Eden Lake - A Disgrace to the UK film industry

[The Sweeney]

Here are my thoughts on this disgusting movie - http://www.filmnav.co.uk/2012/06/03/ede ... -industry/

[A Crag-like face]

Here are my thoughts on this disgusting movie - http://www.filmnav.co.uk/2012/06/03/ede ... -industry/

Never seen that movie myself, but it sounds horrific. Unfortunately, I think an increasing number of movies take a nihilistic spin about everything. I think that filmmakers like Scorcese, Stone and especially Tarantino have made it "hip" to produce movies that shrug at human suffering and look down on anyone "naive" enoush to display genuine human emotions. So we get more and more movies where smugness passes for some kind of wisdom.

The real horror of movies like this is that the joke's on the filmmakers too. Oh, they'll warp other people along the way, but they're fooling themselves if they think they actually believe the s**t they're committing to celluloid. If their loved ones were tortured by some teenaged miscreants, they'd be full of moral indignation, as anybody would. So why celebrate such miscreants in the first place?

What really gets me is how filmmakers make movies that seem to have the message that "life sucks, and has no meaning". If that were the case, why bother making a movie? Why bother doing anything at all? It's such a self-negating philosophy, and it bothers me that many (often quite critically successful) movies spout off this philiosophy so glibly.

[Dr. No]

I kind of think movies have become too common. It used to be movies were an event to go to telling a special story. Everybody today makes movies, stories are so recycled it's become a joke. For some movies it's like the people making them only want to make their take on something but is not all that different from the last movie like it.

I don't want there to be less movies just more thought put in why the movie needs to be made. If it doesn't need to be made and is decent story TV, hbo, showtime, USA and direct video is a better alternative.

[Kristatos]

I had that vibe about Sin City. If, by some miracle, you actually started to care about one of the characters. it was a guarantee that they would be dead within 10 minutes.