"The Human Centipede"

I watched it on demand a couple of months back, and frankly have seen more gore on "Criminal Minds" and "CSI" than in this film. I thought it was cliched and overacted.
That being said, I was surprised to find it in the new release section at Target yesterday...

 

I was surprised to see it at Wal Mart the other day!!

 

Next to "A Bug's Life" and "Antz"?

 

Yes, kids will love it!

 

I have a very big problem with that! I talked to a manager about it & she agrees with me so she's looking into what options we have to change that.

 

Found this amusing: 50-reasons-why-the-human-centipede-sucked

Warning: Adult language & themes on the link (what a surprise ).

 

Hehe, yeah, all bug movies kids love.

 

I had this Blu-ray in my queue but will delete it now. I like awful movies but not this awful.

 

Very bad cheesy movie. :thumbsdn:

 

That is funny. They have a bunch of my forehead-slapping moments covered whenever I watch movies, like "where is all the light in this night forest scene coming from?"

I want to meet the person that's brave enough to wear this necklace:

 

Probably lots of people at Fangoria's Weekend of Horror!

 

I didn't even know that Part 2 was out yet, but Roger Ebert's got a review of it on his site:
http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20111007/REVIEWS/111009982

 

As always, Roger Ebert's review of a bad movie is infinitely more entertaining than the movie.

 

the success of movies like this and the SAW series really makes me wonder about some people, there's enough ugliness in the world already why put yourself thru a couple more hours of it and pay for the privilege

Ebert
"The film is reprehensible, dismaying, ugly, artless and an affront to any notion, however remote, of human decency".

 

Whenever Ebert hates a movie, I just have to see it.

 

I respect Roger Ebert a lot as a movie critic because his reviews are based on what the movie has & not what he thinks it should have. At the same time, there are movies that come along that are bad that have to be seen for the sake of enjoying how bad they are. "The Human Centipede" is one of those films & this new sequel is one I will see for the same reason.

 

You skip everything he likes, too?

 

No. But I won't see a movie solely because Ebert recommends it either. I almost never go by film critics, but when they lambast something, I feel compelled to see it.

 

Finally saw Human Centipede ("First Sequence") tonight....

One more film to add to my list of "movies that are nowhere near as shocking or disturbing as everyone makes them out to be."

 

Howard Stern discussed HC2 for half an hour on his radio show the other day, and even played some sound clips from it. They finally concluded it was so horrible, it wasn't worth watching. Their descriptions of what went on gave me pause. I did think it was inventive that the sadistic "doctor" in the film doesn't stitch his victims together... he staples them together.

The funniest thing to me is that apparently, the whole movie is in B&W... except for a couple of scenes involving, shall we say, a laxative. Not an artistic use of color-correction, in my opinion.

Zero stars from Ebert!

BTW, a friend of mine called me today about a movie he wanted to make. I stopped him and said, "I got a better idea than that. Three words: Human Centipede... 3D!" He laughed until he stopped.

 

Honestly I kinda liked the movie. Sure parts were gross and tense etc, but it was all simply a "movie". It shows they did their job at creating a gross, stomach wrenching idea, and for the most part pulled it off fairly well. Not the best movie ever, nor the grossest, but it held my attention.

 

Its all in ONES MIND, what thoughts one conjures up about how they feel about what is shown on the screen. Thats why movies of this type generate wildly varying "gross out" quotients. A bunch of guys sitting on a couch half drunk, might laugh at it. A man and woman alone at night watching the same flick may get "into" the story line deep enough to actually wriggle and squirm and be sick at the idea of it.

Same as watching horror in the middle of the day with the windows open. It just has no thrill. Its MOSTLY in the mind of the viewer, as im sure we all realize we are only watching a movie.

SO MUCH is based on ones mindset, the setting it is watched in and the mood of the watcher.

 

My philosophy is: does the audience feel better when they leave the theater than when they first came in? Did I care about the characters? Did the story make sense? Was the movie not boring? Was it entertaining? If the answers to all of these are "yes," then to me, the movie has succeeded.

I don't see the Centipede movies qualifying. This is closer to torture-porn than anything else -- not my thing.

 

After watching "A Serbian Film", I cannot imagine anything coming close to it in terms of sickness. It was truly the pinnacle of cinematic depravity. One thing I can say, however, is that I cared about the main character in "A Serbian Film". Not the same for "Human Centipede".

 

Scary, no.. Crimson Tide was scarier to me. Disgustingly depraved, yes. Actually, it is scary knowing there are individuals walking among us who really get off on this stuff.