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House (2008)
As if the movie itself wasn't terrible enough...
This movie is not what it seems. For those of you out there who enjoy horror movies, good or bad, you may stumble upon this one and think it looks quite humorous. I admit when i saw the poster with that ridiculous sigil of baphomet I got VERY excited. I thought there was going to be satanic blood orgies like in a Jess Franco movie. The subsequent 90 minutes proved to be quite the contrary.
The movie attempts to start out on a bang, but if you've ever watched a horror movie before than you'll feel it's pretty bland. From there it takes us on a trip with a struggling couple. The husband, an unpublished writer, and the wife, an unsigned country singer. These are immediately two people i couldn't care less about. After we get to know them and their situation a tiny bit the couple get a flat tire and have to make there way to a phone. The believe they've found one when the come across a large house that is now used as an inn.
I could continue but from there an already terrible movie just plummets southward. We get to deal with at least 20 minutes of boring, flashback filled, minutes of the characters dark pasts whilst they try to escape the house they've suddenly been imprisoned within.
I could go on and on about how everything they tried to do hear has been done before and with much greater results. As a horror movie alone this movie is dreadful, but what really pushes it over the edge is the ending.
Now the whole way through this movie, if you bring yourself to watch it, you'll find it rather hard to understand why it's even rated R. It does NOT contain adult language, sexuality/nudity, or even any graphic violence. This is when things really start to dawn on you, and as the movie unfolds you'll realize you've been duped. This is NOT in any way the movie you thought you were going to see. This is a religious film, it may as well have Kirk Cameron in it. The underlying message is painfully obvious. This movie was a trick devised by a religious group to get all of us blood and guts loving sinners to see the error of our ways.
I was disgusted, offended, and downright angry when i left the theater.
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
what the-!?
i just saw this movie today and i am totally upset about the beginning. in the first ten minutes of Saving Private Ryan there is more blood, violence,and gore of which are all terribly graphic. i am not against violence in movies because i love films that are hailed as violent films like A Clockwork Orange and Reservoir Dogs. but no one hailed Saving Private Ryan as a violent film its called a masterpiece. and i am bothered by this. they showed more bloody/gory violence in it than i have ever seen before. it makes the most violent movies i've ever seen look like kid movies.
don't get me wrong i thought that it was an o.k. movie but the plot was stupid and only there so Spielberg could make a bunch of long, violent, and dramatic WW2 battle scenes. Seriously, the US government would never risk a bunch of lives so that a women could not have every one of her sons die. it's just not likely.
now i know that the movie was trying to be realistic but i think they went to far. and the drops of blood on the screen itself is disgusting. Spielberg, as usual, messed up again.