Total Recall: Robert Rodriguez's Best Movies
SummarySince breaking into Hollywood in 1992 with his low-budget masterpiece El Mariachi, Robert Rodriguez has done it all -- and not only in terms of his eclectic filmography, which includes action, sci-fi, horror, comedy, and family-friendly thrills. He's also one of the most hands-on filmmakers in the studio system, assuming editing, composing, and cinematography duties on top of directing, writing, and production. Given all that, we felt it was only right that we honor this weekend's return to the Spy Kids franchise by taking a look back at some of the brightest critical highlights from his career. It's time for Total Recall! Back to Article
Mark Larkspur
SIN CITY is the only decent movie he's made. He's seriously Overrated. His career is centered around rehashing cliches.
Aug 18 - 02:25 AM
ganesh shan
I second that!
Aug 18 - 08:34 AM
Pat Marion
Totally. Chicks who have machine guns attached to their legs and guys who fire rockets/machine guns out of their guitar cases has been overused WAY to much.
Aug 18 - 10:57 AM
Josh Ruprecht
Hahahaha I love sarcasm!
Aug 18 - 09:16 PM
Mark Larkspur
Fine, you got me Fox, the machine gun leg is pretty original, a small grace IN A ZOMBIE FILM WITH A MILITARY COVER-UP AT THE CENTER OF IT. Wow, such vision! But ok, one could argue that it's grindhouse and supposed to be kitschy. But his films are all kitsch. Hitmen, vampires, men with no name... he rehashes old ideas, but he doesn't even do it well. How does he manage to get every actor to overact? That's what I want to know.
Aug 18 - 09:50 PM
Jason Wilkerson
You do realize that most of his films are homages to exploitation films of the 70's where everyone overacted, right? And originality is not in coming up with a totally new idea that no one has ever seen before, originality is taking an old idea and telling it in a new way and making it your own. Rodriguez does that in spades.
Aug 19 - 11:44 AM
Pat Marion
His films are fun. I agree with Chains, he takes old ideas and puts a new spin on them. Whether that is over-the-top gore, crazy acting, or just ridiculous dialogue, I have a lot of fun with them.
And you are right, the movie WAS an homage to Grindhouse films, therefore, it had a reason to be all of those things. His other movies (besides kids movies) are just a lot of fun.
There are plenty of terrible directors out there but, Rodriguez is not one in my book. I think critics and studios agree on that one.
P.S. (I am only defending his grown up movies)
Aug 19 - 01:33 PM