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jackspencerjr
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
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 Posted - 05/01/2006 : 3:42:31 PM
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Good gravy. I haven't not enjoyed a movie this much since Fargo.* Watching this movie, I completely understand what Ken Begg was saying about slasher movies being nihilistic and mean-spirited. Ugh. It reminded me of a bad Lifetime Original Movie, where the main character gets dumped on and abused and victimized until the end when the main character gets to turn the tables on its aggressor.
The box has a review quote "Scariest movie in a decade." This movie is not scary. Just gorey. Gore is a tricky thing to do right. Do it wrong and the audience completely disassociates itself from the proceedings.
Like I did.
Yuck.
* I realise there are a lot of people who actually liked Fargo. I seriously wonder if you people saw the same movie. Where is the good Fargo? Give it to me, dangit! I know where you live! |
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Neville
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
Spain
1590 Posts |
Posted - 05/01/2006 : 5:50:29 PM
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I sort of like the genre, I think people who critizise it often miss the point that these movies are probably the only ones that don't disminish the impact of a death or try to glamourize it.
If this movie was either Aute tension or Wolf creek I would defend it. It is not however, it is a crappy movie and the least it is said of it the better. |
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jackspencerjr
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
262 Posts |
Posted - 05/01/2006 : 7:29:05 PM
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I would probably have to see either Aute Tension or Wolf Creek to be able to see a gorey movie that has more substance than what the lab boys were able to cook up this week. Most of the gorefest spattermovies I've seen were not about the impact of death or not glamourizing it or anything that highbrow. Most of them were like watching your neighbor's kid standing in his yard digging his finger up one nostril. He picks a big old booger and you notice that it's red with blood and has three hairs stuck in it. He puts it in his mouth and starts chewing, then he sees you and he gives you a big, toothy grin and you see the booger is stuck between his teeth.
So it ain't about real death being shown unflinchingly. It's about the squick factor. The "Eww, oh my god, that's gross" factor. Death is no more real here than it is in Bugs Bunny cartoons.
You know, it may be like sex. Some movies have explicit sex in them but they are still good movies. Others are little more than an excuse to show nekkid boobs. |
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Neville
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
Spain
1590 Posts |
Posted - 05/02/2006 : 1:20:21 PM
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I still have to see a convincing movie that portrays sex in a realistic fashion. Most sex scenes in modern cinema suck. They are either so unexplicit that they sohuldn't have been made in the first place or the actors perform so robotically that they seem to be thinking in the shopping list.
I'll always be happy to have seen The Cooler. Not only it's a good little movie, but also William Macy and Maria Bello's characters seem to be having a great time in bed. Silly as it sounds, often sex in movies looks everything but fun.
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Evil Matt
Diocesan Ecclesiarch of the Sacred Order of Jabootu
USA
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Posted - 05/02/2006 : 4:44:41 PM
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I'm ashamed to admit that I actually kind of liked "Hostel". I think I have a weird bias in that regard, though. See, I rented "Cabin Fever" awhile back because of all the hype surrounding it, and was THOUROUGHLY disappointed. And, like an idiot fish that somehow manages to get caught twice, I bought into the hype surrounding "Hostel", too.
It's not a good movie by any stretch of the imagination. But I enjoyed it because it was kind of like getting to see the shallow dimwit characters from "Cabin Fever" being tortured to death, and that sort of made my day.
Everything's funnier with monkeys. |
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