Fox Film Machete Portrays White Americans as Racist Bigots. It Calls for Armed Revolution. Here Is a New Film Genre: Mexploitation.
May 20, 2010
Alex Jones has done us a favor in going on-line with scenes and part of the script for a forthcoming movie, Machete. Mr. Jones sits in front of a camcorder and describes this cinematic insult to the intelligence of Mexican Americans, Mexicans, and the rest of us.
Twentieth Century Fox bought this turkey earlier this year. It beat Paramount and Lionsgate. Lucky them.
I wonder about the state of entrepreneurship in Hollywood. How could anyone think that this pathetic call to Hispanic revolution would interest anyone enough to pay to see anything this obviously ridiculous? Who will pay to see this thing, other than teenagers on a date?
(Guys, don't do it. Girls have more sense than to be impressed by an actor with a face with more lines than Mick Jagger, all dressed up like some nut-case at Columbine High. Take them to see a chick flick. If you're lucky, Selma Hayek will be in it.)
I suppose there are a few teenage Hispanic boys out there who might think this thing sounds exciting, but as a tool for recruiting dedicated revolutionaries, who is the producer kidding?
Maybe it will appeal to macho gang members. But gangs don't want revolution. They want profits from drug distribution. Machetes? These guys have Uzis. They are better armed than the police.
I don't think the country is threatened by this film. I see this film as indicative of the poor taste of phony revolutionary, out-of-touch Hollywood producers, not to mention the financial incompetency at the top of the movie department of a huge media conglomerate.
This is an attempt at producing a 2010 Hispanic version of a 1972 Blaxploitation film, but without a big car, a pimp hat, and platform shoes. What is the genre called? Mexploitation.
If this is the best that the Gucci-wearing, Che-poster twerps in Hollywood can do, I do not fear for the nation. The Left is in incompetent hands.
What saddened me was this: Robert De Niro has a part in this film. Here is one of the finest screen actors of our time in a turkey based on hate.
