Posted on 09/02/2010 3:55:42 PM PDT by VU4G10
ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – In Robert Rodriguez's new grindhouse feature "Machete," the vengeful title character uses vicious cutlery to butcher his enemies. Could something similar happen to the movie when it's released next week?
"Machete's" convoluted story explicitly takes place amid the current powder keg of an immigration debate and on the heels of Arizona's controversial anti-illegal immigration legislation.
FoxNews.com wasted no time in posting an article, "Violent Movie Declares War on Arizona for Immigration Law," that linked the trailer to an incident the day before in which an unidentified white powder was sent to Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, who had signed SB 1070 into law. The article, which was quickly removed from the FoxNews website, declared the trailer "just the latest development in a debate that is growing more rancorous by the minute."
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He also contributed to some of the more nasty aspects of the debate about SB 1070. I'll forgive him because I like his movies plain and simple, but I'm disappointed in him.
Regardless of how good his movies are, the damage he seeks to do to this country is far more significant than anything he might contribute entertainment wise.
Wondering how long it will be before some nimrod comes on this thread and only says:
“Never heard of him”.
or
“I don’t see movies from Hollyweird”
Still, IMO he can go p*ss up a rope from now on.
Enforcing the law is unfashionable in the post-American world.
Tarantino wrote it but wanted someone else to direct. He and Rodriguez are tight so it was an easy choice for him I guess.
As far as zombie movies go, “Shawn of the Dead” is more my speed.
boycott.
Actually "From Dusk To Dawn" was a vampire movie. But I liked "Shawn of the Dead" too. :)
or this thread is useless without Jessica Alba pictures
or this thread is useless without Jessica Alba pictures
That’s kind of the point of the movie, it almost entirely lacks anybody that deserves the title “good guy”, and kills almost everybody. It’s a gore fest not unlike Machete, you’re supposed to root for the quality of the kill.
when Spy Kids goes horribly wrong...
Gore for gore sake then? If that’s the goal well then we are talking Cinematic Masterpiece, sorry I’ll pass and with no regrets.
It’s an action-horror-comedy. Nobody involved was trying to supplant Shakespeare, they were just trying to have some fun with 2 genres that at the time were taking themselves far too seriously. It’s a fun movie, and accomplishes its only real goal: entertainment. If that’s not enough for you fine, but understand there’s a lot of fun stuff out there that has no pretensions of ever being a masterpiece, lack of pretensions in both item and audience can be a nice thing.
‘Inglorious Bastards’ is another of such work. If I could only get those two hours of my life back!
Folks, It’s just a movie .....
Although I have no doubt that the same people who defend hollywood movies as art would be screaming Racism!! if a movie was made about illegals and Sheriff Joe upholding Arizona law..
What the hell does a stupid movie have to do with the immigration debate?
I have no doubt that is the secret intention here.
But maybe I'm becoming paranoid.
I consider the produces/actors of this raciest crap to be legitimate targets if some bad happens
I consider the produces/actors of this raciest crap to be legitimate targets if someThing bad happens
IB was awesome. It was a Spaghetti Western, a really well done Spaghetti Western that just happened to plot in WWII. Quite possibly Tarantino’s best movie.
You’re just not a QT guy. No shame in that, but if you didn’t like FDTD or IB you’re just not his intended audience. Best to avoid all his movies.
I saw a Danny Trejo interview somewhere recently...he refused to get baited into bashing Arizona even though the interviewer pressed him
Harvey does have a hot wife though that he bought fair and square. A disgusting pairing.
The rest are disjointed 'gore fests' as you put it. I have no idea why the guy is so popular.
Forgot about Jackie Brown. That was a decent movie as well - early Tarantino.
I liked the actors in Dogs...
Interesting... Reservoir Dogs has so far been the only Tarantino movie I didn’t like. Too much violence for the sake of violence. Plenty of violence in his other ones, but there’s at least a reason behind it.
Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill are like all of Tarantinos movies, they’re homages to low budget 70s movies. Pulp Fiction is a deconstruction of 70s crime noir, and a cheap excuse to get Harvey Keitel in front of a camera again, with tons of character analysis of the types of characters that don’t usually get analyzed in the movies, it’s a film constructed entirely of secondary and tertiary characters.
Kill Bill is basically every “great” 70s Hong Kong kung fu movie. Kill Bill advances beyond mere homage to full fledged replication, entire fight sequences are lifted cut for cut and move for move. Heck he even stuck in the logo of one of the companies that made a bunch of the movies he’s tributing.
Tarantino is in many ways the ultimate example of a director who makes movies he wants to watch, as opposed to movies for the masses. He’s a huge fan of grindhouse/ low budget/ non-art imports of the 60s and 70s and his movies are built around those. The style, the props, the actors, all of it is grist for his resurrection mill. If you like those movies you’ll probably like his movies, if your video library has no Spaghetti Westerns, Hong Kong kung fu, or blaxploitation you probably won’t.
Pulp Fiction isn’t nearly as violent as its legend. Only 8 people die in the whole movie and 3 of them are off camera (though one of the off camera guys squibs all over the back of a car). What makes it seem violent is the matter of fact way the characters deal with it, the people in the movie are violent as a way of life and unflinching when it happens, and the violence that occurs on screen is done with the same matter of fact mentality. But it has a lower body count than any well respected mob movie.
Silence of the Lambs isn’t violent either, there’s a lot of dead bodies and some strong suggestions when Lecter escapes, but the actual violence happens off screen or in the dark. Again it’s the attitude of the characters, especially Lecter, that causes things to seem more violent, a lot of stuff is suggested to the viewer which causes people to imagine a lot of things but none of them actually occur.
Both these movies are fine examples of what I call “head in the box syndrome”. That names comes from the movie Seven, which ends with a package being delivered to one of the heroes and in that package is the head of his pregnant wife whom he didn’t know was dead or in any danger. In discussing the film the director talks about receiving many letter from people (and even reading a review of the movie) complaining about him showing the head in the box, they all thought it was too graphic and completely unnecessary. The punchline is they never show the head in the box, they just constructed the scene such that by the time the contents of the box are revealed through dialog the viewer can’t help but envision it. So when people say that scene is too graphic they’re really telling about their own imagination, what’s actually shown is completely innocuous, all the horror happens in your head.
Well it’s a great fun movie. Before the title plate has even appeared Machete has hacked up 12 drug lord henchmen and a hot chick has appeared naked for no good reason. All the bad guy characters are tied to the drug lord, they only want to “close” the border (except for certain pre-designed weak spots) to keep the drug lord’s competition out and drive up prices. The body count is higher than the entire run of Miami Vice. It’s pure grindhouse, lots of fun, and the audience was almost all white.
People really shouldn’t panic so much. Sometimes a low budget movie is just a low budget movie.
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