Yesterday we reported that Grindhouse earned an R-Rating, days after Page Six suggested the film would be stuck with an NC-17 without massive cuts. We speculated that some of the more controversial sequences were probably cut for the theatrical release. Now co-director Robert Rodriguez checks in with an update.
According to AICN:
Rodriguez - who is celebrating getting his R-rating for the double feature without having to sacrifice much of anything. He only lost part of a brain-eating scene and Quentin only lost part of one of the crash scenes. So the big story in THE NY POST about the film facing massive problems - was bullsh*t. So there ya go…
We also got word that the final running time for the film is three hours and five minutes. That’s right, OVER THREE HOURS! When the poster advertised “Two Great Movies For The Price Of One!” they weren’t kidding. We can’t wait.
March 23rd, 2007 at 4:34 am
BAM! I’m first!
Can’t wait to see this one. Tarantino’s bit is gonna blow though.
March 24th, 2007 at 11:29 pm
Yeah, but the big question is: Was much of the content in the fake trailers cut to get the R rating? Nobody specified that yet and I highly doubt will know either until we see the movie. I’m betting Rob Zombie’s “Werewolf Women of the SS” (which features In one scene, a cute, topless girl roughly tied down on a table by evil female Nazi experimenters who begin draining her blood and, as she screams in agony, they brand her like livestock with a coal-hot steel swastika. And every girl in the Nazi concentration camp is topless) will be edited or not shown at all & Eli Roth’s “Thanksgiving” (which features a part where Jordan Ladd [daughter of Cheryl Ladd of 'Charlie's Angels'] is in a car with her boyfriend and giving him [oral sex] when she lovingly reaches to stroke his hair and discovers his neck is just a bloody stump - some maniac had just cut off his head while she was in the act) which also will probably also not make the film.
The theater version is only half of it, I really won’t have a problem if its cut in that form to appease an R rating but it’s the DVD release that has to have all the original scenes or else Tarantino screwed over his supposed love of the genre and his fans.
April 12th, 2007 at 10:14 pm
I think it will be an awesome movie. Im gunna go see it tomorrow :P CANT WAIT!