Machete Belongs in Hollywood
Machete comes out this weekend. It’s good to see that the Tarantino’s and Rodriguez’s have found a pretty legitimate market for their “over the top” brand of action flicks. Inglorious Bastards was amazing, plain and simple. I was thrilled to see it included in the Academy Awards for a best picture nomination. Even if there were like twenty nominations that year it’s still nice to see that this type of film has a pretty respected place in Hollywood. For those of you that don’t remember, Machete started out as a fake trailer at the beginning of Grindhouse. Watching it, I laughed, but I also leaned over to my friend and said
“That looks like a bad ass movie.”
I’m still kind of shocked that something that borders on ridicules holds its own so well. I along with just about everyone that I know is excited about this movie. You’re not supposed to take it seriously, nobody is. Who could take a man strapping a machine gun to the front of a motorcycle and jumping through the air firing it like a mad man seriously? But that’s the fun of it. It doesn’t have to be, it just has to be cool. Motorcycles are cool and machine guns are cool. So, you combine the two and get something fucking awesome. To top it off, you arm an absolute bad ass of epic proportions with a billion machetes and set him loose on a bunch of bad guys. I’m willing to bet that at least three limbs get chopped off and probably a head or two.
Movies like Machete and Grindhouse are a reminder that Red hood has a place in this world. Red Hood isn’t realistic and at times it’s pretty ridicules.
I probably won’t get much writing done this weekend as I don’t have access to a computer that has Final Draft on it. It will give me a chance to think about what I’m going to write next and a chance to reflect what I’ve written so far.
I’m probably going to check out Machete either tonight or tomorrow. I’ll let you guys know how it is. My prediction:
“Fucking awesome.”
Tags: machete, Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez