ROTTEN TOMATOES: Ole! Tour Mexico Through the Movies!

Ole! Tour Mexico Through the Movies!

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An Unspecified Mexican State

In most films set in unnamed Mexican locales, the country is a wasteland full of perilous, abandoned bodies (left for dead like Michael Douglas in The Game) and men with ready guns (or fangs if you're thinking of Rodriguez and Tarantino's pre-Grindhouse grindhouse satire From Dusk Till Dawn). Often times, the unspecified terrains are located disturbingly close to "home"; close enough, in fact, we might see our safe little houses from the view on the hill...if only we could see past the border patrol. Orson Welles had a particular fascination with hot, sexy Mexico and so set both Mr. Arkadin and the now infamous Touch of Evil in the tenuous clutches of her broad, unchecked borders.

More than any other literal point on the map, the unspecified Mexico demonstrates America's fascination with our border nation and the burning, unbridled frontier we believed in once and no longer. Poignant that we have to go to another country to see the Wild West.

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Jen Yamato writes:
on May 02 2008 07:19 PM

This feature is fantastico!

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blsinner writes:
on May 02 2008 07:55 PM

I ****ing HATE NACHO LIBRE!!!!!

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RottenDC writes:
on May 02 2008 07:56 PM

!Que Bueno!

Me gusta la mapa del Mexico y las peliculas en esta lista.

Feliz Cinco de Mayo, Tomates Putrefactos.

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blsinner writes:
on May 02 2008 07:56 PM

Sorry I just had to say it.

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sfludovissy writes:
on May 02 2008 08:11 PM

Olvidaste Against All Odds!

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Kollikodon writes:
on May 02 2008 08:27 PM

I just liked how "Beck's" credit on the poster was as big as the title for "Nacho Libre" in my theater....

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mustard_tree writes:
on May 03 2008 11:29 PM

There are other interesting movies made in Mexico; Serguei Eisenstein went to Oaxaca for his unfinished Que viva M�xico. Elia Kazan's Zapata also was filmed here.

I'm from Pachuca, and we've had interesting productions around, like Dune, Conan the Barbarian and Gringo Viejo.

Another one I love is John Huston's The Night of the Iguana, made in Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco.

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mustard_tree writes:
on May 03 2008 11:31 PM

Ooooops, I was forgot also, Mexico City was the main location for Total Recall.

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Novastar. writes:
on May 04 2008 11:42 AM

Beautiful country Mexico.I did some backpacking there last year.When i arrived at a little city called campeche ,they were transforming the whole zocalo to shoot a movie about Che Guevara(that's what the locals told me).I think it was the Steven Soderbergh one but i'm not sure.

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Tim Ryan writes:
on May 05 2008 11:04 AM

In reply to this comment (#1717769)
Que viva M�xico is one of my faves.

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John_Is_Legend writes:
on May 05 2008 11:21 AM

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stupid n00b that was Mars.

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John_Is_Legend writes:
on May 05 2008 11:24 AM

lmfao I like how rotten tomatoes listed(Steve Martin, Chevy Chase, Steve Martin)as the actors in Three Amigos all the while forgetting Martin Short haha stupid *******s

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JRJS writes:
on May 05 2008 02:22 PM

Sorry to say you got it wrong, both the book and the movie of "no country for old men" and "como agua para chocolate", were made in Piedras Negras, Coahuila about 40 miles from Acuna!

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HiramMaxem writes:
on May 05 2008 04:25 PM

Nice list! Thanks for the info, although you guys forgot "COMMANDO" with the governator, which was shot in the jungles of Puerto Vallarta in the state of Jalisco, also with the governator, the movie "TOTAL RECALL", which was shot entirely in Mexico City or Federal District as you put it, and lastly, James Cameron "TITANIC" which was shot mostly in the Fox Baja Studios in Baja California, close to Ensenada.

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tomwaitsjr writes:
on May 05 2008 05:20 PM

I'm still not going to drink the water. . .

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manofthemovie16 writes:
on May 05 2008 05:48 PM

Muy dulce!

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Jimbo93 writes:
on May 05 2008 07:13 PM

John Huston didn't direct "The Magnificent Seven" - John Sturges did.

Other than that, good feature.

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liantener writes:
on May 06 2008 08:01 AM

I live in Mexico City, is a wonderful place. Man on Fire shows the dark side of it, but I have to say that "the fiery explosions that regularly occur there" is not accurate. An explosion is a very, very weird thing in Mexico City. Bank robbery, violence in some areas, maybe, but no explosions.

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liantener writes:
on May 06 2008 08:17 AM

Ringo Star's "The Caveman" was filmed in Mexico (Durango and Mexico City if I'm not mistaken). "Romancing The Stone" with Michael Douglas and Katelyn Turner was also filmed in Mexico. "Original Sin" with Antonio Banderas and Angelina Jolie takes place in the town called Tlaxcala, from the state of the same name. "Before Night Falls" with Javier Bardem was filmed in the city of Veracruz, playing as la Havana, Cuba.
Wierd enough, in the United States you can find the DVD from Alfonso Cuaron's first film "Solo con tu Pareja" (It's not available in Mexico) that also shows some typical places from Mexico City.

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itzavala writes:
on May 06 2008 09:18 PM

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