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Old 04-12-2007, 08:33 AM
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I dont see why they dont like it. I found it a decent watch.

Not enjoyable by any stretch of the imagination but yeah, its better than some of the other street trash Hollywood has been peddling lately.

If someone comes to me and says he loves Uwe Boll's movies or the mindless remakes, but hated Hostel, then for me that guy is seriously whacked in the head.
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Old 04-12-2007, 08:44 AM
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I hated this movie and it really lowered my opinion of Roth, whom I was impressed by with Cabin Fever. This movie wasn't as nearly gory or scary as they advertised it to be. Maybe I've been desensitized over the years, but it was really lame.

The characters were completely unlikeable. Having the characters unlikeable is probably the easiest way to lose your audience. The plot was boring and just blah. As for the soft-core porn aspect, it was so forgetable to me that I don't even remember what they showed or didn't show.

Besides, this movie completely ripped off Troma's "Blood Sucking Freaks" (aka the Incredible Torture Show). It's practically the same movie except that it has actually has gore and nudity for 90mins and it's set in a theatre instead of a hostel. It has some humor in it, but it's pretty twisted and all in all a gruesome and relentless movie. I would check this movie out if you thought Hostel was tame.

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Old 04-12-2007, 08:53 AM
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The first part of the movie did it in, actually.

***POSSIBLE SPOILER***

If they didnt concentrate so much on the sex, drugs and partying and tried to make the characters more believable, I think this could have been a more enjoyable movie.

Sadly that was totally overlooked and by the time the tortures started, the audiences had de-linked themselves from the characters and it went nowhere. The second half is pretty enjoyable actually.

If only the first part wasnt so fucked up, it would have been a helluva movie.
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Old 04-12-2007, 09:00 AM
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Personally I was really looking forwards to "Hostel" when I heard about it and I saw the trailer and thought it looked awesome.

But after watching the film I was so disappointed - it could have been done so much better and, for some reason I was a little bit sickened by the idea of it all. I'm not sure why, it wasn't the gore or the torure as I have seen much worse. And I think tits and a bit of gore go well in a slasher-type horror film, but the way Roth did it really didn't work for me. Sometimes it nice to watch a "tongue in cheek" kind of horror but this was awful.

It has put me off a bit of his other films as I've not seen "Cabin Fever" and am likely not to after such a disappointing reaction to "Hostel".

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Old 04-12-2007, 10:48 AM
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fear dot com is not better it is shit ---a cop doesn't know there are bugs in his bed get real
and house of wax remake was shit too i explained in this thread
and Hostel i don't even remember the "porn" parts i remember the parts with the gore and trying to escape
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Old 04-12-2007, 09:56 PM
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I didnt hate Hostel, but I didnt like it too much either. The film loses its way more than once and thats what makes it a one-watch film. I suppose they wanted doses of reality in it, but the surrealism took the film nowhere else but down.
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Old 04-13-2007, 04:35 AM
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and Hostel i don't even remember the "porn" parts i remember the parts with the gore and trying to escape

How the hell do you not remember the "porn" parts - did you black out for the first hour of the film then and wake up near the end??????!!!! :confused:

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Since I didn't see the movie and have no inclination to ever see it , I feel I am in a perfect position to give my expert and overblown opinion on the subject.
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Old 04-13-2007, 06:51 AM
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Besides, this movie completely ripped off Troma's "Blood Sucking Freaks" (aka the Incredible Torture Show). It's practically the same movie except that it has actually has gore and nudity for 90mins and it's set in a theatre instead of a hostel. It has some humor in it, but it's pretty twisted and all in all a gruesome and relentless movie. I would check this movie out if you thought Hostel was tame
I think that's a lot of an exaggeration.
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Old 04-14-2007, 02:27 PM
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How the hell do you not remember the "porn" parts - did you black out for the first hour of the film then and wake up near the end??????!!!! :confused:
i remember a treesome in the begining and i think a girl with a whip then the girls in the hostel but it wasn't graphic porn is a lot more than some tit shots
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