I thought Machete was spectacularly daft and really watchable. Danny Trejo was excellent in the lead and it was really obvious where there had been some re-shoots -- an obvious one where Lindsay Lohan enters the pool and then you have someone else to do the topless scene!
I also watched Grindhouse with the excellent fake trailers (Edgar Wright's Don't was a particular highlight) and I thought that Planet Terror was much more the sort of film to fit such a double bill than Death Proof which seemed overlong and a bit dull. It doesn't help when all the characters talk like Quentin Tarantino and the major reference point is Vanishing Point, which wasn't a B-movie. It was also really weird how they seemingly forgot about the the digital 'print damage' after about 20 minutes whereas Planet Terror looked grainy and a bit wrecked all the way through.
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