tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2856547151523423474.post2558388541450245830..comments2024-03-12T12:38:23.542-04:00Comments on The Kind of Face You Hate: The Best Years of Our Livesbill r.http://www.blogger.com/profile/17748572205731857892noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2856547151523423474.post-86242780884269263772011-05-10T07:50:06.214-04:002011-05-10T07:50:06.214-04:00I was being somewhat facetious. Hell, I watch the...I was being somewhat facetious. Hell, I watch these movies myself, don't I? But I do feel a bit grimy after something like THE NEW YORK RIPPER.<br /><br />As for CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST, I just don't want to see it. The documentary footage of seal-clubbing from THE DEVIL, PROBABLY has never left my head, much as I wish it would, and I don't feel especially compelled to add to that.bill r.https://www.blogger.com/profile/17748572205731857892noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2856547151523423474.post-53267431961860470922011-05-10T07:37:35.829-04:002011-05-10T07:37:35.829-04:00I'm sure you were being facetious, but I take ...I'm sure you were being facetious, but I take exception to the idea that a viewer should ever feel bad about enjoying any movie, no matter how loathsome, even something like Salo (which makes Fulci's entire oeuvre look Sesame Street-innocent). Of course, that doesn't include "movies" which involve actual crime or outright coercion to produce, like child porn or "snuff movies" (if only in theory and urban legend).<br /><br />As for the real animal cruelty in Cannibal Holocaust, I can see good arguments being made for and against its criminality, but I don't think you should let it prevent you from checking the movie out and making your own mind up about it. Much as I hated the pointless, pretty inexcusable animal abuse, the rest of the movie is undeniably powerful and highly disturbing. And surely even worse fates befall masses of animals every day in the service of far more "legitimate" purposes.Johnnoreply@blogger.com