Neil: Thanks so much for that compliment. I recall reading – after the disappointing box office take in the States – that the Weinsteins were thinking about splitting Grindhouse in half overseas, but wasn’t sure whether that occurred in the U.K. or not. Apparently, it did. Your jerry-rigged Grindhouse fest sounds like fun, but audiences deserve to see this spectacular film as Rodriguez & Tarantino intended and that is at 191 minutes straight through.

Rachel: From a woman who loves Tarantino films so much that she just named her firstborn “Mia,” I was curious what your reaction to Grindhouse would be. I had a ball watching it in a theater as well, although there were walk-outs after Planet Terror. Dimension really needed to roll this out like an art film in small theaters and colleges, building word of mouth of how unique it was and why not to leave after the first hour and a half. Thanks so much for commenting. Enjoy the Grindhouse experience on your computer!

Patricia: The all mighty marketplace returned its verdict on Grindhouse, so I am not surprised that the hucksters at Dimension just want this whole bad experience to go away. I would have loved it if the studio had put half the effort into a DVD that Fox did with Fight Club, but it really doesn’t surprise me either. Along with Paramount, Miramax are the most clueless lot out there when it comes to marketing its library on DVD. Thanks for commenting and for keeping the Prince Charles Cinema in business.

Hedwig: Your Greenwich Village peep show experience sounds like a family memory you will treasure for years. I wish Grindhouse had been a roadshow with Tarantino going from college town to college town presenting the film and generating word of mouth. I don’t know; this strategy didn’t exactly translate into mega bucks for Serenity, but I think it’s the right approach for this type of film. Thanks for visiting and sharing your thoughts with the class!

I have to say: I’m of two minds concerning the longer version of Death Proof. I like some of the added scenes (especially the black and white start of the second part), but others are wholly superfluous, and 2 hours IS too long for this story. I did cave and buy it on DVD though. I just wish they’d also put the shorter version on there.

My take on the two: Tarantino’s contribution is bloated — I can think of no better description, but I found the Rodriguez movie to be a lot of fun, Then again I’m a sucker for horror movies, even minor ones.

I was absolutely devastated when I found out they were breaking the films up and releasing them separately, and have since refused to rent the dvds individually. If I had known this at the time of the film’s release, I would’ve seen it more than once in the theater for sure.

Now, almost 2 years later, with most of both films slipping further from my memory’s graspy, I’ve gleefully discovered that Netflix is showing the entire experience on their Watch Instantly option. At least this is how it’s advertised. So this weekend, I plan on pulling up a seat in front of my computer, and refreshing my memory of a pretty sweet double feature that left me in jaw-dropping awe back in 2007.

Here in the UK, we were denied the experience of ‘Grindhouse’ as a single bigscreen outing. I remember when ‘Death Proof’ opened, ‘Planet Terror’ didn’t even have a UK release date confirmed. I managed to get hold of a Region 1 DVD of ‘Planet Terror’ and staged my own ‘Grindhouse’ event as best I could, watching ‘Planet Terror’ and the ‘Machete’ trailer on DVD, downloading the Rob Zombie, Edgar Wright and Eli Roth trailers online then going to see ‘Death Proof’ on the big screen.

The do-it-yourself aspect was fun, but I’d still love to see both films in their 85-minute cuts, back-to-back.