Decapitations? Intestinal Spelunking? Gratuitous Nudity? Racist De Niro? Lawnmower Man? Fucking Steven Segal?
Yes, yes, and more yes. Rodriguez delivers another Grindhouse style intentionally-awesomely-bad movie.
Danny Trejo leads the movie as Machete an Ex-Federale who seeks vengeance on basically everyone, especially Segal who methodically transforms himself into a Mexican. Bale? No thanks, give me Segal.
I would love to see another collaboration by Rodriguez and Tarentino for another Grindhouse Feature if only the first hadn't bombed horribly. At least they were trying to make an experience rather than another passive moment where you become a goldfish and forget what you just saw.
What I love about Rodriguez's DVD releases is the option to choose the audience reaction audio track. It gives you the feeling of being in the theater without fart saturated seats and that guy who thinks he is funny yelling out during the film but is really a witless tool and will hopefully meet a drunk driver bumper to bumper as he and his buddies inaccurately quote the movie they just saw mere minutes ago.
I wouldn't say Rodriguez's films are in the traditional sense great films, except Sin City, but they are an experience. He knows that movie goers want to have fun and not the the Adam Sandler-ish "Oh I am above goofy voices now so I will make dreck, dick and fart joke movies and end with a message saying everything we made fun of previously was wrong and we really should accept those people, a-hoobity doobity." We need those movies that bring the guttural moans when what should be tragic, throat fucked by a machete (in the film), is ball jiggling hilarity.
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