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American Guinea Pig: Bouquet of Guts and Gore (2014)
Dumb Waste of Time
Sure it's gory, but the special effects are really rather unrealistic and lack luster.
No story, no plot. What would this be.. a 10 page script?
This here people is called how to do a movie with the least amount of work possible.
If you want to see this crap there are ton's of real internet sites showing real people dying in worse ways.
This may of been "shocking" in the 80's... today it is just boring.
Do not waste your time or money with this junk.
And wow IMDb want's at least 10 lines for a review. There is not 10 lines of dialogue in this movie. Literally my review has more words than the entire film.
Hellraiser (1987)
Classic 80's Horror
This movie, and the short story it was based on, is a condemnation of the soul less 80's yuppie sub culture. Here we have Frank, who has sought out all forms of pleasure, so much so that he is willing to venture into the world of the Cennobites.
The Cennobites come from a reality where pleasure and pain are one and the same, and offer to show mortals who open their puzzle box the experience of ultimate pain through torture. Frank of course is human, and realizes too late that he cannot enjoy pain in the same way as the demons can, and is set on a path to try to escape from the Hell he has created.
Clive Baker has always been one to condemn the consumer driven culture, and here we have the ultimate example of a hedonistic life style turned morality play. Frank gives in to the pleasure the box offers, his lover betrays her husband and gives into Frank, murdering men have a chance at another love affair.
Pinhead gave up his humanity when he bored of torturing Jews and turned to the box, and each Cennobite is a reflection of their "sin" in mortal life. All in all this film is well shot, and the special effects bring found memories to an era where film makers had to put some creativity and work into their craft instead of the CGI craze we have now.
The same way vinyl records have a warm charm to them, is the same way I look fondly on the splatter movies of the 80's, and the artists who contributed to the gore that fueled the nightmares of a generation. I see on Clives wiki that there may be a Hellraiser remake, hopefully there is not as every horror remake of the 80's classics have been very far departures from their forefathers.
If Clive put's the same love and care he did into this so be it, hopefully he can bring the franchise back from the Direct to Video debacle that has become of this franchise as of late!
The Deer Hunter (1978)
Deep Emotional Impact'
Watch this film.
The film speaks to the lives we live and i think the director is making a point about free will, or the concept of it.
There are choices we get to make in life, and there are situations that are thrust upon us that we have no control over.
Going to Vietnam, Getting married, Being the type of hunter who is majestic and believes in a principle ( one shot ) or runs around like a sloppy drunk shooting nonsense into the air... these are the choices that we make in our life.
Then there is the gun. You have no choice on if the bullet is in the chamber, or if it is not. The only choice you should have is if you play the game, that choice was taken from these young men which effected them all differently.
1) De Niro plays the idealistic character, the type who believes in things more important than hedonistic pleasure. This is why when he hunts, he uses the one bullet belief, and there is a moment between him and his prey.
2) Walken plays the agnostic type view, he neither hates nor loves the idealism of De Niro, but instead takes no stance on it at first and simply reflects on the beauty of the tree's and wondering if he is an asshole or not.
3) Steve: forget the actor's name, but he represents the boy who never really became a man, his thoughts are never deeply explored, but his actions reveal his thoughts, that he neither holds idealism or can rely strictly on self reflection and earthly delights.
the effects of Gun on each:
De Niro: De Niro's idealism goes out the window when presented with life or death questions, he is the closest to being a theist in his views and becomes an atheist in that murky rat filled water. We know this when he tells Walken they are going to abandon Steve. De Niro throws any sense of idealism out the window from then on out, and realizes that we cannot make and uphold our's or anyone else's "rules"... that we only have choices and reactions to our situations.
De Niro's abandonment of his idealism is what saves him, and why he does not kill the deer at the end, he has learned that life it's self, or the joy of the hunt is the true purpose, and not the idealism of actually killing your prey with one shot.
Walken: Walkens character at first can deal with the situation, but becomes stuck in that moment and cannot escape it. He has no idealism to loose, and now the beauty of the tree's has gone, and he has nothing left but self reflection. He cannot get past why the bullet was not in the chamber for him, and must repeat the situation until he feels he has taken control back over his life, of course he can only do this by ending his life.
Steve: Steve being the eternal boy he is needs to be saved, cracks first, and is dependent on everyone else.
In the end we realize our own traditions and idealism or lack there of lead us to certain points, some we can over come and some we cannot.
De Niro comes out the best because he see's this and reacts to it, Walken and Steve are forever stuck in that moment.
This is how the movie effected me personally.