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incomprehensible torture porn - DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME ON THIS FILM

posted 16 years ago by squirmy_monkey
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This movie bored me to sleep for the most part and the last half-hour was just disgusting. The only good scenes were the ones with Elizabeth/Black Dahlia (played by Mia Kirshner) and they were too few. The acting was awful, Josh Hartnett is flat and robotic and unfortunately the camera is on him most of the time. I just did not care what happened to him. Even Scarlett Johanson and Hillary Swank who have turned really good roles in other films, were so-so in this one. The acting was so bad and the plot was incomprehensible most of the time. Then the directors went for blood and gore hoping that that would carry the ending. It was so gross, I wanted to take a shower after it was over. yeccch...what a total waste of 2 hours of my life.

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[–] Dragoneyed363 16 years ago

This movie was positively wonderful!

Sure, it got a little boring at times, but it's so suspenseful and is filled with delightful surprises everywhere you turn.

The acting was fabulous, everything else was magnificent!

Cream cheese...

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[–] LollyMM 15 years ago

This was rubbish. The acting was bloody awful (Fiona Shaw what were you thinking!?). Josh and Scarlet are wooden actors anyway but they surpass their crapness in this film-they are a woodpeckers wet dream! Stupid pointless plot. Nasty crap. Hilary Swank femme fatale? She's too ugly to tempt anyone. AVOID (especially if bad scottish accents make your hair stand on end)

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[–] rex_ilusivii 15 years ago

I've just finished watching the first 15 minutes of this "thing", and had to come to imdb to check that it wasn't the burger I had today that was making my stomach turn. What an awful directing! These actors behave like their director suffered from what Woody Allen's character was struk with in the Hollywood Ending. This is bizzarly bad.

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[–] my_boomstick 15 years ago

L.A Confidential this film most certainly ain't but 'torture porn'? Seriously? Methinks you have absolutely no clue what 'torture porn' means.

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[–] rowenad 15 years ago

I also found this film boring. It could have been a great film but was absolute rubbish instead.

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[–] Cyber256702000 15 years ago

Just saw it and I didn't think there was any "torture porn" in it at all. As far as gore I thought the movie was fairly tame. You have to expect some grisly scenes seeing as how the story is based on a real life case of a woman who was chopped in half.

When I think of "torture porn" movies such as Hostel, Saw 3, and Texas Chainsaw Massacre come to mind. De Palma has always been fairly good with the violence in his movies. The murders in Dressed to Kill and Body Double were done quite well. Unfortunately he falters with his actual storytelling and his films can at times be quite a mess.

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[–] munspel 15 years ago

Isn't torture porn just a new word for gore/splatter?
It has nothing to do with sex from what I understand.
Anyway, it's a silly concept and I didn't find anything like that in this film.

This film was very bad though. It felt like a parody of noir at times with the over acting and the voiceover. And why was it called The Black Dahlia when it was about two boring cops?

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[–] Established1981 15 years ago

Its getting its UK Premiere at 1.35am on a Friday night. Which tells its own story.

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[–] slimjim76 15 years ago

watched it on film4

Had no idea what was going on

Josh Hartnett is no leading man

no even on same planet as chinatown

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[–] haewatein 14 years ago

I mean the film is REALLY horrible but your reaction reminds me of a conservative 80yo virgin that lives in a monastery. Seriously? And you are on the INTERNET?

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[–] nathan515 13 years ago

BartlebyScrivner, im with you on this one.

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