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I understand, and can even appreciate, what Roth was trying to do with Hostel. Unfortunately, as others have said, he failed. It was clumsy, and not all that effective. The last few minutes was pretty damn good, the first half was sex over substance. He took on too much, he is just not a good enough filmmaker to make the film I think he honestly wanted to make. He aimed too high. I actually prefer Cabin Fever, because it was just goofy fun. It wasn't really trying to be anything other than that. I much prefer to watch a movie that aims low, and at least kind of hits the mark than to watch a film that aims high and so completely misses the mark.
I felt the same way about Saw and High Tension (and Wolf Creek actually, which I found to be just BORING as hell), all movies where the people involved seemed to think the film was more clever, or better, than it actually was. Well, in my opinion anyway.
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