{"title": "Machete 2010 is about US politics of 2025 somehow", "timestamp": 1758832282.0790353, "description": "An exploitation film is a film that exploits some talked about fear or trend in culture in order to sell tickets to a movie that is probably not very good. Exploitation films are usually low budget, badly made B-movies, with a certain charm to them, if you like [Tommy Wiseau]()'s work. 2010's [Robert Rodriguez]() film *Machete* is, somewhat of an intentional attempt at recreating the exploitation film phenomenon. Which exploits US politics of 2025, somehow. ( Rodriguez must have a time machine somewhere in his studio ).", "author": {"avatar": "https://blenderdumbass.org/pictures/favicon.png", "bio": "Aka: J.Y. Amihud. A Jewish by blood, multifaceted artist with experience in film-making, visual effects, programming, game development, music and more. A philosopher at heart. An activist for freedom and privacy. Anti-Paternalist. A user of Libre Software. 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Exploitation films are usually low budget, badly made B-movies, with a certain charm to them, if you like Tommy Wiseau's work. 2010's Robert Rodriguez film Machete is, somewhat of an intentional attempt at recreating the exploitation film phenomenon. Which exploits US politics of 2025, somehow. ( Rodriguez must have a time machine somewhere in his studio ).\r\n\r\nI mean, you blatantly called your movie *The 8 years olds* an exploitation film. ", "username": "Troler", "id": 1, "timestamp": 1774987126.7894537, "p_index": {"2": 1}}, {"text": "> The film is about ICE and immigration of Mexicans into the USA. Or because it is an exploitation film ( or a parody of one ) it is a satire of ICE and immigration of Mexicans into the USA. And the movie is fucking hilarious, while simultaneously being fucking serious. This is a movie where you both get a guy named Machete use guts of a bad guy as a rope to swing out of a window like Tarzan, and a scene where border patrol of the USA kills a pregnant woman in fear of her giving birth on the US soil, because if somebody is born in the US, they are automatically a US citizen. I mean... if you don't like such intense emotional whiplashes, maybe stay away from this movie.\r\n\r\n\r\nI adore Asian cinema. \r\n", "username": "Troler", "id": 2, "timestamp": 1774987218.8118174, "p_index": {"2": 3}}, {"text": "> Machete in Machete is played by the Mexican Charles Bronson himself Danny Trejo who you may know from Rodriguez's Spy Kids movies as Machete. Isador Cortez or Machete is supposed to be the exact same character from both franchises. But here is a thing, Spy Kids is a kids friendly PG rated franchise. While the film Machete has blood ( with decapitation ) and full frontal female nudity in the first 10 minutes of the film. I can only imagine how much Robert Rodriguez was laughing coming up with all this shit.\r\n\r\nBlenderDumbass wrote in BlenderDumbass.org, that Machete in Machete is played by Mexican Charles Bronson. \r\n", "username": "Troler", "id": 3, "timestamp": 1774987559.2206912, "p_index": {"2": 9}}, {"text": "> The film is intentionally stupid. Like in one scene you hear a Nokia ringtone followed by a shot of somebody picking up a Blackberry. The film at times looks cheap, both because it was cheap ( on $10.5 million ) and because it is trying to look as cheap as it can get away with. That is kind of the joke. Robert Rodriguez is very good with cheap film-making. His first film El Mariachi he shot with just $7225. And it was an action film. So I suppose Nicolas Winding Refn making Bronson on a quarter of a million is not so special actually.\r\n\r\nAlso they use Linux on Macbook Pro.\r\n\r\nWhich has X13.", "username": "Troler", "id": 4, "timestamp": 1774988085.9714282, "p_index": {"2": 23}}, {"text": "c:4\r\n\r\n@Troler GNU / Linux", "username": "blenderdumbass", "id": 5, "timestamp": 1774988099.9402373, "p_index": {}}]}, "languages": {}, "hashtags": ["Machete", "RobertRodriguez", "film", "review", "movies", "cinemastodon", "trump", "uspol", "kirk", "ice"], "not_ai_proof": "", "tab": "reviews", "url": "https://blenderdumbass.org/reviews/machete_2010_is_about_us_politics_of_2025_somehow", "likes": ["Troler"]}