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• AdenDreamsOf says:

  March 15, 2012 at 9:20 pm

  I thought it was a strange and fore­bod­ing sign that I’ve only seen posters and com­mer­cials for ‘Casa De Mi Padre’ in the past week (basic­ally sev­en days before the film’s release). The pos­sible sign I took this as is that the dis­trib­ut­ors of the film aren’t too con­fid­ent that it will make much money and that a big pro­mo­tion­al cam­paign would­n’t be worth the time and funds.
  I would be impressed if this film was worse than the last Bernal and Luna out­ing, ‘Rudo y Cursi’.

• Stephen Whitty says:

  March 16, 2012 at 12:58 pm

  A movie that said it was sat­ir­iz­ing tel­en­ov­elas, turned out to really be some sort of “Grindhouse” homage to movies that nev­er were, and REALLY stunk up the screen­ing room. Couldn’t agree more, Glenn. Although that Xtina theme song was pretty great.

• Joel Bocko says:

  March 17, 2012 at 2:39 pm

  I don’t have any­thing to say about Casa De Mi Padre (inter­est­ing though to post this the week that John Carter is get­ting all these “biggest dis­aster in years” notices and there seems to be a mini-backlash build­ing among crit­ics and commentators).
  But, if you take requests, I’d be inter­ested to see a post­ing – and par­tic­u­lar the ensu­ing dis­cus­sion – on this “com­mer­cials = sel­lout?” dis­cus­sion going on around the Anderson Hyundai ads. Granted, on the sur­face it appears to be the cinematic/cultural equi­val­ent of the Republican pres­id­en­tial cam­paign, trivi­al, embar­rass­ing, yet fas­cin­at­ing on some gut level (sort of like the fam­ous quote about the Kramer por­trait on Seinfeld) yet I think if tackled prop­erly, there’s actu­ally a core of really inter­est­ing ques­tions here. Can a com­mer­cial be art? What is art? Is there such a thing as “artist­ic integ­rity”? What determ­ines and defines an auteur’s vis­ion? And so forth.
  My appet­ite was whetted by Richard Brody’s posts on the sub­ject, but the New Yorker is hav­ing some issues with pro­cessing com­ments – some of the responses on his first post I can­’t even see a week later. So I’d be inter­ested to read, and hope­fully add to, the SCR writer­’s and read­ers’ thoughts on the subject.

• Chris O. says:

  March 20, 2012 at 4:06 pm

  Apparently, he and Adam McKay should’ve stuck to their every-other-year col­lab­or­a­tions, as those are rather enjoyable.

• remote spy says:

  March 21, 2012 at 1:09 am

  In the care of friend­ship, in care of deep­er, more warm affec­tion let in hon­est heart, let more calm in the simple life, let bless­ing in greet­ing, the net­work can bet­ter meet you, I just want to know you say it.

• Fernando says:

  March 21, 2012 at 12:12 pm

  Yeah, Glenn, we all just want to KNOW you say it!

• keylogger Mac says:

  March 29, 2012 at 11:10 pm

  A movie that said it was sat­ir­iz­ing tel­en­ov­elas, turned out to really be some sort of “Grindhouse” homage to movies that nev­er were, and REALLY stunk up the screen­ing room. Couldn’t agree more, Glenn. Although that Xtina theme song was pretty great.