- Human Centipede II already banned in the UK for sexual depravity. The description of the film sounds pretty horrific to me, even beyond the pale — and I’m someone who, amazingly enough, found some things to…well, not enjoy, exactly, about the first film, although I was less immediately repulsed by it than I would have expected. (Watching it over Twitter with friends may have softened the blow.)
But the idea of censoring it, of banning it from the country, doesn’t sit entirely well with me. I tend to agree with Sarah Ditum of The Guardian on this:
You get extremes of intelligence and stupidity as well as extremes of unpleasantness in horror, and if we’re happy to start banning stuff because of the latter, we might be losing a lot of stuff that falls into the former camp.
- Meanwhile, the fact that there will be a G.I. Joe sequel — and that it may very well star The Rock — fills me with a weird manic delight. The original was one of the most gloriously dumb movies I have ever seen. I am so renting any sequel, as terrible as it is likely to be.
- A lot of really interesting thoughts on X-Men: First Class. Though I liked it well enough — more than I expected to, less than I might have hoped — I’m not sure it deserves all this deep thought. But it’s all very interesting nonetheless. Spoiler warnings, of course.
- Any story that starts with “the night a drunk John Lennon and Harry Nilsson heckled the Smothers Brothers and got in a fight with Pam Grier” has got to be good.
- And finally, Paul Simon is simply a true class act. [via
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That was a pretty massive spoiler alert in the Human Centipede story. I doubt that I’ll see it – mostly because I thought the first one was actually fairly well done, given what they had to work with. As a horror movie, I thought it managed to stand on its own six feet.
Yes, perhaps a spoiler warning is in order. For all the movie posts above.
I was surprised by the first Centipede, too, though I hesitate to call it a “good” movie. I don’t see what of value the sequel can bring to the table, and the plot description fills me with dread.
I’m not joking about a G.I. Joe sequel, though. I am so seeing that, and it will be awful.
I’m not joking about a G.I. Joe sequel, though. I am so seeing that, and it will be awful.
Heh. Reminds me of a friend’s reaction when we went to see Priest last night. She said, with complete sincerity, I believe, that she was really looking forward to the sequel because it would make an awesome drinking game.