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One dog goes one way, da other dog goes da other way, and dis guy's sayin "Whadda ya want from me?"
Yes, this movie stands on it's own. Alot of what happens in the other is explained in this movie.
shareYep. Though this movie won't make much sense, whether you've seen the other films or not.
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That;s actually how I did it. I ended up watching the trilogy in reverse; First OUATIM, then Desperado, then El Mariachi. And yeah. I don't recomend doing that, because it gets a tad confusing. But yeah. They all pretty much stand alone, just don't want the trilogy backwards, because you get like: What?
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I watched this when it first came out and thought it sucked. I went back and found out about the rest of the trilogy, and watched them in order. I think El mariachi is the best, but OUATIM is much better than Desperado, I think.
shareI've not seen OUATIM yet, but i've just bought the dvd. It will be hard to beat Desperado (which is the only one i've seen so far).
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You could, but why would you? It's the weakest of the three films by far. The plot is far too complex for its own good.
shareyeah, this was the first one i watched actually. i just got a little confused during the flashback sequences.
shareyou can watch them in any order, but they will make more sense if you understand what each was meant to portray:
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El Mariachi is "the truth", what really happened, the simple guy shoved into an odd circumstance.
Desperado is "the legend", the story retold and embelished upon with parts that may or may not be true.
Once upon a time in mexico is "the myth", a story retold so many times and passed along through generations to the point where it is almost unrecognizable from its origins, so exagerated are the claims that the heroes sound more like super heroes than real people and the over the top action portrays that underlying theme of beyond reality.
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When you understand the series in that perspective, the whole thing makes a lot more sense. None are truly sequels that continue the story, they are all stand alone versions of the same story told from different narrative distances with el mariachi being the closest to "what really happend" (in context of the story) and once upon a time in mexico being the closet to fairy tail (from being retold so many times)