‘Machete’ Review: Dull, Convoluted, Racist and Anti-American [a film only LaRaza could love]

Big Hollywood ^ | 09/04/10 | Jim Nolte

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

Ping.

[rrrod]

vile scumbag mexican alert!

[fieldmarshaldj]

*ping*

[freekitty]

Title is an apt description of the POTUS and Congress along with some unsavory business people.

[BigCinBigD]

You would have to hold me at gun point to make me watch this trash. And then I would probably take the gun away from you and shoot you with it.

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

You would have to hold me at gun point to make me watch this trash. And then I would probably take the gun away from you and shoot you with it.

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! ;)

[DontTreadOnMe2009]

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

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BTW

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-

[tanknetter]

You would have to hold me at gun point to make me watch this trash. And then I would probably take the gun away from you and shoot you with it.

I saw it last night, and at the Phoenix-Worldgate theaters in Herndon (about a 1/2 mile down the road from the "Day Laborer 7/11") where I was one of only two Caucasians in the place (and I wasn't about to ask any of my fellow theater-goers to show me their green cars).

The film's an over-the-top hoot with a lot of very funny moments (Machete and The Padre's - Padre played by Cheech Marin btw - exchange over "Cuban" vs "Mexican", for instance), and while it doesn't rise to the level of some of the classic 70's Blaxploitation films like Blackula or Shaft it's definitely still in the same vein.

It's not a movie for everyone (obviously), but for people out there who get a kick out of Blaxploitation films, South Park and other "no middle ground" films (I really liked "Kick-A&&" too) it's not a bad way to spend a couple hours.

Besides, there are some key takeaways:

Michelle Rodriguez is hot

Jessica Alba is REALLY hot

Lindsay Lohan, if you can ignore the methed-out look on her face, is hot

The C-list actress who plays Lindsay's mom is hot

Oh, and given the audience I saw the movie with, people might be surprised that I heard hoots of laughter rather than vehement yells of "Viva la Revolucion!" and "Viva la Reconquista!"

[Liz]

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).

[BallyBill]

I predict it will be a big success. Most people don't go to movies like this looking for a political message.

Besides, Pt.2 Might be "Revenge of the Gringo"

[Tolsti2]

It’s actually doing pretty lousy, with under $4m on Friday.

[Mr. K]

I'm with you -I would watch Jessica Alba read a phone book

[BigCinBigD]

Frankly, unless Jessica or Michelle get naked I'll still pass.

[kb2614]

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!!

[mozarky2]

“(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!

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

Machete made approximately $12M, opening weekend. Typically, films do no more than half that initial amount during Week Two; and, from there, a steady, gradual decline.

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.

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

Just to be absolutely clear: "Typically, films do no more than half that initial amount during Week Two" means, of course, that non-blockbuster flicks traditionally make no more in the course of Week Two than half of whatever they ended up making during Week One. (Obviously, solid franchise exceptions such as -- oh, say -- Toy Story 3 are a different matter altogether.) ;)

[Liz]

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.

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

ME: ... but: how said vile dreck ultimately performs in, say, Central or South America, on the other hand, may be another matter altogether.

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. ;)