pontius
Active Member
well, I go to the movies about 4 or 5 times a year. I NEVER go see a movie on opening night. but for the past 2 weeks, all I've read is hype and controversy surrounding this movie "Hostel". everything you'd read about this movie says that it is the goriest, bloodiest movie every made. there are people protesting the movie, saying that the filmmakers went too far. there have been newspaper reports of people having heart attacks in the middle of screenings. I was so drawn in that by the time the movie opened tonight, I had to see it. I was not so interested in the movie as I was on calling the filmmaker's bluff. I wanted to see if they could scare or disturb me as much as they claim. well, they won, because they got my $7.75.
EVERYTHING surrounding this movie is BS hype. it is not 'scary' at all, I really don't know if I'd consider it a 'horror' movie. it is not even close to "The Ring" or "Saw" (neither of which are particularly scary). there are no parts at all in the movie that make you jump, no parts that make your palms sweat.
the story itself is straight forward with no plot twists. the movie is an hour and a half long, the first of which is only about smoking pot and T/A. if you want to see
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, that's the best part of the movie. the second part of the movie is the "meat" of the story, the part that's supposed to have all the blood and mayhem.
wrong. all the reports and controversy surrounding the gore in this movie are fabrications. there is a little blood here and there, but it is not that gory at all. it is full of the "implied violence" that Hollywood has tried so hard to tell us is "horror". there is no part in the movie where it actually shows anyone being killed (not that that's a good or bad thing, just saying that this is meant to be a horror movie). not only that, this is not even the most gory movie that has Quentin Tarantino's name attached to it....that title goes to "Reservoir Dogs". it is also not as gory as "Saving Private Ryan" or "Passion of the Christ", neither of which are horror movies.
the biggest criticism I've seen of this movie (other than the non-existent gore), is that the ending is bad. actually, the ending is the best part. the ending has the only slight twist to plot, and also, it's the ending....so it's good in 2 ways. all in all, I'd give it a C-. it is worth renting maybe, but definitely not worth going to the movie theater. I'm not a big horror fan at all, I just got drawn into the hype so much that I had to see it. just to let you all know, it's not what they make it out to be.
EVERYTHING surrounding this movie is BS hype. it is not 'scary' at all, I really don't know if I'd consider it a 'horror' movie. it is not even close to "The Ring" or "Saw" (neither of which are particularly scary). there are no parts at all in the movie that make you jump, no parts that make your palms sweat.
the story itself is straight forward with no plot twists. the movie is an hour and a half long, the first of which is only about smoking pot and T/A. if you want to see
[hr]
, that's the best part of the movie. the second part of the movie is the "meat" of the story, the part that's supposed to have all the blood and mayhem.
wrong. all the reports and controversy surrounding the gore in this movie are fabrications. there is a little blood here and there, but it is not that gory at all. it is full of the "implied violence" that Hollywood has tried so hard to tell us is "horror". there is no part in the movie where it actually shows anyone being killed (not that that's a good or bad thing, just saying that this is meant to be a horror movie). not only that, this is not even the most gory movie that has Quentin Tarantino's name attached to it....that title goes to "Reservoir Dogs". it is also not as gory as "Saving Private Ryan" or "Passion of the Christ", neither of which are horror movies.
the biggest criticism I've seen of this movie (other than the non-existent gore), is that the ending is bad. actually, the ending is the best part. the ending has the only slight twist to plot, and also, it's the ending....so it's good in 2 ways. all in all, I'd give it a C-. it is worth renting maybe, but definitely not worth going to the movie theater. I'm not a big horror fan at all, I just got drawn into the hype so much that I had to see it. just to let you all know, it's not what they make it out to be.
