Tuesday, February 10, 2026

Which is Hotter?


I doubt I'm going to review it at this point but there was a hugely entertaining doc at Sundance called American Pachuco: The Legend of Luis Valdez about the activist turned movie-director Luis Valdez that you should keep an eye out for. I didn't know 95% of his story and it's almost Forrest-Gump-ian in the way it weaves through American Latino history... but of course, me being me, my biggest takeaway was a vivid remembering how many times I watched and rewatched his 1987 Ritchie Valens bio-pic La Bamba as a kid because of how extremely hot Lou Diamond Phillips & Esai Morales were in it. Good grief were they a formative pair! (And both of them are interviewed in the doc and they're still, almost 40 years later, hot af.) Anyway I haven't seen La Bamba is decades but as soon as this doc was over I went and grabbed Criterion's recent release and plan on revisiting it, but until then answer me an impossible riddle...



2 comments:

Clay Poupart said...

Morales is gorgeous and a good actor, but his mouthy anti-vaxxer crap turned me off, (This was years before Covid)

Anonymous said...

I immediately voted for Esai as hotter but then you went and posted that photo of Lou showering and, um...hmmmm. Well now you owe us one of Esai showering!