and might I add… “Hellllll Yeahhhhhhh it is!” 
We saw it last Saturday. Excellent! I was annoyed, though, that the extended opening scene in Mexico had only Thai subtitles and not English. When I complained about that to a fellow American who had also seen it, he said he just figured Rodriguez had purposely left out English subtitles, but I don’t think so. I’m sure you people here can confirm that’s not true. It’s often a problem with movies here, the English subtitles getting tossed out during non-English sequences. (My friend has only been here a couple of years and probably has not encountered this very much before.) I can read Thai but not as quickly as they were speaking in the movie. I did manage to get the general idea, then the wife filled in a couple of blanks afterward.
I caught Rodriguez’s nod to The Good, The Bad and the Ugly; Machete meeting his brother in the church seemed to parody Eli Wallach meeting up with his in the old mission, especially with the way their parents were mentioned.
The next day we watched Bonnie and Clyde at home, and then I spotted Rodriguez’s reference to that film. Jessica Alba says Machete must have been a good cop, he says, “The best!” And she says, “And modest, too.” That’s almost the exact dialogue when Bonnie comments on Clyde’s shooting skills.
Looks like sequels are coming. Hope so!
(And I do like where the naked girl in the beginning pulled out her cellphone from, hehehe. She could get a job in a Bangkok bar. :D)
I just saw *Machete *at the dollar theater, and I have to say, this was the most fun movie I have seen in a long time. This is the movie that *Grindhouse *wanted to be when it grew up. I wish that Joe Bob Briggs could have seen this movie from his own personal car, the way God intended, and then reviewed it without the high sheriffs getting in the way–I think that he would have given it every Drive In Academy Award available.
Check it out!
We’ve not seen Grindhouse, but someone mentioned that inside it is a trailer for Machete. Sort of hidden maybe? In the background somewhere?
Grindhouse tried to recreate the experience of an old style grindhouse double feature and had fake trailers between the two features. Machete was originally shot as just a trailer, a gag really, for a movie that didn’t really exist. It was popular enough that Robert Rodriguez turned it into a real, full length movie.
I saw it a couple of weeks ago. A really good movie that knew exactly what it was doing the whole way through. Mindless entertainment but well-made mindless entertainment.
I FINALLY saw it.
Siam Sam, there were English subtitles for the beginning, at least there were when I watched it here at home.
Wow. Wow. Fuckin’ WOW! Gratuitous nudity with sexy, sweat-glistening women, violence, and so very, very funny! This was just full of awesome. One viewing, and I think this could be the movie that finally knocks Road House off the top of the 'Best Guy’s Movie" list (praise be to Swayze). I enjoyed this more than the “Grindhouse” movies. In truth, I think I enjoyed it more than any move I’ve seen in a very long time. No, it’s not a “great” movie, but it’s great in that it achieves everything it sets out to do. Funny, violent, outrageous, full of machismo, a cinematic testosterone overdose.
Danny Trejo is bad-ass, fights evil, spouts macho dialogue, gets all the beautiful women, and it’s all so very, very over-the-top it’s laugh-out-loud funny. I want to have dreams that are as good as *Machete.*This movie could make me take illegal substances, if I thought I could have drug-fueled hallucinations like this. When I die, and God judges me to have lived a good and pure life, I will go to a heaven where I will fight evil, speak only “Bad-Ass”, get all the hot, sweaty women, and ejaculate pure testosterone.
I guess what I’m saying is, it’s pretty good.
Yes! 70’s nostalgia referring to 50’s nostalgia.
Thanks. Just as I thought. The friend I referred to is fairly new here and still a bit naive. He doesn’t believe the Thais would remove the English subtitles. After all, why would they? A very good question, but they do. They stopped for a while, but now they’re back at it.
Just saw it on DVD. Curious thing . . . every time the TV news reports the election polls it speaks of “votership.” 
Not that it isn’t a perfectly cromulent word, but . . .
Yeah, that’s another thing. Luz, throwing yourself on top of a man with a less-than-a-day-old gunshot wound is . . . inconsiderate, to say the least.
Saw it last week. As most have said, it was fun. Lohan stunt boobs were lame but I don’t know if it was intentionally lame (always hard to tell with these sorts of films).
While I know the trailer was made as a one-off and the actual decision to make a movie came later, there is a scene in the Grindhouse trailer where Machete opens his coat and has a ton of machetes hanging inside (1:44 mark). I was kind of disappointed that “real” Machete never did that. He wore some throwing knives on his vest that he never used but that’s about it for wearing an assload of weaponry.
Also, I now demand a Hobo With A Shotgun movie.
But. . .he is MACHETE. Plus, Luz did that hoodoo-voodoo thing with the egg that healed him overnight.
The actual Machete + mother/daughter in the pool scene was from the Machete fake trailer, which Lohan had nothing to do with.
It’s going to be released later this year.
*Machete *is the movie Rodriguez made after Texas Governor Rick Perry signed AT Robert Rodriguez’s Austin-based Troublemaker Studios, a law to bolster film-making in Texas. Perry’s new law offered tax incentives for filmmakers to make their films in Texas. Rodriguez said that thanks to the governor’s new law, he would not have to leave Texas to make his movie. *Machete * reportedly cost about $10 million to make and the tax incentives could have benefited Rodriguez to the tune of about $1.75 million for making the movie in Texas. So he made the movie in Texas *because *of the incentives!
BUT WAIT! Then the governor and conservatives got wind of what the movie was about, and DENIED him the tax incentives! Apparently the incentives are only for movies with conservative-approved content. Just one citeof many. Un.Freaking.Believable.
I’m glad it got made. It’s terrific. I’m just sorry Rodriquez got shafted. I hope he NEVER makes another movie in Texas.
No, Nuns With Guns next
Sorry to revive such an old thread, but just finally got around to seeing this movie on (Showtime or HBO?) yesterday.
This was really a lot more fun than I expected!
It is gory, it is cartoonish and it is so-over-the-top it makes Rambo look like a goody-two-shoes.
Had far more fun watching this that I should have - but it is now one of my favorite new guilty pleasures!
And Robert De Niro?! Ha! I bet he had a ball playing that role!
Also just saw on HBO. Large parts of it were done in proper homage to the genre. The action scenes and so on. But some parts were bad. In particular the dialog was bad cheesy, not good cheesy. You need some “Ahll be back.” type catchphrases. None of that worked.
Lots of good actors but generally not well used. Danny Trejo was superb in SherryBaby, for example. He looked pretty bad in this. (He is supposed to be in the new Muppets movie. Interesting.)
And why oh why was Steven Seagal in this? Why is he in anything?
Worst of all, Cheech Marin was wasted. He didn’t come in until way into the film and then they killed him! What? You don’t kill Cheech! (And if you do, expect to kill him more than once.)
No reason for the sequels to be made if they’re going to be like this.