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**Brazoo** · Jul 11, '10, 12:24 PM

Trejo will be awesome - the political message is great - the problem is Rodriguez - The Grindhouse fake trailer looked grittier, boobier and funnier. He's going to wimp out like he did in Grindhouse.

Rodriguez and Tarantino actually both wimped out with their Grindhouse features. You can't make an exploitation movie with a politically correct message - that's just not how it works. Same way Don Rickles can't apologize to everyone he insults - you're suppose to be insulted - that's the point!

**garagesale** · Jul 11, '10, 2:55 PM

Love Rodriguez ... in a very DVD kind of way.

JamesD

**Hector** · Jul 11, '10, 6:06 PM

Originally posted by Zemo

Seagal gets a hard time always, but he's the baddest guy in this move hands down.

Seagal has always been overrated...even in his prime.

He was choked by a stuntman many years ago...and he defecated in his pants.

Now...he's a slow and fat has been.

Have you seen him in that cop reality show?

Pathetic...the guy can't even handle a teenager...can't run...he sweats like a pig...and constantly runs outta breath...lol.

I'd place my money on Trejo...he's older and smaller...but he was a fighter too...plus the man saw really hard times in prison, he's a meaner and tougher hombre....or at the very least...he's in much better shape...lol...

**Cmonster** · Jul 11, '10, 6:58 PM

Originally posted by Hector

You know the more I think about it...the more I'm starting to agree with you.

You and I both are not enamored by Robert Rodriguez...in that...we are in total agreement.

I think Rodriguez is a pretentious director...and his films show that.

However...I'm encouraging people to see it...not because of pompous and pretentious Rodriguez...but because of Danny Trejo...a man's man...lol.

We gotta give an actor...one who has been a character actor all his life...and dude who's not exactly Brad Pitt in the looks department...a dude who is a real baddass hombre...we gotta give him a chance...we must support him...we must all transform Trejo into a Hollywood leading man.

Amen...

Hector,

My opinion of RR comes from a different perspective. Just to come right out and say what I feel; I personally just haven't liked anything he's ever done. His style is way too over the top for me, and his movies don't have the class, style or ilk of Ridley Scott's work, or Spielberg or David Fincher, or Stanley Kubrick. These are the guys I look up to and am inspired by... Not someone like RR, who makes what I consider to be disposable entertainment at best. "Spy Kids", "From Dusk til Dawn", or "Planet Terror" will not go down in history as great films, I'm sorry. They will never be talked about or referenced in the same breath as "Alien", "Blade Runner", "Star Wars", "Jaws" or "Seven"...

I simply do not like, nor respond to the kind of films RR makes.

"Machete" looks utterly ridiculous to me, I'm sorry. I like Danny Trejo, and think he's been good in the roles he's done. I also totally and completely agree with the fact that a Hispanic leading man like him is a GREAT thing. All I'm saying, is that I wish he would work with a better pedigree of filmmaker and more realistic material.

Just my 2.

No disrespect intended to anyone.

SC

**Hector** · Jul 11, '10, 7:01 PM

None taken...I don't like Rodriguez either (although I do like From Dusk til Dawn, lol)...

But I love Trejo...a working man's actor...

**Zemo** · Jul 11, '10, 7:01 PM

Originally posted by Hector

Seagal has always been overrated...even in his prime.

He was choked by a stuntman many years ago...and he defecated in his pants.

Now...he's a slow and fat has been.

Have you seen him in that cop reality show?

Pathetic...the guy can't even handle a teenager...can't run...he sweats like a pig...and constantly runs outta breath...lol.

I'd place my money on Trejo...he's older and smaller...but he was a fighter too...plus the man saw really hard times in prison, he's a meaner and tougher hombre....or at the very least...he's in much better shape...lol...

http://image.hotbikeweb.com/f/152858...anny_trejo.jpg http://nextround.net/wp-content/uplo...l_fatelvis.jpg

lol, Is that Elvis?

**Hector** · Jul 11, '10, 7:10 PM

Seagal looks like me now...

**garagesale** · Jul 11, '10, 9:40 PM

Originally posted by Hector

http://nextround.net/wp-content/uplo...l_fatelvis.jpg

Seagal looks like an old lady who lives in a trailer park! No disrespect to old ladies or trailer parks intended.

JamesD

**haggis** · Jul 11, '10, 9:56 PM

Originally posted by Hector

None taken...I don't like Rodriguez either (although I do like From Dusk til Dawn, lol)...

But I love Trejo...a working man's actor...

Out of all of his work, I would have to say Desperado(and the original, El Mariachi) and From Dusk 'til Dawn are my favourite Rodriguez films

**vulcan2074** · Jul 11, '10, 11:01 PM

I'm so there.

Sammy

**spamn** · Jul 12, '10, 9:54 AM

Originally posted by Cmonster

Hector,

My opinion of RR comes from a different perspective. Just to come right out and say what I feel; I personally just haven't liked anything he's ever done. His style is way too over the top for me, and his movies don't have the class, style or ilk of Ridley Scott's work, or Spielberg or David Fincher, or Stanley Kubrick. These are the guys I look up to and am inspired by... Not someone like RR, who makes what I consider to be disposable entertainment at best. "Spy Kids", "From Dusk til Dawn", or "Planet Terror" will not go down in history as great films, I'm sorry. They will never be talked about or referenced in the same breath as "Alien", "Blade Runner", "Star Wars", "Jaws" or "Seven"...

I simply do not like, nor respond to the kind of films RR makes.

"Machete" looks utterly ridiculous to me, I'm sorry. I like Danny Trejo, and think he's been good in the roles he's done. I also totally and completely agree with the fact that a Hispanic leading man like him is a GREAT thing. All I'm saying, is that I wish he would work with a better pedigree of filmmaker and more realistic material.

Just my 2.

No disrespect intended to anyone.

SC

I have the same problem with him - I don't like his work, though I did enjoy From Dusk Til Dawn, The Faculty, and Planet Terror.

What I respect about him is work ethic and his ability to make films that look like they cost much more.

It's the same way I respect Roger Corman. He's got the business side and the ability to get them made down. Unfortunately, the final product doesn't appeal to me much.

**Doc** · Jul 12, '10, 10:37 AM

Yeah its nice to see a Hispanic action hero and a Luchador (sp) villian.

I love the whole masked westler mythos down in Mexico.

But yeah it is another total summer popcorn movie. The gattling gun on the motorcycle flying 100 feet in the air behind a huge exploding fireball CGI nonsense.

**babycyclops** · Jul 19, '10, 10:03 AM

I like RR's films, find 'em a lot of fun and do think that the guy has a great work ethic. While I love recent films such as District 9 and Children of Men, that have brains as well as being just great to watch, I also love trashy stuff like Planet Terror, or Crank 2.
Have to say that the cast of Machete is pretty out there... Segal and De Niro in the same film? That's just crazy!!

**Brazoo** · Jul 26, '10, 3:49 PM

I changed my mind - the new Machete trailer looks awesome.

**SeattleEd** · Jul 26, '10, 4:57 PM

Anyone hit up the Machete Taco Truck at SDCC?

http://www.newsinfilm.com/2010/07/25...o-truck-event/

Would have loved to get a taco served by Michelle.

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