Finally, someone with a functioning brain. (EDIT: Never mind it was written in sep. 2 and got buried with all the Machete is communism propganda posts.)
I hope this keeps up and everybody else sees for themselves that Machete is not a racist movie at all. In fact to claim Machete as racist is more of a reflection of the accuser rather the film itself.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0985694/board/thread/169982824
There's nothing genuinely political in this movie
by ccr1633 4 days ago (Thu Sep 2 2010 13:31:27)

Let's get real. Rodriguez is a devoted fan of the sort of 70s revenge flicks he grew up with at drive-ins. The Machete character is just an exaggerated channeling of Charles Bronson in Mr Majestyk, your classic kick ass blue collar guy who has been wronged by authorities and various underworld power brokers, who seeks bloody revenge because of it. The underlying theme about slighted immigrants is just an excuse to build scenes of glorious violence around something that could be construed as a "story." It's really incidental in my opinion. If Rodriguez could bring Charles Bronson back from the dead he would've made Charlie his star. Absent that possibility, he chose the next-best chiseled leatherface with ambiguous ethnicity on the block, Danny Trejo, and hence this film. Remember, Machete gets pissed because he is double-crossed, not because he had a particular axe to grind with the US government!


Exactly. Aside from that little mock trailer that was posted on Youtube addressing the recent legislation in Arizona (which was filmed after the movie), Machete is less a political statement and more a throwback/homage to 70s exploitation flicks. It's all in good fun.


This is true. While I disagree that there was nothing genuinely political about Machete he is correct because most 70's exploitation films actually did use politics as a backdrop and the main bad guy was almost always a criminal kingpin or a corrupt government official.

I don't have a problem with the politics in Machete at all because it's so well integrated with the plot that you won't even notice the political undertones unless you're a fucking racist or a retard who just got into politics.
The latter seems to be the most true. Americans in general never paid attention to politics until the 9/11 era. As such the average American's perception of politics is miniscule at best and most americans I've met (Which is a lot coz I live in America.) gain most of their political views from talking heads on tv.
Shit I wouldn't be surprised if some Americans actually took Cobert seriously. (He's a Liberal who makes fun of rednecks by playing up to republican conspiracy theories, anxieties & fears.)

It just amazes me seeing how primitive the American people are because they'll actually believe that a film like Machete which is no different from Golgo 13 the professional, Death Wish, or even Conan the Barbarian or a satirical take on Braveheart could actually be a thinly veiled communist propaganda.
That's fucking absurd considering the core message of Machete (If it had one.) seems to be anti government. Like most action heroes Machete's behavior is similar to that of a libertarian. The only law is his law.
Last I recalled, Communism is about letting the government provide every essential fabric of your life for you.

How the fuck is that anything at how like Machete? If anything he seems to be for smaller government. Doesn't that sound conservative to you?
Oh wait maybe not, Americans don't learn meanings for words they just make them up as they go along.
The motherfucker was even given a chance to become a legal citizen of the United States of America during the ending coz Jessica Alba forged a green card for him.
Did Machete take it? No, he decided to ride off back to Mexico and continue living his libertarian ways of enforcing his own law
while getting all the women, LOL. (He actually makes out with Alba during the ending, HAH HAHHAHAH.)

I know I'm constantly repeating myself but by fucking god, Americans are hilariously stupid.
I even saw one post said that he can't stand RR movies because they're laced with so much sarcasm. News flash, it's satire. What the fuck do you expect? Don't watch satire if you hate sarcasm. It's just that simple.
God damn American stupidity will be the death of us all. Americans need to have everything dumbed down for them just they could feel smart in comparison to a two year old.
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Enough with this shit.
My ratings for the three summer movies I was dying to see.


Predators: 3 out of 5
Could've easily been a four but the 3rd act of the movie was complete shit.
(As bad as the Avp films. What sucks is that the first half actually felt like Predator.)

Exependables: 4 out of 5
I saw The Sexpendables 8 fucking times and the movie is shitty as hell. It's like a porno and like most good pornos
*Emiri Miku Hoshino " Come in ANal!"*
http://www.idols69.com/set/emiri-hoshino/emiri-lovely-asian-model-is/?nats=OToxMTox
You can easily watch the spectacle over & over again if there's enough fire to the performance.

Machete: 4 out of 5
Overall this was the best movie of the 3 summer flicks.
It was the only one with an actual plot and character development.
Machete is also the only one that successfully emulates the genre it was aiming for. (70's style exploitation.)
Predators & Expendables both felt way too modern to be considered 80's action.
Predators felt more like a less cheesy version of Alien Resurrection. Even the cast had a more sleek late 90's badass look to them rather than the masculine gayness of the 80's.

The cast for Expendables had a very 80's Predator feel about them but the action was shot like an annoying ass action movie from the 2000's.
You can't see shit coz of the fucking shaky cam.
Expendables could've easily been a 5 out of 5 had the action scenes been filmed with a steady camera.
Could you imagine watching porn with a shaky cam? I can't either.
Only reason we give Expendables a free pass is because we're sick & tired of seeing all these girly men or pretty boys like Christian Bale posing as action stars.
Real men are ugly as hell and Expendables has them in the butt loads.

Machete was the best of the lot in terms of being an actual proper movie with character development and a begining, middle & end. As well as being the only one with proper action scenes.
(Prolly why it has the highest rating in rotten tomatoes. SOme ass holes believe it's because Machete is leftwing but then again those assholes know nothing about politics.)
Unfortunately none of these three summer flicks were masterpieces of balls to the wall action.
What brings Machete down is the missed potential. Jeff Fahes' character should've been the main villain since he was the best actor on film or Seagall should've been given more time to establish himself as a badass mofo.
Seagal did have the funniest lines though if only coz he's a shit actor.

Seagal: You look like Machete's type.
Jessica Alba: What type is that?
Seagal: DEAD!

I really loved De Niro's character and I was annoyed like fuck seeing him get gunned down by LOLhan. (He doesn't die from her but she does take him out of the movie.)
I wanted to see De Niro being give more screen time to shoot more minute men dressed as a mexican. That shit was fucking hilarious.
There's also some crazy ass cameos by the crazy babysitter twins and that kooky doctor from Planet Terror.

Machete was a really good movie but like others have said there's just something missing in Machete that prevents it from being as awesome as "From dusk till dawn and Planet Terror."
Planet Terror gets a 5 out of 5 from me.
The only thing I didn't really like was the main hero El Wray but he gets killed anyway so whatever. His voice annoyed the shit out of me. It was so fake. Compare Wray's voice to Danny Trejo's who's deep masculine voice sounds very genuine.
I can't really pinpoint what Machete was missing because I personally wouldn't edit any of the story or dialogue out. That's part of what makes this a good film. It actually has a plot with well informed politcal undertones. (As long as you're not a dumbass American who's idea of politics is spouting whatever the fuck Michelle Malkin or any other talking head says.)
Well actually what would've made this movie an instant classic is if the final battle had been much more epic but then again that would ruin the joke with Steven Seagal at the end.