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El mariachi (1992)
Only good as a joke
I do not know if the movie was meant to be a spoof or some kind of a joke but if so comes rather long. A passable plot but ridiculous acting, close up shots and zooms that would be not excused in the seventies and an end that would be great in something like "Blazing Saddles". The way that was filmed and the garish colors they look a some short of blaxploitation film that for the change was filmed in Mexico or some Italian western that they corrected the colors. I watched it in three sittings trying to believe what I saw. But on second thought if you sit and watch it like a Gene Wilder movie with a watery eyed Mexican substitute maybe goes down with the first try.
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006)
The natives are amusing
Every nation has some style to export in the way that foreigners like it. For example Anthony Hopkins or Hugh Grant made a careers being British. To be effective the style has to be exaggerated in a cartoonist way. Is there something more American then NASCAR ? I there any other way that foreigners perceive NASCAR drivers then the way that Will Ferrel portrayed Ricky Bobby ? Actually I cannot think of another way that this film could be made without being so being something else. The colors are bright to garish. The emotions are soapish to bathetic. The plot is predictable to a ridiculous degree as parodies should be. And the depth is as sallow as the foam of an espresso in a pits vendors machine. Still and for all "Talladega nights" is an amusing movie. If being watched like a National Geographic film.