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Puerto maldito (1979)
A classic.In the area of Plan 9 from outer space.
Long, long ago, apparently ancient China look very much like the Mexican West Coast. A pair of rather heavy and old allegedly Chinese ninjas come to town to aid its honorable citizens. Nobody looks Chinese, (or Oriental, for that matter) but what the hell?
Jesus wasn't a blond hippie yet no one minds anyway. Cardboard houses. Signs written in Sino-stylized Roman alphabet. A soothsayer who speaks without opening his mouth.
Ninja stars that have to be caught to kill. Oh yes, and the ever classic in a martial arts movie, the Mexican standoff. This is my favorite cult flick of all time.
Caddyshack (1980)
What's the point of watching it over & over, if it didn't make me laugh the 1st time?
Caddyshack will always have a place in my head, because it's one of the fewest movies that has made me fall asleep more than one occasion. 3, to be exact. I tried to "be the Caddyshack mark" , but the first time I watched it... well... zzzzzzzzzz. Then, I even rented the movie to see if my original somnolence was due to exhaustion. Nope. I fell asleep twice. I've played golf, and yes, I've enjoyed Chase's, Murray's and Dangerfield's work many times, but I cannot grasp why is this movie supposed to be so funny. I've read some people say that the more they've watched it, the more layers of comedy they've discovered. Well, what's the point of watching it over and over, looking for the comedy, when the movie didn't make you laugh immediately? I'm quite sorry, but given the hype, the endless hype, and more hype, I felt overwhelmingly disappointed by this movie, thus I'd give it 0/10. 0 represents "letdown".
Freddy Got Fingered (2001)
yEt, I dOn'T kNoW wHaT hAvE yOu CrItIcS GoT aGaInSt GaRbAgE!!!
Look, MY definition of movie GARBAGE is FORMULA Film. Not this movie. I like originality and unpredictability. Garbage is something you can do without. S.W.A.T. is garbage. Charlie's Angels is garbage. Jack Frost is garbage. Not original. Recycled formulae.
Freddy Got Fingered is so off the wall I bought the dvd twice. It's very interesting to see the authorial perspective of Tom Green and why he is the character he became.
La ley de Herodes (1999)
Historically relevant
To understand "La Ley de Herodes" and its historical significance, it is necessary to consider a study of the backdrop behind its production and release. LDH is a product of the decadence of the crumbling, rotting 70-year old regime of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). The 90s were frantic years in Mexico. The Zapatista uprising, the murder of the PRI's presidential candidate/next president (apparently by his own party), the "Tequila Effect" recession, several political murders and former president Salinas' exile (as well as his brother's arrest for money laundering)... all these events created a dissatisfaction so huge that forced the government to loosen its freedom of expression. It would have been impossible to release this movie, or to listen to Molotov's angry music without the bitter complacency of the government. And in a way, LDH signals the end of the PRI regime and its ousting from the executive in the year 2000. Mexico is undergoing change. It's slow, and it's painful, but it's happening. The PRI has not fully disappear, though. You can now see the Juan Vargas figure clinging in congress,trying to obstruct change, holding to its last source of power. A wonderful mambo score, by the way.