Hostel again...

delfin

delfin

Cathlete
There was a lot of discussion about that movie, Hostel. Well, just heard that it's the #1 movie in America! What a sad commentary about our society. Makes you wonder, doesn't it??x(
 
I believe it's a horror/thriller about three guys traveling through Europe, staying in hostels, and then it all turns sadistic and brutally violent.

Doesn't that sound appealing?

No..... I didn't think so either.
 
Our local movie critic panned the movie. He couldn't believe the amount of violence shown during the torture scenes. Unbelievable! What is going on in Quentin Tarentino's mind?????????
 
this movie sucked big time. i love horror movies but there was no subtances, a boring story line, and not so great actors. pretty much the story line a bunch of collage guys are backpacking through out spain and the netherlands and of course want a little"action" and run into some strange folks who turn out to be "hunters" for some unknown cult thing. ppl pay this cult to be "sadistic surgeons" in brutal tortures. you don't see very much that hasn't been shown in any other horror movie but it was just sooooooo boring. i like a horror that will bring me to the edge of the seat, something with mystery, a heroine with a set of "cahonies" and cut biceps,something with substance to the storyline.


kassia



When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be
disappointed to discover they are not it -- Bernard Bailey
 
>There was a lot of discussion about that movie, Hostel.
>Well, just heard that it's the #1 movie in America! What a
>sad commentary about our society. Makes you wonder, doesn't
>it??x(

can you elborate by your comment plz. i don't want you to think that folks who would watch this is disturb i am just a big fan of art, be it horror,action martial arts,comedy, and dramas. this movie just sucks(as stated in previous post) and was just there to suck in ppl for a good mystery horror that turns out to be crap.

kassia



When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be
disappointed to discover they are not it -- Bernard Bailey
 
I'll try to elaborate. I, too, love well-done, thoughtful film-making, and do consider some of the best films art as well. Some of the best, edge-of-your-seat horror films (Pycho, Alien, even Blair Witch, I think) fall into this category. The directors of these films don't depend on the all-to-easy blood and gore ploy to make their films scary and suspenseful, instead, they use their brains to create scenes that generate suspense w/o all the gore, etc. When I said that it's a sad commentary about our society that Hostel is the #1 movie in U.S. it's because I think most people who see this film are not motivated to see it because they think they'll be seeing "art." I'm thinking they have, well, more basic motivations; they want to see blood and guts. And don't we see enough horror and misery in the newspaper and on the evening news every day? Do we need an extra dosage with movies like this? I just think it's gotten to the point where people are getting so conditioned to accept brutality as a part of life, and I think it's sad. Hope that clears things up a bit (sorry I'm a bit long-winded).
 
It certainly isn't art, but I enjoyed it. Did anybody see "The Devil's Rejects?" I don't go to a bloody, gory movie expecting anything else. Sometimes, the effect of such a movie is cathartic. I think a sadder commentary on society is the 67 percent of the American population who is overweight.
 
okay i getcha now, i was just wondering if it was this particular movie or if it was horror movies in general. boy if they went to see blood and guts they were seriously dissappointed in this movies b/c all the hype and it wasn't very much of it,and not to sound like a broken record it was soooo boring LOL.

kassia



When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be
disappointed to discover they are not it -- Bernard Bailey
 
I have to agree that some of the best, most awesome spookers don't require all the blood and guts. Blair witch scared the crap out of me and there was no blood (well, a small amount in the flannel shirt outside of the tent) and you never saw "the villian".

I decided against this movie because it looks like 90 minutes of torture. Not interested. I, too prefer the "edge of your seat" thrillers. Just my taste.

Another totally creepy one...The Ring. It had been a long time since a movie freaked me out but that one did it! So much, I made DH get it out of the house ASAP!
 
sarah,

i did enjoy the ring, scared me more then texas chainsaw.i think the darkness to the movie and the story just made the whole thing spooky. i didn't really care for the grudge though. seems like there could have been more spookiness to the story.


kassia



When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be
disappointed to discover they are not it -- Bernard Bailey
 
This is the last paragraph of a review I read about Hostel:

"Yet, the most depressing and horrifying thing about these sorts of films is, alas, not the explicit gore. It is the fact that at nearly every screening of a gruesome horror film I attend (from Massachusetts to Texas), I see parents in the audience with young children. That strikes me as a serious form of child abuse and a more convincing sign of the impending apocalypse than anything depicted on the screen."
 
TOTALLY true! Don't know if any of you went to see Saw II (great movie in my opinion), but when i went to see it there was an entire family in there!! we're talking parents and five or six kids all under the age of 10. One must have been two or three. i was soooo disgusted! plus they were running around and brought their own food.

but what was worse, to me, was that when i complained to the manager all she could say was "Yeah, I know, isn't it sad? She said it was fine that her children see the movie." (The whole rated R must have a parent/guardian there thing) I was so pissed off. I told the woman that just because she gave permission for her kids to go in, didn't mean they had to be allowed in. It's not a law(is it?). as the manager she has the right to refuse service. i think this really goes to show the capitalistic nature of our society right now.

don't worry bout the kiddies, just take their money.
 
I have to chime in and agree with the HORROR of kids seeing these movies! As a teacher, I hear my kids talking about movies all the time and am SHOCKED at what their parents let them see. The middle schoolers that I teach are so de-sensitized to violence that whenever they see human suffering, they LAUGH! I teach science, and all they are ever interested in doing is blowing things up. They will even make comments about how funny it would be to blow up things with LIFE (animals, etc.).

I just shake my head. I can't believe it.

Chrissy
 
I also think that it is a sadder commentary on our society that 50 milllion Americans, many of them children, are without health insurance. The Spanish Inquisition and the Roman arena actually happened, and they were accepted by the then current society. Hostel is only a movie, and some of the realities of life are much worse.
 
What would any parent bring a child to see this movie? That says something about the parents, doesn't it?
 
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