Is this available aside from download?

Machete was a one-joke trailer on the Planet Terror double-feature a few years back. Well, the one-joke has been extended to nearly two hours, and its seams are showing. Every sentence contains an anti-immigrant or anti-Mexican cliche--this is dialog that really pushes he evelope regarding the immigration reform issue, which is what this movie tries to approach both seriously and mockingly. The mock is hilarious; the serious slows down the movie with its preachy, touchy-feely lectures.

Hardworking illegals are portrayed as heroic; whites are portrayed as bigots, calling Mexicans lazy. The movie goes out of its way to portray every illegal either as a doctor, nurse, construction worker, day laborer, taco vendor, ice cream vendor--no job is left unturned. The running gag is that whites pick up the day laborers to do their septic tank work because they can't find anyone else to do the dirty work.

Well, Rodriquez, who has shown his polictics peripherally in most of his movies, including Spy Kids, wears his politics on his sleeve in this movie. The villain is a Texas senator (Robert De Niro) who wants to make all the illlegals build an electric fence around the border before sending them back to Mexico; but little does he realize that drug cartel money is paying for his election bid because the cartels stand to make more money if a border wall is built. There is a Minutemen type group (led by Don Johnson--remember him?)--killing illegals after saying "Welcome to the USA."

Laugh out loud funny for a few scenes, but the rest is grade B movie fare by an A movie director. Only thing I can recommend is Jessica Alba's nude scene, Lindsey Lohan's naked breast shot, and Michelle Rodriquez in low-rise jeans. For the immigration politics, I find the threads on this site much more funny. See it now if you like cliched politics and gratuitous violence.

Or rent it later, to slo-mo the chick scenes and ff the political soap-boxing.

AC

P.S. Steven Seagal plays the "Mexican" cartel kingpin. Now, that's funny. Also, my favorite joke: Cheech Marin offers Machete a Cuban cigar; Machete says, I prefer Mexican, to which Marin opens another cigar box filled with marijuana joints the size of cigars. Yes, they do light one up. Funny stuff. Me and two others in the sold out theater applauded with envy.

Hi guys! I'm new to the forum, but have been following Jack's adventures for over a decade.

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Question: does anyone here know the story behind the grave next to Emma's that will not grow and that critters avoid? I welcome spoilers, so please don't hold back on that account!!

Thank you in advance! This has been bugging me to death!!

Hi, everyone!

I realize these things have been out for a while, so it's not exactly breaking news, but did anyone else think, "If Jack doesn't have one of these, he totally needs one!" when the saw this thing...

http://www.trueswords.com/extreme-black-...-4953.html

The last movie I saw got a standing ovation. This one, The Last Exorcism, got a leaving ovation. As a matter of fact, about two dozen people walked out during the first thirty minutes of the 100 minute movie. Whether they walked out because the movie was so scary or a waste of time is a matter of debate. As it was, I was the only one left to watch the last hour of the movie. If you visit Rotten Tomatoes, the movie review website, as I did, you'll find that 26% of the reviews are bad, and 74% are good. So, if 24 people walked out of the movie and only one person remained, well, you see, the mathematics just don't add up. By Rotten Tomatoes numbers, seven people should have walked out and 18 people should have remained to watch the movie.

Anyway... this movie tells the story of a charlatan exorcist/preacher who decides to film his last exorcism to document the phony business underlying religion for money. Without giving away too much, this movie is not about an exorcism, as the movie twists and turns before it delivers its knockout "blow" at the finale, albeit Blair Witch-style. Yes, there is gore, but if you decide to stay for the whole movie, I promise you that you will be rewarded.

Or you can wait for the rental and fast-forward to the ending.

I liked this movie alot... even if I were the only one in the theater giving it a standing ovation.

AC

[B]Fatal Error[/B]
[I]F. Paul Wilson, Tor, $25.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-7653-2282-1[/I]
This riveting supernatural thriller, billed as the penultimate novel in Wilson's long-running Repairman Jack saga (Ground Zero, etc.), finds Jack, a principled mercenary who lives off the grid, still tussling with the evil Order of Septimus, whose members hope to open the door to a malignant occult force known as the Otherness. To do so, they partner with several techno-terrorist cults to shut down the Internet, which further serves the interests of Jack's nemesis, the sinister Mr. Osala, who's grooming a newborn child tainted with the Otherness to play an adversarial role in the events unfolding. Wilson gives his multilayered plot an invigorating aura of cosmic creepiness as he deftly weaves together subplots and themes that have been snaking their way through the past dozen novels. Fans who've been following this series for the past quarter-century will be pleased to find that it still abounds with ingenuity and surprises. (Oct.)

At the end of this movie, the audience gave a standing ovation. And during the movie, it was so quiet, as if everyone were holding their collective breath.

This is the story of famed French outlaw Jacque Mesrine from the 1960's and 70's: soldier, street thug, Mafia hood, bank robber, kidnapper, assassin. Also, boyfriend, husband, father. At once, loving and kind; next, unpredictably cruel and threatening. And this movie is not for the squeamish, but well worth the trip down gore avenue to follow this criminal's rise to Number One Most Wanted.

And did I mention the prison break. Whoa. Not the break out, but the break in, to try to free his cronies. Best shoot-out on film this year.

Remember: This is Part One. Part Two will be released later this year. This movie is worth a watch. And if you can't catch it now, add it to your dvd rentals asap.

AC

I just saw this movie yesterday. Samuel L Jackson plays H, a man who is an expert at torturing people. Carrie Ann Moss is an FBI agent who is in charge of finding an American-born terrorist who's converted to radical Islam. This man was trained by the Army to disarm nuclear bombs and was doing something with the Russians with their nuclear material, but paid by Tehran to steal it. He did and vanished, allegedly making the nuclear material into 3 bombs. The army already has him in custody even though the news still says the search is on for him.

The army guys do the 'typical' torture until H gets there. H's methods border on insane, but he works on convincing the terrorist(s) he tortures that he will do anything to get the information, including but not limited to, chopping off the tip of a pinky.

As every gov't agency searches for these nuclear bombs the story builds into H doing something unthinkable.

I don't think this made it into theaters. For a direct-to-vid release it was pretty good.

I'm getting some really nice barrister bookcases in 1-2 weeks and they will come already finished (stained and I assume sealed).

Is it safe to put my books in on the finished wood or should I have a barrier between the books and the wood? I don't want anything seeping into my books, but I don't know what is recommended as a barrier either.

Suggestions?

I'm just wondering where abouts during the young adult trilogy this takes place.

I also can't read that title without thinking of Scrappy Doo saying it.