Stupid movie decisions: Machete Kills
So I read online today that Robert Rodriguez is going to make a sequel to Machete called Machete Kills. I think this will firmly cement him in the slot of movie directors who makes brilliant movies and then ruins them with really dumb and unnecessary sequels. He started the trend with El Mariachi, a great film done in Spanish with a relatively unknown cast only to nosedive it into the ground with the incredibly lame Desperado starring Antonio Bandaras. It’s like he never saw El Mariachi and missed the entire point that the guy was not supposed to be a super action guy but instead just an ordinary man in a bad situation.
Now he is going to take another great stand alone movie starring the great Danny Trejo and probably ruin that one too. I know Machete is is supposed to be over the top, but if you read the story summary you will be shocked at how lame the plot device. Also has cast Mel Gibson for this, which given his current popularity could rank up there as a really bad call too.
This Machete poster I found in Dave’s movie t shirts, by the way.
Of course not all of Robert Rodriguez’s first movies are good. After all, he did to the Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3D. I wish that movie had come out recently so I could get Dave to go see it and then puke all over his keyboard while writing the review. That would be entertaining.
Jason
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