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A pair of spies take turns torturing CAPTIVITY!!!

Cuthbert Worth 8 bucks? by Vonfolger	Jun 26th, 2007 08:04:59 AM
--- Quite possibly yes.
Clevage fans unite! by Bash_Branigan	Jun 26th, 2007 08:11:59 AM
...And go straight to the internet for satisfaction. Or replay selected scenes of The Girl Next Door... on slooooow...
Cuthbert is a pretty young thing by Franklin T Marmoset	Jun 26th, 2007 08:16:47 AM
But I really have to stop watching films for such superficial reasons. I saw Honey last night, and now I fell all used and ashamed. This one doesn't sound much good, so I'll have to try my best to resist Cuthbert's nubile charms and watch something else instead. Has anyone seen The Sleeping Dictionary?
Off topic - rented Gwendoline in the Land of the Yik by kinghenryVIII	Jun 26th, 2007 08:38:43 AM
Yak Sunday night .... what a shit fest of a movie - not like I hade higher expectations of anything above shit, but man .... Anyway. Won't be spending $$ on this one. I wasted that on the above mentioned rental.
If she's not naked, it ain't worth it by lost.rules	Jun 26th, 2007 08:39:57 AM
Plus she's not as hot as she was that first season of 24. Ohhh sweet kidnapp me Kim!
The Saw Series sucks! by silver screen surfer	Jun 26th, 2007 08:41:00 AM
The Saw movies are terrible, so I'll be avoiding this pic, as well.
The Sleeping Dictionary by lost.rules	Jun 26th, 2007 08:41:27 AM
Nope. But I have seen Jessica Alba's naked titties. NICE!
Tenth! by spud mcspud	Jun 26th, 2007 08:48:07 AM
Oh yes beeeetches.
PASSION IS a torture-porn movie... by spud mcspud	Jun 26th, 2007 08:49:30 AM
...though I didn't pull my pud to that movie, no sirree. Pulling your pork to Mel's gorefest will get you sent straight to hell. Now Elisha Cuthbert...
So who is the character billed as "Mother"... by Frijole	Jun 26th, 2007 08:52:28 AM
and does she get undressed?
lost.rules by Frijole	Jun 26th, 2007 08:53:34 AM
If I'm not mistaken, that was a body double. There was some brouhaha when she wouldn't take it off for SIN CITY after she had supposedly done so in the past... at which point it was said that the previous tit-shots were actually not her own. Could be a lie though.
Alba's titties are her insurance policy. by Borgnine JR	Jun 26th, 2007 09:06:42 AM
She'll cash them in when she's all out of money and has nothing left to sell. So expect to see them @ 2027. Probably not as firm as today's but still Alba titties.
If you are going to see this movie just for Cutberth by TVguy4566	Jun 26th, 2007 09:20:42 AM
wouldn't it just be cheaper and probably more fulfilling to rent "The Girl Next Door" and fast forward to all the scenes she is scantily dressed. The major twist has been spoiled throughout the net and it is rather a uninspired twist at that. From the reviews there seems to be not much else to not wait until DVD or cable for this one.
is there a film... by RockLobster800	Jun 26th, 2007 09:37:10 AM
starring Elisha Cuthbert where she isnt tied up at some point? Me thinks she might be into that shit.....
Kind of what I expected..... by Robots In Das Guys	Jun 26th, 2007 09:46:20 AM
I won't be seeing this one, or any torture porn-ish flick, I'm not into them. I liked the first Saw, but that was it. I was never interested in seeing any of it's sequels.
"The Stuff" - THAT's remake material. by Christopher3	Jun 26th, 2007 10:21:41 AM
And who the hell is a fan of Cuthbert's "acting"?
"torture porn" flicks suffer.... by RockLobster800	Jun 26th, 2007 10:42:10 AM
from not being scary at all-not to sound like an old fogey but they are too loud, grimey and vacuous to be considered scary. Honestly, why do all serial killers have to be dirty bastards nowadays-TAKE A BATH AND SPRING CLEAN! The only too horror films I ever found truly terrifing where Eraserhead due to its otherworldlyness and Ringu because its plain creepy-that balls Hollywood revamp just had to add in unnecessary maggots and crap-the scaryest part of the original was the shot of the boyfriend in the tv pointing to the tape with a black cloth on his head. I cant even remeber if they put that in the remake!
What is the tortoure porn line by Bloo	Jun 26th, 2007 10:42:42 AM
I hear the term thrown out a lot, towards The Passion and towards SAW. It's like nudity, where is the line where it's art and where is the line when it's for shock and/or titaltion. personally I don't believe the Passion is tortoure porn not because it deals with Jesus but because it is showing in a dramatic fashion what the Romans put a lot of people through when the scourged and/or crucifed someone. It was glamorized and I don't beleive Mel was going for the shcok value, I honestly feel that he had a story he wanted to tell and show, but I'm not 100% on that because the next year he released the "tamer" version in theatres and DVD and then this past year finally released the mega super deluxe DVD with commentaries, documentaries, etc. Almost like him and ICON were/are wanting to cash in on the film's popularity within the Christian community. I would offer the same argument if someone made a movie showing the horrors of say The Spanish Inquistion or something. However, I feel that the SAW movies use tortore and gore as a means of shock and such, not as an artistic expression to show what has happened. unless there is some dude in a clown mask working with the hot chick from Becker killing people based on the 7 sins.
"No...please don't do this...!" by Osmosis Jones	Jun 26th, 2007 11:15:33 AM
Who in their right minds likes this kind of sick shit? I like a good, gory horror film, but when it lingers over scenes of deprevation, torture, and the pleading of the victim, it just becomes wildly unpleasant. Give me the elegant PG-13 spooks of 1408 any day.
"the always reliable Marco Beltami"? by Elgyn6655321	Jun 26th, 2007 11:46:17 AM
The guy`s a total hack, and has never written a memorable score. I`m almost inclined to think the second guy`s a plant simply because he`s saying the movie isn`t horrible.
Speaking of cleavage... by Cadillac Jones	Jun 26th, 2007 12:16:52 PM
...the two best parts of Spider-Man 3 were connected to Gwen Stacy. Ronny Howard's little girl a hottie? Who'd have thunk it?!
nope. It is utter shit by Lost Prophet	Jun 26th, 2007 12:47:04 PM
that is all.
Don't see the Passion analogy by BizarroJerry	Jun 26th, 2007 12:55:06 PM
A "scourging" and nails through hands and feet are not the same thing as, say, a limb getting chopping off with a meat cleaver.
I LOVED HOSTEL by WISEBLOOD	Jun 26th, 2007 01:05:55 PM
and liked Hostel 2. So I bought the Saw and Saw 2 dvd's, since they have so oftened been compared to Hostel and spoken of favorably on their own. WHAT A LOAD OF SHIT THAT FLICK IS. Saw was WORTHLESS. Badly acted, badly directed, slow, and no gore worth a crap. I've seen more tension in a tampax commercial. I haven't even bothered with Saw 2 because I just don't give a rats ass. Somehow, I get the idea that this flick will suffer the same fate.
Is Schindler's List Nazi-porn? by Some Dude	Jun 26th, 2007 01:32:11 PM
Just asking.
"Post-It note premise stretched to eighty five minutes" by Sir Loin	Jun 26th, 2007 02:10:35 PM
bahaha that's brilliant, I shall have to remember that one. And it pretty much sums up most of the movies so far this summer.
Nice reviews by emptystan	Jun 26th, 2007 03:15:51 PM
And don't bother with "Sleeping Dictionary." I assure you that those are not Jessica Alba's breasts. The cut to body double is so obvious it's almost comical, much to the shagrin of many-a-wanker.
i wonder what the twist is?? by slappy jones	Jun 26th, 2007 03:37:12 PM
it is so hard to tell from the trailer....this film looks fucking awful. and say what you will abou the hitcher remake...sure it was a bad bad bad film but holy shit it was a nice looking bad film...whoever shot it is good at his/her job....
Bloo by s0nicdeathmonkey	Jun 26th, 2007 05:35:55 PM
If you look at mel's filmography, it is obvious that he has a thing for S&M and when you look at The Passion in that light, it is very much a sexual film. There are loads of perspective shots where either the audience is Jesus, or the audience are the Romans.
Saw is the campiest load of shit for a horror film by barnaby jones	Jun 26th, 2007 06:47:14 PM
i've ever seen. People were bursting with fits of hysterical laughter in the cinema i watched it in.
Sledgehammer to the Balls by Wrath4771	Jun 26th, 2007 08:38:20 PM
"Early on, one guy does receive a sledgehammer to the balls for no real good reason..." Sir, there is NEVER a good reason for a sledgehammer to the balls.
That first review by Allfather Starr	Jun 26th, 2007 09:04:34 PM
Was great! I find nothing more satisfying than reading a well written, totally scathing review of a terrible movie. Good work.
Torture Porn doesn't describe every violent films by Ninja_Master	Jun 26th, 2007 11:16:01 PM
The term "torture porn" is used to describe the genre of movies that Hollywood has recently been distributing as mainstream horror. Movies where torture footage is the focus, replacing the traditional horror focus of tension/suspense/fear (even most slasher films do not abandon traditional terror films the way Hostel and Saw do, and don't deserve to be categorized with them). To better categorize a film meant to entertain through torture, and to differentiate it from traditional horror, the term "torture porn" was found appropriate. Mel Gibson's movie was never sold as horror or entertainment. So why would you use a term from the horror genre (which was still in it's infancy of use at that time)? Mel Gibson's film doesn't entertain, it's not a date movie, no one watched to be entertained. Passion was meant to be a solemn reminder to Christians of the suffering of the Christ. In Saw, the suffering entertains, no one's is tortured for your sins, they are tortured for your enjoyment. Who watched Passion while laughing and high fiving a buddy? Another example is Schindler's List. Like Hostel or Saw, it contains brutal images of shocking violence and cruelty. The difference should be obvious to most of us. The horrors of concentration camps are not entertainment. Watching nazi's feed Jews into furnaces does not "rock", it does not "thrill", it does not "kick ass". You don't hoot and pump your fists when you see Jews scream. In Hostel/Saw/Passion/Schinder's List, horrible acts are the point. In some, the acts are meant to remind us of terrible acts and questions how these impacted humanity, in others, it's for fun and games. Torture Porn does not accurately describe all of these films.
The suits tried to nicen up the torture porn label... by OtisSpofford	Jun 27th, 2007 04:29:19 AM
By calling it "claustrophobic cruelty"... Ah, marketing. See Hostel III - now with 23% more claustrophobic cruelty and 5% less sledgehammers to the balls...
Capitivty is just a bad film. Nothing more. by GilesT	Jun 27th, 2007 05:54:25 AM
Christians watching a 2 hour movie of their imaginary friend being slowly killed? Now THAT'S fucked up.
So about the same shitty movie as Hostel, then. by Atticus Finch	Jun 27th, 2007 11:11:18 AM
The director of this and Eli Roth especially should go to see 1408 with a notebook in hand to write down how to make a movie scary. You don't have to make torture porn like Roth to make a horror film.
GilesT by Bloo	Jun 27th, 2007 11:32:27 AM
not to start a flame war here, but the historical evidence that there was an inerinet teacher/rabbi around 33 AD/CE who was killed and was named Jesus isn't really up for debate. The debate comes from what he said or didn't say and what followed after that.
Why Captivity is better than Hostel II... by TheHorror	Jun 27th, 2007 12:44:20 PM
...Elisha Cuthbert is in it! and she is a hottie! Other than that there equal in term of being really lame ass flicks.
"torture porn', not really by bib fortuna	Jun 27th, 2007 01:40:58 PM
The term doesn't really fit. I call these kind of movies "Hacksploitation" or "Axsploitation".
She was horrible in 24... by vezner2007	Jul 14th, 2007 12:05:55 AM
and I doubt she's improved. This movie is guaranteed to suck just for the acting alone. I have zero faith in it being enjoyable enough to justify seeing even at the dollar theater.

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