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^Ha-ha, that movie was fairly awesome.

So you missed the part where the crazy doctor has sex with each segment of the centipede one after the other?

It was beautiful.  I couldn't stop crying at the beauty of it.

I saw the trailer for the film on one of Charlie Brooker's shows and the idea was more than enough for me.

I remember foolishly thinking that Salo would be a walk in the park after my teen years of watching grim and grotesque films but it took me months to wash that film out of my brains.

Human Centipede may be a fine film but I would need a lot of convincing to make me take the risk.

I have finite hours in the day so if I'm going to go out of my way to see a film something has to spark my interest enough to get me to go there in the amount of time I have free to see a film.

Sometimes that's down to recommendation, sometimes that's pure whimsy, sometimes it's to test my preconceptions (I sat through all the Austin Powers films at the request of a friend, after shamefully prejudging them as not being worth me seeing them...I was right but I put hours of my life into hopefully proving myself wrong).

I don't need to put on a movie to feel the sort of emotions I got from the trailer of Human Centipede (their are plenty of documentaries about real life nutjobs who performed acts like that in the death camps during WWII, which I presume the film makes a nod to). If I were to watch the film with my reservations already there it would have to be in some way a rewarding experience to be worth my time.

Warb as I recall was already in two minds about if he should or shouldn't watch The Exorcist (his interest had been peeked enough to consider the exercise). He didn't think his mind would be warped or his faith shaken by watching it he was just weighing up the pros and cons.

If I found myself in that sort of situation with The Human Centipede I would probably just watch it but currently I'm of the opinion of all the things I could do with my finite number of evenings, watching a film based on that premise currently doesn't excite my interest enough to break through my initial reaction to the central idea.

HotRod said:

Not sure how that would work for the middle segment, but yeah.

You'll never create your own human centipede with that limited imagination...

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time

Better than expected.

Don't worry I'm chilled to perfection but if someone were to give me good reasons to see it I would consider it.

I remember explaining to the other half that the original The Texas Chainsaw Massacre isn't anything like what the title suggests and that it has a genuine mix of satire, pathos and intelligent unease and provides a rewarding cathartic experience (not like Wolf Creek which despite it lovely photography was just another film where stupid women are tortured by a sick sod living in the middle of nowhere).

Se7en is another film I wish I hadn't bothered to watch, being basically a Doctor Phibes film without the wit, style or laughs and dollops of tedious pretension.

It can be easy to get the wrong idea about a film from the premise or the way a film is marketed.

Bingowings said:

Se7en is another film I wish I hadn't bothered to watch, being basically a Doctor Phibes film without the wit, style or laughs and dollops of tedious pretension.

You are now dead to me.

This version is a great improvement.

Despicable Me.

Actually a very funny little movie.

Real Genius.  Pretty funny 80's comedy about scientific types, with a young Val Kilmer who was cracking me up through the whole movie.  The guy with no dick from Ghostbusters is in it.

Now that we have them all, soon we're going to watch all the Pixar movies in the order they were made.  Can't go wrong with Pixar . . .

hairy_hen said:

Real Genius.  Pretty funny 80's comedy about scientific types, with a young Val Kilmer who was cracking me up through the whole movie.  The guy with no dick from Ghostbusters is in it.

Walter Peck.  Or Mr. Pecker, if you prefer.

It's true.  That man has no dick.

HA! Ghostbusters reference.

Aladin.

Never liked this movie. Given the abject crime, poverty, and injustice of her realm, its hard to sympathize with the poor little princess who doesn't want to marry to keep the peace.