Roth on HOSTEL and FEVER 2

Its nice to see Roth's work pay off. Cabin fever is very interesting and fun to watch, but I didn't like the end. I guess there was no other way to end it eccept with a cheap punch line. It still had me laughing.
looking at Roth's pic above makes me think he should be the new Joker for Batman.

Hostel is exactly what theater goers need to watch right now. It is the perfect Christmas movie, I dont know why it wasnt released around the holidays, its perfect.

Roth sounds delusional. Hostel looks demented. No amount of polls will ever convince me that violence in movies translates to violence in real life but enough is enough, we DONT NEED a movie like HOSTEL and I for one wont be watching.

mckracken saw DEAD ALIVE 10 years ago and said Peter Jackson is demented and zombie movies are dumb

mckracken whats your favorite Elmo video? or are you into the Olson twins?

why DV? Cause I stood up and said what I felt? I said ENOUGH is ENOUGH!
damn asswipe, I saw the Hostel trailer and I know that I dont need or want to see this crap and that make me a fucking target for your preschool Elmo Olson barbs? You know where you can go.

And for the record, I LOVE Zombie movies, Dead Alive being a steadfast favorite, Jackson and Raimi used GREAT horror vehicles to launch their own careers.

if Hostel was a zombie flick, then I'd be buying tickets, but it isnt a zombie flick is it?

Hostel doesnt look like those movies, it appears VERY sadistic. Sadistic just for the sake of being sadistic, why? Only because Eli Roth wants to be a household name like his buddy Quentin Tarantino by doing a movie that is so over the top, it gets him noticed. (overly sick, sadistic movies I can do without)...kinda like lighting yourself or others on fire with gasoline so that you're insured your 15 minutes of fame.

Mckracken, while I totally respect your feelings on this film and others of it's like, (whatever that may mean), if you haven't seen it you don't have the whole picture. Sure the trailer paints a pretty sadistic picture, but 15-20 seconds of film intercut with narration doesn't really give you enough to go on. Especially when your declaring rather deliberately "We don't need a movie like Hostel". The collective "we" is the only real problem here. You can't make those kinds of declarations for others. And I'm not sure what you mean by "enough is enough either". Most of the horror movies that have come out lately have been practically gore free and rated PG-13.

McKracken don't sweat DV, he always does that bullshit. Trolling for repsonses to stupid lines.

Cabin Fever SUCKS major, I have hope for hostel though.

In fact, the only really gory films I can remember being released over the past year, are the Devil's Rejects, High Tension, and to a lesser extent gore wise Saw 2. I haven't seen Wolf Creek, and rarely do I bother with the PG-13 "horror". High Tension was actually pretty compelling up until the ridiculous "twist" in the last ten minutes, (which ultimately killed the entire experience). Up to that point it had me gripping the edges of my seat until my knuckles hurt. Yeah, it was "sadistic", but that's part of what made it effective. No punches were pulled. It's Art, and as we all know art is nothing if not subjective.

Also, since we're dealing with your assessment of a trailer and not a complete film: How many times have you seen a trailer for something, eventually gone to see the film, and then realized with some irritation that all of the best stuff was in the trailer? Similarly it's often common to see things in trailers that don't wind up in the films once their finished. If absoloutely nothing else can console you, consider that the studio was honest enough to clearly display this so called "sadism" in the trailer, and leave it to the audience to decide whether to take it or leave it.

You know, i totally had high hopes for Cabin Fever and I thought it just wasn't very entertaining. Looked like something that would be played on the old USA "Up All Night" show with the rest of the D horror movies. Speakin' of horror movies, how come they all have to be PG13 nowadays? dvdemon78......he kinda does look like the Joker (not to get off topic), but I always thought that Keifer Sutherland would make a good Joker. He has that evil smirk and kinda looks like the paintings Alex Ross does of the Joker.

If this kind of thing is not your cup of tea, cool but the movie is rated R. It's not for kids, and any adult that sees it will either be mature enough to handle it, or too stupid for me to care about. You're right movies and violence have nothing to do with each other. Video games and movies have gotten consistantly more violent for decades, as the violent crime rate among youth has decreased. This movie is made for a specific audience, and those people know who they are. If somebody happens to stumble into it without knowing what they're in for, that's life. They should read a review or visit a website, so somebody like you can tell them what to think. State your opinion man, and don't be shy, but don't pretend that you speak for everybody. And for the love of all things logical, if you're going to get up in arms over something, this is a pretty weak issue. It's the kind of thing that crying mothers use to ease their guilt when they have to face the fact that little timmy really did shoot all of his classmates, but they can't accept the sad truth that it was their responsibility and that their lack of involvement is the real problem, not what album the kid listened to, what movie he saw, or what game he played.
The witchhunt changes every few years, but people are
never going to accept responsibility for their own failures.
People are eating shrapnel for breakfast and keeling over from starvation and poverty on a massive scale every day in the world. I don't think gory movies really mean a thing when you put things in perspective.

Besides most of the really gory, "sadistic" stuff stays in the cutting room until the studio can cash in on an uncut edition after everybody has already bought the damned thing once already...