Mini-Rant on "The hills have eyes"

Regs

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Don't you think these moves are going a little overboard trying to be scary?

I'm sick of these rob zombie freak show wanna-a-bees.

I'll briefly go over what this movie has to offer in case you did not see it.

1. Highly disfigured and deformed mutants caused by nuclear fall out. And of course these mutants did not die from radioactive poisoning or organ failure like they were suppose to, but became much stronger and uglier forms of their human selves. Sure they're properly missing a testicle or two, but the effect is still there.


2. The crooked man. I give them credit for this. Usually it's always a bad cop or the jealous girl friend, but this time it's a lonely crazy gas attendant giving out directions in the middle of no-where.


3. A 10 minute clip of someone burning alive. No, he did not suffocate from his own melting mucus or lack of oxygen. He actually cooked alive for 10 minutes. Something the Spanish Inquisition failed to do after thousands of attempts.

4. A 10 minute long rape scene involving a 16 year old girl. I think the editor begged to take this one out on the final take.

5. Back seat of the car attack. Because I'm always willing to take on more passengers than originally planned when I jump into a car trying to run for safety.

6. Sole-Survivor heroin in the end. Armed with a bat and trying to make it to .300.

7. Young guys live, old people die. Dust settles. And the moral of the story is....don't live in a nuclear bomb test zone.
 

JasonCoder

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Gotta agree. I'm done with the whole genre. Damn, means I can't see Saw #4564 coming out this fall.
 

Nik

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I was cool with the movie until the 16 year old rape. Very not cool :|
 

Kaervak

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Haven't seen this one, but it seems like they're trying to top the original. Migh have to check it out now.
 

Regs

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Originally posted by: Kaervak
Haven't seen this one, but it seems like they're trying to top the original. Migh have to check it out now.

They're coming out with another one don't you worry. I think the next one will have a 13 year old girl in it and she'll be on fire at the same time.
 

Soundmanred

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Originally posted by: Kaervak
Haven't seen this one, but it seems like they're trying to top the original. Migh have to check it out now.

He's talking about the original.
The sequel is with military personnel.
 

eakers

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Aug 14, 2000
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Originally posted by: Soundmanred
Originally posted by: Kaervak
Haven't seen this one, but it seems like they're trying to top the original. Migh have to check it out now.

He's talking about the original.
The sequel is with military personnel.

No, he is talking about the remake of the original.

anyways, #4 on your list sent me into a huge panic attack and we had to turn it off. I have never ever done that in a movie before.
 

rh71

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Aug 28, 2001
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Wrong Turn (with hotties Eliza Dushku and Sloane from Entourage) along with its sequel recently released are also in this genre. The freaks and the things they do are nasty as ever and it seems all they really want to do is show how gory they can be while still presenting the token naked chicks. WT2 even had one of the younger freaks jack it off to one of them. Disturbing.
 

FeuerFrei

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I saw the The Hills Have Eyes (not #2) in the theater back in '06 and I didn't understand the mutant was actually raping the girl until after the fact when she was rocking and crying. I figured it was a dry hump because he was too much of a mental midget to know what he was doing. I probably would have been more disturbed if I'd been more aware.

Have to say the movie doesn't have any redeeming qualities. I never saw The Hills Have Eyes 2 that came out this spring.
 

Kaspian

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Originally posted by: Regs
Don't you think these moves are going a little overboard trying to be scary?

I'm sick of these rob zombie freak show wanna-a-bees.

I'll briefly go over what this movie has to offer in case you did not see it.

1. Highly disfigured and deformed mutants caused by nuclear fall out. And of course these mutants did not die from radioactive poisoning or organ failure like they were suppose to, but became much stronger and uglier forms of their human selves. Sure they're properly missing a testicle or two, but the effect is still there.


2. The crooked man. I give them credit for this. Usually it's always a bad cop or the jealous girl friend, but this time it's a lonely crazy gas attendant giving out directions in the middle of no-where.


3. A 10 minute clip of someone burning alive. No, he did not suffocate from his own melting mucus or lack of oxygen. He actually cooked alive for 10 minutes. Something the Spanish Inquisition failed to do after thousands of attempts.

4. A 10 minute long rape scene involving a 16 year old girl. I think the editor begged to take this one out on the final take.

5. Back seat of the car attack. Because I'm always willing to take on more passengers than originally planned when I jump into a car trying to run for safety.

6. Sole-Survivor heroin in the end. Armed with a bat and trying to make it to .300.

7. Young guys live, old people die. Dust settles. And the moral of the story is....don't live in a nuclear bomb test zone.


Its a freaking movie.