Hatchet 2 Exclusive Interview with Director/Writer Adam Green
September 30, 2010 | 1 Comment
Hatchet 2 is a sequel to an independant film from 2006 that saw the birth of America’s newest horror icon; Victor Crowley. Read more
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Repo Men
September 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment
For everyone that complains about how high your insurance and medical bills are; “The Union” will happily take your calls. Jude Law leads a star studded cast of bad asses hell bent on one thing; collecting your overdue organs. Loosely based on “Repo: The Genetic Opera” (Only worth watching to see Paris Hilton get whats coming to her).
The world is finally run by hospital bureaucrats, more specifically Liev Schreiber. The UNION grants new and better organs to anyone, for an impossible price. That’s where Law and Whitaker come into play. When you run up your 90 day grace period they repossess your overdue organs. But what happens when the man repossessing needs an organ of his own? After a failed collection, Law is forced to use his own artificial organ. From then on our hero runs for his life and the life of his spicy Latina (Braga). Now, this isn’t a spoiler site so I won’t give away anything, but this movie even though it seems like your run of the mill bloody action movie, creates a twist that would make M.Night Shamalamading-dong blush.
The DVD contains Deleted Scenes, Special UNION commercials (worth a few chuckles of their own) Featurette on the highly advanced visual effects. Commentary with the Director and Writers.
If you love seeing hearts and organs being ripped out of people’s chests, bouncing breasts, and huge explosions (if you’re on this site its assumed that’s your bread and butter), then do yourself a favor and buy the Blu Ray single disk unrated edition.
Don’t make this movie something it’s not. If you’re in the mood for tons of blood and some memorable explosions give Repo Men a peek. You won’t be dissapointed.
Contributing Critic: C.C. Edwards
Popularity: 33% [?]
Kick-Ass
September 25, 2010 | Comments Off
Have you ever wondered what it would be like if Stan Lee and Quentin Tarantino had a brain child? Well wonder no longer and enter Kick Ass! Finding the crucial balance between glorious gratuitous violence and the subtle humor of comic book movies. Something Sam Rami has yet to catch onto. Read more
Popularity: 32% [?]
A Nightmare on Elm Street
September 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment
In 1984 Wes Craven created one of the most iconic film villains of all time. Freddy Krueger tormented teenagers in their normal adolescent dreams, not afraid to make it a little bloody and cheesy. Now in our technologically superior 2010 we have turned A Nightmare on Elm Street into A Nightmare at the Box Office. Read more
Popularity: 30% [?]
Machete
September 3, 2010 | 2 Comments
In the 2007 movie Grindhouse (Planet Terror), Robert Rodriguez added a fake trailer for a nonexistent movie called Machete. The concept is pretty simple: What if the guy who plays The Heavy, the scarred henchman of the main villain in a zillion action movies, was actually the hero?
Danny Trejo was in the Robert Rodriguez-produced Predators earlier this summer, now he’s back, and Machete is a real film.
He’s called Machete because, well, he carries a machete. He’s a former Mexican Federale, double-crossed and left for dead. He’s fled to Texas, working as a day laborer, and there he’s approached by a rich businessman to kill a U.S. senator for money.
Machete!
This is a very violent but very tongue-in-cheek movie. He finds himself in one escalating violent situation after another, and the bad guys are all Very Bad, so, he can kill them with whatever creative methods come to hand. Because sometimes he doesn’t have his machete with him. Sometimes he just has a weedwhacker. But calling the movie WEEDWHACKER wouldn’t have the same ring to it.
Machete is a man of few words. He makes laconic seem chatty. “You’re the second beautiful woman to give me a ride today,” he tells immigration agent Sartana (Jessica Alba) with bemusement, in perhaps his longest speech in the film. He’s a fighter, not a lover. Actually, he’s a lover too, and women are drawn to him like moths to a flame. Michelle Rodriguez, Lindsey Lohan, and a bevy of beauties are unable to resist the charms of Machete.
Cheech Marin plays a priest who may think that various Thou Shalt Nots are really more guidelines than firm rules.
And bad guys include Robert De Niro, Jeff Fahey, Steven Seagal, Don Johnson, and horror director Tom Savini.
This is another homage to 1970s-or-so exploitation movies that Tarantino (who produced this film) and Rodriguez love. It doesn’t try as hard as Grindhouse (Deathproof/Planet Terror) to recreate the look and feel of those films though. Similar to the way the 2008 Tarantino-produced Hellride tried to be the ultimate motorcycle movie, or the 2009 movie Black Dynamite spoofed 1970s blaxsploitation movies, this is the ultimate revenge flick. But it never takes itself very seriously, and the violence, though grisly, is cartoonish.
Machete isn’t really a man of the 21st century (”Machete don’t text!” he growls), but don’t get the wrong idea: Machete can hack a computer password with the best of them, in a scene that spoofs any number of more-ridiculous movies.
I’m giving this 5 stars, because it manages exactly what it sets out to do: Be a good, violent action movie while simultaneously being a send-up of violent action movies. And Danny Trejo is obviously having a ball. If you can, try to see this in a theater with a good crowd who are in on the joke, because the audience reactions to certain scenes can be priceless.
Popularity: 46% [?]
Fete MACHETE!
September 2, 2010 | 2 Comments
Last night, Wednesday September 1st, the Plaza Theater in Atlanta had a sneak preview screening of Machete, the Robert Rodriguez film that started as a fake trailer in Grindhouse and became a real film, starring Danny Trejo as, well, a tough hombre with a machete. Before the movie there was a Mariachi Band, babes from Blast Off Burlesque, some Atlanta Rollergirls, and characters from The Silver Scream Spook Show.
Mariachi band:
Mariachi!
Machete himself!
Desperado Femme Fatale!
Mexican Dancer!
Nun of the Above!
Nacho Libre!
The Forbidden Dance!
Atlanta Rollergirls!
Silver Scream Spook Show
The film opens in theaters tomorrow, Friday September 3rd. Come back then for the MoviesForGuys.com review of Machete!
Update Friday, September 3rd, 2010: Here’s the MoviesForGuys.com review of Machete
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