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[1] On Feb-23-2007, Deuce McGibbon wrote:

Yeah, Rob Zombie is a worthless douche. He would try to ruin this franchise by directing the sequel. Tell the cunt to just worry about his trailer and let the big boys handle any follow-up pictures. And kudos on the 2012 bit, you witty motherfucker. The year the Mayans predicted the world would end. Too fuckin' right, ya radge.

[2] On Feb-23-2007, Basil wrote:

The Devil's Rejects was shit. Willy Forsythe was wasted on that hack Zombie. I didn't see that Number 23 flick, but I heard it was mediocre as balls. Is that why he dropped that Mayan end of the world quip?

[3] On Feb-23-2007, Kirk wrote:

Umm, what the F are you dicks talking about? Rob Zombie is genius. The Devil' rejects brilliant. He's gonna make a kickass remake of Halloween. You guys should stop talking shit, because the Robster is a badass prophit from hell. Rock 'n' roll.

[4] On Feb-24-2007, Gman wrote:

Kind of old news. They already said they were gonna do another, maybe even a series, based on popular trailers from the previous entry/entries as well as new concepts.

And you know, it's "hip" to hate on Rob Zombie as a director, but The Devil's Rejects was really a special film. If you look at the layers in the script, the quality of the performances, the way Zombie aims the audience's sympathy towards the different characters and then violently away from them, towards their adversaries. It's really incredible.

I mean, yeah, you LOOK cool if you say "Zombie's movies suck!" but you know, I've got an open enough mind to accept that a musician might also be a good director.

Thirty years ago, everything you guys are saying about Rob Zombie, somebody said about Clint Eastwood.

And besides, how are you gonna condemn a director who's only made two movies in his life? I'd bet most of Zombie's critics haven't even seen Devil's Rejects, or if they did, they weren't taking it seriously, rather, they went in hoping to hate it, picking at every bad thing, ignoring everything good about the movie for the sake of looking like the hip kids, the cinematic literatti.

And the statement that Zombie will film ANYTHING is a little unfair. I mean, the guy's been rejecting scripts left and right.

Besides all that, Devils Rejects is EXACTLY 100% pitch perfect what you can expect from a Grindhouse movie, and it's why RR and QT asked him to make a trailer, so if you don't like that kind of thing, don't go see Grindhouse, it's just more of that exploitative, trashy, violent, faux 70's crap Zombie's been churning out.

[5] On Feb-24-2007, Gilbert Smith wrote:

Rob Zombie sucks as a director! All his movies are excessively violent, exploitative, they all try to look like old 70s films and his protagonists solve every problem by driving cars into them and shooting at them with machine guns!

But I can't wait for Grindhouse! It's gonna be excessively violent, exploitative, it's gonna look like an old 70s film and the protagonists are gonna solve every problem by driving cars into them and shooting at them with machine guns!

[6] On Feb-24-2007, Larry wrote:

Hey, Gman, I don't hate Rob Zombie's movies because it's hip to or because he's a musician. I hate them because they're terribly written and the acting is attrocious. No character was tolerable for more than five minutes, not even the victims of the far more annoying than malicious killers. I didn't even know it was trendy to give this film a bitch slap that it rightly deserves. And I'm not some film muff who raves about La Dolce Vita incessantly and talks shit about anything that's meant to entertain mass audiences. And anyone who thinks you have to have liked The Devil's Rejects to appreciate Grindhouse doesn't know what they're talking about. The difference: Tarantino and Rodriguez are great writers and directors, Rob Zombie is a hack. Is this my opinion or am I trying to indulge all the beret-wearing super cool filmies who faint at the sight of gore or gritty editing. That said, Rob might grow as a filmmaker and his trailer should be decent.

[7] On Feb-24-2007, misterpink867 wrote:

i liked devil's rejects...

i thought 1000 corpses was pretty horrible, but i did like how DR made you like the firefly family by the end of the flick. it made you feel like a horrible human being, but it was a feat that no other film has performed with me so far.

but what does "the number 23" have to do with anything?

[8] On Feb-24-2007, Gman wrote:

Larry, I can respect your individual opinion because it does seem motivated by taste, not image-conciousness. And you're willing to give Rob a chance to grow as a director, which is all a director can demand of an audience in the early stages of his career.

I'm not saying everyone who dislikes Zombie's films is a pretentious jerk who doesn't respect movies with a unique attitude, just the ones who see it as a bandwagon to jump onto.

Pink, yeah House of 1000 Corpses wasn't the greatest piece of storytelling in modern horror or anything. What I did like was the bizarre psychedelic style it had and I liked a few of the scenes (Incidentally, the ones that didn't develop any plot, like Sheri Moon's dance number).

[9] On Feb-24-2007, Isaac wrote:

I think I got it Pinky. Just because the webmaster or whatever randomly put the year 2012 as the date for the Grindhouse sequel this Deuce character wanted to mention that that was the Mayan apocalypse and pretended that it was a subtle quip by said webmaster, meaning that the GH sequel would never happen. And since that movie the number 23 has a code in it where the the Mayan end of the world is connected with the number -- I think it's 20 + 1 + 2 = 23, I dunno, I haven't seen the movie. That guy's a weird dude. Either Basil got that refrence right away or Basil and Deuce are the same guy who wanted to be sure people knew he was refrencing that movie. Either way it's completely random.

[10] On Feb-24-2007, ButchTheBoxer16 wrote:

Getting back to the story at hand and away from Rob Zombie a little bit (have never seen any of his films, but heard bad hype about his Halloween remake movie), I don't know if RR and QT will make another Grindhouse film, no matter what the rumored year is. Tarantino was supposed to make Vega Brothers, an all Mandarin movie, and those Kill Bill prequels, all of which never happened. So I don't have high hopes that a sequel to Grindhouse will happen either. I just hope RR gets busy with Sin City 2 (which Frank Miller said they hope to start shooting by late spring) and QT finally needs to make Inglorious Bastards after this!

[11] On Feb-24-2007, Gman wrote:

QT's a lazy procrastinator (However great he is), but RR makes like, two movies a year. I think that if RR wants GH2 to happen, he'll drag Quentin kicking and screaming into production.

[12] On Feb-25-2007, Isaac wrote:

If there's a sequel it'll be from two different directors. RR and QT will probably just do fake trailers. They said they wanted to make a new franchise, but you know that they meant it for different filmmakers, because they have to focus on other projects.

[13] On Feb-25-2007, misterpink867 wrote:

on another random side note, i just got back from watching "the number 23". it was alright.

[14] On Feb-26-2007, Ethan wrote:

The more I hear about this movie the more excited and thrilled I get. I can't fucking wait.

[15] On Feb-26-2007, PFitz wrote:

I realize I'm jumping into this conversation a little late, but I can't believe all the bad talk about Devil's Rejects, too be specific, or Rob Zombies' directing in general. My question is this. What modern horror directors are you a fan of? - and what horror movies are you a fan of that came out in the past 10 years? I'm not saying there aren't any decent horror flicks recently but I feel that Rob Zombie has successfuly applied a number of elements of classic horror(even classic monster cinema in H1000C) in both H1000C and DR that I haven't scene used as convincingly as RZ's attempt(s) since the mid 80s(film timeline). The mid to late 80s being right about the time when graphic effects were beginning to become more advanced and more commonly usedthus taking away that "classic element" (eh ehm Grindhouse). In Devil's Rejects your never distracted by the overkill of excessive graphic effects(e.g. Dreamcatcher). What I'm trying to say is this - watch Peter Jackson's Bad Taste and compare it to his 8 hour remake of King Kong. A lot of great directors are going downhill with overproduction. We should be happy to have Rob Zombie attempting to bring horror back to it's modern roots (70s-80s). I, like you all, am excited as hell about Grindhouse, but I also think Rob Zombie already did what RR and QT are attempting, and he did it in a more pure fasion - as an unproven filmmaker.

[16] On Feb-26-2007, Mick wrote:

If your don't like Zombies films' then chances are that your not that big a fan of true 70's exploitation cinema. Watch any fucking Grindhouse movie in the world and compare it to 1000 Corpses or Rejects and you'll see that they are done in exactly the same fashion. In fact, what zombie has done is taken the best parts of all Grindhouse movies (i.e Graphic Violence, Explicit Sex, and Vulgar language) and combined them to form what I feel is a modern Horror Masterpiece (I'm talking about Devils Rejects here by the way). 20-25 years from now Rejects will be ranked alongside Dawn of the Dead and Halloween as one of the greatest horror films of all time, and Zombie will be ranked among Carpenter, Cronenberg, Romero, and Raimi as one of the greatest horror directors. Also, I saw the Number 23 on opening day and personally I thought it was pretty good. A little predictable but still an entertaining and clever movie.

[17] On Mar-02-2007, garth wrote:

HAH, right. House of 1000 Corpses is VERY 70s. Sure it is.

Very, very funny.

And to say that Zombie will rank up there with the likes of Carpenter, Cronenberg, Romero and the likes is absolutely retarded. If, in ten years he has a body of actually good movies, sure, but after two movies, one of which is complete garbage and the other is a movie that would have been good had it not been directed by someone without any ideas, then we can talk.

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