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Awful film, but even worse...


As bad as this film is, the posters who defend it are worse. Whether it's nmp-tduarte, who sneers at people who don't like it by putting quotes around the word taste which shows how he despises anyone with different (or better) judgement than him, or oxdinaxo, who claims (and seems to actually believe) that "there is NOTHING in it [the film] that ‘doesn’t make sense’", or the other people who seem to imagine that by claiming to like this film that they'll seem to be intellectually or culturally superior to everyone else,

The film is drivel. Some seemingly normal girl suddenly goes into full blown psycho mode, perfoming acts that no one with her physique could do, and we're supposed to be impressed with that. It's just yet another slasher/gore flick with a weak and unreasoned attempt at a surprise twist.

Oh, but it's French, and the murderer is homosexual, so it's progressive, it's brave, it's new-wave, it's obviously so utterly wonderful that anyone who protests at the plot holes or the contrivances *must* be too stupid to understand the film...

It's people like the pretentious loudmouths who (claim to) like this film that keep the art world in such an awful state. You support rubbish like a few difference coloured squares on a white canvas or a few random sploshes in different shades of red, saying that anyone who doesn't like it is too stupid to understand art, whilst not supporting true, quality art.

Look at truly good films, like the Shawshank Redemption, Monty Python's Life of Brian, The Green Mile, etc. You know, films that people actually appreciate because those films are good, then compare it to unimaginative drivel like this waste of time. And yes, it does sometimes happen that a great film/book/work of art/etc can be unappreciated by the masses. But the key word there is "great", which is not a word that can honestly be applied to this rubbish.

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This movie was far from being "high tension". If I were to stick to slashers, I'll stick with the Saw movies. Twists were good on many of the series and the tension kept my ass slightly off the seat cause of how sick it was. The story was great as well.

But that's a pretty unfair comparison. Saw had a plot, High Tension didn't. So I'll compare it to another slasher with no plot whatsoever. Hostel pt 1. Hostel pt 1 tramples all over High Tension. I found Hostel to be much more disgusting and much more intense than this piece of garbage High Tension. 3 adult males walked out of the theater during the first quarter of the movie. I felt sick to my stomach. I didn't get that feeling with High Tension. I was bored from the lack of plot, the gore was mediocre, and how you could not make any connection to how the hell the butch/dyke was the imaginative red headed fat French guy. Once the twist was being unraveled, I was extremely disappointed and pissed off cause of how the unraveling did not make sense.

I love movie with twists, if the twist makes sense. But this one was just retarded. It seemed like the director got lazy and was like "you know what, I have 2 minutes before I have to go to sleep so let me slap this lame twist onto the script and I'll get praise from the Americans that love to bash their own movies but worship anything Euro-garbage".

I eat pieces of *beep* like you for breakfast.

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Aww nah duh it is retarded, it wasn't the ending for the story!

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Lol your comparing the green mile to high tension??? lol and out of the same mouth use the word pretentious?? lol ok little one ...there different movies kid...and I doubt you have seen life of brian or any of the others you claim to have. All those movies you just said were utter *beep* compared to the source material regardless...

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i agree *beep* crap film

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agreed. Stupid, senseless lesbophobic propaganda sums up this movie well. Abhorrent cinema.

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I was pretty into this film until the half way mark. I REALLY hate when the big reveal is that the main character is the killer. It's just too predictable. I sat there hoping that the twist wouldn't be what I thought it was and TA-DA! It was.

Other than being filmed really well, High Tension did nothing new for the horror genre. And yes, the cheapest way to get people interested in a movie is to throw lesbians in it. Me thinks that if you put a gay male as the lead you wouldn't get the same ovation.


Mediocre film.





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Using purportedly Avant-garde tropes and subversions can potentially make a film interesting, but they run the very real risk of being gimmicky. I could film a man or woman in drag masturbating on top of (choose one or more of: American flag, crucifix, burqa, dead body) and call it cutting edge art, and chances are a small segment of the European and American art scene would swallow what I was selling them.

Your last paragraph does your rant a disservice, however. Life of Brian is quite enjoyably humorous and irreverent, but The Shawshank Redemption is an overrated decent film and The Green Mile is an atrocious exercise in cliches.

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