Hostel: Part II

[Mizzougrad96]

Just saw it...

All I have to say is Holy ****ing ****...

 

[BRoth]

I've seen all the Saw movies and watched the first Hostel online (mostly because I didn't want to pay to see that kind of stuff) and aside from the horrible torture, there really wasn't much else there. I've always loved horror movies, but those are a special kind of breed.

This was easily Eli Roth's best work:

 

[zimbabwe]

I honestly cannot fathom the kind of sensibility that would voluntarily watch stylized depictions of torture.

 

[poindexter]

When did snuff films go mainstream? Why?

 

[Mizzougrad96]

I think we've been de-sensitized to the point that it takes a movie like Saw or Hostel to really scare us anymore...

 

[Sxysprtswrtr]

I think we've been de-sensitized to the point that it takes a movie like Saw or Hostel to really scare us anymore...

Saw Hostel last week so I could go see Hostel II in the theater.

So, Part II that good? :)

 

[Simon_Cowbell]

Just saw it...

All I have to say is Holy ****ing ****...

Little clarity, sir.

Your call here (we are pretty damned close in our TV/movie entertainment tastes) may determine whether I give even a second thought to going to this.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

It's more violent and the ending will have jaws on the floor... I thought the first one was scarier only because I had no idea it was going to get that violent and graphic...

I can watch the chainsaw scene in Scarface or the ear scene in Reservoir Dogs without blinking, but I had to look away from the screen more than once...

 

[ADifferentOkie]

I thought the first one was absolute crap. Take out the torture, and you've got a terrible, terrible movie. Even the torture was just poorly done, I thought. Poor effects and really, I didn't find it all that cringe-worthy.
I'll take the Saw films over at least the first Hostel any day.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

It's the kind of movie that's tough to recommend...

I couldn't take my eyes off the screen. It scared the **** out of me. It disturbed the hell out of me. My friends and I who went to the premiere last night can't stop talking about it...

Take that for what it's worth...

 

[Mizzougrad96]

I'll be curious how this movie does against Oceans 13 this weekend...

 

[Chef]

I have a thing about seeing anything that involves Quentin Tarantino....

That said.......is it any more graphic than Saw?

 

[Mizzougrad96]

One of the final scenes is much more disturbing than anything in Saw.

As a whole, Saw was probably scarier...

 

[Chef]

OK......more disturbing final scene.......Hostel or Seven?

 

[Simon_Cowbell]

OK......more disturbing final scene.......Hostel or Seven?

Seven is almost all implied, though, isn't it?

 

[ADifferentOkie]

OK......more disturbing final scene.......Hostel or Seven?

Seven is so much better as a film, it's not even funny.
But there's no question Hostel is way more graphic.

 

[CaliforniaRed]

Hostel was disturbing. That's about all I could say about it. I will not be going to see Part 2, nor renting it (as was the case with the original).

 

[Bucknutty]

Honestly, I have no desire to see this flick. I think we've gone past the point of simply trying to scare people. Instead, we're trying to disgust them with horrible, horrible ultra-violence. To me, that's not much of a movie.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

Se7en is one of my favorite movies ever... I remember practically screaming when we found out that Gwyneth's head was in the box...

But they never show it. That's part of what makes David Fincher one of the best directors working...

You can't compare Hostel to Se7en. I know Brad Pitt wasn't as big as he is now, but you're talking about a movie with three Oscar winners (Freeman, Paltrow and Spacey) and arguably the biggest movie star around (Pitt).

The first Hostel was made for $3.8 million. Saw was made for $1 mil. Both were huge hits.

 

[JR]

Hostel was a Grade A piece of crap.