What is the latest movie you watched and what did you think of it?

**iLOVENZB** · 10-01-2010, 08:39 AM

The Human Centipede
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1467304/

I thought the whole movie was going to be about a German capturing 3 tourists and joining them up. Little did I know that it all happened within the first 30mins and the rest of the film is about what he does with his centipede. Had potential to be an epic .... thriller? Nonetheless was very enjoyable.

I'm a huge horror/thriller fan but as of late none really had me holding my breathe - this flick did

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As I was watching it I couldn't help but imagine that there will be a parady porno - The Human CentiPORN ?

PS. Ashley C. Williams (Lindsay) is fucking hot,

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**megabyteme** · 10-01-2010, 11:08 AM

Ha. Never thought I would see anyone call the movie "enjoyable".

**IdolEyes787** · 10-01-2010, 12:14 PM

Originally Posted by megabyteme

Ha. Never thought I would see anyone call the movie "enjoyable".

Sick more like.
What apparently passes for "horror" (movies) nowadays is little more than pointlessly watching people suffer without any accompanying ethical concerns .
I think that's the defining part ,the sheer pointlessness of the nastiness .
No one to root for , no chance of a "good" outcome just let's all be voyeurs to the vileness.
No and thanks.

**iLOVENZB** · 10-01-2010, 01:52 PM

IdolEyes what do you class as a 'good' horror then?

**megabyteme** · 10-01-2010, 01:55 PM

Yer mum.

**IdolEyes787** · 10-01-2010, 05:16 PM

Originally Posted by iLOVENZB

IdolEyes what do you class as a 'good' horror then?

I think that the audience should always be encouraged to root for /relate to the victim and not the killer.Sadly more often not the case anymore.

Some people think that Silence of the Lambs started all this killer as hero bullshit but the essential different was that in that movie , as magnetic as the Hannibal Lecter character was , people( at least the normal ones) still wanted for Clarice Starling to "win" and for "The Cannibal" to fail .Same with the original Halloween, original Nightmare on Elm Street,The Exorcist,Se7en,Night of the Living Dead etc .In all those even if things don't always turn out well for the protagonists you never stop hoping that it will.
Now unfortuantely it's just let's watch largely "deserving" unlikable people be brutalized and murdered and little more so we get our jollies.

Is the Human Centipede disturbing ?Obviously but then so is seeing the remains of the family pet after it has been run over by a car.
Point being it takes more than merely sickening and disturbing for something to be a "good" horror movie.

Unless maybe you yourself are also sick or disturbed.

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Sherlock Holmes the one with Robert Downey and Jude Law.
I honestly don't think that Guy Ritchie could have made much a worse movie if he had deliberately set out to do so.
R.D. Jr.'s incredibly bad accent aside ( So he's not good with dialects still shouldn't someone at some point have said "Look this really isn't working, maybe just speak normally and we will work around it") isn't the entire "point" of Holmes is that he uses his mind not his fists? And his puny little fists at that.
Also someone kill the Art Director ( London never looked more fake and after Van Helsing or the cartoon version of One Hundred and One Dalmatians that's saying a lot).
And the Costume Designer (Deer- stalker hat not 19th century metrosexual ffs)

Want a different take on Sherlock Holmes try Young Sherlock Holmes instead.
Same added female love interest and supernatural overtones but unlike this atrocity I actually enjoyed it and actually cared what happened to the characters.

Of course Barry Levinson only won an Oscar and was never married to Madonna so what the fuck does he know?
Also does everything that cost x amount of dollars have to viewed as a 'franchise anymore ? Can't a film/story simply end without always having 5 extra minutes of pointlessness tacked on?