Nacho Libre

All I have to say about the Nacho Libre trailer is what lavish colors, I mean, wow. No, just joking Spiffae, but honestly - this trailer is a microcosm (shock) of what this movie will be about - almost plotless, sometimes hilarious, cultish flick, like Napoleon Dynamite. Another not so shocking shock-a-rama: it's the same director. The film trailer does have something that is a testament to a quality teaser-trailer: quotable lines that people watching whatever bullshit it appears before will leave the theater quoting. And, it has Jack Black - if you haven't heard of him, he was in this film called The Cable Guy, wearing a Soundgarden shirt no less. Jack Black and the director of Napoleon Dynamite invites the sort of audience you'd see at a Dave Eggers reading or a Death Cab for Cutie covering Third Eye Blind concert.



Some of those aforementioned quotables: "Chancho, when you are a man...sometimes you wear stretchy pants, in your room. It's for fun." Or "Do you remember when everyone was shouting my name? And I used my strength to rip my blouse?" Notice when he throws the beehive how much that resembles the scene in ND with Rico, Napoleon and the steak toss (one of my favorite scenes of summer 2000s movie picks). It's clear Jared Hess has a particular humor, and not much else as far as talent or linear plots are concerned. He is a "clever idea" director, not a "movie" director. But do I hold that against him? Yes. Make a different fucking movie. I'm angry that good movies, like Syriana, will have half the audience, less even, then a movie about nothing. This, like Napoleon Dynamite, will make all of its money off of a trailer like this, even if the movie sucks nads. Saying that though, this will be hilarious and I will see it on Netflix, but not in the theater, unless I can sit next to Chuck Norris or Biff from Back to the Future. I just want to know what it's like to always be second best; I hate being so damn awesome.