Eli Roth's hostel

Blaine said:
I agree with that statement. And the reason I like reading other's reviews and giving mine, is that I will find out who I agree with so when they give a review on a movie I can make a judgement about whether or not I want to spend money on it. I may not always agree with someone's taste in movies, but at least it gives me a place to start. If there is someone I consistantly disagree with, I'm probably not going to be taking his recommendation on a film. It's a matter of taking input to make decisions on how to spend my time.

Not everyone is going to agree with my choices in movies but if they tend to like what I like, they might accept my recommendation. If they hate what I like, I might just save them some time.
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Definitely. Before I go and watch just about any movie, I call back to GA and ask one of my best friends. His opinion always seems fair, and in the end, even if I disagree with him, the opinion is great.

It's all subjective anyway. My boss gave me a crazy look when I said my favorite movie was GHOSTBUSTERS, but then I explained why and he understood more. (Seriously, the comedy in that movie is golden.)
 
Kholi said:
my favorite movie was GHOSTBUSTERS, but then I explained why and he understood more. (Seriously, the comedy in that movie is golden.)
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I couldn't agree more on how good that movie is. While I don't rate it as highly as you, it's 12th on my list of great movies, it is No. 1 on my list of comedies, just ahead of Young Frankenstein and Caddyshack.
 
Blaine said:
I couldn't agree more on how good that movie is. While I don't rate it as highly as you, it's 12th on my list of great movies, it is No. 1 on my list of comedies, just ahead of Young Frankenstein and Caddyshack.
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Young Frankenstein is hilarious. I remember going into convulsions on "Roll in ze hay.. roll in ze hay".

And Caddyshack couldn't be more hilarious. Bill Murray is probably one of my favorite comedians.

And it's funny, because my biggest writing influence is Harold Ramis- Ghostbusters and Caddyshack!
 
I can't stand the Rob Zombie movies. I think they are horrible. The movies just seem pointless to me. At least Hostel kept me entertained. I expected more gore, but got more tits instead.
 
I finally saw it, I don't know if it was overhyped, or what, but I thought it was absolute crap, and I was absolutely dissapointed.

None of the characters were strong enough to hold the story together, but they definitely picked the weakest one to lead it.\

The gore, IMO, was stupid. I didn't feel the pain. I don't know, I wasn't cringing, I was just bored.

The dialog was awful, in the commentary, Tarantino said that he loved how the flick had a story. Who paid him to say that, because I would be very suprised if someone who writes as well as he does thinks that is story.

I can't remember much else right now, I was pretty tired last night. But I definitely was NOT digging it.
 
Rob Zombie gets too much.

Only thing he made that was good was Devils Rejects, and people already believe he is amazing.
 
I think what people are latching onto Rob Zombie for is the balls in his filmmaking. We are sorrounded with such pop-corny, sentimental, good guy's always win, PG-13 faire these days that it can be refreshing to see a film that is shoved in your face and that doesnt taste good but you are forced to digest

I dont think anyone says he is amazing per se as it is just encouraging to see his kind of filmmaking resurging. Grindhouse, exploitive, whatever you want to tag it as, it is a nice change and can be a good release viscerally.

With modern horror, it has become such a style of SCREAM rip-offs or Japanese Horror buttered down to gentile or comic book recreations. These films are unflinching:

Dark Water, Skeleton Key, White Noise, Alone in the Dark, Constantine, House
of Wax, Resident Evil, The Grudge .... (Insert more crap)

Zombie has 2 films under his belt and has received some decent critical acclaim for The Devil's Reject's. Say what you want about his talent or dis on Ho1KC but if it wasnt for House of 1000 Corpses we wouldnt have The Devil's Reject's.

I think if someone does not like The Devil's Reject's it is that they don't like the genre. It is the same person who hated HILLS and LAST HOUSE in the 70's for the very reason it makes their stomach crawl.

Zombie has shown a quantam leap in growth in just 1 film whereas Eli (The Hack) Roth has people smoking him off after 2 shitfests.

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What I like about the characters in Zombie's film's are that they are so more real than the modern day horror villians we typically see. You feel like you've met them before or that they are literally living amongst you. Captain Spaulding is ****ing scary for real.
 
I think Zombie is amazing, I'm one of those people who has seen TDR at least 20 times, studied it, listened to the commentary, and watched the hell out of the DVD. Why do I like this film? It breaks the mold and is one of the few films to come out recently that has BALLS. It does not appologize for what it is and doesn't appologize for what it is not. It is a horror film in the vein of what a horror film should be. These are the sort of people you could be looking at one second and be being killed by the next. There is a creapy reality to the characters Zombie crafted and he proved himself to be a DIRECTOR, unlike Roth who is just the guy calling the shots. Roth doesn't have a vision that is conveyed, Zombie has a vision, and it is pain. Pain is real. Pain is universal, and pain is passion. Zombie excites his audience, transporting them to a place that is real and scary. Roth plays with good sound to convey fear through gore. Zombie uses gore to convey the end result.

Why am I so up Zombie's ass? He has more potential than any other director working today and has given me something fresh.

There are very few directors who can make something old feel like something new: QT & Zombie are two artists who can, plus they are both writer/directors, and that needs to be respected.

-Jeremy
 
I agree with the two above.

Except with House of 1000 corpses being a good movie, it shouldn't of even been made, it was THAT horrible.

Devils Rejects, I also liked, it grew on me, I'd put it before any Roth movie.
 
John_Hudson said:
Come to think of it, what is the French contribution to cinema? (Beyond the NEw Wave moevement I mean)
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Man Bites Dog

City of Lost Children

Diva

Chinatown (well he was born in Paris, he he he)

La Femme Nikita
 
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