Grindhouse proved that not everything Quentin Tarantino touches turns to gold - he co-directed this sprawling three hour tribute to sleazy old B-movies, an idea that probably looked better on paper. It was so muddled that the highlight for most people were the joke trailers that came packaged with it, put together by directors like Edgar Wright, Rob Zombie and Eli Roth. Co-director Robert Rodriguezs own fake trailer was Machete, which featured b-movie regular Danny Trejo as an avenging badass with a lot of big knives. Rodriguez had previously daydreamed about making a series of low-budget action films with Trejo as the lead, so he just channelled all of his crazy ideas for that into the trailer. What he didnt expect was that the trailer would be the breakout hit of Grindhouse, or that people would demand to see a feature length version of it. He gave them what they wanted with the Machete movie a couple of years later, which sadly didnt live up to the hype. And the less said about Machete Kills, the better.
