Posted on 09/05/2010 4:00:46 AM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
Director Robert Rodriguezs spoof trailer for Machete was easily the best part of his and Quentin Tarantinos failed attempt to return to those glorious days of early 70s exploitation flicks with 2007s Grindhouse. And it made sense that the fan reaction would eventually result in a feature film the director has wanted to make since the mid-nineties. If nothing else, Rodriguez is as famous for delivering low-budget, high concept genre films as he is for directing them. Hes even better at marketing himself and his latest project, exploiting to the hilt an intriguing concept that, unfortunately, usually fails to pay off in a satisfying way...
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Recently, Rodriguez has furiously tried to backpedal away from the racial bomb he exploded into the middle of the Arizona immigration debate back in May with his cravenly cynical attempt to market Machete using a racist trailer. After the backlash and with Texas tax credits on the line, the directors now selling Machete as a goof, a Mexsploitation flick that harmlessly employs the same kind of over-the-top politics that have always defined the genre. But nothing could be further from the truth.
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Machete offers no middle ground, no reasonable, non-racist position against wide open borders for those fleeing from what one character describes as the personal hell that is Mexico. And that character is Luz, (Michelle Rodriguez), a taco stand operator and the underground leader of a network dedicated to smuggling illegals across the border. However, shes also stockpiling weapons of war for the coming revolution and represents SHE (an obvious reference to mass-murderer Che nice, huh?), the mythical, female revolutionary figure who inspires illegals everywhere to fight for their right to be in America. Because, as Sartara sees it: "We didnt cross the border, the border crossed us!"
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(Excerpt) Read more at bighollywood.breitbart.com ...
Ping.
vile scumbag mexican alert!
*ping*
Title is an apt description of the POTUS and Congress along with some unsavory business people.
Had you been forced to endure a showing of something as execrable as Machete, I'd rise from my grave and enthusiastically defend your right to do so in a court of law! ;)
You mean these people???????????
Phoenix, Arizona features an astounding annual car theft rate of 57,000 vehicles and has become the new Car Theft Capital of the World.
U.S. law enforcement authorities claim that there are now over 1 million members of criminal gangs inside the country. These 1 million gang members are responsible for up to 80% of the crimes committed in the United States each year.
Here they are !!! Take a look !!!
More information on the wonderful illegals now inside our country thanks to the Demoncrats ...
Take a look at this FBI Wanted for Murder List to see how wonderful diversity is !!!
http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/fugitives/vc/murders/vc_murders.htm
About 90% Hispanic, for those who don’t wish to count (or see all their ugly mugs)
Also:
http://newamericamedia.org/2010/07/los-zetas-in-los-angeles-—mexican-cartel-expands-in-california.php
62% of Hispanic Voters in Colorado said they are in favor of AZ type of immigration law.
http://www.denverpost.com/commented/ci_15340750?source=commented-
Rodriguez is going around bragging he’s gonna make two more sequels.......
Well I guess the cartels (aided and abetted by the Mexican miitary) have to do something with all that drug money (/snix).
Besides, Pt.2 Might be "Revenge of the Gringo"
It’s actually doing pretty lousy, with under $4m on Friday.
I’ve always said the best thing about Jessica Alba’s acting is that she looks great. She’s actually a lousy actress, but yikes she’s a hottie!!
“(I really liked “Kick-A&&” too)”
My wife and I almost died laughing watching that! We LOVED “Hit Girl”! Wish I had a daughter like her!
Reports are that it cost $25M to make, and (again, approximately) another $25M would be added on top of that for the distribution -- and, more importantly, saturation-level advertising -- involved. So: that's $50M needing to be recouped, give or take...
... except that it's standard Hollywood Financial Law that a film routinely needs to make back three times its total costs, overall, in order to qualify as genuinely "profitable" from a studio's perspective. So, really, Machete needs to make $150M, all told, for the dire prospect of sequels to come into play. ;)
Can Machete reasonably expect to do that? Not solely through whatever it likely will end up generating via domestic release and DVD rights, no... but: how said vile dreck ultimately performs in, say, Central or South America, on the other hand, may be another matter altogether.
Worth keeping an eye on this story as it develops, methinks.
You know they’ve cooked the books already-—and Hollyweirdso are notorious for cheating on the grosses.
Bombs usually make it on foreign distribution deals.
Machete will be a huge hit in the Third World.
YOU:Bombs usually make it on foreign distribution deals.
Machete will be a huge hit in the Third World.
Obviously, we are in essential agreement, here. ;)
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