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It really needed more shock elements.
This is a purely bogus piece of macabre, written by a slumming Henry Farrell (whose idea of a good "shock" is to stage the mass-murder of a group of rabbits!).
Just mediocre acting and poor attempts at shock art.
The basic idea for the film was interesting but unfortunately it wasn't able to excite, really scare or shock me - there was one part in the entire film that I thought was gruesome but even that didn't redeem it.
The only scene that stirred any kind of reaction in the crowd was vulgar and came from nowhere as if just to add some kind of shock value to the dullness that is this movie.
Eddie Murphy goes for shock value rather than laughs to try and win his following over.
When they reveal this kind of random twist, instead of shock, it's somewhat a dumbfounded reaction.
Probably the director wanted to show the fragility of the human life, but what he does is bore and impress the audience with scenes that shock you a little bit.
The reaction of the 4 men switches from shock, horror on finding the body to complete indifference whilst they fish.
If there is one film which is the worst of this year- it's TASHAN The first promo gave an indication that the film will be a boring Dhoom 2 style film, and well i knew first only it would be a bad film whatever it maybe Because of it being a Yashraj film Or maybe seeing the cheesy promo But this film gave me a shock, it was even worst then Dhoom 2 and what i expected First Saif's introduction which is boring Then Saif- Kareena meet, Kareena is so artificial and then Anil Kapoor oh god, what he is doing in such a weird film?
As for the whole "point" of the story, namely "war is bad" (oh, there's a shock!) is really non-existent.
Without out the "lets shock 'em and get great publicity" scene nobody would be talking about this film.
When the movie came out in 1995, it was all shock and awe to me when I watched it with my dad and 2 uncles.
Cinema seems to be gradually losing its ability to shock, so perhaps 'Maladolescenza' should be admired for retaining that power thirty years after its release.
However shock value is the one reason alone the film is memorable.
A terrible storyline (Amis at his worst), pointless and self-conscious 'decadence', obvious shock tactics and patchy acting make this film (rather like "Rancid Aluminium") embody everything that went wrong with the much-vaunted British film revival.
I know that the intent of the movie is to shock, but showing actual footage of a dog that had been skinned alive (holding back vomit as I type) - PLEASE!
As a monk, Boyer held the formula for the monastery's liquer (which reminds me of the true story of Chartreuse) -- when he leaves his "marriage to god" the reaction by his fellow monks holds the shock and fear that perpetuate organized religion.
However, the movie doesn't shock or disturb me at all.
The fact that the DVD contained deleted footage was a shock.
I saw it late at night on cable, and I was in shock.
Towards the end we all got bored however, as the initial hilarity and shock of a movie being this random wore off.
This was a boring, pointless exercise designed to shock.
And to my complete shock, Rishi Kapoor is actually the hero!
No shock that he was the only one in the film who really dressed like cats out here (ie his Warriors jersey).
I was first exposed to MadTV about a year and a half ago, and I think I must've passed out from shock.
This movie tries to shock the viewer, and it sure does.With the animal snuff at the beginning, and the killing of babies in the movie (fake at least)its was enough to make myself turn it off.I've seen movies like this before that show slaughterhouse footage (BTK movie) and this kind of footage should not be allowed in a horror movie.We watch gore and horror because we know its just make-up, and special effects, so we shouldn't sit down to watch a movie and see the real killing of animals, its not what we rented the movie for.If anything, there should be a large warning label put on these types of garbage movies so people won;t be surprised by it.
Much like Orson Welles thirty years earlier,Mike Sarne was given "the biggest train set in the world"to play with,but unfortunately lacked the ability to do anything more than watch his train set become a train wreck that is still spoken of with shock and a strange sort of awe.
But for these pseudo-art-idiot-directors, this plot is just a line to put cheap produced shock scenes in a row which neither have a message nor make any sense (freshly taken-out bowels are thrown on a naked, bound woman in an earth-hole... why?? and why is that the only time you see both woman and thrower in the whole bloody "movie")??? Disturbing?
i should have asked for my money back but was perhaps still in shock from the experience.
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