Hostel part II - better than the first?
@eclecticsteve (253)
United States
June 10, 2007 9:12pm CST
Has anyone else seen this movie? If you did, did you like it? Better than the original, or not. I saw it a couple of days ago. I have mixed feelings about it. Like the first movie, I thought it was really slow and boring until the end. Actually the opening scene is pretty good, but then it switches to the current characters (victims). Unlike the first movie, it examines the motives of the customers as well. So, it tried to be more rounded than the first, but it couldn't pull it off. The ending, however abrupt and disgusting, saved the picture for me, and it shocked me that I could enjoy a scene like that. But on a suspense level, it was nowhere near as good as the first.
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@donna22 (1116)
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20 Nov 07
I enjoyed both the first and second. The second is very similar to the first in that a group of young people are tricked into going somewhere they think will be fun and actually end up being tortured. I liked how it continued from the first rather than having a completley different story but I felt they could have done more with Paxton. I thought it was good how they showed how the torturers pick their victims as in the first film this was quite confusing. Obviously there is alot of gore and scenes some people will not like. As the main characters are girls this may make viewing extra uncomfortable for some but as it was men who were tortured in the first the makers may have felt that showing women being tortured will show those paying to do it as even sicker than in first. Fims such as Hostel are scarier to me than horror films about monsters etc as it is possible they could happen in real life. It is not ridiculous to think that in some far away country people are paying to torture people and I think this film also shows how silly we can be in trusting people who we have just met.
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@eclecticsteve (253)
• United States
25 Nov 07
I agree with you. Films such as Hostel are scarier than "monster" movies because it can happen in real life. Despite the gore displayed in the films (which is realistic), there is true suspense on whether the victims will get away and we hope that the criminals will get their due. To paraphrase the late horror movie actor, Peter Cushing, the movies he starred in were fantasies, the true horror films are the ones that show the evil that can happen in real life.
@ArsonCuff (3114)
• United States
25 Sep 07
I am looking forward to seeing it. Yes the first one picked up as it went along and ended up being fun. here is the latest news on part 2 being banned in New Zealand:
http://www.terrortube.com/html/Hostel-2-Banned-in-New-Zealand.html
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@eclecticsteve (253)
• United States
14 Oct 07
It's too bad if the movie is banned. My view on movies is that the public should decide. Give the public a choice, and if the movie-goers as a whole think its inapproriate, they will let it be known by not attending any screenings.
