Forum Overview :: Peter Molyneux's The Movies
 
Three and a half years later... by Fussbett 06/20/2009, 8:25am PDT
This video clip started a inspired a whole thread on Qt3:



...with the OP suggesting that God of War has finally gone too far, and how he's "no sissy, BUT..." he's "creeped the fuck out."

Start-to-Hostel: 3 posts
Start-to-Saw: 95 posts
Start-to-Person-Thinking-They're-Clever/Fresh-for-Saying-"Torture Porn": 177 posts

Hostel is still the Qt3 high water mark for the most indefensible shit you can possibly imagine, as imagined by people who clearly haven't seen it. Do we really want to allow video games to sink as low as the worst movie ever, Hostel? Who will draw the line?

Hey, here's Sam Jones to teach us some things about horror movies. You may be surprised to learn that horror movies were better IN THE OLD DAYS:

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I used to be very into 80s gore movies when I was a teenager, but the fashion over the last few years for films like Hostel, with very realistic, sadistic violence turns me right off. I'm no prude, but there's something just really nasty at the heart of these sorts of films that goes beyond the kind of "fantasy" horror and gore I grew up with.

Yeah, remember the 80's when horror films were just good-natured wholesome times? Barely any violence at all. And for some reason you liked them as a teenager but you don't like them now? Jason Cross remembers!

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This is a side note, but I am kind of saddened by the idea that Gore Porn has become the accepted modern description of "horror." I don't find those movies at all scary, and they just keep upping the ante in gruesome ways of watching people be tortured and die. They're grossout films, meant to "shock" you with the horrible depictions of violence, but who's actually scared by them? But that's what passes for Horror in movies these days. Sigh.

Remember when horror movies didn't have over the top gore in them? They were really scary back then, not like now. Dracula and Frankenstein and shit! Boo! When I was a CHILD, I was scared by all kinds of horror movies, but now that I'm an ADULT, for some reason I'm just not scared by horror movies. When will someone make a horror movie about taxes or a man having a midlife crisis? That's what is real terror, and you don't need gore to do it.

Anyway, whoever came up with the marketing campaign for Hostel should win some sort of movie hype lifetime achievement award for forever creating the most horrible nightmares in the minds tsking nerd adults.
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HOSTEL IS GOOD by Fussbett 01/11/2006, 3:21am PST NEW
    BONUS: Cabin Fever review from a text file on my hard drive. by Fussbett 01/11/2006, 3:30am PST NEW
        Re: BONUS: Cabin Fever review from a text file on my hard drive. by Bokonon (without the sordid past) 01/16/2006, 8:24am PST NEW
            Re: BONUS: Cabin Fever review from a text file on my hard drive. by spook 01/17/2006, 4:59pm PST NEW
    Qt3 weighs in... by Fussbett 01/14/2006, 4:21pm PST NEW
        I wonder if they even realize by Fabsy 01/15/2006, 8:29am PST NEW
        ...and Fussbett whines. "You all didn't even see it, how could YOU know" ;-; by Bill Dungsroman 01/15/2006, 6:53pm PST NEW
            Whining about a thread about whining by Fussbett 01/15/2006, 8:34pm PST NEW
                Re: Whining about a thread about whining by Bill Dungsroman 01/15/2006, 11:41pm PST NEW
                    Re: Whining about a thread about whining by I need clarification 01/16/2006, 3:09pm PST NEW
                    Re: Whining about a thread about whining by Fussbett 01/17/2006, 1:15am PST NEW
                    I hope no one's crowns get soiled here. NT by Creexul :( 01/17/2006, 3:11am PST NEW
            Uninspired idiots by Souffle of Pain 01/15/2006, 8:36pm PST NEW
            Bill, this is your INTAR-net friend talking by Kabuke 01/16/2006, 6:24am PST NEW
            Re: ...and Fussbett whines. "You all didn't even see it, how could YOU know" ;-; by Quentin Beck 01/16/2006, 3:03pm PST NEW
        Three years later. by Fussbett 02/23/2009, 9:41am PST NEW
            I watch people die for a living. You could say I'm a pretty tough guy. NT by BDR 02/23/2009, 10:29am PST NEW
            Swatting flies vs. tearing their wings off? by FABIO 02/23/2009, 8:47pm PST NEW
                Although Marathon Man was a thriller not a horror movie. O_O by Creexuls, a monster >:3 02/23/2009, 8:54pm PST NEW
                The body count in Hostel is also extremely low compared to slashers by Fussbett 02/24/2009, 8:58am PST NEW
                    pretty much every surgery channel original movie NT by gruman 02/24/2009, 11:22am PST NEW
                    The correct answer is that all horror movies are awful. Except The Thing. NT by E. L. Koba 02/24/2009, 11:33am PST NEW
                        and they are only enjoyed "ironically" for the "cheese factor" (except for The T NT by Weyoun Voidbringer 02/24/2009, 12:59pm PST NEW
                        Jacob's Ladder was good. by Mischief Maker 02/24/2009, 3:50pm PST NEW
                    We can also add Taken to the torture scene list. Taken is a lot of fun, BTW. NT by Fussbett 03/19/2009, 11:01am PDT NEW
                        Republican buhs conservative fantasy. by Creexuls, a monster >:3 03/19/2009, 11:06am PDT NEW
            Three and a half years later... by Fussbett 06/20/2009, 8:25am PDT NEW
                sko Faustian bargain by Ray of Light 06/20/2009, 10:22am PDT NEW
                I wonder what they think of the original Last House on the Left NT by FABIO 06/20/2009, 12:30pm PDT NEW
                    Or 100 other 70s/80s splatter/gore/rape-revenge movies they think don't exist NT by Fussbett 06/20/2009, 1:33pm PDT NEW
                        Hey, Friday the 13th did it with compassion. by Mischief Maker 06/20/2009, 1:59pm PDT NEW
                A New Record! by Fussbett 07/27/2009, 4:30pm PDT NEW
                Another sighting by Fussbett 07/29/2009, 1:19pm PDT NEW
            Onion AV Club invents new way to describe recent horror movies. by Last 02/10/2010, 1:25pm PST NEW
    Your credit is good enough... by Pompei 01/14/2006, 6:25pm PST NEW
    "Well! I never!" NT by Quarter to Three FAHHHHGOTS 01/14/2006, 7:14pm PST NEW
    Screenit.com once again proves to be a wonderful resource. by Fullofkittens 01/15/2006, 2:06pm PST NEW
        Really thought they were talking about the filmmakers for a minute NT by The Happiness Engine 01/15/2006, 8:50pm PST NEW
    20 more posts and this becomes a place for Important Discussions NT by Colonel Schickn 01/17/2006, 1:29pm PST NEW
        38 posts may be big time action for you hicks NT by BD HAR HAR HARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR 01/17/2006, 4:28pm PST NEW
    Re: HOSTEL IS GOOD by Ice Cream Jonsey 04/29/2006, 1:02am PDT NEW
        Re: HOSTEL IS GOOD by Fussbett 04/29/2006, 1:15am PDT NEW
            Re: HOSTEL IS GOOD by Fullofkittens 04/29/2006, 8:01am PDT NEW
                Catch me if I'm wrong... by Cannibal Dave 04/29/2006, 9:13am PDT NEW
                    New guy is right NT by Fussbett 04/29/2006, 2:35pm PDT NEW
                        Something else I loved about Hostel - spoilers! by Ice Cream Jonsey 04/29/2006, 4:50pm PDT NEW
 
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