Kevin, have you seen Overnight yet? If you like Boombock Saints, it a must.

90 minutes of Troy Duffy bitching, pissing, and moaning.

In retrospect, "3 Extremes 2" wasn't very extreme at all. Tartan Extreme had a decent release (for a change) this week in "The Heirloom".

You mean live action, though, right? Cuz I think "Final Fantasy 7: Advent Children" is wearing the overall crown, right now.

BTW, I recommend "Thank You For Smoking". Charming little picture.

WTF? A little Nike cross promotion goin' on there? 

"Hostel" is no different than a lot of slashers that toss in some severings, beheadings or what have you just for the sake of being extreme.

"Wolf Creek" was more credible (it had to be), and had a lot of implied or quick cut violence, and it was just. Nothing from that movie, IMO, could compare with....
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..nailing two young girls in a car, throwing it in reverse, and then running one over AGAIN with her body being visibly drug under the car. In "Wolf Creek", there was the whole spinal snap, but it wasn't shown, which is always more effective. Eli Roth just put it out there like he's always done. It was too late for his movie to be presented as credible, so why start then? Just ham it up, hence the Bubble Gum Gang and the car bashing.

The way I see it now is like this. The characters are absolutely despicable, and purposely so. The brothel in Amsterdam is part of the culture, and ended up being an easy way to get the whole sex and nudity aspect of traditional horror movies out of the way. I think it was a little too gratuitous, personally, and what Roth got away with in an R rated movie was amazing. After about 30 minutes, after the one night stands are all said and done, it picks up and gets tense. Merging into the 3rd act, it just gets nuts. Nothing is sacred, no holds barred kind of ****...just brutal.

It was a good premise, and the story came full circle with Jay Hernandez's little epiphanies when he returns to the hostel.

So, in a nutshell, I did like it more the second time around, but not sure that it's worth owning, but it was DEFINATELY better, and more mature and original than "Cabin Fever".

Alright, if you guys can differentiate, Timmy didn't "deserve" to die,  but he did get what was coming to him.

The guy got emotionally moved by by bear ****. That's ****** up.

Quote from: ruiner on April 12, 2006, 09:29 AM

You'll absolutely love AD Season 1 - I guarantee it.

Don't count on it, it's rare that Cory likes any of my favorite stuff.   

Pretty false general conception which everyone likes to play up to, when the fact is, I roughly own about 1/2 of the movies you do, and seen the other half, and don't think they're worth owning, but may have liked.

I also picked up Wolf Creek - and my dad sent me Grizzly Man in the mail as a gift because he liked it so much.  Which was cool because it was on my short list anyway.

"Grizzly Man" is the most intolerable documentary I have ever watched, and Timothy Thompson got what he deserved, frankly.