This was so much fun! I wasn’t expecting him to have such great comic timing, and the animated news segment with the orgy was hysterical.
I wouldn’t categorize it as such personally. My personal definition of torture porn is a movie like Saw, Hostel, or The Green Inferno where the only point is to watch people being hurt and taken apart, and I wouldn’t say that about GR at all. That being said, the violence in it is VERY strong, with 2 extremely graphic…
I think we might have seen some of the same porn...
Boy do I cosign the shit out of this. I used to haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaate him, and I’d avoid anything he was in, but then I heard In Bruges was excellent from a trusted source, so I put my CF hate aside. It was the thing that made me say “goddammit, I actually like this guy”, and then Seven Psychopaths sealed the deal.…
GAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! She looks like she’s wearing one of those dental, uh...thingies that hold your mouth open for surgery. Extenders? Expanders?
You know, when I first heard this story, I was VERY GRUDGINGLY willing to give him the benefit of the doubt. I thought maybe he had meant to say something like “He knew what he signed up for [i.e. the risks of being in the military], but still fought heroically for his country” and it just came out wrong. Nope.
Not dumb at all...I’m totally the same way! If a movie has one of my 3 biggest NOPE triggers (graphic eye injury, sexual assault, or animal cruelty/death), it better be a DAMN good movie for me to watch it.
It’s been a few years since I saw it, so I wouldn’t 100% guarantee I’m right on this, but if I remember correctly, once the dog disappears you never see it again or find out what happened to it. I will say that I’m pretty sensitive to animal harm in movies, so if anything DID happen to it onscreen, I’d probably…
I just checked Netflix myself; looks like it’s off streaming but they appear to have it on DVD.
And we didn’t have much in common to begin with (a friend set us up) so we couldn’t really talk about anything BUT the movie, and I wasn’t about to go “So yeah, the death by dildo, what did you think?”
Oh MAN! I saw Seven on a first date so I feel you. We had dinner afterwards and just kind of sat there, traumatized.
I don’t remember offhand but this website has conflicting information, so probably best to avoid it if you’re ultra sensitive to animal death:
Ah, thank you for the clarification! I saw it a long time ago and didn’t remember anything really standing out.
I recommend (with reservations that I’ll get to in a minute) Entrance, which is about a young woman in California who’s becoming increasingly disenchanted with her life of one night stands and bad jobs. Then her beloved dog goes missing, which is the final straw, and she decides to move. Her friends throw her a…
A friend of mine got a ticket to an advance screening and the audience was told they were going to see actual found footage, so people were WIGGING OUT. Ah, the (mostly) spoiler-proof days.
Some of these I haven’t seen in a while, but IIRC the following movies that were mentioned are either not gory at all or have minimal gore:
Green Room was FUCKED UP. I have a pretty strong constitution, both because of my job and because of a lifelong love of horror books/movies, but the arm scene made me scream in horror and my boyfriend started groaning “oh god, no, no, Jesus effing Christ, no”. (God only knows what the neighbors thought was going on.)…
YES, Session 9! So underrated. Absolutely recommended to all, but especially fans of the Silent Hill franchise. (The games, not the movies.)