What happened to Robert Rodriguez?

[Boomslang]

See, by saying El Mariachi > Desperado, it doesn't mean Desperado is bad. I enjoyed the raw and unpolished nature of El Mariachi more than the remastered version of Desperado. It didn't need baysplosions to get the point across, although I do think I liked Banderes over the guy that was in El Mariachi. Also, I'm probably in the minority, but I think Salma Hayek is overrated. Great in Frida, but look at all the other garbage she's been a part of, like the Grown Ups films and Wild Wild West.


It feels to me like a long advertisement for Remy Martin, although John Malkovich is in it and I would enjoy him in a website commercial if he played himself. Oh yeah.

But anyway, it's a film that will be released in 2115, it's locked in a safe until then and will be released beyond our lifetimes. Until it's leaked, that is. We know basically nothing about it.
http://people.com/celebrity/john-malkovich-explains-why-he-made-a-movie-no-one-will-see/

Fun fact. El Mariachi from El Mariachi was in a Desperado. I don’t think Salma Hayek was bad in Desperado. Can’t think of anyone else who could have played her character.

 

[blaseblah]

They're different, yes, but that doesn't change the fact that I derived a lot more enjoyment from his earlier efforts than I have from his later ones.The Shawshank Redemption is entirely different from Freddy Got Fingered, but I know which one is the better film.

As for Sin City, I have mixed feelings about it. I think it's a well-made movie from a standpoint of craftsmanship, but at the same time I don't really like it. It looks great, the performances are excellent, but it bores me.

Interesting because I think it's his best movie. Which would go against your narrative of his film making getting worse.

I just don't see how you take a concept like Machete and make it an amazing film. I don't think it's possible. I think it's the genre of the movies hes making rather than his skills as a director degrading.

 

[Guestx]

Interesting because I think it's his best movie. Which would go against your narrative of his film making getting worse.

Of all the films he's made, the only two I really give a shit about are Desperado and From Dusk Til Dawn. Once Upon a Time in Mexico is also pretty good but it's not really on the level of what came before it.

Like I said, I think Sin City is a technically well-made film but on a narrative level it bored me. There's also something about the way the story is told that just lacks energy. I was hyped for it when it first came out because I thought it looked awesome from the trailers, but I was basically busting one of these in the theater:

I just don't see how you take a concept like Machete and make it an amazing film. I don't think it's possible. I think it's the movies hes making rather than his skills as a director degrading.

Well, I think you're right that the concept can only be taken so far. But I think that choosing the right stories to tell is part of the responsibility of being a director. He could've bypassed the Machete concept in favor of telling a different story but he didn't.

I will give the first Machete credit for all the scenes with Steven Seagal though. That shit was hilarious.

 

[Chesten_Hesten]

He isn't a good writer, like Tarentino.

He did a great job directing Roadracers, that thing had zero story.

 

[blaseblah]

Of all the films he's made, the only two I really give a shit about are Desperado and From Dusk Til Dawn. Once Upon a Time in Mexico is also pretty good but it's not really on the level of what came before it.

Like I said, I think Sin City is a technically well-made film but on a narrative level it bored me. There's also something about the way the story is told that just lacks energy. I was hyped for it when it first came out because I thought it looked awesome from the trailers, but I was basically busting one of these in the theater:





Well, I think you're right that the concept can only be taken so far. But I think that choosing the right stories to tell is part of the responsibility of being a director. He could've bypassed the Machete concept in favor of telling a different story but he didn't.

I will give the first Machete credit for all the scenes with Steven Seagal though. That shit was hilarious.

Machete needed to be made. If only to give Danny Trejo a leading role.

 

[JSN]

IMO OP could have made the thread pop a bit more by titling it “The Curious Case of Robert Rodriguez” or something like that.