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Captivity - Scathing Reviews for Bitchy People
by k at 3:06 pm EDT, Jul 11, 2007 |
And yes, sure — we have expressed our distaste for torture porn on several occasions on these pages. But Captivity is a new low for what’s already the lowest form of cinematic entertainment. It is the nadir of the subgenre’s short existence. It is everything (everything) that is despicable and vile and offensive about torture porn distilled into 90 minutes of loathsome opprobrium. It’s repellent. Horrid. And thoroughly unpleasant. And I wouldn’t wish the experience of watching it upon anybody. Captivity is a cinematic cesspool where only sick fucking degenerates can get their rocks off, and it’s about as useful as second-hand toilet paper — only, it stinks a whole helluva lot more. ... At a bar, Jennifer’s drink is spiked. A few minutes later, she wakes up in the torturer’s dungeon, which the captor has decorated with things from her apartment. Immediately, the cruel fucking bullshit begins. Jennifer is given the Clockwork Orange treatment — she’s strapped into a chair and made to watch the torture of a previous victim, a woman showered with acid. Acid, people. Acid. Fucking sick deplorable shit. The whole movie makes Saw look like motherfucking My Fair Lady with an industrial metal soundtrack.
Even for Pajiba, this review tops the fury charts. Dustin is really, extremely displeased. |
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RE: Captivity - Scathing Reviews for Bitchy People
by Decius at 4:47 pm EDT, Jul 11, 2007 |
k wrote:
Even for Pajiba, this review tops the fury charts. Dustin is really, extremely displeased.
I have to say, I really haven't found recent horror flicks to be all that interesting. It seems to have started with Blair Witch Project. You're basically just watching people suffer. There is no reason for it. In this case the people are too stupid to follow a river. And the whole thing just makes you uncomfortable. You don't want to turn it off because its scary. You want to turn it off because why would you want to watch someone go through something like that? Its sadistic. That movie with the people left in the ocean in their life preservers is similar. Bad stuff happens to people. Why would you choose to simulate such an experience for entertainment? I'll be happy when this fad declines. |
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RE: Captivity - Scathing Reviews for Bitchy People
by k at 9:14 pm EDT, Jul 11, 2007 |
Decius wrote: k wrote:
Even for Pajiba, this review tops the fury charts. Dustin is really, extremely displeased.
I have to say, I really haven't found recent horror flicks to be all that interesting. It seems to have started with Blair Witch Project. You're basically just watching people suffer. There is no reason for it. In this case the people are too stupid to follow a river. And the whole thing just makes you uncomfortable. You don't want to turn it off because its scary. You want to turn it off because why would you want to watch someone go through something like that? Its sadistic. That movie with the people left in the ocean in their life preservers is similar. Bad stuff happens to people. Why would you choose to simulate such an experience for entertainment? I'll be happy when this fad declines.
Agreed, but some people are that retarded. In the comments to the linked review, one guy mentions that his friends brother, when asked why he's so intent to see the movie replies "Dude, it's a hot chick getting tortured!" I mean, really, I classify that as a mental defect. I guess porn is porn to some people. |
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