Spy Kids Appreciation Thread - That kids film made by Robert Rodriguez

[Dom Cruise]

Grindhouse 2 would be good but I'm not sure about doing it with an 80's flair since there's still quite a few 70's B Movie exploitation sub-genres that were left untouched and the ones that Rodriguez and Tarantino picked (Zombies and Slashers) were genres whose heyday overlapped with the early 80's as well.

Then again, Death Proof was both a slasher and a car chase movie and the car chase movies were more of a 70's thing than an 80's one. So who the fuck knows?

The thing I always envisioned for a Grindhouse 2, an old type of B movie I've pretty much never seen anyone do a real homage to, are all those 80s sex comedies like Hardbodies, Private School, Private Resort, My Tutor and so on.

The most famous example of that that everyone knows and what helped kickstart the trend is Fast Times At Ridgemont High.

Instead everyone only seems interested in action or horror type movies.

 

[Syaoran Li]

The thing I always envisioned for a Grindhouse 2, an old type of B movie I've pretty much never seen anyone do a real homage to, are all those 80s sex comedies like Hardbodies, Private School, Private Resort, My Tutor and so on.

The most famous example of that that everyone knows and what helped kickstart the trend is Fast Times At Ridgemont High.

Instead everyone only seems interested in action or horror type movies.

I think it's because the action, horror, and sci-fi movies have been sort of synonymous with the term "grindhouse" although softcore porn and sex comedies were also a big part of exploitation cinema and B movies since the 1960's at least.

See, I would've loved to have seen Grindhouse become an entire series with Rodriguez directing one movie and a guest director doing another movie and each entry would riff on a different decade's B movies and genre flicks.

Like, if I had the money to finance a sequel to Grindhouse, I'd get Rodriguez and another director and do a trilogy.

Grindhouse 2 would be the 1950's/1960's with the first film being a Sword & Sandal movie and the second one being Gothic Horror in the vein of Hammer and Universal.

Grindhouse 3 would be the 1990's B movie homage, with the first film being one of the "Die Hard on an X" action flicks. The second film would be an animated feature that's a throwback to the gory edgy "OVA Boom" anime titles of the VHS era (think Ninja Scroll or Vampire Hunter D)

If you did an 80's version of Grindhouse with the double feature, I'd have one of the movies be a fantasy adventure movie. There were a lot of those in that decade compared to others like the Conan flicks, Clash of the Titans, and Labyrinth. The second one could be a cheap slasher movie or you could do a teen comedy.

 

[Dom Cruise]

I think it's because the action, horror, and sci-fi movies have been sort of synonymous with the term "grindhouse" although softcore porn and sex comedies were also a big part of exploitation cinema and B movies since the 1960's at least.

See, I would've loved to have seen Grindhouse become an entire series with Rodriguez directing one movie and a guest director doing another movie and each entry would riff on a different decade's B movies and genre flicks.

Like, if I had the money to finance a sequel to Grindhouse, I'd get Rodriguez and another director and do a trilogy.

Grindhouse 2 would be the 1950's/1960's with the first film being a Sword & Sandal movie and the second one being Gothic Horror in the vein of Hammer and Universal.

Grindhouse 3 would be the 1990's B movie homage, with the first film being one of the "Die Hard on an X" action flicks. The second film would be an animated feature that's a throwback to the gory edgy "OVA Boom" anime titles of the VHS era (think Ninja Scroll or Vampire Hunter D)

If you did an 80's version of Grindhouse with the double feature, I'd have one of the movies be a fantasy adventure movie. There were a lot of those in that decade compared to others like the Conan flicks, Clash of the Titans, and Labyrinth. The second one could be a cheap slasher movie or you could do a teen comedy.

Man, that would be really cool, I wonder if it was meant to be a whole series? (Certainly Machete was)

From what I understand Grindhouse wasn't a huge hit in theaters even though that was one of the most fun times I ever had seeing a movie in the theater.

 

[Syaoran Li]

Man, that would be really cool, I wonder if it was meant to be a whole series? (Certainly Machete was)

From what I understand Grindhouse wasn't a huge hit in theaters even though that was one of the most fun times I ever had seeing a movie in the theater.

Grindhouse was a box office flop (even though it developed a cult following later on) and this is due to two reasons.

1. The double-feature format threw a lot of people off

2. Harvey Weinstein sabotaged the movie and its marketing. A lot of the TV commercials made it look like Grindhouse was a single flick instead of a double feature. Anyone with Google could find out that was not the case but TV ads were a lot more vague (and had more of an impact in 2007)

A lot of people saw the runtime and thought it was a very long-ass movie instead of two movies in one showing.

 

[Return of the Freaker]

Grindhouse 3 would be the 1990's B movie homage, with the first film being one of the "Die Hard on an X" action flicks. The second film would be an animated feature that's a throwback to the gory edgy "OVA Boom" anime titles of the VHS era (think Ninja Scroll or Vampire Hunter D)

Dude, I would give up my left nut for this. Could you imagine getting a "respectable" anime director like say, Makoto Shinkai, to do cyberpunk blood, gore, and titties?

As for Spy Kids, the second one had the meme quote, but you can't deny the first was the best. Also Machete.

 

[Syaoran Li]

Dude, I would give up my left nut for this. Could you imagine getting a "respectable" anime director like say, Makoto Shinkai, to do cyberpunk blood, gore, and titties?

Hell, I'd even include some hallmarks of VHS era anime like tracking lines and intentionally badly translated subtitles in bright yellow text.

Bonus points if the dialogue is in English but the subs are still there (and don't match up with the English dialogue, the implication it's a dub of a bad fansub)

 

[XYZpdq]

I never tried the Spy Kids movies or Shark Boy and Lava Girl
I really enjoyed the RR stuff I've seen, original El Mariachi and Machete 1
I should give them a try