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2/10
Guillermo Arriaga you're full of...
21 August 2007
This film is SO Overrated that it just hurts, i didn't get what the "message" of the film is, and neither both of my friends who went to see this thing with me. If Guillermo Arriaga, that snob who specializes on writing pretentious and stupid screenplays where the characters seems to be total idiots with no common sense whatsoever, wanted us to realize that 'love make us do anything' he accomplishes nothing but an endless line of cliché after cliché.

There is the proverbial love triangle between two best friends and the girlfriend of one of them, also including the sister of one of the guys. We never get their motivations or a single sense of explanation for their actions.

The dialogs are SO lame, so plastic, they are heard like cheesy bits from even cheesier love songs and pieces from a night of heavy drinking and weed smoking.

There are characters with nothing to do except get naked in front of the camera (and I don't have a problem with that) but don't try to deceive us by saying that is the 'great performance of their careers'.

The only thing I liked about the film, was the music, which was written by 'The Mars Volta'. Out of that, I don't think there was any other thing to highlight about this.

The phrase that better describes my reaction to this film is "Guillermo Arriaga you're full of crap!"
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9/10
Great movie and the coolest characters!!!
3 February 2006
this one's a great achievement for Rob Zombie in what it comes to film-making. The sequel for the gory "House of 1000 corpses" (which is also a good movie) leaves behind all the unnecessary exploitation and it's more about the characters.

In this movie Zombie really puts himself in the work of creating a film.

Yes! It's violent, there are some scenes that are not meant for the weak of heart, but the movie it's not only about the violence, there are a lot of more violent movies out there. And if you can make it through those scenes, you will really be rewarded.

The editing is great, the music is great and the ending sequence is one of the best I've ever seen in my life.

So, in few words this one is a lot better than the first one.
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El mago (2004)
7/10
Beautiful and original story of redemption!!
11 May 2005
Warning: Spoilers
I just saw "El Mago" in big screen and I think it's a great and original story about redemption and search for self peace. The movie told us about a street magician named Tadeo, who finds out that has a terminal disease which lead him to death in a few months. It's because of this, that Tadeo wants to leave this life in peace, without burdens and debts, that he starts a journey to ask for the forgiveness of his ex wife and the son of his dead best friend. (This it's not a spoiler)and his blind assistant and a young neighbor will help him in that task. Director Jaime Aparicio told us a story about human relationships, instead a story about poverty and insecurity like most of Mexican filmmakers. El mago it's a masterly executed story about finding ourselves in the dawn of our lives. Ifyou find it, see it, you won't regret it.
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