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Originally Posted by siorai
I personally think that "torture porn" is the perfect name for this ever expanding genre of movies.
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When I hear the term 'torture porn' - what springs to mind is the more extreme BDSM stuff or films make by Insex (is that their name?) not Men Behind the Sun.
I don't think I dismiss the Hostel films as having 'no real meaning behind them' - they are some underlying themes in them: Both films are a criticism of Captalistic Society taken to its extreme where human life is a commodity. There is also a jib torwards how Americans 'use' the rest of the world (on a personal level as a playground for things like sex tourism or on a National level to rape poorer countries for their resources.)
Of course, this all takes a back seat to boobs, blood and torture but its still there. If we can talk about Romero and brainwashing of people by comsumurism than we can as least give Hostel 2 braincells of intellectual thought.
I feel the same about A Serbian Film.
Anyway - I digress..
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Originally Posted by siorai
Just scene after scene strung together by a typically almost non-existent plotline just like your typical XXX porn movie. I don't feel the use of "porn" here has any base in sexual metaphors. It's about the non-stop scenes of a particular type.
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As I mentioned before - a lot of genre films are this. I really felt that 'Airplane'/'Scary Movie' and 'he Naked Gun' were just an excuse to string a bunch of funny bits together and really lacked a decent plot :-)