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Matando Cabos (2004)
Unfunny, stupid Tarantino imitation
Hard to believe that this flick currently has an IMDb rating of above 7.
The language is Spanish, but it tries so hard to copy Tarantino that there is nothing genuinely Mexican about it. Although there are a few laughs, most jokes are very stupid.
The two main characters are boring college boys trying to look cool. They apparently actually wrote this garbage, and like Tarantino in his later movies were vain enough to think that it would be cool to appear on screen despite lacking any acting qualities whatsoever. What they lack in talent they more than make up for in arrogance.
Joaquín Cosio on the other hand does have an impressive stage presence, but it was nowhere near enough to save this flick. Only in a fantasy someone like him would hang out with boring twits like the two writers. Pedro Armendáriz Jr. was funny, but he only had a very small part. The rest of the cast are about as forgettable as the two writers.
Anyway: if you want to see a Spanish language version of a Tarantino movie, watch a Tarantino movie dubbed in Spanish. If you want to see a good Mexican movie with violence and dark humor, watch El Infierno. If you want to be bored and annoyed, watch Matando Cabos.
Spring Breakers (2012)
You Only Live Once - so don't waste your time with this!
This movie is like watching Miley Cyrus twerk for an hour and a half.
You could see that as social commentary: the YOLO lifestyle embraced by pop culture is stupid, meaningless, self-indulgent, lazy and boring.
But am I supposed to believe that this is the reason a director deliberately set out to fill 94 minutes with lazy, stupid, meaningless self-indulgent crap? Here is another explanation: the director was in a YOLO state of mind himself - he was up for some meaningless fun in the Florida sun. He then just threw some "artistic" pretense over the resulting turd of a movie before pooping it out, not caring whether the audience would still be stupid enough to gobble it up anyway or flush it down in disgust.
To be fair there was one scene I could identify with: Selena Gomez crying and saying she wants to go home. I would also feel like that if I was involved with this movie.
Curse of Chucky (2013)
Sucky Chucky
I love the first three Child's play movies, and I'm mainly writing here to warn you: if you're an old school Chucky fan like me, you will most probably HATE "Curse of Chucky"!
I was skeptical at first, but decided to watch it anyway as Don Mancini and Brad Dourif were still involved, so I figured it couldn't be that horrible. How wrong I was! I can only guess that Don Mancini is pretty bored with the Chucky character by now - understandable after so many years, but then just move on and don't bother boring audiences with uninspired drivel like this!
While the first three Chucky movies featured great scripts, directing and acting, this time it is just on par with generic soap opera. While the first movies did a great job bringing the doll to live, here Chucky looks like a retarded plastic girly doll. While the voice acting and dialog of Chucky was superbly scary and funny in the first movies, I would not be surprised if Brad Dourif recorded everything in less than an hour this time (according to the trivia he spent "less than a day").
The first movies were really something original, but what we have here is just as crappy as some of the crappiest Chucky rip-offs. Unless some run of the mill gore is enough to entertain you: AVOID at all costs!