2007-02-12 14:52:36 · 7 answers · asked by bozomonkey 2 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
It seems that it is the phase now.
Hollywood movie monsters went to Japanese monsters... then nuclears mutations, then animals going wild...slashers, teen killers, legends, and now we are in the torture phase. It seems as though movies try to make ties to being based on "True" events no matter how lame the connection. I look at it as a phase and watch the effects in these films. Some real sophisticated stuff is present out there that looks as real as I could imagine. I guess it is a phase and I wonder "What's next?"
2007-02-12 15:13:16 · answer #1 · answered by Jay M 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I see it as a trend by producers and special effects crews to outdo other horror movies. It's also obvious with the remakes. "How bloody and violent can we make this and still make money?" It's very much artistic ego. "I can make cutting up live humans look real."
Saw and Hostel are making in excess of a hundred million dollars counting the sequels. If people continue to see these movies, producers will keep pumping them out. If no one went to see these, they'd go away. Some people need a release, and watching others get tortured helps them deal with their own demons.
So far I'm doing my part in deliberately not seeing these. I've never seen Hostel and I never will. Coworkers brought Saw I & II to work, but I never watched them. I wouldn't watch these types of movies if someone paid me! I don't find torture entertaining at all. I am not an angry person that I need to see people being mutilated to be satisfied.
2007-02-13 00:10:40 · answer #2 · answered by Mike H 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, it is hard to avoid since we live in a world dominated by terror and torture tatics. A lot of TV shows like 24 and Lost have referenced to torture (Jack Bauer working for the government, and Sayid used to be an interrogator for the Republican Guard).
2007-02-12 23:04:43 · answer #3 · answered by Erica L 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it is absolutely sickening that humans can treat one another that way with no concern of what each other is feeling. I do not like the Saws or Hostel. It is sick. I do have another opinion, though. This kind of torture does go on in real life and I guess it is stupid to want to be
candid and acting like there isn't evil in our world.There always will be and I don't think it will go away. But for now, I am sticking with Spongebob and the Discovery Channel. ;)
2007-02-12 23:11:52 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Because violence sells more tickets and makes more money it's sad but true. A part of human nature is attracted to it,to watching it. That's why when you watch the news after a murder just took place,people don't leave they stand behind the police lines and watch. They stick around for awhile like they want to see more. I have mixed feelings about it because I enjoy watching movies like that,and it scares me sometimes. But I just remind myself that it isn't real.
2007-02-13 00:00:09 · answer #5 · answered by form-one 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If it serves a real purpose, OK, toherwise, it's just gratuitous
2007-02-12 23:01:54 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know but some of it is really gross
2007-02-12 23:38:32 · answer #7 · answered by iseemen 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋