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The tv listing said it was Hostel

posted 16 years ago by burninblazes
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I've never seen Hostel. I started watching this believing the tv listing, although I don't really want to sit through Hostel I was mildly curious to peak at it. As I was watching, I was thinking, "David Schwimmer is in Hostel? Is that Selma Hyek? I don't think this is Hostel. Well, the music is eerie. They are in a hotel in Europe. But this can't be Hostel, can it? Wait, there's female nudity... there's supposed to be female nudity in Hostel. Maybe it just hasn't gotten to the torture parts yet. Oh, there, that guy just got attacked. He's lying on the floor. Wait a second... what the HELL? Oh, damn, this is an art film."

Now I know the true name of this picture. I have to say it was a complete piece of CRAP from what I viewed. It's still probably better than Hostel, though.

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"Why spend your life making someone else's dreams come true?"

-- Ed Wood, the movie

[–] jerico_red 16 years ago

I was in the same boat... Never saw Hostel, wanted to see Hostel, Hostel was listed in the channel guide for that slot.
And the same thing happened where I thought I was watching Hostel (cuz they were eating human meat in the beginning with... John Malkovich? behind bars???) and continued watching it. And all the while I was thinking, this sooo not like the Saw movies at all. Why are they comparing them.

Don't get me wrong, I like artsy movies... but this was just lame and artsy for the sake of being artsy

[–] burninblazes 16 years ago

Ahahaha. So I'm not the only one.

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"Why spend your life making someone else's dreams come true?"

-- Ed Wood, the movie

[–] dunph619 16 years ago

just stayed up til 3:30 hoping to see some people get tortured haha. a friend told me that the movie started off like a vacation in europe, then people got tortured and whatever. it got later and later, and weirder and weirder.. but in the end "Hostel" turned out to be "Hotel". this movie was complete garbage.... except for the female nudity.

[–] DrOmzig 16 years ago

Ha, ha, I thought it was Hostel too. I'm embarrassed to admit that I didn't realize that it wasn't until I looked the film up on IMDB.

[–] dunph619 16 years ago

this happened to me a few months ago too, it said mission impossible 3.. but it was mission impossible 2.. damn you comcast

[–] mixdownone 16 years ago

Ha! Tell me about it -- Hotel was on Comcast last night, but they listed it as the 1967 film of the same name:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061786/

I kept wondering when Merle Oberon was going to show up, thinking that being able to connect her to David Schwimmer and John Malkovich would be great for Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon.

Still, no desire to see Hostel, though a Dogme-inspired Hostel would really be something to see...

"All the best people have bad lungs and bone diseases -- it's so FRIGHTFULLY romantic."