Sunday, October 3, 2010
Machete
I am biased, I love Robert Rodriguez movies. Robert was born June, 20, 1968, which, by the way, makes him older than me!" Robert is an American film director, screewriter, producer, cinematographer, editor among other talents. He has made many films including ones most have probably never heard of. Here are a few movies not so known to the very well known.
Bedhead, El Mariachi, Desperado, Four Films, From Dusk Till Dawn, Spy Kids, Sin City, Once Upon a Time in Mexico, The Adventures of Shark Boy and Lava Girl, and wrote a book in 1995. Of course we are not here because of his book.
Rodriguez has a spin on his movies I cannot get enough of. He gives you a scare or makes you sad and then laugh all in one breath. He is able to make you cringe while providing comic relief that I have never seen. He takes horror and comedy and blends them to fit his vision and the actors eat it up. Now onto why I am here, Machete.
Machete was brilliant. The cast and crew could not have been better except for Jessica Alba. She almost appeared to me as a background to be admired. Other than that, this movie was worth seeing!
Machete was released September 3, 2010. ( Yes I am a little late getting this out.) The movie starred Danny Trejo (Machete Cortez), Robert De Niro (Senator John McLaughlin), Jessica Alba (Sartana Rivera), Steven Seagal (Torrez), Michelle Rodriguez (Luz) and my favorite Tom Savini (Osiris Amanpour) among other well known actors that made this movie the hit it was.
I also need to give a shout out to the makeup and special effects people. Susan Benson, Doug Field, Meredith Johns, Missy Lisenby, Heather Olson, Ermahn Ospina and Nancy Rankin. Without these people, the movie would not exist in my opinion. Also remember Ethan Maniquis worked in tandem with Robert.
Machete (Danny Trejo) is a man of the law in Mexico. He wants law and order. Torrez (Steven Seagal) sees it differently. He Kills Machete's family. Machete then finds himself in the US illigally doing odd jobs for money and tries to keep a low profile. He is enticed to take $150,000 to assassinate Senator John McLaughlin ( De Niro). Machete gives the money to Luz (Michelle Rodriguez) to allow her to fund her cause, helping Latino's get to the US so they can have a better life for themselves and their families. INS agent Sartana Rivera (Jessica Alba) gets involved and an emotional yet funny journey ensues to clear Machete's name and get rid of crooked politicians.
I refuse to give anymore information on this movie. You must see it yourself! If you are a republican or do not have a great sense of humor however, this movie is not for you! Long live Rodriguez movies!!
Bedhead, El Mariachi, Desperado, Four Films, From Dusk Till Dawn, Spy Kids, Sin City, Once Upon a Time in Mexico, The Adventures of Shark Boy and Lava Girl, and wrote a book in 1995. Of course we are not here because of his book.
Rodriguez has a spin on his movies I cannot get enough of. He gives you a scare or makes you sad and then laugh all in one breath. He is able to make you cringe while providing comic relief that I have never seen. He takes horror and comedy and blends them to fit his vision and the actors eat it up. Now onto why I am here, Machete.
Machete was brilliant. The cast and crew could not have been better except for Jessica Alba. She almost appeared to me as a background to be admired. Other than that, this movie was worth seeing!
Machete was released September 3, 2010. ( Yes I am a little late getting this out.) The movie starred Danny Trejo (Machete Cortez), Robert De Niro (Senator John McLaughlin), Jessica Alba (Sartana Rivera), Steven Seagal (Torrez), Michelle Rodriguez (Luz) and my favorite Tom Savini (Osiris Amanpour) among other well known actors that made this movie the hit it was.
I also need to give a shout out to the makeup and special effects people. Susan Benson, Doug Field, Meredith Johns, Missy Lisenby, Heather Olson, Ermahn Ospina and Nancy Rankin. Without these people, the movie would not exist in my opinion. Also remember Ethan Maniquis worked in tandem with Robert.
Machete (Danny Trejo) is a man of the law in Mexico. He wants law and order. Torrez (Steven Seagal) sees it differently. He Kills Machete's family. Machete then finds himself in the US illigally doing odd jobs for money and tries to keep a low profile. He is enticed to take $150,000 to assassinate Senator John McLaughlin ( De Niro). Machete gives the money to Luz (Michelle Rodriguez) to allow her to fund her cause, helping Latino's get to the US so they can have a better life for themselves and their families. INS agent Sartana Rivera (Jessica Alba) gets involved and an emotional yet funny journey ensues to clear Machete's name and get rid of crooked politicians.
I refuse to give anymore information on this movie. You must see it yourself! If you are a republican or do not have a great sense of humor however, this movie is not for you! Long live Rodriguez movies!!
Saturday, September 18, 2010
CatchMeKillMe Productions
I am now a part of CatchMeKillMe Productions. It is an independent film company out of Arizona. We just got done with a great Zombie movie! I was the main makeup artist as well as a killer zombie. We are looking for people to review the movie and maybe assist in our next quest!
Thanks for checking out my love for Zombies!!
Thanks for checking out my love for Zombies!!
Monday, September 6, 2010
The Last Exorcism
The Last Exorcism is indeed what I am hoping for, it to be the last. This film was directed by Daniel Stamm. Daniel, who is from Germany, is most well known for a film called' A Necessary Death' which came out in 2008. He has also won awards for short films.
Patrick Fabian, Iris Bahr and Louis Hertham star in The Last Exorcism. The movie starts out with promise. Reverand Cotton Marcus has been completing exorcisms since he was a kid. He finds he is running on auto pilot and doesn't really believe in what he is doing. He takes a film crew Iris Reisen (Iris Bahr) and Dan Moskowitz (Adam Grimes) with him to a farmhouse in the middle of nowhere to prove exorcism is a fraud.
Louis Sweetzer (Louis Herthum) is a man who claims to have a daughter, Nell (Ashley Bell), who is possessed. Cotton riggs Nells bedroom to move and sound like there is a demon. Cotton completes the ritual, takes the money offered to him and leaves to stay in a hotel before leaving to go back home. Nell shows up at Cotton's hotel in the middle of the night acting weird. From there, the hope is to be scared or at least intrigued. I was neither. I will leave the rest to your imagination.
The ending was like taking a blunt trauma to the head. I just sat there wondering why? I saw everyone else in the theatre did the same thing.
The budget was $1.8 million and I wondered who got all the money? It was not spent well. I think if this movie was made into a short, which is what Danial Stamm is good at, it could have been good. Making this into a full 99 minute movie was not a good call. The beginning and end was focused on too much, like a short film does. If I can say anything good about the film, the actors did a good job and the way it was filmed did not give me motion sickness. Unfortunately the film acted like it was written by separate people and just plugged into scenes without communication with each other.
I am hoping Daniel Stamm's next movie, due out in 2012 called 'The Night Chronicles: Twelve Strangers', is a much better film. It is going to be about twelve jurors who preside over a case that ends up having a twist of the supernatural.
I give Eli Roth props for producing The Last Exorcism as he is trying his hand in other areas of horror, however, he may want to go back to torturing people with gore, not with movies like this. Sorry Eli, still love ya!
Patrick Fabian, Iris Bahr and Louis Hertham star in The Last Exorcism. The movie starts out with promise. Reverand Cotton Marcus has been completing exorcisms since he was a kid. He finds he is running on auto pilot and doesn't really believe in what he is doing. He takes a film crew Iris Reisen (Iris Bahr) and Dan Moskowitz (Adam Grimes) with him to a farmhouse in the middle of nowhere to prove exorcism is a fraud.
Louis Sweetzer (Louis Herthum) is a man who claims to have a daughter, Nell (Ashley Bell), who is possessed. Cotton riggs Nells bedroom to move and sound like there is a demon. Cotton completes the ritual, takes the money offered to him and leaves to stay in a hotel before leaving to go back home. Nell shows up at Cotton's hotel in the middle of the night acting weird. From there, the hope is to be scared or at least intrigued. I was neither. I will leave the rest to your imagination.
The ending was like taking a blunt trauma to the head. I just sat there wondering why? I saw everyone else in the theatre did the same thing.
The budget was $1.8 million and I wondered who got all the money? It was not spent well. I think if this movie was made into a short, which is what Danial Stamm is good at, it could have been good. Making this into a full 99 minute movie was not a good call. The beginning and end was focused on too much, like a short film does. If I can say anything good about the film, the actors did a good job and the way it was filmed did not give me motion sickness. Unfortunately the film acted like it was written by separate people and just plugged into scenes without communication with each other.
I am hoping Daniel Stamm's next movie, due out in 2012 called 'The Night Chronicles: Twelve Strangers', is a much better film. It is going to be about twelve jurors who preside over a case that ends up having a twist of the supernatural.
I give Eli Roth props for producing The Last Exorcism as he is trying his hand in other areas of horror, however, he may want to go back to torturing people with gore, not with movies like this. Sorry Eli, still love ya!
Sunday, August 8, 2010
The Day the World Went Away
Ian Messenger is at it again with another short film. This time he is doing it zombie style! This short is being filmed as I am writing this. This movie is sure to show the raw emotion with some good kills! Stay tuned but be cautioned, this movie will not be for the faint at heart.
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