posted
Saw this with the love muffin last night. LOOOOVED it, and I'll tell you why.
Antonio Banderas. *sigh* I've loved him since the Almodovar days. Not the type I usually go for, but for some reason I wanna rip off his buttons with my teeth.
Johnny Depp. This guy is 40 years old, and still really, really young. Quite possibly the best actor of his generation. Definitely among the most courageous. He makes Sands so believable, that I actually believed this was a guy who could, and would, drag himself into a gun fight after having his eyes drilled out.
Robert Rodriguez. So, he's not known for his great plotting or his in-depth character studies, but I love the way he shoots action. It is entirely unique. I also enjoy, say, John Woo action (and by extension Wachoski brothers action). But where Woo makes his violence almost balletic, with the slow motion eye candy detail, Rodriguez' slash cut, fast action, brutal violence is almost orgasmic by comparison. Still, he does it with a lot of humor, which is some trick.
The supporting characters are all well done, if sometimes thinly written. All of 'em are quirky, as one would expect from Rodriguez. Willem Defoe *shudder* as the big bad cartel leader, Micky Rourke as his chihuahua-toting lackey, Danny Trejo bringing his usual depth to his usual mercenary-thug. Even the younger Iglesias as a Mariachi sidekick.
In short, See this movie! El Mariachi was fun, got more credit than it deserved, maybe (because it was in Spanish, and therefore had a foriegn film mistique that it may or may not have deserved). Desparado was great, especially for those of us who saw El Mariachi and liked it. But this movie is better.
Posts: 9293 | Registered: Aug 2000
| IP: Logged |
posted
Johnny Depp clearly has some kind of pact with Satan. I don't think he's aged a day in about 20 years.
Posts: 13123 | Registered: Feb 2002
| IP: Logged |
see totally ruined the plot and the film for the rest of us who have not seen it
man thats as bad a teeneger usually females with friends over.....watching a video with you. One they saw 15 times in the theater but you never had a chance to watch cause you work for a living......any way they all talk all through the movie giving up every plot point
Posts: 1661 | Registered: Dec 2000
| IP: Logged |
posted
It also has Salma Hayek in skimpy clothing. I mean if all the guns and stuff were not enough to get your butt in the seat.
The special effects are used mostly to make wounds look real, like eye-holes and disintegrating knees (when hit with a close range short shotgun blast). Wicked. Also, people getting blown up and hit by cars and stuff. Realistic gore, but with ... I dunno... panache.
Posts: 9293 | Registered: Aug 2000
| IP: Logged |
What was mind boggling for me was the sort of surreal senselessness of the whole affair, the movie was shot such that you're never entirely sure whether the whole thing is just one really big dead pan joke. Really i think thats what makes it cool, but the thing is so weird that jadien and i have no idea what to make of the film.
I went to see it simply because it had the juno reactor track "Pistolero" as the preview theme.
"Are you a Mexi-can, or a Mexi-can't?"
Posts: 4482 | Registered: May 2000
| IP: Logged |
posted
I saw the movie Saturday, my brother thought the chihuahua was gonna be a weapon. Lol, he said that he kept hoping the guy would break out some secret compartment like the guitar cases. I thought it was pretty darn good. Speaking of Johnny, i just saw him a couple nights ago in Benny and Joon and he looks exactly the same, with eyeballs and only 2 arms of course, but besides that pretty similar. Did anyone else laugh with they saw enrique? I'm a Mexican't!
Posts: 290 | Registered: Aug 2003
| IP: Logged |
posted
Johnny Depp is ageless. It's almost surreal.
The whole first scene with Enrique was amusing.
There were so many things about this movie that made me laugh. Some little, some big. Like Sands' shirt that said "CIA: Cleavage Inspection Agency" and the one that said, "I'm with Stupid" and had the hand pointing down (that was especially good considering how the girl was his downfall).
Posts: 9293 | Registered: Aug 2000
| IP: Logged |
posted
Johnny Depp was cool. Antonio Banderas was sexy cool. Salma Hayek was just plain sexy.
But...
I didn't like this one nearly as much as Desperado. Other than the opening sequence Hayek was under used, the humor and "cool factor" were great except he (Rodriguez) tried being too serious at the same time.
Still, it's definitely worth a look.
Posts: 1295 | Registered: Jan 2003
| IP: Logged |
posted
I think that somewhere in Johnny Depp's attic is a picture of himself that's aged hideously, and he can't stand to look at it, and every time he does a wicked deed it gets hideouser, while he himself changes not a jot.
Yes, he does look creepily young. In Benny and Joon he really looks like he's just out of high school or something, and he'd be 30 when it was made...
Printer-friendly view of this topic
![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
![[Wink]](wink.gif)
![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
![[Hail]](graemlins/hail.gif)
