No, I can just see things from a woman's perspective, whereas you clearly cannot....

 

the two girls in the theatre at the back thought it was very funny all the $h!t that was happening to her.

 

however i suppose if the film was skewered to a POV that the film was gonna be a critic of Paris Hilton it might have worked (Elisha Cuthbert as a supermodel??? wtf she's only about 5ft, what she gonna model??? oompaware?!?!!?).

 

this was a very very boring film, even more boring than watching late night poker* even the cougar got bored ( not Abigail Sponder!!!!!) :lol: :lol:.

 

http://depts.washington.edu/natmap/photos/mammals/cougar_01tk.jpg

 

Not only was it incredibly boring but it had the most pethectic useless twist, at least Saw has a an alright twist at the end and there was some sense of urgency and some mystery as cops tried to do something about it.

 

If you really wanna watch Elisha Cuthbert, watch the first couple of seasons of 24 back to back (yeah captivity dragges along that bad) or even popular mechanics for kids (yeah captivity is that bad). Elisha chased by cougars = good, Elisha pornstar = average, Elisha tortured = bad

 

*note i watched that slowish Eric 'Banana'/Drew Barrymore Poker film Lucky You afterward and that was actually better!!!

 

Elisha Cuthbert, semi-naked, tortured, trapped in a dungeon-like basement and objectified brings into play sexualised violence towards women and fetishistic torture far more than a male actor in the same situation, these films do have male victims, but the violence towards them is nowhere near as sexualised....

 

well it was more lots of cleavage than fullon nudity, not anything that would interest an article in canuck bare naked ladies magazine* :lol: ,as the nudity was this time in soft focus, however by Captivity 5 i bet there will be any number of Playboy models with their baps out getting mutilated.

 

and if its true what empire said about it being R18 legal to film someone making an omlett inside an upside down nudy ladie by Capitivity 5 they will probs have moved on to topping it off with concrete :lol:

 

 

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b8/Barenaked_Ladies_miming_golf.jpg

 

*rather than the last issue blender obv :lol:

(Elisha Cuthbert as a supermodel??? wtf she's only about 5ft, what she gonna model??? oompaware?!?!!?).

 

this was a very very boring film, even more boring than watching late night poker* even the cougar got bored ( not Abigail Sponder!!!!!) :lol: :lol:.

 

Oh, it certainly was a boring film.... Good point about Elisha not exactly being "supermodel" material... Too bloody short AND, not exactly emaciated, "stick thin" size zero either.... :lol: :lol:

 

This is really a grubby, nasty little film.. It's like someone took the final 15 minutes of "Silence of the Lambs" (the bit with Clarice in the cellar) and decided to stretch it into an incredibly tedious hour and a half.... Also, you can see it as being the first "Saw", only without the good plot, story, script, plot-twists.... Hard to believe that the director of this garbage is the same Roland Joffe responsible for such amazing films as "The Killing Fields" and "The Mission"... He got Oscar and Bafta nominations for those, I rather suspect he'll get a "Razzie" nomination for this pile of sh!t.....

 

And the most unbelievably offensive thing about this film...? In several scenes it is implied that Jennifer is actually herself indirectly responsible for her being held captive and tortured simply because she is a model and inviting the gaze upon herself (and by extension womankind in general because in the flashback sequences it is another woman - a mother - who 'creates' the psychopaths)... This is really nasty, sleazy, mysoginistic, sub-pornographic trash that should be consigned to the rubbish heap of cinematic history..... Another film that makes you feel like you need a good shower to wash away the filth after you've seen it.......

 

I seriously worry about anyone who gains pleasure or entertainment out of this film....

 

-10/10

This is really a grubby, nasty little film.. It's like someone took the final 15 minutes of "Silence of the Lambs" (the bit with Clarice in the cellar) and decided to stretch it into an incredibly tedious hour and a half.... Also, you can see it as being the first "Saw", only without the good plot, story, script, plot-twists.... Hard to believe that the director of this garbage is the same Roland Joffe responsible for such amazing films as "The Killing Fields" and "The Mission"... He got Oscar and Bafta nominations for those, I rather suspect he'll get a "Razzie" nomination for this pile of sh!t.....

-10/10

 

yeah man, the killing fields got that free with one of the sunday papers, however will go straight to the back of the pile by association :lol:

yeah man, the killing fields got that free with one of the sunday papers, however will go straight to the back of the pile by association :lol:

 

I think you should watch "The Killing Fields" regardless of this awful film... So you can see for yourself that Joffe once was a pretty damned amazing film-maker who actually had a point to make and a real story about real people to tell........

 

It would be incredibly unfair to tar his better works with the same brush.....

I think you should watch "The Killing Fields" regardless of this awful film... So you can see for yourself that Joffe once was a pretty damned amazing film-maker who actually had a point to make and a real story about real people to tell........

 

well maybe it can come forward a bit towards the b/w carry ons. however will have to watch the rest of the Spike Lee and start with Alejandro Jodorowsky first (obv when my mums not around :lol: )

LOS ANGELES, California (Reuters) -- Torture, it seems, doesn't pay at movie theater box offices like it used to.

 

 

"Captivity," with Elisha Cuthbert, opened at No. 12 at the box office.

 

 

In recent years, films dubbed "torture porn" have been the darlings of many a Hollywood producer looking to make a quick buck. The latest such release, "Captivity," opened in theaters Friday.

 

But the popularity of blood-and-guts thrillers appears to have waned, prompting some to wonder if the trend is on its way out. "Hostel: Part II" opened last month with less than half the first weekend of the original and quickly faded, and "Captivity" lived down to the recent trend, opening at No. 12 on the weekend box office chart with $1.55 million.

 

"The horror genre has had more ups and downs over the years -- maybe only musicals have more," said Paul Dergarabedian of box office tracker Media by Numbers. "I think what happens is subgenres like (torture) become popular, then play out."

 

Dergarabedian noted that the old Universal Pictures monster movies such as "Frankenstein" were hugely popular in the 1930s, but eventually died off. In the 1950s, horror was represented by alien invasion flicks such as "The Thing from Another World," but these went the way of the graveyard, too.

 

This current wave of horror films seems to have begun in 2004, when Dergarabedian tracked 19 of the movies that raked in more than $1 billion at U.S. and Canadian box offices. The figure was roughly double the $525 million from 13 movies in 2003.

 

Hits in 2004 included "Freddy vs. Jason," at $82 million, and "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre," at $80 million, both from New Line Cinema. In 2005, Lionsgate Entertainment's "Saw" hauled in $55 million and spawned two sequels.

 

In 2005 and 2006, Media by Numbers tracked 26 horror movies each year with gross box office receipts of $841 million and $811 million, respectively. Midway through 2007, some 20 scary flicks have reached silver screens and more than 20 others are expected in coming months.

 

Youth-oriented, supernatural thrillers and fright flicks like "1408" ($56 million) and "Disturbia" ($79 million) are working. But adult-themed torture fantasies have mostly failed.

 

"Hostel: Part II" was expected to at least match the $47 million of 2006's "Hostel," but has generated only $17 million in the United States and Canada. "28 Weeks Later" hoped to reach the $45 million of 2005's "28 Days Later" but made only $28 million.

 

Those numbers do not bode well for "Captivity" and upcoming flicks such as "All the Boys Love Mandy Lane" and "Saw IV." Hollywood producers know it and blame the downturn on a glut of horror in theaters.

 

"It's overkill," said Courtney Solomon, president of After Dark Films, which is behind "Captivity," the story of a man and woman trapped and tormented in a basement. "I think audiences have said, 'I've had enough.' It's as simple as that."

 

Anticipating the end of the torture flick trend, After Dark has adjusted its development plans to steer away from a large number of torture movies, Solomon said.

 

Source: http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/Movies/07/...reut/index.html

I sat through "Captivity" (I've got one of those Unlimited Cinema Card thingies so it wasn't like I was actually paying hard cash to go see it...), it is an utterly wretched film... The most disturbing thing about it (apart from the blatant misoginy and sexualised violence...) is the fact that it's not been made by some talentless MTV hack, but by Roland fukkin' Joffe, the man who made "The Killing Fields" and "The Mission".. Hard to square that a director of his calibre could possibly sink so low as to make such a juvenile, sexist, exploitative pile of c**p.....

 

I would personally love to see all these "Torture Porn" films just thrown on a fukkin' bonfire to be honest, it's lowest common denominator film-making, it certainly is NOT Horror film-making by any stretch of the imagination, even the worst 80s "slasher" films have more legitimacy than trash like "Captivity" or "Hostel".... People who claim that films like "Captivity" are horror, clearly have no understanding of the genre and have never read a book in their lives....

"Captivity" is an ATROCIOUS film. I actually can't believe I sat through it all.

 

I'm looking forward to seeing All The Boys Love Mandy Lane & Saw IV, although, IMO there was no need for another Saw film after the brilliant Saw 3. It's gonna ruin the legacy of the film.

What I like about the article is that it identifies other fleeting subgenres of horror throughout Hollywood cinema. Just in the last 10 years, Scream brought back the teen slasher genre for about 4 years, until The Sixth Sense’s success created a sort of mildly scary, usually spirit/ghost-centered thriller genre… The Ring started the Asian-remake thing in 2003...“torture porn” seems to have only lasted a couple years. Sadly it looks like the next big thing in the horror genre is remaking classic films. <_<

Captivity is truly disgusting. The twists were predictable and the scene were you saw her forced to eat humans guts etc. was SICK :puke2:

 

There was nothing to it really, just ''shocking'' gore which I've seen before and in better context as well -_-

i thought captivity looked qiute good :o

There was nothing to it really, just ''shocking'' gore which I've seen before and in better context as well -_-

 

EXACTLY, context is the thing here indeed... I've seen gore effects used to truly disturbing effect in the Romero "living dead" films, now THAT was using gore in its proper context if you ask me, and it created the effect of generating actual horror... How can anyone forget the zombies' final attack on the underground base in "Day of the Dead"?, or the truly disturbing scene in "Night of the Living Dead" with the little zombie girl killing and eating her parents (which works on sooooo many deeply social and psychological levels)..... THAT IS HORROR FOLKS...... THAT, is Context.....

Here's a shocker for you folks... I downloaded an alternate version of this film, and as surprising as this seems, it's actually BETTER than what ended up on the cinema screen... ALL the scenes of torture were added after test screenings, so it was never actually intended to be this exploitative, mysoginistic, tacky, sub-"Saw"/"Hostel" piece of garbage.... Instead of the torture what you actually get is more character development, between Jennifer and Gary, and a whole sub-plot involving the two cops and the police investigation into Jennifer's disappearance and the other murders... YES, it is actually a bit more of a PROPER FILM as opposed to an excuse for sexual sadism and torturing a semi-naked young girl for 90 minutes.... It's still not that great, but it's a bit better.... than what we ended up with....

 

So, who is responsible for what happened.... I dont think the film-makers can really be blamed here, it's clearly the studio and the knuckle-dragging, shaved apes who attended the test screenings demanding it be "more like Hostel"..... <_<