Que quiere se en vida

Since the Superbowl's excesses just turn me off I'm TiVo'ing it and I'll watch bits and pieces of it with some commercials later. Instead this afternoon I watched Once Upon A Time In Mexico. I really enjoy El Mariachi and Desperado and this is a sequel to those, but doesn't have the same flair. There is some good in it (not the least of which is Johnny Depp - who I'm thrilled got an academy award nomination for Pirates of the Carribean) but it's just too violent and disconnected for the good parts of it to catch up. I thought for a bit that I was getting soft as I got squeemish during some of the ultra-violent scenes, but on reflection I don't think that's the case. I think it's more that the movie didn't either need or support that violence. It was excess, and there wasn't used in a way that justified it. It felt like some twisted special effects and creative minds trying to come up with outrageous things to do.

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