All very interesting opinions.
Saw I, was definitely the best out of all films being discussed.
However, Hostel I is definitely a good film. It captured, well, some gruesome cringe worthy moments. Much closer to my ideas of gore horror than other iterations. Of course, it falls very short, on the whole, it was still good. I look up to Eli Roth and I hope I have the honor of meeting him one day and possibly consult with him on my own horror script. Despite all of the criticism he is receiving, he is doing something right because you guys still watched his film/s. 😐 AHA!
I think SAW gets a lot of flak from having shitty sequels, IMO, SAW is a very good horror/thriller movie. It has the gross out moments, but you can really tell from watching it that the gore wasn't the main point... The same can't be said for the sequels.
Hostel however really didn't have that great of a storyline and was more about the shock value and how far it could push the audience's limits. I haven't seen Hostel 2 but I imagine it's pretty much the same as the first, just different characters.
Originally posted by MildPossession
I watch all Uwe Boll's films, doesn't mean he is doing something right. 😛
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FOR REAL!?!?!?!
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I admit, thoug, that I've seen both BloodRayne films and they both were rather sucky films. Very sucky. 🙁 Other than that, I haven't seen any of his other films. Fer realz.
But, if you keep watching them, that means he's doing something right as you keep coming back. 😉
Originally posted by MildPossession
I don't mind Eli Roth as a director or actor, but not a fan of him when it comes to his script writing.
Cool. I am a fan. Not a big fan, but a fan to some degree. It's more like...he has done well enough. Well enough that I'd like to meet him and run my ideas past him.
Saw seemed to me like that stupid game you play with your brother when your a kid. The one where you would pretend to shoot your brother with an invisible gun, he would fall to the fall and pop up a few seconds later and say "you didn't get me, I had an invisible force field up." Each of the movies is like a "you didnt know this because this really didn't happen like that." But most of it just seems tacked on just to appear smart.
Originally posted by HueyFreemantruth, saw has never really scared me, but I had nightmares the first time I saw Hostel
Saw seemed to me like that stupid game you play with your brother when your a kid. The one where you would pretend to shoot your brother with an invisible gun, he would fall to the fall and pop up a few seconds later and say "you didn't get me, I had an invisible force field up." Each of the movies is like a "you didnt know this because this really didn't happen like that." But most of it just seems tacked on just to appear smart.