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A Truly Dreadful Film


I think I recognised some bird from Neighbours but having already wasted ninety minutes of my life that I can never get back I don't want to spend another second researching this nonsense.
I cannot think of a single positive thing to say about this movie and I am beginning to think that I was too generous scoring it 2 out of 10.
Awful acting, appaling lighting, cheap sets and nothing whatsoever by way of a decent story line.
If anyone finds any redeeming features about this movie I will be interested to learn about them. I rarely bother to comment about the films I watch but if I can spare another person the ennui of sitting through this garbage I feel that I will have done some good.

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Aw, you're mad because you didn't get to see a rape scene. Poor baby...

Rent a movie called "Descent". It stars Rosario Dawson. There's a hellified rape scene in there for you to enjoy. It's near the end. No need to thank me.

D.


"...cookies so valuable, they are hand-delivered by uniformed officers."

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That's a really odd assumption.

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Sounds like a female contributor annoyed because he didn't gush about the 'social relevance' of the piece [it has none], because he chose instead to concentrate on the unintentionally hilarious lines ['what happens in the barn stays in the barn'], the amateurishly pregnant pauses designed to increase tension but which only added to the embarrassment you felt for the poor sod who thinks he's a film-maker, and not least because he draws attention to some truly excruciating acting.

Woman mistake feeling for thought, so criticism is seldom well received. In this picture the women are ugly, the pacing lamentable and the exposition an insult to females anywhere who know first hand the pain and humiliation of this sort of outrage [how about unforgivably childish lines such as 'you don't know how he made me FEEL!' or, having discovered they've tortured to death the the wrong man, 'No. Wait. It's justified. It's justified. He.. He...He sexually assaulted me.' So that's all right.] As we edge ever closer towards making rape the greatest crime in human history, hysteria even Germaine Greer finds tiresome, the inevitable river of slurry of which trash like this forms a part shows no sign of abating.

I watched this abomination earlier this evening. It made me laugh. Plan 9 from the Outback would be a better title.

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Why SHOULDN'T we in general consider rape as THE worst and greatest offense in humanity, plus it happens not only to women as well?

The thing is, unlike some crimes like murder, there is no excuse for it, and also, it associates what most people consider pleasurable with pain and suffering, not to mention - there has simply been WAY too much of it throughout humanity to bear even the track of, and as life has proven time and time again, no real solution on how to stop it.

And when you also have laws and societies that at best don't work to make life for the victims any better, and most of this doesn't happen with another form of violence out there, how can one be surprised there is "too much" of outrage around it more these days?

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It shows how much more of a sensitive issue it is than other forms of violent crime we may also find unacceptable.

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For the record though I haven't actually seen the film yet but might do at some point, however, its low rating and almost universally terrible for the most part reviews have put me off, it seems pretty much like another variation on the "I Spit on Your Grave" movie theme, but executed poorly and with poor acting and bad camerawork, so it adds nothing particularly new or interesting to the ever popular movie genre category.

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Whilst someone here mentioned it, Germaine Grier has recently come up on the news and was highly criticized for her comments as such.

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