-Kevin- Posted June 5, 2009 Report Posted June 5, 2009 Went to see Drag Me To Hell yesterday, it was pretty good Aww I can't wait to see it !! Quote
~Lynd~ Posted June 6, 2009 Report Posted June 6, 2009 Wolf Creek. Now, maybe it was heavily, HEAVILY edited for TV, but that was the first time I'd seen it, and I can't say I was impressed with it at all. The characters were inane, the script (if there was one) was pointless, and the horror, after taking an hour to get going, made no sense whatsoever. I hate movies like that, where it's just blood for the sake of blood. Bad things like that happen in the real world, sure, but presenting them without any sense of motivation or insight - only being interested in creating knee-jerk prejudices and largely ungrounded fear in an audience - is what the news is for. If you're going to make a character who kills people for fun, tell me why he thinks it's fun. Tell me why he would chase a girl down, shoot out her tires, and then shoot her in the back, instead of taking her back to his place and raping her some more like he apparently planned to do in the first place. Ongoing sexual gratification is a legitimate, biological/psychological motive. Killing an easy source of it, after going to so much trouble to seek it out, makes no logical sense at all. Unless it all comes back to the line of, "I'm doing people a favour, getting rid of the kangaroos. There's too many of them out here, just like tourists." Okay, wow, so I found his one-dimensional motive. Woo-hoo! He could have done that without raping and torturing them, but then, where would all the "cool" blood come from ? I'm ashamed as an Australian to realise that this is one of our "greatest" theatrical exports. Thank god we were responsible for the original Saw movie. We have SOME well-earned street-cred in the Horror genre there. Wolf Creek... apart from the overtly realistic acting - meaning that it was so well acted, I felt like I actually was watching a group of pointless, irritating, idiotic d***heads who had no business wasting other people's oxygen, let alone expecting me to care whether they live or die, when they don't even care enough themselves about that to put on a seat belt, or stop chain-smoking and binge-drinking, or insulting weird strangers... apart from that, and the fact that the cinematography was nice... It has to be creeping up towards Texas Chainsaw Massacre territory. Not really as bad, because the circumstances of Wolf Creek are at least believable, even if no-one involved with the movie thought it was necessary explain why it was believable, or why I should care if d***heads are the only victims of outback serial killers these days... but... Jesus, I wasted two hours of my life watching it, and another twenty minutes ranting about how bad it was. Terrible. Just terrible. I can't believe it ever rated with anyone. EDIT: And another thing! The whole point of the story was revealed in the last minute or so, through post-script summaries! NONE of that was actually explored in the action or dialogue of the movie! So the story actually was there, but they chose to ignore it in favour of, you guessed it, blood for blood's sake. Man I could take that movie back to the editing room and get a half-decent story out of it. As is, it's barely an 8th-decent... So frustrating, since it was all there, they just chose to handle it like... well like John Jarrett with a tied up victim. Hacking and prodding, saying nothing of consequence and getting nowhere interesting in the process. Just a whole lot of blood and nothing else to show for it. And not seeming to care about that one bit... People should need a license before inflicting these sorts of movies upon the world. A license and a professional guidance-counselor to make sure that the movie has a point, and that that point is realised by all involved. It hurts to think that money was wasted on that movie, and that cinematographer, when both could have been used so much more wisely. I remembered this post while watching The River Wild last night.There was nowhere near as much blood and violence but it was much worse than Wolf Creek,imo.I totally failed to see the point,assuming there was on other then Kevin Bacon's hottness. Quote
Symphony Posted June 6, 2009 Report Posted June 6, 2009 i'm watching the boy in the striped pyjamas at the moment ... it's slowly breaking my heart into tiny pieces. Quote
January Posted June 11, 2009 Report Posted June 11, 2009 Bad Bush. An Australian movie with Chris Sadrinna. A sinister thriller based on a true story. Shudder to think which parts are true. Quote
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