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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.

[–] franzkabuki 13 years ago

Don´t recall any abundant graphic violence in this one. No torture. No porn. What gives?

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[–] WaningMoonMage 11 years ago

Torture porn? You obviously haven't seen Hostel.
There were barely any scenes of anyone being tortured.

[–] gary_overman 10 years ago

The only thing I saw that I'd consider 'torture' was the cutting of Elizabeth's face.

As far as the case goes, too much evidence has been lost in the nearly seventy years since the murder, that it will probably never be solved.

And that's a pity.

[–] wvsarafan 9 years ago

"squirmy_monkey » Mon Aug 25 2008 16:29:04
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."

It's incomprehensible if YOU'RE STUPID. Clearly you are.

Go back to Star Wars and leave the grown-up movies to the grown-ups.

[–] dominusluna2-704-461065 9 years ago

The phrase "Torture Porn" is just stupid. When the movie "Hostel" came out, people started throwing this phrase around. It was stupid then and stupid now.

[–] sbrooks839 8 years ago

squirmy_monkey, you obviously have no clue what the term "torture porn" even means, SMH. This classy, elegant, beautiful film that had NO gore was the furtherest thing you could get from torture porn, and in my estimation all these years later is what I think hurt it in the eyes of filmgoers back in 2006 who were flooded with nothing but movies filled with extreme gore and torture. Honestly, that's one of the many reasons I love this movie so much, is that De Palma refused to go that route, even though it was the popular trend at the time.

[–] ktodoulakis 8 years ago

You don't know what "torture porn" is, and you're just parroting the term.