View Single Post
  #31265  
Old 01-29-2010, 08:11 AM
siorai's Avatar
siorai siorai is offline
Evil Dead
 
Join Date: Jan 2008
Posts: 192
Quote:
Originally Posted by FreddyMyers View Post
Its 3 Am where I live and i just got done watching Martyrs for the first time. I dont plan on sleeping......ever again. Just now getting into the French horror this was an Abosolutly incredible movie that will stay without doubt with me for the next couple of days. It was one of the first movies in a long time that had me squirming in my seat as if to try to protect myself for what im seeing. Once again it was an amazing movie but id like to hear anyone elses thoughts on it.
My only real problem with the movie is that the girls were not martyrs. They were victims. So the whole premise of the movie is completely invalid. It's an interesting concept, but inherently flawed. But which would make people want to watch the movie more? Young attractive women getting brutally killed or death-fearing senior citizens choosing to be brutally murdered? To me the movie felt like it was trying to elevate itself past something like Hostel or Saw by having a "deeper meaning," but failed because said "deeper meaning" is just kludged onto a pretty typical torture porn script without any thought of the lack of logic behind it. Pretty good movie, but the script could have used quite a bit of work in my opinion.
Reply With Quote