Last night ended up as something of an accidentally Robert Rodriguez-themed evening - MrTails and I watched Desperado followed by From Dusk Till Dawn. The former reminded me of something - before Minority Report the other night was a trailer for the truly alarming Spy Kids 2. The film itself looks to be abysmal, but what caught my eye was a scene where good old Antonio Banderas is combing a kid’s hair in front of a mirror, telling him he looks cool now. This is what startled me - I’d definitely seen that exact scene before, but I had to think about for a while before I remembered where. It’s straight out of one of the segments in Four Rooms (also starring Antonio Banderas), which is well worth seeing if you haven’t already. Antonio is, again, standing in front of a mirror combing some kid’s unruly hair and telling him how cool he looks, while the kid in question makes known his discomfort with almost identical expressions.

A little quick Googling this morning confirmed it - both that section of Four Rooms and the new Spy Kids 2 were written by (you guessed it) Robert Rodgriguez. He does, as MrTails noted, really get around. If you’ve seen Four Rooms and want to compare, the full trailer for Spy Kids 2 with the snippet in question is right here. However, while I like Robert Rodriguez, I don’t think that alone will be enough to convince me to see Spy Kids, much less the sequel.

In other news, I think New York is seriously trying to kill me with this weather. With the heat index today it rose to a sweaty 104 F, and my air conditioner has essentially given up trying at all. I’m taking cold showers and not bothering to get dressed between; that and a constant supply of Smirnoff Ice is keeping things barely tolerable, although I seem to be living out the flimsy premise for either a porn flick or an ad for Smirnoff Ice.