[Nov. 25th, 2006|05:19 am]
i just wrote my weekly email to my parents. it was enjoyable, i wrote about thanksgiving and horror movies. i feel like that might be the topic of this email. movies.
in the past week i've watched:
The Little Mermaid.
Mission Impossible 3.
Brokeback Mountain.
Hostel.
Jarhead.
For Your Consideration
Katie loaned me Hostel a while ago, and i have been meaning to see it. so the night before thanksgiving, i turned out all the lights, popped in the movie, and prepared to scare myself witless. it was gross. gross gross. i had a pillow ready to cover my eyes pretty much through the film. which is saying a lot because i do not freak out easy. it was one of the most graphic films i've ever seen. i feel however that they could have taken that gore and given it more of a plot. if you're going to spend that much time on effects there should at least be some kind of plot. i was pleasently surprized by the cast, reletively unknown and the europeans were indeed not american. Jay Hernandez is utterly beautiful. but there's not too much American-movie-glamour, he's puking all over himself in fear and gathering up his disembodied fingers...he's still hot, but it's realistic. also there was an element of 'hey-ho-America!' which i wasn't too keen on. like these 'elite hunting' people have managed to arrange hundreads of murders for money, and this one kind of reckless kid from california manages to shoot out and out wit all these big wig european pyschos.!? i don't think so. he really was fucked. there was no way his plans would have worked.
however, i can't praise the gore enough. i like it when the character his having a homoerotically inclined german put a drill through his shoulder joints and we see it, we see the drill break flesh, we see him spewing, fetid green vomit all over his emaciated american dork body and crying, and then when the drill is retracted we get to see strings of his bloody muscle tissue clinging to the bit. it's great. like when hernandez's character is being tortured we see him weeping like a little girl as a skinny german [are most of the people who want to torturously murder americans german? i wonder why that would be? is mr. eli roth cough*jew*cough trying to say something about germans?] we then see his own fetid puke squirting out of the sides of his ball gag, which is exactly what happens if you puke wearing a ball gag, and you'd know that if you'd ever invested any of your time in watching serious, fetish porn. anyway, when he manages to get his fingers sliched off by the demented deustche with the chainsaw, [it's kind of a miricle it's his fingers and not like a leg...]we see the metal cleave his hand, we see the fingers fall to the grubby floor, and in a manner not entirely typical of tarentino [on prodcution, surprized? nah.] a very modest and realistic amount of blood issues from the wound. somehow, and i am not entirely clear on this part, and i feel like might watch it again to get it straight in my head, he manages to get the german to back away, he then, get this slips on hernandez's fingers. what the fuck. this dude slices of the victims' ring and pinky finger, the kid is cuffed to a chair, which is nailed to the ground, so he's not exactly bouncing around the room, and then erich von genuis slips in the bloody fingers his just chopped off.
all the while the whole scene is filled with the inherent buzzing of the chainsaw, a la leatherface, jay hernandez's unearthly screams, and various sounds of tourists being massacred by various creative means. so once, he's down, his own chain saw hacks off his own leg. and please buh-lieve we see it. we see the metal contact with the leg, we hear his deranged screams as he hacks of his own leg. it's fabulous. and then we watch him shudder and judder and eventually begin to drag himself toward something, crawling for help, or for some maniacally inventive device which now the newly delegged red baron will use to kill the comparatively able-bodied american? who can tell? it's tartentino. but before he can manage, el americano manages to rock the chair suffiecently to get the nails out of the concrete ground and get his bloody mitt on a gun. and pops the german off between the eyes, true california style. [we're told in an interesting scene later that shooting is so 'fucking american' , which is so true, our lead man shoot A LOT, and he survives, perhaps a testiment to USA uber alles?]
yeah, i couldn't resist, it's a great, it's heart breaking in some parts, lead character hiding amoungst rotting corpses, and see the body of his brutally murdered buddy [ a character i felt strangely a kin to, he was so cautious, such a bloody (haha, pardon the pun) worry wart, and still gets' iced.] also, the scene where hernandez saves the japanese girl, undergoing some rather petulent "eye surgery", and his moral [moral - read - american] desire to help people takes him away from reletive freedom and back into hell to save her.
overall. good movie.
worth time. and potentail nightmares, mostly about germans. but everyone gets their cumupance at the end...soo....
i just wrote my weekly email to my parents. it was enjoyable, i wrote about thanksgiving and horror movies. i feel like that might be the topic of this email. movies.
in the past week i've watched:
The Little Mermaid.
Mission Impossible 3.
Brokeback Mountain.
Hostel.
Jarhead.
For Your Consideration
Katie loaned me Hostel a while ago, and i have been meaning to see it. so the night before thanksgiving, i turned out all the lights, popped in the movie, and prepared to scare myself witless. it was gross. gross gross. i had a pillow ready to cover my eyes pretty much through the film. which is saying a lot because i do not freak out easy. it was one of the most graphic films i've ever seen. i feel however that they could have taken that gore and given it more of a plot. if you're going to spend that much time on effects there should at least be some kind of plot. i was pleasently surprized by the cast, reletively unknown and the europeans were indeed not american. Jay Hernandez is utterly beautiful. but there's not too much American-movie-glamour, he's puking all over himself in fear and gathering up his disembodied fingers...he's still hot, but it's realistic. also there was an element of 'hey-ho-America!' which i wasn't too keen on. like these 'elite hunting' people have managed to arrange hundreads of murders for money, and this one kind of reckless kid from california manages to shoot out and out wit all these big wig european pyschos.!? i don't think so. he really was fucked. there was no way his plans would have worked.
however, i can't praise the gore enough. i like it when the character his having a homoerotically inclined german put a drill through his shoulder joints and we see it, we see the drill break flesh, we see him spewing, fetid green vomit all over his emaciated american dork body and crying, and then when the drill is retracted we get to see strings of his bloody muscle tissue clinging to the bit. it's great. like when hernandez's character is being tortured we see him weeping like a little girl as a skinny german [are most of the people who want to torturously murder americans german? i wonder why that would be? is mr. eli roth cough*jew*cough trying to say something about germans?] we then see his own fetid puke squirting out of the sides of his ball gag, which is exactly what happens if you puke wearing a ball gag, and you'd know that if you'd ever invested any of your time in watching serious, fetish porn. anyway, when he manages to get his fingers sliched off by the demented deustche with the chainsaw, [it's kind of a miricle it's his fingers and not like a leg...]we see the metal cleave his hand, we see the fingers fall to the grubby floor, and in a manner not entirely typical of tarentino [on prodcution, surprized? nah.] a very modest and realistic amount of blood issues from the wound. somehow, and i am not entirely clear on this part, and i feel like might watch it again to get it straight in my head, he manages to get the german to back away, he then, get this slips on hernandez's fingers. what the fuck. this dude slices of the victims' ring and pinky finger, the kid is cuffed to a chair, which is nailed to the ground, so he's not exactly bouncing around the room, and then erich von genuis slips in the bloody fingers his just chopped off.
all the while the whole scene is filled with the inherent buzzing of the chainsaw, a la leatherface, jay hernandez's unearthly screams, and various sounds of tourists being massacred by various creative means. so once, he's down, his own chain saw hacks off his own leg. and please buh-lieve we see it. we see the metal contact with the leg, we hear his deranged screams as he hacks of his own leg. it's fabulous. and then we watch him shudder and judder and eventually begin to drag himself toward something, crawling for help, or for some maniacally inventive device which now the newly delegged red baron will use to kill the comparatively able-bodied american? who can tell? it's tartentino. but before he can manage, el americano manages to rock the chair suffiecently to get the nails out of the concrete ground and get his bloody mitt on a gun. and pops the german off between the eyes, true california style. [we're told in an interesting scene later that shooting is so 'fucking american' , which is so true, our lead man shoot A LOT, and he survives, perhaps a testiment to USA uber alles?]
yeah, i couldn't resist, it's a great, it's heart breaking in some parts, lead character hiding amoungst rotting corpses, and see the body of his brutally murdered buddy [ a character i felt strangely a kin to, he was so cautious, such a bloody (haha, pardon the pun) worry wart, and still gets' iced.] also, the scene where hernandez saves the japanese girl, undergoing some rather petulent "eye surgery", and his moral [moral - read - american] desire to help people takes him away from reletive freedom and back into hell to save her.
overall. good movie.
worth time. and potentail nightmares, mostly about germans. but everyone gets their cumupance at the end...soo....