Machete

[mr.negativity]

[MouthForWar]

[king_ghidorah]

[walshiam]

[mr.negativity]

[MouthForWar]

[Dr Kain]

[Benjamin Haines]

[MekaGojira3k]

[MouthForWar]

Anyone goin this weekend? I'm probably gonna check it out tonight. I'm hoping this is what The Expendables SHOULD have been.

Hopefully it'll be good... that way, when it comes out on DVD, I can use that as the 2nd half of Grindhouse instead of the abysmal Death Proof.

[jellydonut25]

[mrbluehair]

[MouthForWar]

I had a blast with this film! Whether it lives up to its trailer (what exploitation movie does?) will be up to the viewer, but I had a giant smile on my face from start to finish. Its basically a blaxploitation film, but with Mexicans instead of blacks (Mexploitation?) Its not as much of a spoof as something like Black Dynamite, but its got the same type of over the top tongue-in-cheek silliness and insanity of movies like Planet Terror, Desperado and From Dusk Till Dawn. If only the Expendables delivered this kind of crazy, over the top action/ridiculousness. This will officially be the new 2nd half of Grindhouse for me! I'd definitely say its the best action movie of the year.

DeNiro and Seagal were especially hilarious.

[Dr Kain]

Oh great, thanks MFW, now I'm going to end up hating this movie since you liked it.

Seriously though, I'll be seeing this in exactly 3 hours and I cannot wait. Not because it is Robert Rodriguez. Not because it is like an Exploitation film (I honestly still do not understand that concept), but because it has Danny Trejo as the lead star for once.

[jellydonut25]

Exploitation films are just like "crappy" or "cheaply made" films that go ridiculously over-the-top and LARGELY (or COMPLETELY) feature one particular demographic.
Blaxploitation - movies like Shaft, Black to the Future, and Black Dynamite (although Black Dynamite is a send-up of Blaxploitation)
Teensploitation - movies like F13 and its ilk which feature scantily clad teenagers in ridiculously over-the-top plots generally also getting killed

these are just the more "mainstream" examples of exploitation cinema, the typical entries are of the Grindhouse fare.

It could be said that Death Proof is a Femsploitation film...

[MouthForWar]

[Dr Kain]

[MouthForWar]

Wow, some people are totally missing the point:

http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmno ... -american/

People are taking this movie WAY too literally and forgetting its basically a Mexican send up of Blaxploitation films, which is why everything is so overtly pro-Mexico, just as the blaxploitation films were so over the top in their "black vs white" stories where just about every white guys was corrupt and evil. Its a homage to those films and its totally tongue in cheek. You think movie critics would be well versed enough in the history of American film that they would be able to grasp the basic concept of "Exploitation." I wouldn't be surprised if these are the same critics that said Verhoeven's Starship Troopers celebrated war mongering, when it was the total opposite. The comments below that review are even more daft.

Besides, what about movies like Rambo and the Expendables that make basically paint South Americans as violent, war crazed maniacs. Where's the "race war" accusations for those films?

Some critics are even saying Machete is Rodriguez calling for a "race war" between whites and Hispanics.

God, I hate people.

[TheMaster]

[jellydonut25]

I haven't seen Machete yet, so I'll reserve commentary on that for now, but I just think it's HILARIOUS (or unbearably pathetic) how people will cry foul at this but GOBBLE UP Cameron's UNBELIEVABLY racist film...

[we77964]

Andrew Breitbart needs to shut up !!!!!!!! That goes for Dennis Miller too.

[Gamzilla]

I can't WAIT to see this tomorrow, coming from a mexican

has anyone else noticed that the other film Machete is competing with "The American" is obviously about an American in a foreign country, while this movie is about a Mexican in a foreign country....I'm just sayin'

[MouthForWar]

[Dr Kain]

[TheMaster]