Comments on: Weekend Hollywood Update, 8/28

By: Jayne Braithwaite

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By: Jason Apuzzo

Jason Apuzzo — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 17:55:23 +0000

Of course, there’s another possibility here: which is that you’re just a lot more cynical than I am, and assume these guys have no choice in what they decide to convey in their films. I’ll give you an example: ‘liberals’ like George Lucas and Steven Spielberg were nonetheless able to make Soviet communists the villains in the last INDIANA JONES film. How do you explain that, given the black & white situation you’re describing? Things really aren’t always quite as simple as you make them out to be. Or maybe you can explain to me how ‘patriotic,’ ‘conservative’ Sylvester Stallone could make a film like THE EXPENDABLES that takes pot shots at the CIA, even depicting an ex-CIA agent waterboarding the female heroine of the film.

By the way, you also seem to know a lot about Rodriguez and his ‘worldview.’ Is he, like, a relative of yours?

By: Daniel Crandall

Daniel Crandall — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 14:34:48 +0000

“Rodriguez has made quite a nice career for himself in America. Does he ever reflect on that, at all?” .. uh, No, apparently not.

“I’ve generally been a fan of his – even through the weird, 9/11-related anti-military subplot of Planet Terror – but I’m getting the sense he might be pushing the envelope a bit too far in this film. Why? Why does he feel the need to do this?” … Your fan stance is making you rather naive. Rodriguez embraces the knee-jerk liberal-left worldview, which requires this stuff. It’s a stance that breaks the world down into two groups: Conservatives, the Selfish, Evil, Racist, Murdering Bastards of the world, and Liberals (“Progressives”, Leftists, etc.) the Kind, Gentle, Peace-loving Communitarians who are only “forced” to resort to violence by “Selfish, Evil, Racist, Murdering Bastard Conservatives”

And Rodriguez has a lot of company in that worldview given the support he got putting “Machete” together, not the least of which is from Don Johnson playing this “avatar for Maricopa County’s Sheriff Joe Arpaio.”

By: Nick G.

Nick G. — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 03:22:25 +0000

Wow, that’s really original – futuristic shots of an ultra-polluted dystopian earth. Don’t we see that in every single sci-fi movie nowadays? And by the way, is all this pollution going to be exclusively blamed on Americans, or will the Chinese, Asians, Africans, Latin Americans etc. get any of the blame?

By: Brightstar98

Brightstar98 — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 02:32:06 +0000

I’m never watching a Robert Rodriguez film, that’s all I’m going to say. Same goes for James Cameron.

By: H. Arundel

H. Arundel — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 23:47:58 +0000

I’ve never read one single news story about any Mexicans ever being treated like this by US officials. Where does Rodriguez get this crap? The only effect this has is to make me less sympathetic to Mexican illegals, not more. I’m all for finding a way to get worker visas or something for people who want to come and work here and then want to return to their countries. But when partisans of the Mexican side portray the US like this – the US which has given millions of illegal Mexicans work and free educations and health care, without them paying any taxes – then it just angers and disgusts me and makes me think that they’re a bunch of ingrates who have no respect for this country, and shouldn’t be given any special favors with visas or anything else.

By: K

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 23:39:33 +0000

That the two characters murder a pregnant Mexican woman to prevent her baby from being born in America and then shoot her distraught husband while uttering the line, “Welcome to America,” underlines the point.

Oscar bait fer sure.

By: RalphtheRover

RalphtheRover — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 23:17:05 +0000

That’s completely sickening about Robert Rodriguez and “Machete.” As you point out, he’s done pretty well for himself in America, so why does he hate this country so much that he has to put this kind of disgusting propaganda in his films? The guy’s a multimillionaire and nobody’s ever treated him abusively for being of Latino descent in this country. The Hollywood left is apparently just fueled by hate and this is a prime example of this.