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Ready for MACHETE KILLS, the reteaming of Robert Rodriguez and Danny Trejo?!?!
Hey folks, Harry here... Deadline broke the news that Rodriguez is shooting a sequel to MACHETE called MACHETE KILLS... the second of an announced trilogy that Rodriguez is planning. This will be the next Rodriguez helmed film. I haven't spoken with Robert about the film yet, but I'm hoping that it isn't a direct sequel, but rather a completely different type of MACHETE adventure. Like those old DJANGO flicks or MAN WITH NO NAME films. Or even Robert's own DESPERADO series. It sounds like Robert won't be co-directing this one, like he did with Ethan Maniquis on MACHETE. And that's encouraging to me. I would love to see the Machete series kicked up several knotches - to being a more intense version of Machete's world. Since he's going to be working for the U.S. Government on a mission, watching Trejo become his own particular BOND or FLINT would be awfully cool. With an April start, I'm thinking this will probably be a 2013 release. Curious to find out more.
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,,i'm first!
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I'm there.
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I had such high hopes for the last one... I was rooting for a crazy over the top action film but what I got instead was crappy ill-thought out political message crap.
Oh and creepy porker Steven Seagal with fake semi-nudity from Jessica Alba. -
...less focus on the big name co-stars.
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There was big name co-stars in that movie?
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Fake blood can't cost all that much.
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Feb 06, 2012 10:31:02 PM CST
Good to see Rod stretching himself as a visionary at the top of his game.
by gqtaste26
Rod, along w/ his peers Fincher, PTA, et al. is doing what he can to improve as a film maker. He and QT really do make a great pair. They have so much in common. Neither has the balls to make great strides in their careers.
Of course Harry and co. know this but would never call them out. -
a fake, later to become actual trailer for Machete Kills that runs with Tarantino's Django?
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I figured someone would question that "big name" part.
Still, I'd say the casual moviegoer probably knew who De Niro, Seagal, Don Johnson, Cheech Marin, and Lindsay Lohan were. It doesn't necessarily mean they're draws- just recognizable to a mass audience. -
Favourite bit in that flick.
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And then not so much. Let it go. It was a fun little concept that ran its course fast.
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A fellow Austinite is dying to work on that production. Let us know if you talk with him about it!
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I was very disappointed in "Machete". After that cool opening sequence, the movie just fell apart. Terrible story and dialogue and not in a "Grindhouse" way...
Rodriguez just needs to go crazy and hardcore, with this new one. No more political stuff. No more stupid gags.
Just make a dark, more serious-toned film.
I hope Jessica Alba and Michelle Rodriguez are back.
As for new actors, Rodriguez should get:
Antonio Banderous
Ron Perlman
Jason Stathem
Benicio Del Toro
Christopher Walken
Bruce Willis
Eva Mendes
Luis Guzman
Johnny Depp
Selma Hiyack
Samuel L. Jackson
Ving Rhames -
was because of the cast... the sequel better live up to the previous' movies cast by hiring outta work 70s/80s actors, washed up greats, and pretty ladies who arent afraid to go fully naked (the last part isnt a requirement, but if youre gonna be naked, be naked for real Jess)
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first movie is actually my fav Rodriguez movie. Thats right, I said it...
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Wonder if the story is going to mirror Django Kills - but which DJANGO KILLS... Because there's 2 DJANGO KILLS sequels....
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Machete, Machete, Machete.....
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That's what I found the first one to be, needed some Manor editing perhaps.
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Feb 07, 2012 12:09:14 AM CST
The opening of Machete was awesome but after the credits it went way downhill
by moonlightdrive
and fast!
A whole movie in the same vein as the opening credits would be completely kickass. -
It's true and you know it.
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Beautiful news, don't fuck with Machete.
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...seeing him for an entire movie is tiresome.
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Feb 07, 2012 12:25:01 AM CST
Yes, many people here agree that the opening to Machette was incredible but it didn't hold up and the ending was shit.
by uberfreak
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Feb 07, 2012 12:37:50 AM CST
garabons beat me to it, but yeah... MACHETE DON'T TEXT would have been a superior title for this film
by tigger_tales
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Pg rated Machete is obviously the way to go with the sequel, right?
Right? -
I'm down. No CGI blood this time. Just go all out because really who gives a shit? Just have fun with it beginning to end.
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yeah where the fuck is it? Not that I care at this point, I think the time window has passed....
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Feb 07, 2012 1:44:10 AM CST
Depends... is Danny actually gonna take on the REAL bad guys this time, or just imaginary ones?
by cash907
Would like to see him grow some balls and go after the Mexican drug cartels, who have basically turned his homeland into a big pile of corrupt shit. He won't, of course, because he's too afraid of ending up like anyone who bad mouths the cartels: stuffed inside a stack of old tires and burned alive. No no, I'm sure the American corrupt lawmen will be the bad guys again... just wait and see.
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Feb 07, 2012 2:03:17 AM CST
I'm working on a film about Guatamalan illegals in Mexico. It's called ASSFUCKED...
by darth_inedible
It's 2 hours of torture porn starring Danny Trejo as the warden of a prison in Chiapas. Go Danny give those Guatemalteco scum what they deserve!
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For a movie that sold its USP on a bladed weapon the lack of martial art skills in the movie was really lame.
If and when there is a sequel we need to see some Kali and Escrima skills in the sequel.
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Feb 07, 2012 2:22:38 AM CST
It had potential but the serious issue was that it was trying to ape Death Proof...
by iamnicksaicnsn
in the sense that it featured too much talking. The problem with THAT was that the talking wasn't Tarantino level dialogue and DEFINITELY wasn't acted on a Tarantino level. The whole thing felt under-cooked to me, but I guess hearing that it was co-directed, that's where I feel that lack of focus comes from.
And there were clearly not enough boobs, especially considering the talent involved. -
Orale cabrones!
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Fuckinassfuckcuntshit!!!
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Mamasita!
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Stop wasting your years and our time with this forgettable shlock.
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The trailer was great fun but the film...
It really did get old fast. Just felt like scenes had all been amateurishly slapped on screen without any regard for creating a coherent whole - particularly the big finale. Just ended up feeling like a pointless, stoopid mess.
Rodriguez could definitely improve with a sequel but needs to watch some Walter Hill, watch DRIVE, watch HEAT. Sometimes less is more. -
Feb 07, 2012 6:21:15 AM CST
Rodirguez needs to quit holding onto the ridiculous stuff for the sequels
by spandau belly
and just put every idea that's in his head up on screen in one movie. It doesn't have to make sense or flow like a regular movie. I just want Danny Trejo in as many crazy scenes as possible. Like CEMETARY MAN or something.
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Feb 07, 2012 6:33:05 AM CST
To be honest, I'd perfer to see a sequel to hobo with a shotgun
by father
Machete was entertaining but Hobo with a shotgun was a far better postmodern, tongue-in-cheek exploitation film and I'd rather see a sequel to that than another machete film.
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Feb 07, 2012 6:52:41 AM CST
Rodriguez does not make good films, he's the DIY Michael Bay
by monolith_jones
Desperado was ok I guess, doesn't hold up all that well. From Dusk Till Dawn was good in spite of RR, everything that was good in that is QT
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I completely agree. Never really liked any RR movie except Dusk Til Dawn...and I only like that until the vampires show up!
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Well where is it?
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Feb 07, 2012 8:15:55 AM CST
-- cash907: Rodriguez might end up "missing" if he were to make that Machete movie
by moosemalloy
-- Eventually the U.S. military will have to go in to destroy them. It will be the next major military action for the U.S. in the coming years.
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was to be bored.
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I took my niece who was 12 at the time to the first movie and I'll gladly take her again for MACHETE KILLS. Rodriguez + Trejo = can't go wrong.
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I'm excited for this one. If Rodriguez is actually directing and not half-assing it like with Predators and the first Machete, this could up there with Planet Terror. Here's hoping. But it needs a tighter script, less political b.s., and more jumping out windows swinging on intestines.
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Feb 07, 2012 10:05:11 AM CST
We had Lohans body double naked...can we now get Hillary Duff?
by tikidonkeypunch
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especially now that she's wiling to do nudity.
I want a seriously softcore NC-17 Barbarella that takes advantage of the adult rating as much for the violence as it does for the sex. -
Now that would guarantee me... Waiting for it @ redbox.
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...and then the movie came out. Lord, that was one boring, messy waste of time. And whoever said that Machete should go after the cartels is right. They have turned a beautiful country into a violent cesspool. Maybe Machete can capture some cartel hitman and make him talk and start fighting his way up the ladder until he gets the head of the Sinaloa cartel.
Naaahhh...let's have him go after those dangerous, vile roving bands of white guys at the border.
Good Lord, Robert...what happened? Your movies used to be fun. -
Because frankly, I've never liked Rodriguez as a director, ever. Machete could have been so much better than it was, the trailer was so damned cool and yet the movie was just, alright.
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Dumbass.
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I'm betting it is.
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Machete sucked. Now he'll make a trilogy of it?
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Feb 08, 2012 3:30:32 AM CST
Chuck Norris isn't in it, but he is still trying to make it PG-13
by dutchrudder
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NOW we're talking good cinema!
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