I like a good action movie.
I suspect that the action movie demographic is primarily us rednecks.
Liberal hippie types seem to like nancy movies like The English Patient. I watched that. I even tried to like it. But for heaven’s sake…
Then there was Sex and the City, Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants, Steel Magnolias, etc, etc, etc, ad infinitum. Meaningful stuff, apparently, about relationships and stuff.
Us blokey conservative types like movies where things actually happen, where there is a story.
So Machete, which features Danny Trejo and Robert de Niro, should be a must on the viewing list. Maybe not a blockbuster, but a solid box office performer.
Nope.
Unfortunately, Machete is another example of a Hollywood director forgetting why people pay money to go to the movies.
To be entertained. Not to be lectured.
I’m not the only one who thinks so:
“Machete,” which opened nationwide Sept. 3, is as politically charged as a film can be without the words “Michael” or “Moore” attached. It doesn’t just argue in favor of letting illegal immigrants become U.S. citizens. It paints politicians who support enforcing the borders as cold-blood killers, sub-humans we should squash like insects.
And that’s … OK. My biggest beef with the film is that it’s borderline awful. Being a right-leaning film critic means you get used to absorbing film messages that clash with your own principles. You see it, note it, and then move on.
Yep. There are lots of well made films with political messages I don’t like. There are even video games with messages I don’t like, but still play.
I love Flower, for example. That is about as nancy a game as you’ll ever find. You are a petal, floating about bringing colour to tired landscapes, setting windmills in motion, etc. But it’s fun.
But no film can be fun when everything grinds to a halt every few minutes so one of the characters can nag you about how dreadful America is, and how it should let anyone in who wants to come, granting them full benefits and rights of citizenship.
Note to Australian directors: If you want people to watch your films, stop nagging!
Ha. Ha. Thanks for the laugh. I needed it.