oAo Hostel Thread

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Sin City had a similar problem (although i guess Tarantino did direct a segment of that movie, so it's a bit more excusable).

[Guest Evolution]

Yeah, Sin City is excusable, but I've seen at least three people talking about how this was disappointing for a Tarantino film.

 

Saw it last night for $5 (Bargain Tuesdays rule). The slow build was nicely done, as Oli was a very enjoyable character and bridged the comedy/tits with the horror/gore, and I'm sure there's a Director's Cut on the way with even more grossness. Roth almost managed to make our protaganists terrible people with how seedy and horny they were, despite the sympathetic character's early uncertainties. He earned some points back by making the girls out to be gateway whores. Perfectly Acceptable Movie.

[Edwin MacPhisto 0]

I got high as balls with a friend and went to see this yesterday. It was exceptionally dumb, but pretty enjoyable in the same way that Saw was. The first 40 minutes or so were really hilarious--"fuck you, you faggot elf?" Genius. I thought most of the torture make-up and effects were pretty cheesy, and that the most effective moments were the ones that were based on sound and what we didn't see --

I'm thinking of Josh getting his ankles slashed off-screen, the rivulets of blood so you don't exactly know what's going on, followed by the "shit son his feet" payoff

. Most of it was pretty funny, though (which I can see that niskie suggests is sort of the point of this 'extreme' genre).

 

I thought the most interesting part of the whole film was the business model. Certain scenes suggest that there are at least as many as 6 or 7 people being tortured at one time, and if that holds probably, even on a conservative estimate, at least 20 people a day. How does the money break down--who gets what cut, and how much is coming off the top to some nebulous C.E.O.-type figure? To get that many victims--and it's probably more than that--the scale of the operation has to be huge, between staff, guards, prostitutes, cops, people spreading the word, etc. I wondered how it was possible to find that many people who are so morally bankrupt that they can comfortably allow people to be tortured; maybe that's Roth's big, somewhat-clunky statement of what this movie is really all about, that in a place as bankrupt as Bratislava, you can buy anything from anyone. I also wonder if this sort of thing could even sustain itself under the radar for very long, with 7,000-odd people going missing annually after getting their Slovakian passports stamped. The scale and the Texas Chainsaw Massacre-esque implication that everyone in the city is on it make it fucked-up, but also a bit more ridiculous than I think Roth intends.

 

So, overall: the concept was way more interesting than the execution, which was way funnier than the concept. I'll say that it was worth my matinee ticket.

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This is the most disturbing movie I have ever seen. I vomited after the movie not from the gore it just made me sick. Also go down as the only movie to give me nightmares. I'm going to go see it again on Sunday. As I said in the other thread, Roth really cemented himself as the future of the horror genre.

 

 

I'm really sick of running into people who think that Tarentino made this movie. I really wish that people would learn simple English, as "presents" isn't that tough of a word to understand, is it?

 

On the radio I heard them call it Tarentino's new movie and it pissed me off to the point where I called they guy to correct him. He refused to accept that he was wrong. Eli Roth had accomplished more in two films than most directors have done in their careers.