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Posted: Mon Sep 24th, 2007 06:50 pm |
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| I loved this movie and am looking forward to seeing Wrong Turn 2. He was damned good with the bow and arrow. Very precise. I was extremely pleased when the crying screaming bitch died. At least you could enjoy the rest of the movie without her whining.
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Posted: Wed Sep 26th, 2007 03:16 pm |
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I have to say I'm not a fan really.
It was okay for most of the running time...but then completely fell apart (and utterly betrayed those supposed Grindhouse roots...though I for one never saw them anyway) when Dushku was captured.
There is no harm in having mindless killing machines with no coverage of personalities or motives (other than killing) as your bad guys. None at all.
But in that case don't suddenly have them stop being mindless killing machines just because the hip teen star of the film was captured!
They either killed everyone else instantly, or just seconds after being taken to the house.
nd yet for some reason they not only carted Dushku all the way to their shack when they had her at their mercy, rather than just kill her, but they also spent time and effort strapping her to the bed...only to then ignore her completely so 'hunky hero guy' can rescue her!
She barely suffered more than a ripped T-shirt!
Why?
Why was she not raped, killed and hung out to dry like everyone else? There was no motivation to the killers, no relationship or mind-set away from them killing people.
So why leave her (and ONLY her) completely unharmed?
The question has an obvious answer given who she was and her teen star status.
Well okay...in that case don't have her captured at all then!
Or if you do have her fight back and escape ASAP before they do stick her head above the fireplace!
But don't you dare have her at the mercy of mindless animals only to then be unharmed, rescued by someone else while she lies there and free to walk off into the sunset with her new love!
ICK!
For all the hate it took Rob Zombies's vastly superior "1000 Corpses" had his killing machine, raping, torturing psychos do just that. To EVERYONE!
Because that's what they do!
And lets take Hooper's "TCM". There we had a reason and motivation for them not killing Sally instantly.
They were keeping her for Grandpa.
That's because (unlike "Wrong Turn") the psycho family here was given a life and they had relationships with each other and had reasons for doing certain things.
And Sally never had to wait for some cheesy hero stud to come and rescue her either. SHE was the one who waited till the right moment, fought tooth and nail, and managed to escape.
She also suffered mental and physical tortures that showed how much of a holiday Dushku had in comparison!
I have heard good things about "Wrong Turn 2" though.
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Posted: Wed Sep 26th, 2007 03:29 pm |
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Great review!!! I've heard good things about "Wrong Turn 2" also. And I thought "House of 1000 Corpses" was greatness.
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Posted: Wed Sep 26th, 2007 04:19 pm |
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The thing is, if you have mindless killing machines who have slaughtered everyone else, you do any of these:
1) Don't have her captured in the frst place.
2) Have her captured but have her escape before thery have a chance to get her utterly helpless.
3) Have a motive in why they have not yet killed her.
What you don't do is to have her utterly helpless at the hands of mindless psychos and then have them ignore her!
Silly fuckers!
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Posted: Wed Sep 26th, 2007 04:27 pm |
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42nd Street Freak wrote: The thing is, if you have mindless killing machines who have slaughtered everyone else, you do any of these:
1) Don't have her captured in the frst place.
2) Have her captured but have her escape before thery have a chance to get her utterly helpless.
3) Have a motive in why they have not yet killed her.
What you don't do is to have her utterly helpless at the hands of mindless psychos and then have them ignore her!
Silly fuckers!
Yeah, they could have at least ripped her clothes off!!!! 
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Posted: Wed Sep 26th, 2007 08:35 pm |
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42nd Street Freak wrote: I have to say I'm not a fan really.
It was okay for most of the running time...but then completely fell apart (and utterly betrayed those supposed Grindhouse roots...though I for one never saw them anyway) when Dushku was captured.
There is no harm in having mindless killing machines with no coverage of personalities or motives (other than killing) as your bad guys. None at all.
But in that case don't suddenly have them stop being mindless killing machines just because the hip teen star of the film was captured!
They either killed everyone else instantly, or just seconds after being taken to the house.
nd yet for some reason they not only carted Dushku all the way to their shack when they had her at their mercy, rather than just kill her, but they also spent time and effort strapping her to the bed...only to then ignore her completely so 'hunky hero guy' can rescue her!
She barely suffered more than a ripped T-shirt!
Why?
Why was she not raped, killed and hung out to dry like everyone else? There was no motivation to the killers, no relationship or mind-set away from them killing people.
So why leave her (and ONLY her) completely unharmed?
The question has an obvious answer given who she was and her teen star status.
Well okay...in that case don't have her captured at all then!
Or if you do have her fight back and escape ASAP before they do stick her head above the fireplace!
But don't you dare have her at the mercy of mindless animals only to then be unharmed, rescued by someone else while she lies there and free to walk off into the sunset with her new love!
ICK!
For all the hate it took Rob Zombies's vastly superior "1000 Corpses" had his killing machine, raping, torturing psychos do just that. To EVERYONE!
Because that's what they do!
And lets take Hooper's "TCM". There we had a reason and motivation for them not killing Sally instantly.
They were keeping her for Grandpa.
That's because (unlike "Wrong Turn") the psycho family here was given a life and they had relationships with each other and had reasons for doing certain things.
And Sally never had to wait for some cheesy hero stud to come and rescue her either. SHE was the one who waited till the right moment, fought tooth and nail, and managed to escape.
She also suffered mental and physical tortures that showed how much of a holiday Dushku had in comparison!
I have heard good things about "Wrong Turn 2" though.
I love your take on Wrong Turn very insightful and logical.
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Posted: Wed Sep 26th, 2007 09:11 pm |
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42nd Street Freak wrote: I have to say I'm not a fan really.
It was okay for most of the running time...but then completely fell apart (and utterly betrayed those supposed Grindhouse roots...though I for one never saw them anyway) when Dushku was captured.
There is no harm in having mindless killing machines with no coverage of personalities or motives (other than killing) as your bad guys. None at all.
But in that case don't suddenly have them stop being mindless killing machines just because the hip teen star of the film was captured!
They either killed everyone else instantly, or just seconds after being taken to the house.
nd yet for some reason they not only carted Dushku all the way to their shack when they had her at their mercy, rather than just kill her, but they also spent time and effort strapping her to the bed...only to then ignore her completely so 'hunky hero guy' can rescue her!
She barely suffered more than a ripped T-shirt!
Why?
Why was she not raped, killed and hung out to dry like everyone else? There was no motivation to the killers, no relationship or mind-set away from them killing people.
So why leave her (and ONLY her) completely unharmed?
The question has an obvious answer given who she was and her teen star status.
Well okay...in that case don't have her captured at all then!
Or if you do have her fight back and escape ASAP before they do stick her head above the fireplace!
But don't you dare have her at the mercy of mindless animals only to then be unharmed, rescued by someone else while she lies there and free to walk off into the sunset with her new love!
ICK!
For all the hate it took Rob Zombies's vastly superior "1000 Corpses" had his killing machine, raping, torturing psychos do just that. To EVERYONE!
Because that's what they do!
And lets take Hooper's "TCM". There we had a reason and motivation for them not killing Sally instantly.
They were keeping her for Grandpa.
That's because (unlike "Wrong Turn") the psycho family here was given a life and they had relationships with each other and had reasons for doing certain things.
And Sally never had to wait for some cheesy hero stud to come and rescue her either. SHE was the one who waited till the right moment, fought tooth and nail, and managed to escape.
She also suffered mental and physical tortures that showed how much of a holiday Dushku had in comparison!
I have heard good things about "Wrong Turn 2" though.
Amen to that. Our thoughts on this "film" are pretty similiar.
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Posted: Wed Nov 4th, 2009 04:19 am |
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this is an awesomely scary movie.
i mean it. you watch it and you will be freake dout with fear. it isn't the most scary movie i have watched but for a "road movie" where a nice ordinary family gets lost (and then eaten up), this is the best of its type.
the family looks so ordinary. the ending is so.. surreal. the emotions -- in the end you do not know if the emotions are a recurring dream or if they are regenerated or if the people somehow are stuck in that road waiting to kill the next traveller....
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Posted: Wed Nov 4th, 2009 04:30 am |
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DancesWithWerewolves wrote:
I think the movie's okay. Great Stan Winston FX, but also comes off too polished to be a satisfying B-movie for me. Dusku should've done full frontal, I concur! Of course, I haven't watched the flick in about 3 or 4 years, and I hadn't planned on giving it another watch any time soon.
Yeah, even more time has passed, now even less enthusiastic. Still concur that the Make Up designs were good, but had little else going for it. I gave it a 2/5 just because of good Makeup.
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Posted: Wed Nov 11th, 2009 05:46 pm |
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| I liked the movie. But I hate Jeremy Sisqo (hate him so much I don't care to spell check his name) and I was so happy he died. What really pissed me off is that I rented May the same time. Got to have a jeremy sisqo movie thon
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Posted: Wed Nov 11th, 2009 06:14 pm |
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mikecancu812 wrote: I liked the movie. But I hate Jeremy Sisqo (hate him so much I don't care to spell check his name) and I was so happy he died. What really pissed me off is that I rented May the same time. Got to have a jeremy sisqo movie thon
i don't think you should let your dislike of jeremy sisto turn you away from the movies, particularly may.
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Posted: Thu Nov 12th, 2009 07:09 am |
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| I'm lost on the Jeremy Sisto hate, a lot seem to hate him and I seemed to have missed why somewhere along the line.
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Posted: Sat Nov 14th, 2009 12:04 am |
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I really enjoyed this film. It was no bullshit, no fat on the plot, never irritated me with unnecessary jump-scares, and had an excellent pace.
It promised no more than it delivered, and did so well IMO. Reminds me of the good old days when horror flicks ripped each other off but didn't masquerade as sequels, prequels, or remakes.
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| How does one get in this motw club and what are the rules and regulations. Please message me i like to get in on the MOTW club. Attachment: scarecrow.jpg (Downloaded 10 times)
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Posted: Sat Nov 14th, 2009 05:29 pm |
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TheSkarecrow wrote: How does one get in this motw club and what are the rules and regulations. Please message me i like to get in on the MOTW club.
You just ask to be put into the rotation and pick your movie. And then when it's your week, you do your best to facilitate the discussion.
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