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Old 10-01-2018, 10:53 AM   #1
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Maybe I'll give Funny Games another shot someday, the first time I just couldn't 'get' what was supposed to be so disturbing.

Maybe I'm too focused on things like A Serbian Film being what I define as disturbing, I donut know. I just couldn't get past someone being intimated by a golf club and doing nothing the entire film to fight for their life. If it was made in the 70s, before slashers became rampant, I'd probably be more lenient...someday I might give it another watch.

I did hate Eyes Wide Shut the first time I watched it and now I think it's more brilliant upon every viewing.
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Old 10-01-2018, 11:22 AM   #2
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Maybe I'll give Funny Games another shot someday, the first time I just couldn't 'get' what was supposed to be so disturbing.

Maybe I'm too focused on things like A Serbian Film being what I define as disturbing, I donut know. I just couldn't get past someone being intimated by a golf club and doing nothing the entire film to fight for their life. If it was made in the 70s, before slashers became rampant, I'd probably be more lenient...someday I might give it another watch.

I did hate Eyes Wide Shut the first time I watched it and now I think it's more brilliant upon every viewing.


This is why it's more of an anti sensationalist film than a horror. It blatantly provokes anger with no reward.
Ask yourself why? To make a formulaic plot? Unlikely. It's to make you wonder why violence in some films seems so enjoyable and easy.

Also there are people in the world who just freeze up and do nothing to protect themselves in these situations so the golf club situation is pretty believable to me.
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Old 10-01-2018, 02:49 PM   #3
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It blatantly provokes anger with no reward.
Hate when a movie does this. Have some dickheads go around murdering people with no payoff.

I want to see my villains get theirs.

On that note, I am reading the manga wolfsmund, and it has the best comeuppance for villain I've just about ever seen.

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Gets tied down naked, and then has a giant stake hammered into his anus all the way through his mouth. Stake is then hammered into the ground for all to see.
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Hate when a movie does this. Have some dickheads go around murdering people with no payoff.

I want to see my villains get theirs.


That's precisely why it baffles me that people keep reworking the theme into other films. I do not understand why anyone would take a film which serves only as a piece of artful social commentary and trash it by missing the point.

It's a hell of a lot less powerful now that it has a genre around it. The fact that Haneke remade it bothers me too. The lucre was obviously more attractive than the point he was making.
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