Machete Kills, but Will the Movie?
Aside from listing off every cast member, this is really the trailer’s main joke:
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I really wish the first Machete had maintained the look and feel of the original fake Grindhouse trailer – it started as that, but then segued into the usual Robert Rodriguez cheap-ass green-screen look that has only ever really worked in Sin City. Grindhouse movies were cheap-ass, but they could never have used digital effects or soundstages like that.
The Lindsay Lohan casting choice this time around is Mel Gibson, I guess (more so than “Carlos Estevez,” who still has a show) – when you’ve burned every bridge in Hollywood, Rodriguez will always hire you for a gimmick part (see also Lohan, Lindsay; and consider inquiring about Sin City 2, Farrah Abraham’s agent).
Trailer’s after the jump – I’d be happy to skip this installment and skip straight to Machete Kills Again and its promise of space and lightsabers. That said, I still have hope, and I’m proud of Rodriguez for having actually finished one of the 50,000 projects he keeps saying he’ll do.
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Luke Y. Thompson has been writing professionally about movies and pop-culture since 1999, and has also been an actor in some extremely cheap culty and horror movies you will probably never hear much about (he is nonetheless mostly proud of them, as he met his wife on one). As editor of The Robot's Voice since 2012, he can take the blame for the majority of the site's content, all of which he creates because he loves you very, very much. (Although he loves nachos more. Sorry.) Prior to TRV, Luke wrote for publications that include the New Times LA, Los Angeles CityBeat, E! Online, OC Weekly, Geekweek, GeekChicDaily, The L.A. Times, The Village Voice, LA Weekly, and Nerdist