's completely lost the hardcore right on those two points alone.

So the GOP is down to Mitt Romney, who apparently raised a shitload of money in the first quarter, and Fred Thompson, who looks like Bush, but without the prowar albatross around his neck.

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So I managed to go a whole month without blogging. Sorry about that. Between work and the new baby, things just got a bit busy.

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