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Film: Hostel

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^ amen. i thought the movie was pretty good. i thought there could have been more violence (im not that sick kinda person that loves to see blood and guts and shit, but if its gonna be a gorey movie, it should be a GOREY movie) and the story wasnt phenominal, but it was entertaining, and i think that meets the number one critera of a movie: entertainment.
 
Well I just watched this today and gotta say I hated it!

Some spoilers ahead...

I couldn't see any redeeming features whatsoever. The characters are possibly the three least sympathetic characters ever committed to celluloid horror, extremely irritating caricatures of American teens in Europe that it's impossible to care about - they even make the biggest asshole of the lot be the sole survivor. WTF?!?

The women in the film are sex objects, just there solely for the purpose of seduction and victimhood, getting their tits out, and a brief foray into money-hungry male hate... because that's what women do, don't they <rolls eyes>. The female sex redeems itself at the end though, when the sole surviving woman commits suicide to save our anti-hero. Nice to see that misogyny is still alive and well in 2006.

And let's talk about the plot. Okay, it's quite good I grant you, worse horror films have been made. But the frankly ludicrous escape in which the anti-hero manages to save his own life owed nothing to human ingenuity and everything to coincidence. That's fine, but it's lazy plotting at best. Let's just put the guy in a situation where someone practically hands him a gun...right. And as for the children that save the day as he drives off into the sunset, come on - that's got to be one of the biggest loads of crap I've ever seen <further eye rolling>.

And the gore. Yes, there's quite a bit of it. But really, a few gory bits does not a good movie make.

So, all in all, a brutal nihilistic movie that says nothing, does nothing, and leaves a bad taste in the mouth. A sexist, ultimately empty experience that is little more than a Grand Guignol venture into cinematic voyeurism, a torture movie that more closely resembles some kind of bizarre porn fetish than real horror. I guess that's fine, but it's not the intelligent, suspenseful art that it's being marketed as, it's really just Friday 13th 2006.
 
I liked it. I would recommend it to a horror movie fan.
I am not feeling intelligent or eloquent enough today to expand on that today.
 
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I enjoyed it a lot. One thing I noticed was how quickly the characters seemed to get over their injuries. Can't say I've ever been in that situation but I think I would still be worrying a lot about the huge hole that had just been drilled in my leg more than a few seconds after it had happened.

Another thing I noticed was how quickly I went from finding the violence somewhat sickening (when watching people being tortured - although sickening is not the word I'm looking for, I was never really uncomfortable while watching the film) to barracking for it when it was being perpetuated back onto the torturers.

I also really loved Cabin Fever...
 
xenixtao said:
Well I just watched this today and gotta say I hated it!

Some spoilers ahead...

I couldn't see any redeeming features whatsoever. The characters are possibly the three least sympathetic characters ever committed to celluloid horror, extremely irritating caricatures of American teens in Europe that it's impossible to care about - they even make the biggest asshole of the lot be the sole survivor. WTF?!?

The women in the film are sex objects, just there solely for the purpose of seduction and victimhood, getting their tits out, and a brief foray into money-hungry male hate... because that's what women do, don't they <rolls eyes>. The female sex redeems itself at the end though, when the sole surviving woman commits suicide to save our anti-hero. Nice to see that misogyny is still alive and well in 2006.
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Get off the estrogen boat. You make a point of talking about how the male characters are caricatures but you get all sand-in-the-vagina-y about the women being objectified? An abundance of tits does not equal sexist exploitation when the entire movie is, in fact, exploitation. I could just as easily say that all the male characters were just there to stick their dicks in anything warm and/or torture people. 8( It doesn't mean I'm correct, it just means I was more in tune to the standard cliches.
 
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aww.. i am saddened that most of you did not like this film.

1) the films plot wasn't about the teenagers. it was an exploitation of what people really do out .. where ever they were. that kind of shit really does happen there. how.. here, in america, prostitution is for a "thrill".. to pay someone to have sex with you. well, out there, people pay for a "thrill" to kill and torture people.
2) eli roth is an amazing director. i just got done replying to a previous post, where someone mentioned [and i agreed] about movies not being original--just remaking, and stealing ideas. well, this is a very original idea, alike cabin fever [eli roth's previous film]. a skin disease, now a hostel where they kill people. you don't see that in every horror movie. another reason why i like him so much. and he connects everything together, not just leave things off, and he has a great sense of humor, and twisted ideas.
3) the acting was great, i liked it, and loved his camera shots and movements.

negatives:
1) the first.. hour.. was borderline PORN. :/ I'm gay, and even if it was guy on guy action--i'd still be upset, cause i could watch that for free [tee hee], not pay $9 to see it on the big screen. there is nudity in films that is.. okay, and supported, could be used. but that movie was just pushing it. scene after scene of unneccessary nudity with the camera shots right inbetween the juggling breasts.
2) the way it was advertised. honestly, it's not that gory, or contains scenes of excessive sadistic torture and whatever else it said on the previews. it switched from close-to-borderline cringe-teeth-with-disgust torture, but quickly ended it. i was upset about that. 1 hr of tits, and sex, 5-10 minutes of good gore, the rest was running and getting away, everything else that wasn't sex and blood. :(

there are a few other things, though those were the main things i liked / upset with. ^.^ overall, i still found it a good film.
 
The first half of this movie was shit, like some stupid teen comedy(think eurotrip). Then it got into a nice gorefest, pushing my expectations for rated R. The acting during the torure was very good. I thought the fact the first half was nothing then suddenly came horrer was great, I wish I didn't know the story when I watched it.
 
i agree with that. i watched when sober and it still made me sick to my stomach. i like horror films but this is just sick and wrong.
 
just watched it and it was pretty much what i expected. it was slow to start then it was what it was.

for me, perhaps, the most disturbing scene in the movie isn't any of the gore but the american guy in the locker room pumping himself up to go do what he's about to do.

i gave it 3 out of 5 - completely average.

alasdair
 
The gore didn't come close to what I expected from all the hype. I thought it was kind of silly actually, the bad acting and the completely unnecessary overabundance of nudity, although it had more of a plot than I expected.
 
I don't really understand why everyone keeps saying the acting was bad. I thought, all things considered, the acting was pretty good. It's not easy to act that terrified and to make it convincing.
 
Well I knew nothing about this film before I saw it except that it was supposed to be very violent and horrible. So, kind of like Wolf Creek, I spent the first half of the film cringing waiting for it too happen.

I was relieved that the violence in this was short-lived and not too realistic, and it's not the best film out there but I was still pretty entertained.

For all the people complaining about the soft-core porn in the first half of the film - did you not get the link between buying people for sex and buying people for torture? I thought that was obvious. I also think all the sex at the beginning was a pretty good way to raise the tension and was basically a realistic poryrayal of what young american men on holiday in Amsterdam together would do. I like how the focus switched from one male character, who died, to the other and how it makes the men in question not blameless, innocent victims.

Not done perfectly, but I thought it was a good idea and I appreciated it.
 
I agree w/ Aladairm on this one... the most disturbing scene was definitely the one w/ the American getting all pumped up to kill & torture. The gore in this was far too unrealistic to get into. Maybe I was in the wrong frame of mind, but I couldn't get into this movie at all. I loved the concept and I thought the build up / first half of the movie was done well, but once the blood started flowing, I completely lost my suspension of disbelief and it all went to shite from there.

SPOILERS:

The worst was every scene including the asian girl that he saved. Come on now... the squirting eyeball goo? That was way over the top, completely over done, and totally unnecessary (not to mention poorly portrayed).

The german guy was great though. I can probably say that I enjoyed the film up until the point where the main character escapes.

3 outta 5, coulda been amazing, but ended up being nothing special. It was better than Saw II.

PS. This had NOTHING on SE7EN and in my opinion, no American made movie has even come close.
 
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