GoldenJCJ

Solid Snake PAC's internet must be down. I thought he'd be blowing his load all over this thread by now.

RocShemp

He's too buys secretly raging against the Expendable 2 being PG-13 whilst simultaneously try to prove his theory about crazychris.

Tarantino

I thought Machete was a blast. Then again, I was with a huge crowd at a midnight premiere and was pretty drunk...but I still thought it was a really fun movie.

islandclaws

Knowing your post was about Snake, I read this as "raping" at first.

OldBoy

I thought machete was more than decent and RR's best is hands down Sin City.

Chad

Nice. Maybe they'll get Al Pacino for this one...



There's your hook.

Pizza the Hutt

This should've just stayed a fake trailer. None of this shit is going to ever be better than that one fake trailer.

Dr. DVD

I liked Machete in the theater. I saw it about a week after its opening, but it was a late night show and I was with a small but devoted audience.

Josh-da-man

I think Machete would have worked better if it was done in the "Grindhouse" style with dirt, scratches, jumping frames, have one reel be done with Spanish audio and no subtitles. Stuff like that.

anomynous

Fox would never have let that fly though

Pizza

I'd rather they would make full-length movies of the other Grindhouse trailers than another Machete film.

Hokeyboy

Can't argue with this...

bluetoast

This is kind of getting to be like if you invited Rodriguez over for a party, and then he ends up living in your house for a few years.

Solid Snake

I dunno wtf is wrong w/ you people but Hobo was fucking great. Machete, while entertaining for the sake of it..but barely, lacked soooooo much.


not really...it better be amazing...i won't own Machete. fucking loved the trailer..but....the movie? ehhhh...not so much.

I'm kind of ok w/ the rating on Ex2. it just better have better color timing and editing. Oh...and better action.

I still think crazychris is...THAT chris. He hasn't said that combination of words that would prove it....yet. I'm just waiting for it.

RocShemp

Pizza

Remember when Rodriguez showed such promise as a filmmaker? Then came The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl and it's been a downhill ride. What the hell happened?

d2cheer

Pretty sure he knows he will be banned again if he says that combo of words...because then it will prove that it is him. Not that anymore proof is really needed.

inri222

This is old but I gotta agree with it

http://www.splicetoday.com/moving-pi...bert-rodriguez

Somebody Please Stop Robert Rodriguez

Kevin Zimmerman

What will he fuck up next?

Not so long ago, an Austin-based filmmaking tyro named Robert Rodriguez burst upon the indie movie scene with El Mariachi,
a delirious, low-budget modern-day western whose title character—a wannabe musician—ends up in the thick of a revenge-driven
war against a violent drug kingpin thanks to a case of mistaken identity brought on by the accidental loss of his guitar case.

Even today, the contagious fun of the 81-minute feature, first released in 1992, is hard to resist, as its no-name cast gives it their all. The film put Rodriguez on the map as an important new voice in independent filmmaking, even if his claim that the whole thing cost just $7000 was exaggerated.

Following the lead of Quentin Tarantino (with whom, along with Anders and the long-gone Alexandre Rockwell, Rodriguez would make 1995’s disastrous Four Rooms), Rodriguez caught the self-mythologizing bug, penning the manifesto/tutorial Rebel without a Crew:
Or How a 23-Year-Old Filmmaker with $7,000 Became a Hollywood Player.

This “Hollywood player” has since gifted us with 1995’s Desperado (essentially a big-budget remake of El Mariachi that’s enjoyable
for roughly its first half, until one realizes just how slavishly it’s copying the original); the dumb vampires-in-a-cantina epic From Dusk Till Dawn (written by and co-starring Tarantino); forgettable horror flick The Faculty; the diminishing-returns kiddie trilogy Spy Kids; Once Upon a Time in Mexico, allegedly the third in the “Mariachi trilogy,” which at least had both Johnny Depp and Mickey Rourke in its sprawling cast; another kids film, The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3D, officially co-written by his seven-year-old son and unleashing future Twilight hunk Taylor Lautner upon the world; the surprisingly decent, if somewhat incoherent, Sin City; and the “Planet Terror” half of Grindhouse, where he and Tarantino vied to out-bore audiences with their salutes to the sticky-floored cinemas of their youth.

That only a couple of these efforts from the “Hollywood player” have succeeded at the box office—and even fewer caught favor
with critics overall—hasn’t stopped RoRo from plunging ahead with Machete (an expansion of one of Grindhouse’s fake trailers with a cast that somehow includes everyone from Robert DeNiro and Jessica Alba to Danny Trejo, Lindsay Lohan, and Steven Seagal), yet another Spy Kids, and Sin City 2—not to mention producing the reboots of Red Sonja and Predators.

Will most, if not all, of these movies suck? Yes. If RoRo’s career has taught us nothing else, it’s that handing him more than $7000
to make a movie is usually a grave mistake.

But Rodriguez trudges on. With Anders and Rockwell apparently sidelined, Tarantino off to ever grander things, Spike Lee in the midst
of another of his fallow periods (at least on the non-documentary side), and most indie studios struggling to survive, RoRo is for better and worse one of the most visible faces of independent filmmaking today. (One hesitates to call him an “auteur,” given the remake-heavy filmography and the handing off of screenwriting duties to his kids.)

And so we come to the announcement of his latest project. Just a few days after the death of famed fantasy artist Frank Frazetta, came word that Rodriguez plans to remake Fire and Ice, a largely ignored 1983 Frazetta collaboration with animator/director Ralph Bakshi.

As The AV Club noted in reporting the news, “It’s hard not to picture it as Sin City with swords and shit.”

nando820

RocShemp

Taylor Lautner. He brought us that teenage-girl luring demon spawn and now he has to pay for it with his career.

Sonic

Machete Kills Again...In Space. lol Would be cool if he fights aliens on the moon.

Dr. DVD

Can't some people just accept that RR makes movies he likes for his fanboys alone and leave it at that (Spy Kids movies withstanding).

SethDLH

As mediocre as the first one was the sequels will be rentals.

islandclaws

But I'm one of his fans, and I can honestly admit he's not doing it right.

inri222

RR is the new M. Night