What was the point of the Centipede?
I was overall pretty indifferent about this movie, I watched it for the same reason many did: There was so much hype about how shocking it was, the world essentially dared me to watch it and I complied.
I'm not going to watch any of the other films, to me it was pure weird shock and nothing really driving it. I'm not going to be one of those guys who goes on a IMDB board for a movie just to bitch about it: I'm just checking to see if a proper explanation of why the experiment with the humans (and dogs) was ever conducted.
Insane people conducting insane experiments usually have some sort of reason. I feel having a German play the doctor carrying out the experiment was a less than subtle reminder of the Angel of Death Josef Mengele who did unspeakable medical experiments on prisoners in Auschwitz. He was a disgusting madman, but there was some kind of medical basis for many of his experiments. Sadly I remember reading his experiments really advanced understanding of human anatomy, but that's some uncited thing I read.
Anyways, getting sidetracked. The whole point in the first flick was to create a linked digestive track... which really wasn't a digestive tracked "linked" really. So it seems, and this is what prevented me from being too freaked out, the goal was to create the world's most digested poop. Was that it?
If "the point" is explained any further in any of the other movies, again, don't really want to waste my time watching the others films, but the lack of reasoning (which I guess could make it freakier) really hurt the movie, in my opinion. Seems the creator just thought one day, "It would suck to have someone's ass sewed to your mouth, *beep* in your mouth." Then made a film without putting any further thought into it.