Mcgraw has been in plenty of films before and acting similar to how did in "Death proof". I honestly don't buy the fact the movies are connected since that defeats the whole purpose of a "double feature", two movies back to back.
If it was a single story or at least supposed to be, you would have had some indication from an outside source, director, or party to suggest this. The points you listed all seem a bit stretched to tie up without having your head hurt. Seeing Dr. Block in there was the only indication I ever picked up about this.
If there is anything at all. Anyways, as far as the conversations thing, "Reservoir Dogs" at least had INTERESTING things to talk about. Basically Tarantino's film was loaded with gabby girl talk, and it wasn't stuff that grabbed your attention. Most of it was jabbering about "juicy gossip" stories and not really helpful info.
Zoe's whole "cat" thing was the only thing I found relevant to the discussions. "Reservoir Dogs" on the other hand all carried conversations that gave us an idea of the characters personalities, which was more interesting considering the fact we knew nothing about these guys, not even their real names.
Most of em anyway. Now as far as the continued private discussion, and by private I mean referring to spoiler material of course:
Spoiler Below I believe Stuntman Mike is dead because this honestly seemed WAY too much of a good thing for the girls to let go. They nearly died being chased off the road by him, and then went to all the trouble of getting killed on the highway to run him off the road, trap him, then beat the living piss out of him.
Considering their attitudes, I hardly think they would go to all that trouble without killing him. The "Planet Terror" mix movie theory aside, there's still alot of left over bits of evidence though that would easily lead the cops to the girls. 1- the original owner of the car is gonna eventually report it missing.
2- Even if he doesn't and they bring it back, no way in hell he won't call the cops about the damage on the car. 3- there gonna have to go back because they left Lee back there. 4- About 20 different people saw their little runaround on the road and caused god knows how many crashes.
No way no one wouldn't report what they saw or at least a description. And finally 5- assuming he is dead from that beating and they didn't destroy or hide the body, someone will eventually find it and report it. And if they do report it, the cops are gonna be able to pick up traces of finger prints.
They smashed his face in 50 times and jammed a boot in his eye, that's gonna leave a trail. I normally wouldn't talk so much about after the movie material but it's only cause this film ended on such a open hole that I feel the need to. I also highly doubt if Mike survived, he'd fear talking about this to the cops.
We all know Mike can't get touched by the police because if he did, he wouldn't have been released for this previous little "stunt". He can easily kill whoever he wants with a stunt car and never be suspected because it's an accident far as people are concerned, that's the beauty of his little design.
That car gives him an automatic excuse for his actions from the law, only thing that would stop him is eye witnesses and as you know, he doesn't leave any.