So I just saw "Hostel."

[asthmaticeog]

[bigwillq]

1. Worst.Movie.Ever.

I thought it was sooo bad. And gross. :puke: Just gross.
I am a big horror fan. Violence and gore don't bother me but this movie was graphic just for the pure sake of being graphic.


HATED IT!

[YellowRubberDuckie]

7. That's what Quentin is good at...

He executive produced it.
Duckie

[bigwillq]

9. I love all of Quentin's movie.

I thought this one was just too much though.
The violence in say Kill Bill didn't bother me like Hostel did. I guess cause Kill Bill wsa more cartoonish.

[Ava]

10. kill bill was cartoonish

the best kill bill is the second one(i own it.) the second one seems to be more of a character study, while the first one is just an action movie. one of the best things about kill bill is the music, it's awesome!

[bigwillq]

12. Do you agree or disagree

with the subject of your last post

kill bill was cartoonish

:shrug:

I don't know if cartoonish is the right word but I didn't see it as graphic.

[Ava]

13. the first one was

if you don't want to call it cartoonish maybe call it unrealistic. :shrug: i didn't see it as graphic either because of that. the second one is more graphic because the violence is more realistc, but there is less and it's the better out of the two. i especially love the direction in the second one.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

14. I didn't find it cartoonish....

I thought it was incredible. There were cartoons within, but they kinda helped the story along.
Duckie

[Ava]

15. i really liked it too.

by cartoonish we mean unrealistic violence.

did you see the second one too?

[YellowRubberDuckie]

17. Yes.

I don't really know how unrealistic it was. I'm sure people get their eyeballs ripped out all the time. And people kill people in Africa with black mambas all the time. ;)
Duckie

[leeroysphitz]

26. It's stylized violence.

Like Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon. Yes they are technically "fighting" but the action is choreographed like a beautiful dance and much of the scene is symbolic and representative of something deeper.



Edit: I was referring to Kill Bill and NOT to Hostel.

[bigwillq]

16. I thought it was incredible too

but I didn't see the violence as graphic. I was never grossed out by it.

The violence in Hostel, I was.

[Ava]

19. you should have seen the look on some of my friends' faces when

i told them i liked kill bill. a group of us were trying to decide which movie to go see and i said "kill bill v.2 because the first one was awesome!"

the girls had the "you have got to me kidding me. gross" look on their faces and the guys where shocked that a girl would like it.

:rofl:

[caty]

2. O.K.---

I need more info. Should I watch it? Will it scare the pajeebees out of me? Give us a review.

[bigwillq]

4. I thought it was very, very gross.

I do not recommend it.

[giant_robot]

11. A short review.

The first 30 minutes: A long set-up for the story. Two unlikable characters and on mildly likable character are backpacking in europe and acting like jerks.

The middle 30 minutes: A scary urban legend-type premise that had promise, but never fully realizes itself.

The last 30 minutes: An awkward resolution to the mess of a movie that has unfolded itself to this point.

I love creepy horror flicks, but this one doesn't cut it at any level. Just my $0.02.

edit: grammar

[asthmaticeog]

21. It's unbelievably sadistic in its violence.

Even if you know it's coming - wow, just wow.

I'll post in white text so nobody has to see any plot spoilers. Just highlight this post and you'll be able to see it.

It starts as a road movie, a standard issue college buddies in Europe looking to get laid flick. In Amsterdam, the three protagonists meet a guy who hips them to a hostel in Eastern Europe, in a city full of beautiful women who're horny as all hell because the war wiped out the young male population, so off our heroes go. The place is as advertised, and for the first 45-50 minutes of the film, it's party after party, lay after lay. Then one of the trio of friends vanishes and all hell breaks loose. It turns out the hostel is a procurement site for the remote city's real business - kidnapping travelers for a secret facility where wealthy people pay exorbitant sums for the experience of torturing and killing people. And from here, atrocities pile up on top of atrocities, almost all of it shockingly brutal, and I'm not one who's easily put off by graphic violence.

It's a little bit "Wicker Man," a little bit "The Audition." It tries to make the point that the young men were ultimately transformed into an ultimate version of the dehumanized chattel that they were treating women as, which explains the almost an hour of establishing material before the real plot gets underway (the long prologue is also necessary to develop the film's lone sympathetic character), but given the glee with which the director veers into softcore porn by exhibiting literally dozens of unclad, model-hot women in that first hour, any social point along those lines rings very hollow. The real subtext, intended or not, is typical bullshit American xenophobia.

[Ava]

3. one movie i will NEVER see

i think it's sick, twisted, and wrong.

2 hours of watching people get tortured, not my thing!

[philosophie_en_rose]

5. HATED IT!

I watched two minutes of preview footage and that was plenty.

[Ava]

8. the theater trailer completely grossed me out

gave me chills and made me sick to my stomach. i liked kill bill 2, but with this one tarantino seems to have gone WAY over the edge!

[DS1]

6. Why?

[Fenris]

18. At least it wasn't "Wolf Creek"

[Ava]

20. i haven't even heard of that movie

what is it?

[giant_robot]

22. Please don't tell me Wolf Creek was bad too.

Hostel and Wolf Creek came out at about the same time, and I was psyched to see some good old creepy scare flicks. I was disappointed in Hostel, but I was still holding out some hope for Wolf Creek.

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

23. I thought "Wolf Creek" was absolutely fantastic

I'd totally recommend it.

edit - just to bring this full circle, Tarantino has cast John Jarrett in Grindhouse, his latest collaboration with Robert Rodriguez (if it ever happens that is).

[Heddi]

25. I agree with you that Wolf Creek was fantastic

I loved it. Got like 2 hrs of sleep that night.

I was SO SCARED. And I like being scared. Gore---feh, I can do without, ya know. But Wolf Creek had the apropriate amount of gore that was pertinent to the film and didn't overdo it just for Fake Blood sake, (like Hostel).

THanks to Wolf Creek, I'll never go backpacking in the Outback. Of course, I'll never go camping anyways thanks to Blair Witch, or scuba diving thanks to Open Water, or to Idaho thanks to Napoleon Dynamite ha ha

Highly reccomend Wolf Creek. The Hostel DVD is only good to hang in fruit trees to scare birds away :D

[Heddi]

24. Absolutely sucky suck ass movie

I like being scared.

Gross does NOT equal scary.

I laughed at the hype of this movie. It was gore for gore's sake and even that was quite...er...fakey after a certain while. Without giving anything away, the "asian girl" scene was pathetic and not even realistic.

I was not scared and I felt that these were so completely UNsympathetic characters that I would have paid 1/2 the sum to do 3x's the mischief to them. Not really...but whatever. THe plot had more holes than swiss cheese and was just junk. Again, there were some gory scenes, but who cares about gore? At least if you're gonna get gore, get some scare to go along with it

I thought Wolf Creek was a far better movie. Sympathetic characters and much more realistic and frightening situation. I thought the actors were much better in Wolf Creek and the gore (much more minimal than Hostel) had an actual purpose to the storyline, as opposed to Hostel which had gore just for shock effect.

Rent WOlf Creek. I'm glad I watched it before HOstel because i'm afraid that seeing hostel first would have turned me off to Wolf Creek.

I saw them both this week, on the respective days they came out on Video.

I am aching to see Wolf Creek again as soon as the movie was over.

SEriously....within 40 minutes of the end of Hostel, I had forgotten I had even watched the fucking movie.

Wolf Creek stayed with me. Couldn't sleep. Much more psychological. It had...tones, or something. Images that will haunt me.

Hostel...feh. Again, totally forgot I spent 1.40 hours watching the damn thing. Just a peice of shit.