I watched this again, myself, last night (only it was just a remastered DVD) and I had the same feeling: I can’t believe this movie is already 25 years old!
I was also having a tough time coming to grips with the fact that John Woo’s BULLET IN THE HEAD is 20 years old when I watched it the other night!
Time is moving way too fast.
[quote=“Silence, post:2307, topic:1923”]Re Cannibal Holocaust
I still would’ve expected more from the most violent film in the world ;).[/quote]
Who told you that? The level of violence has long been surpassed since in other films.
But to call this film not that violent is of course bullshit. People get raped, beaten to death with stones, impaled and barbecued.
That’s not to say that the film is shocking. I saw it the first time at about your age and had a lot of fun with it back then and wasn’t shocked or apalled at all, and even still. But that doesn’t mean it ain’t violent.
I don’t think there is such a thing as “the most violent film in the world”. And I agree with BL, it might not be that shocking and disturbing anymore, but it still remains a very violent film.
Yeah with so many suicide bombers and shit like that every day in the news, with so many info coming at us in real time from all over the world, with console games and all that, I guess today it must be kids play a film like Cannibal Holocaust.
But still nasty stuff and scared the hell out of me at the time I saw it, and didn’t even worked my propose of impressing this girl (hoping she would run scared into my arms ???), I was also damned scared, and half way the movie she went away, and I ended up with a bunch of nerds.
Disturbing is the right word. Other cannibal films from that period are considerably more graphic - Cannibal Ferox being the most notorious example, perhaps - but none of them have the same power to shock as this one, because they’re not as well-made. Not that CH is not an exploitation movie - of course it is - but it’s a particularly potent one.
I suppose what El Topo is correct, in a sense. Everybody gets desensitized to violence at a much younger age today, because we are exposed to it, in real life and in fiction, from all angles, in many different media.
In perfect agreement with you on those two films, Dorado. I love EXTREME PREJUDICE!
The last film I watched was SHINJUKU INCIDENT which I liked a lot.
Many Jackie Chan fans said they hated this one…and I can understand why. There is little to no humor in the film and it is largely a tragic tale. This one is much more serious and realistic in tone than anything Chan has been involved with before (even CRIME STORY).
So, a lot of Jackie fans won’t like it.
But, I thought it was very nicely done.
I’m glad to hear that, I saw it in the cinema myself when it was first released and I have seen it many times since. The finale scenario with the shootout in Mexico has always reminded me of the similar finale from “The wild bunch”.
Can’t argue with that, at all, Stanton–because you are absolutely correct. Still, I find a lot to like about EXTREME PREJUDICE, especially the performances of Powers Boothe and Nick Nolte.