I saw a trailer for Machete when I saw Grindhouse – but I thought it was just, you know, made as a trailer, to add verisimilitude to the 1970s-drive-in-movie theme. But apparently they made a whole movie – I just saw a trailer for it now, on TV. Hm. Wonder if it’ll have the same exploitation-feel as Grindhouse?
Oh, and, you won’t believe what I found googling on the title: “Racist film ‘Machete’ produced with taxpayer dollars.” From Alex Jones’ InfoWars, 'nuff said.
From the Onion: “Hitchhiker With Machete, Driver With Machete Can’t Help But Laugh.”
Wait…wait…is this flick actually connected to Spy Kids?
It’s real, and it’s (I fully expect) spectacular.
You can watch the Red Band trailer from this thread.
Danny Trejo does play, technically, the same character, though Cheech Marin plays a different character to who he played in Spy Kids.
I’m shocked that Danny Trejo is actually starring in something. I just know him as “that guy.”
So, Machete v. Evil Dead’s Ash…
Who wins? We do!
Yep. Hell’s frozen over - DeNiro and Seagal in the same film.
It makes sense, they are both Robert Rodriguez films (who is not only one of my favorite directors, but from what I’ve seen of him, a pretty cool guy, and a great cook! Go watch his “ten minute cooking school” videos on youtube (they are extra features on a couple of his DVDs…I’d link to them, but youtube is blocked at work.)
Totally unrealistic. The last time I disemboweled someone and used their intestines as a rope to swing down to the next floor, I totally wiped out and had to go to the hospital.
Joe
I know! They’re so slippery.
The trick is to tie knots in the ends so you have something to hold onto. :rolleyes: n00bs.
That is why you aren’t Machete and no one is making a movie about you.
The trailer *was *a fake made just for Grindhouse. The bit got such a huge positive audience reaction that the studio greelit making it for real.
Well, to be fair, Rodriguez makes movies so cheaply and quickly that they are almost guaranteed to turn a profit. Any studio that likes to make money would be stupid not to greenlight just about anything he asks for.
Case in point: Sharkboy and Lavagirl got greenlit based on a treatment that Rodriguez credited to his then-5-year-old-son. It sucked. Badly. But it still turned a tidy $19m profit on a $50m investment, which was good enough to greenlight a sequel.
Well, I hope they splice every single second of the trailer’s footage into the film. I mean, there is no other artistic choice.