Your thoughts about "Planet Terror" are really interesting (since unexpected), wpqx! I'd really love to have a little argument about the film! 

Two years ago I though Rodriguez to be a better and more interesting director than Tarantino but that was, of course, a big mistake. In my german review, I compared "Planet Terror" to the films of Michael Bay which I don't like for almost the same reasons - only attractions and action, almost no substance or dramaturgy. "Sin City" was probably one of the best efforts to new wave of graphic novel adaptions but in "Planet Terror", Rodriguez seemed helpless without having Tarantino, Frank Miller or somebody else behind him. I haven't seen "El Mariachi" so far, maybe I should do that soon. 

It seems logical to enjoy "Planet Terror" more than "Death Proof" and I can understand your point of view (and most people obviously felt the same). 

It would be interesting if the longer, Cannes-Version of "Death Proof" (the isolated theatrical version running 113 Minutes) would please you more. But probably you would dislike it even more - because there has been added MORE of the forced, ultra-cool Dialogue.