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Desperado

5 star:		(4)
4 star:		(2)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

This is an excellent blu ray. El Mariachi's source is not without its flaws, and it looks it, but most imperfections can largely be attributed to the low budget nature of the film and it certainly looks better than any previous home video release. Desperado, which had a substantially bigger budget, looks splendid on blu ray. The colors are vibrant, the blacks are strong, and contrast is good. As with El Mariachi, Desperado has never looked better. Pick this up if you're a fan of these movies, you will not be disappointed.

Two movies for a great price. Now the movies: I have owned Desprado on DVD for a while and love the movie. I would give it more than five stars if I could. As for El Marachi surprisingly another fine Robert Rodriguez film. Frankly I never before had heard and believed that it was Desperado but in Spanish. I was wrong and found out what El's motivation for killing drug dealers came from. Thank goodness the film was transferred as is and was not ruined with a computerized enhancement. You see the grain of the film which added grittiness to the film. The only thing that I highly recommend that you turn on the English subtitles and listen to the original Spanish audio. The English dub track is Godawful you will enjoy the film much better. As an avid anime and Chinese Kung Fu fan I have heard worse dub tracks and this is the same. You will get more enjoyment and the translation of the subtitles give more depth to the story then listening to the dubbed audio. In wanting to match lips to dialog inevitably is butchered when English I'd synced to the film. All that said both films are trademark Robert Rodriguez movies. These are not masterpieces in need of an award, but they are great action films for guys to enjoy with humor mixed in with the blood and guts.

I am happy these were released together. Otherwise I most likely would have watched it on cable with the horrible English dub.

Even though it is said that Once Upon A Time In Mexico is the finale of the movies it does nothing but embarrass Robert Rodrigez. I am sure it was made with a bigger budget and they tried to make up for the poor script with some big named actors and blood and guts. These two are all you need to see IMHO

The two movies had different actors to play the same character as the same theme continued from one movie to the other. The Blu-ray version of El Mariachi had the lines spoken in English which the previous DVD (non-Blu-ray) did not - the only speech for the dialogue was non-English (in Mexican). I propaply had more interest in Desperado of the two - it had many of the same actors as were in Once Upon a time in Mexico. They are all movies I like to watch repeatedly.

These two movies are awesome. I had only seen "El Mariachi" in the original version with English subtitles before. This English version is dubbed very well (I hardly recognized that the voices are not original). Video quality is essentially not different from a DVD.

The copy of El Mariachi is really rather poor quality, but it's probably about as good as it can be. I gather it's a telecine of a film copy of the original - hardly Bluray quality. It's interesting as the first film Robert Rodriguez made.

Desperado, by contrast, is much better quality. It is a sequel to El Mariachi, but clearly made with a much larger budget.

Having these two together is a much better deal than having El Mariachi by itself.

Length:: 4:15 Mins

This is the first time El Mariachi and Desperado was released on Blu-ray. What's included on this set are Desperado and El Mariachi on one disc, Audio Commentates by Robert Rodriguez on both films, 10 Minute Film School, Rodriguez's student film, "Bed Head, a music video with Los Lobos and more. The video quality for El Mariachi is really good, considering the low budget origins of the movie but what really shines on Blu-ray is Desperado. The audio options for El Mariachi are Spanish original language), English and French 2.0 Stereo DTS-HD MA and for Desperado it's English (original language) and French 5.1 DTS-HD MA and Spanish 5.1 Dolby Digital. The video review is in Spanish with English subtitles.

For those who don`t know this is double feature disc means one disc contain both of movies .If its 2 pack then package will carry different discs like Crank , House of 1000 corpse.I am not reviewing movie just conversion.
Blu Ray :
Conversion is so so.Its quite grainy and poor sound upgrade.Conversion is no way close to superiors of Terminator,Back to future,Caligula(1979) and they are older then this .This Seems like work of haste or just run for quick bucks .
Menu are a mess .I find it really difficult to navigate which movie i want to play .Whenever you insert disc it start looking for Internet connection .Very annoying feature of most of BD live discs including this one with no option to disable it .Loading is done in form of bullet that gets red but seems more like male genitalia .No pun intended.Reasonable price for this double feature is $8.99 .If you own dvd upgrade isn`t that essential unless you want to see Salma Hayak on full screen.

Final Verdict : Weak Video upgrade ,Poor audio ,Inferior PQ according to blu ray standards , over priced

Got my Blu ray quickly and I loved Desperado. El Mariachi is the prequel to Desperado which starred somebody who clearly is not Antonio Banderas. Mariachi had horrible acting but it did kind of set the stage for Desperado. For some reason the movie is all in Spanish. It was just made that way. Desperado was a classic and I loved it. Salma Hayek is so sexy in the movie especially when she is sing her solo song while Antonio is recovering from a lo g night of love making to her. Not bad for getting a double feature for $15

Blu Ray is good on El Mariachi considering the source was fair at best. Still looks better than DVD. Desperado was great in Blu Ray format.

My complaint is BOTH are on ONE DISK. I would be OK with two disks in one holder but there is something wrong with putting both on one disk. It was originally listed as a double pack but now is listed as a double feature. I don't see where it says these are on one disk. BIG BUMMER.