City of Lost Children
You know, sometimes when you're watching a movie the only thing you can really do is just stare at the screen in almost constant shock and wonder to yourself what sort of fucked up, drugged out mind came up with this.
I loved this movie. It was so fucking weird, a story and characters that seem right out of a children's fairy tale, and yet so dark and twisted only adults could probably watch it. I could own this, I'd watch this again.
Hostel is playing free on demand now, too. Debating with myself whether or not I want to watch it now while it will cost me neither money nor effort. I haven't seen it yet for a reason, I didn't think I would like it, it looked like an over bloated piece of crap to me. But yet, as the consummate horror fan that I am, do I perhaps have an obligation to see a movie that a lot of people have talked about? Even if just to see what it is being talked about? To be able to weigh in on it myself? But oh man, have I seen some shitty movies this way.
The one draw would be getting to see how violent and disgusting this movie actually is. I've seen most of the OMG sooo gross movies that have come out in the last few years and I refute every single one of them. Well, Grindhouse had a few genuinely disgusting moments but not enough people saw that movie to really be talking about it (stupid country, that was a good movie, the horror fans should have been out supporting that one instead of garbage like The Hills Have Eyes, that first movie sucked enough it didn't need a sequel; sometimes I really hate my own kind). I'd be interested to see if I can cross this one off the list, too. Or, when I'm making my "This country hasn't made a graphically violent horror movie since 1995 despite what the media says" argument and someone brings this one up, I can either argue against it from a point of knowledge or make the concession, instead of just saying I haven't seen it.
Decisions, decisions. :-P
I loved this movie. It was so fucking weird, a story and characters that seem right out of a children's fairy tale, and yet so dark and twisted only adults could probably watch it. I could own this, I'd watch this again.
Hostel is playing free on demand now, too. Debating with myself whether or not I want to watch it now while it will cost me neither money nor effort. I haven't seen it yet for a reason, I didn't think I would like it, it looked like an over bloated piece of crap to me. But yet, as the consummate horror fan that I am, do I perhaps have an obligation to see a movie that a lot of people have talked about? Even if just to see what it is being talked about? To be able to weigh in on it myself? But oh man, have I seen some shitty movies this way.
The one draw would be getting to see how violent and disgusting this movie actually is. I've seen most of the OMG sooo gross movies that have come out in the last few years and I refute every single one of them. Well, Grindhouse had a few genuinely disgusting moments but not enough people saw that movie to really be talking about it (stupid country, that was a good movie, the horror fans should have been out supporting that one instead of garbage like The Hills Have Eyes, that first movie sucked enough it didn't need a sequel; sometimes I really hate my own kind). I'd be interested to see if I can cross this one off the list, too. Or, when I'm making my "This country hasn't made a graphically violent horror movie since 1995 despite what the media says" argument and someone brings this one up, I can either argue against it from a point of knowledge or make the concession, instead of just saying I haven't seen it.
Decisions, decisions. :-P