Antichrist

Not at my local Odeon lol. The local arthouse cinema is getting it though, so all is good in my little world. :)



I really laugh at people who want films banned and they have not even seen it!!
 
What the f*** has a IMDB rating got to do with anything? Phantom Menace has a rating higher than 6 on there... does that mean PM is a good film? Does it bollocks. Learn to accept some people may not enjoy the films you do and vice versa. Or call your therapist.
 
Provide a decent alternative then. I only called it for what it is. The female in the film mutilates her own genitals and we get to see every grisly moment. Why? For what purpose? What did it achieve? It would have been far more powerful if the camera had cut away and allowed the viewer to use their imagination. If anything around here is lazy it's a director who neeRAB to fill a psychological drama with pornographic sex scenes (including an ejaculating penis and full penetrative sex) and gratuitous self-mutilation scenes to ensure a multitude of dullarRAB would seek it out in the vain hope of some tittilation. Oh but apparently it's "art" so that's ok then. :rolleyes:
 
The only penis I saw ejaculating was the one near the end, with blood coming out, not exactly a turn on for normal people...

I'd be worried about people who get turned on throughout the film AntiChrist, especially the first sex scene, how can a sane person get off on it when it has shots of a child in danger and falling to its death...

None of it is porn. Look at what actual porn is made for...



You just did... or Psychological Horror.
 
I watched it last night, biggest load of crap ever!!!!
Too arty-farty for me and I doubt I will ever watch a lars movie again.
I found it really hard to stay awake, Defoe has one of those voices that makes me sleep.

My advice, don't waste your time and it should be banned not because of the 2 sec shot of a willy but because its just plain crap.
 
I really liked the movie. Although i think that in some parts the violence went for far to long.

I laughed at the fox and the bird, i do not think they were detrimental to the movie.

And it's DEFINITELY NOT worse than Salo, Salo is a class of his own.
 
I've been thinking about watching Salo actually, is it any good? Part of me wants to watch it, but after reading that it has scenes were people actually eat excrement i'm not so sure (obviously it's not REAL excrement, but it's just the thought of it. The sick eating scene in Audition made me queasy as it is!). Does it actually have a story to it or is it just humiliation and torture for the sake of it?
 
Haha, ridiculous. "Use your own imagination". It's the year 2009 - directors should be allowed to express themselves however they want without pathetic "suggestion". Don't know much do ya?
 
Yes, use your imagination.

The horror film considered to be the most scariest of all time, The Exorcist, did that throughout the whole movie. While it was considered to be quite graphic at the time, and to many people today, the director understood that horror is best left up to the viewers imagination. Tap into that, which he obviously did, without obviously leading the audience like a bunch of children, who shouldn't be watching such films in the first place, and you have yourself the best horror that can be made.

The Blair Witch Project was successful, I think, because it did that entirely throughout the whole movie. Much of the younger generation laughed at it and dismissed it, as they did when I watched it in the theater, because younger people today lack imagination with all the distractions they have in their lives.

Younger people today also tend to be much more cynical about things so it isn't too surprising, unfortunately, to see film makers relying on special effects and graphic sex to interest the viewer.

A talking fox? :)
 
The second time I saw The Exorcist in the cinema- would have been in 1998- people were openly laughing at it. Sure it was a midnight screening and no doubt people were pished, but still. Whatever power that film had back in the day is largely gone now.

While I also find the 'torture porn' genre distasteful and wish it wasn't as successful as it is, I think Antichrist is far more interesting. And the talking fox kicked arse, though that is clearly a subjective opinion.
 
HArd to know what to say about the film. I want to say I enjoyed it, but it's the wrong word. It was a good film, but not one I'd desire to watch again any time soon. It looked, and sounded, magnificent though, and both actors were superb.
 
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