"Hostel" - Don't Even Bother To Rent

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So Z and I went to our local movie trade-in place on Friday. We had a babysitting offer for Saturday night, but we just couldn't figure out a movie we wanted to go see in the theatre. Instead, we traded in some of the $6 duds we bought at Blockbuster in exchange for some new duds.

Namely, "Hostel". Z really wanted to see it because Quentin Tarantino produced the movie. The reports we read about it said that it was the goriest movie of all time. Tarantino isn't exactly subtle - so this made sense.

Anyway, we both hated it. The whole theme of "human hunting" has been done before, and somehow it seemed really cheesy/B Movie quality in "Hostel". Even the special effects - the wounds and burns and etc. - seemed fake. While Jay Hernandez (also from "Crazy/Beautiful") is really hot, he just seemed like a dumb frat boy who actually needed to get his fingers chopped off in order to deliver some kind of cathartic wake-up call.

I also think that the whole Eastern European sadist thing has been completely overworked. Since the beginnings of the cold war, we've seen movies that show the sadistic "Doctor" type who likes to torture people. His accent is either Russian or German, which I'm sure is some kind of natural development since the advent of the Nazis and the fear they created. Anyway, the cliche is old, and just doesn't strike me as scary anymore.


So if you're curious, see "Hostel". Sometimes the curiousity created from the hype is enough to make you want to try it. We may just have to learn our lesson. In today's Hollywood, it doesn't really matter who is in it, who is behind it, or what the reviewers say. The flick could still suck.



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