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Post by endo on Feb 29, 2012 21:48:09 GMT -5
So, which one for you guys. Rare for me, but I have to go with the 2006 remake. Just a brutal film that I thought took what happened in the original and just turned up the intensity on it 10 fold.
The original is a classic, but the remake takes it over the top. What do you think?
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Post by thom10 on Feb 29, 2012 21:54:23 GMT -5
Went with the remake. It's probably in my top 20 or so favorite movies ever to be honest.
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Post by endo on Feb 29, 2012 22:11:46 GMT -5
It's a great movie and one of the few that caught me off guard with it's brutality. In the scene where the dad is being burned alive, I had to stop it and take a breather. Now that's a good flick!!
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Post by thom10 on Feb 29, 2012 22:35:17 GMT -5
I really like Ted Levine (the dad). He was in one of my favorite tv shows, Monk. He was also in two of my other favorite movies, Silence of the Lambs ("It puts the lotion on or it gets the hose again") and Wonderland.
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Post by NDX on Mar 1, 2012 0:13:46 GMT -5
Still haven't seen any of them and I really, really, really want to. Waiting for them to go REAL cheap and best buy to get them. Any of them.
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Post by leroy on Mar 1, 2012 2:21:04 GMT -5
gone with the undecided vote.
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Post by gorepolice on Mar 1, 2012 12:57:44 GMT -5
Went with the remake. The original had a good concept but it really didn't deliver what I was expecting at all. The remake on the other hand was really over the top and brutal.
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Post by endo on Mar 1, 2012 17:15:23 GMT -5
Yeah, I love it. The Hills 2 remake is another story.
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Post by joeyidol on Mar 1, 2012 22:32:24 GMT -5
Yeah right the first one is way better because it was an original idea the remake was almost shot for shot the same damn film with cgi gore...the idea of the inbred hill family was far more believeable then ugly stupid looking mutated monsters. Michael Berryman is the ish! Wes Craven is the ish! I even think the original hills have eyes 2 (1985) is better then the remake and that movie sucked but at least it was its own film. This thread makes me sick.
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Post by endo on Mar 2, 2012 10:53:28 GMT -5
Damn Joey, tell us how you really feel, lol.
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Post by gorepolice on Mar 2, 2012 11:24:25 GMT -5
I do agree that The Hills 2 remake is dreadful. I have to give the original another chance. Saw it way long ago when I wasn't the viewer I am now. Might have a different opinion on it after all this time.
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Post by endo on Mar 2, 2012 12:30:43 GMT -5
Meh, I've seen the original many times and still take the remake over it in terms of sheer brutality. That doesn't mean I'm saying the first one is bad at all. Just that I prefer the remake, rough film to watch. The original was good, and like you said Joey, was great for it's time. Not bashing it, or Wes Craven, one of my favorite directors. Just out of the two, I'd take the remake.
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Post by Tony Hates Everything on Mar 6, 2012 15:03:05 GMT -5
I love both no lie but the remake was just great the unrated version.... someone had said and I don't remember where for all I can recall it could be a previous post here but they said the hills have eyes remake was basically made for a mutant rape porn fetish. Now it is just quote from that persons entire rant but that was basically the quote that summed up the entire post but it started up a entire conversation about horror films now just being about sick twisted fetish people would like to see basically a soft core porn and at a certain point with certain movies I agree that they go to far to prove a point the hills have eyes is on that border with the remake.
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Post by endo on Mar 6, 2012 20:00:56 GMT -5
No more so than I Spit On Your Grave or The Last House on the Left, and I mean the originals. Films were pulling the exploitation thing way before this remake, just saying.
I don't look it as soft porn, but more this is what would probably happen if this movie were real. That's why the remake disturbed me as much as it did. The original was tame compared to this one IMO. Good film, but tame.
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Post by Tony Hates Everything on Mar 8, 2012 0:36:42 GMT -5
Both films mentioned in that discussion also including the Halloween remake for its rape scene... honestly did these scenes add to the film? I would say no but did they make the movie better yes they did make you more involved in the characters and feel the pain of the victims... So while I feel these movies take things sometimes to far I feel they add something occasionally... Yea tony just had a debate with himself LOL
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