Mexican.
If you’re gonna hire Machete to kill the bad guy, you better make sure the bad guy isn’t you…
Just watched Robert Rodriguez’s $7,000 classic “El Mariachi” again the other night, don’t know how many times I’ve seen it, along with “Desperado“, “From Dusk Till Dawn” and “Once Upon A Time In Mexico“.
Watching those last three of course has nothing to do with Salma being in then at all, her dancing on tables with snakes is irrelevant to my enjoyment.
Rodriguez’s fake trailer for “Machete” (above) is a cracking piece of Mexploitation. Will the real thing match up, well with Danny Trejo, Cheech Marin and Robert DeNiro, it has a chance. Though with Steven Seagal and that stupid bint Rose McGowan it’ll have to lift it’s game and of course Jessica Alba and Lindsay Lohan ain’t no Salma.
Rated X: Listening to the Danny Baker show at the weekend he asked what was the first X rated film people saw in the cinema. Mine was Mad Max 2, I was 10 years old – no it wasn’t in the year of it’s release – it was a very hot and humid summer on the equator, our air con packed in and the cinema was the coolest place to spend a night. So me and my dad went to see what had looked like a decent flick in the previous weeks trailers. I was tall for my age, I was tall for any age of the locals…