Haha, I recently seen the movie. It was in my opinion, probably worth the money.
It was basically a porno for the first 2/5 of the movie. Lots of sexy European Women.
If you have a weak stomach or can’t watch too much blood or gore, this isn’t the movie for you.
-The Truth
[quote]wufwugy wrote:
im betting it’s about as good as Natural Born Killers.
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I LOVE that damn movie.
High Tension is totally a better horror/gore film. Hostel wasn’t what I expected either, there isn’t anything about all the naked chicks in the previews. But, some gore and naked eastern-euro chicks seems to work too. it’s worth seeing.
My girlfriend and I saw Hostel on friday and we just rented High Tension, and I gotta say there is no comparison.
Hostel is a good movie. High tension makes absolutely NO SENSE.
High tension is like a shitty student film where everything is done for “shock value” with no regard for plausability or continuity. Nothing in this film makes sense from begining to end. How did the chick get all banged up if there was only one car? There are so many questions left unanswered in this flick it’s absurd.
I'd go see Hostel again before it leaves the theatre. The scariest part about High tension is the thought of wasting 2hrs of my life I'll never get back.
[quote]WhiteFlash wrote:
High tension is like a shitty student film where everything is done for “shock value” with no regard for plausability or continuity. Nothing in this film makes sense from begining to end. How did the chick get all banged up if there was only one car? There are so many questions left unanswered in this flick it’s absurd.[/quote]
Yes, I agree, but remember it’s probably not supposed to make sense. Remember, it’s French. Half their fucking movies make no sense. They let the high concepts of “art” get in the way of actual plot or continuity.
High Tension is sort of like a porn film - bullshit filler in between scenes of ultrastylized violence. I saw it as an homage to Takashi Miike, another brilliant architect of ultra violence whose films make absolutely no sense. If you don’t believe me check out Ichii the Killer and Izo.
Basically, you’re going to tell me that scene with the cement cutter wasn’t cool?
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I’d go see Hostel again before it leaves the theatre. The scariest part about High tension is the thought of wasting 2hrs of my life I’ll never get back.[/quote]
c’mon man, it wasn’t that bad.
Yes, it was. The violence was even cheesy and didn’t make sense. How can you stick a guys head between a bannister and ram it with a chester drawer and not brake the bannister? I nominate this as one of the stupidest movies ever.
If all you want is a horrible movie with absurd acts of violence go rent The Toxic avenger. All kinds of wacky deaths. At least it’s a cult classic.
[quote]WhiteFlash wrote:
Yes, it was. The violence was even cheesy and didn’t make sense. How can you stick a guys head between a bannister and ram it with a chester drawer and not brake the bannister? I nominate this as one of the stupidest movies ever.
If all you want is a horrible movie with absurd acts of violence go rent The Toxic avenger. All kinds of wacky deaths. At least it’s a cult classic.[/quote]
To be honest, I don’t ponder the physical limitations of death scenes - It was just a really cool visual. LOL Oh well, can’t argue with taste, then.
Toxic Avenger was the shit.
peace
[quote]WhiteFlash wrote:
Yes, it was. The violence was even cheesy and didn’t make sense. How can you stick a guys head between a bannister and ram it with a chester drawer and not brake the bannister? I nominate this as one of the stupidest movies ever.
If all you want is a horrible movie with absurd acts of violence go rent The Toxic avenger. All kinds of wacky deaths. At least it’s a cult classic.[/quote]
Agreed. A lack of a decent story and too many scenes that just didn’t add up. If this was all in the girl’s head, some of the scenes with the killer and the decapitated heads was just thrown in for looks? It was artsy, but not good enough to actually get you involved or to care why things were happening. It isn’t just because they were french either because that movie with the french guy who was in Mission Impossible where he is a professional killer was the shit.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
A lack of a decent story and too many scenes that just didn’t add up. [/quote]
I don’t think the filmmakers cared that much about the plot. The movie revolved around the death scenes. Everything in between was bad filler to move the plot along. The whole bullshit with the girl was some crap they throw in to explain the inevitable sequels. What is so different between that ludicrous ending and the bullshit they pull in the Jason, Freddy, or Michael Myers franchises?
Yes, precisely.
You are correct, this is the movie’s fatal flaw, but seriously, very few horror movies do this - this is not art cinema, it’s a horror flick - the director was more concerned with how to shoot cool death scenes than fleshing out characters that were going to get hacked to death momentarily.
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actually, I’m surprised the French (in their snootiness) would stoop as low as to make a ‘horror film’ - which is what surprised me the most. It seems oh so “American”, if you think about it.
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that movie with the french guy who was in Mission Impossible where he is a professional killer was the shit.[/quote]
“The Professional” - yes, a kick ass movie we can all agree on.
peace
[quote]OARSMAN wrote:
Almost forgot,
you guys want to see a truly sick, gory ass film?
Check out this french flick called “High Tension” - French? yeah. French. Anyway, it blows Hostel out of the water.
peace [/quote]
I enjoeyed it up to the twist…
As far as gore and violence High Tension is better. It’s not so smooth with the story and there is alot of unanswered stuff, but it’s about the violence. If you want to talk about accuracy, in Hostel when he cuts the girls eye off at the end all that yellow stuff comes out. There is nothing like that anywhere in your head, especially there. So these are just movies, it’s about the gore just like porn is about the sex.
I’ve never plugged anyones eye outta their head, so I can’t comment on that.
But I have been in a car accident, and I can speak from experience that in order to have a 2-car pile-up and all of the damage that comes with it one of the cars needs to be real.
[quote]WhiteFlash wrote:
This movie will make you squirm. There are scenes that you’ll feel like you’re about to be tortured, and every time I looked over my girlfriend had her eyes closed. It wasn’t as “spooky” as I’d hoped, but was still a damn fun movie. I’ll say that if you’ve got a weak stomache I’d pass on it.[/quote]
Saw it last night with my girl. Same thing happened with her closing her eyes. She actually got kinda mad at me for watching and laughing while the guy had the torch to the asian chinks face!
I don’t understand fuckin movies like these.
I seriously think that people who go to see movies like these, people that make movies like these, and people that have anything to fuckin do with movies like these should be fuckin killed like they do in these movies. Wouldn’t be so motherfuckin funny or entertaining would it?
You have to be a seriously demented fuck to enjoy shit like this.
And I know some of you motherfuckers are gonna say “well if you don’t like these kind of movies then you don’t have to post in the threads devoted to them.” I saw the title of the thread and thought I’d try to find somebody that didn’t walk out of this movie. And after reading the posts, as far as I can tell, the only one of you with half a brain is wufwugy.
I know its a movie and nobody actually dies but if this kind of shit entertains you and gets you off then maybe you should sit back and really think about whats going on in your head.
[quote]chrismcl wrote:
I don’t understand fuckin movies like these.
I seriously think that people who go to see movies like these, people that make movies like these, and people that have anything to fuckin do with movies like these should be fuckin killed like they do in these movies. Wouldn’t be so motherfuckin funny or entertaining would it?
You have to be a seriously demented fuck to enjoy shit like this.
And I know some of you motherfuckers are gonna say “well if you don’t like these kind of movies then you don’t have to post in the threads devoted to them.” I saw the title of the thread and thought I’d try to find somebody that didn’t walk out of this movie. And after reading the posts, as far as I can tell, the only one of you with half a brain is wufwugy.
I know its a movie and nobody actually dies but if this kind of shit entertains you and gets you off then maybe you should sit back and really think about whats going on in your head.[/quote]
Hey man, I can understand your point - but aren’t you taking this a little too seriously?
Going in we know (well, at least I do) IT’S a movie, and it’s all one big, sick joke. I for one AM disturbed by this shit, because it gives you a glimpse at how low the human psyche can go - and generally do reflect on how fucked up humans can be after watching something like that. The scary part is not that some dreamed this up, but what makes it scary is that it is possible.
Look if this stuff bothers you, don’t watch it, but how does wishing a similar death upon those who watch these movies make you any different from the guy who created it?
[quote]OARSMAN wrote:
Look if this stuff bothers you, don’t watch it, but how does wishing a similar death upon those who watch these movies make you any different from the guy who created it?
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If I came across as saying that I wish the people who like these movies the same death as the people in the movies then I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to insinuate that. If thats what I meant then - you’re correct - I wouldn’t be any different from the guy who created it.
That was basically to the slizzle-dick motherfucker a few posts up that said that he started laughing when the dude put a blow torch to some chicks face. What I was saying is: if you think its so funny/entertaining, lets see if its just as funny/entertaining when its happening to you.
[quote]OARSMAN wrote:
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Look if this stuff bothers you, don’t watch it, but how does wishing a similar death upon those who watch these movies make you any different from the guy who created it?
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The problem is there are sick fucks that take inspiration from this.
It is debateable whether this actually contributes to violence but there is a pile of evidence that says it does.
The problems of a free society.
[quote]Zap Branigan wrote:
OARSMAN wrote:
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Look if this stuff bothers you, don’t watch it, but how does wishing a similar death upon those who watch these movies make you any different from the guy who created it?
The problem is there are sick fucks that take inspiration from this.
It is debateable whether this actually contributes to violence but there is a pile of evidence that says it does.
The problems of a free society.[/quote]
One of the problems with that line of thinking, is ignoring that there are crazy sadistic people out there simply waiting for something to copy. That doesn’t mean the art form created the negative reality, simply that the negative reality was waiting for justification in media. It would either be that or something else. It is much like the person addicted to alcohol. If there was no alcohol, it isn’t like they wouldn’t be addicted to something else anyway.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
One of the problems with that line of thinking, is ignoring that there are crazy sadistic people out there simply waiting for something to copy. That doesn’t mean the art form created the negative reality, simply that the negative reality was waiting for justification in media. It would either be that or something else. It is much like the person addicted to alcohol. If there was no alcohol, it isn’t like they wouldn’t be addicted to something else anyway.[/quote]
I understand this point of view, but the problem is that then this opens the door to censorship and crossing into a grey area that becomes very dangerous and restrictive… so what crosses the line? who decides? what criteria? It would become akin to arguments about virtual kiddie porn that were argued in the Supreme Court a few years back.
I guess my point is that the truly depraved, who would actually do something like this, probably don’t need a movie of this sort to inspire this sort of behavior. I don’t think this is the first movie or other media to explore the topic of torturing/hunting humans just for the ‘rush’ of it (as the American torturer in the film suggested)
[quote]OARSMAN wrote:
Professor X wrote:
One of the problems with that line of thinking, is ignoring that there are crazy sadistic people out there simply waiting for something to copy. That doesn’t mean the art form created the negative reality, simply that the negative reality was waiting for justification in media. It would either be that or something else. It is much like the person addicted to alcohol. If there was no alcohol, it isn’t like they wouldn’t be addicted to something else anyway.
I understand this point of view, but the problem is that then this opens the door to censorship and crossing into a grey area that becomes very dangerous and restrictive… so what crosses the line? who decides? what criteria? It would become akin to arguments about virtual kiddie porn that were argued in the Supreme Court a few years back.
I guess my point is that the truly depraved, who would actually do something like this, probably don’t need a movie of this sort to inspire this sort of behavior. I don’t think this is the first movie or other media to explore the topic of torturing/hunting humans just for the ‘rush’ of it (as the American torturer in the film suggested)
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I agree. My point was more that, if it wasn’t this, they would find some other way to act retarded. Just because someone may copy a movie down the line doesn’t mean we should censor movies. There will always be stupid people. That is why those toilet deoderant tabs have “do not eat” on them. Obviously, some dumb mutherfucker ate one once.