March of the robots

Under discussion:

Four Eyed Monsters  (2005)

Four Eyed Monsters. It's a Myspace inspired movie... first full-length of its kind. And yes, its pretty good. Good enough to see, and good enough to buy the feature crammed DVD the creators are peddling at http://www.foureyedmonsters.com.

The reason I plug the sale of the DVD is that this has been a labor of love in more ways than one for Arin and Susan and they can't start their next project without earning enough money off their DVD. They want to sell 5000 copies... but I will let them tell you:

"So far we've sold 603 DVDs and have been written up in blogs and
people have also posted some cool videos of getting the DVD in the
mail all of which is helping us big time get the word out.  See
everyones reviews of our DVD and videos they've posted here on our
comments page.

Our goal is to sell 5,000 DVDs which will get us out of the credit
card debt we are in and get us in a situation where we can put all our
focus into making new content.    So finally, if you haven't bought a
DVD yet, this is it, the time is now, pick up the DVD off our website." 

Under discussion:

Grindhouse  (2007)

Everything about this movie is snapping. Both flicks are spectacularly entertaining. The point here is exploring action, editing, and just... fun. The point is that neither goes anywhere and that that is cool. The trailers before and in-between movies only add to the stew. Friends of Rodriguez and Tarrantino put in time on fake (?) trailers for movies like Don't, Machete, Shewolves of the SS, and my favorite by Eli Roth, Thanksgiving.

This really is a movie for people who revel in and adore "bad" movies. These guys really understand what made the source material so great and I think it shows the background that they bring to their more dignified longer form films. This is the raw stuff that they've wanted to do but there wasn't a place for.

The downfall that I can see is that people like sputnikjm3000 just won't get it. This is a movie that is meant to be shouted at and laughed at. It is big, loud, raunchy, vulgar, and fun fun fun. I think you need to have a certain amount of training in bad 70s schlock to really appreciate it. But I really really dug it.