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The Machine Girl: More red kool-aid than you can shake a dismembered limb at. [NSFW!]
Local H Jay
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So, I just got done watching the craziest fucking movie ever. It's called 'The Machine Girl' and it's the goriest, most fucked up movie ever concieved, worse than any Saw or Hostel movie. In fact, I rank this more disgusting than anything, worse than tubgirl, 2g1c, and that horrible, horrible scene in The Hills Have Eyes.
It apparently just came over stateside, as it's on the Xbox Live Marketplace, and on DVD. Here's a brief synopsis:
Ami (Minase Yashiro in her film debut) is a tough but otherwise average high school girl trying to lead a normal life. Her world comes crashing down when her brother and his friend are killed by ruthless bullies. As Ami tracks down the ringleader she is surprised to discover the bullies' association with a sinister ninja yakuza family. When she goes after her revenge she soon finds herself in over her head and minus her left arm. Barely surviving Ami escapes and seeks out shelter from two kindly garage mechanics. They take pity on her fitting her with a high-powered machine gun where her arm used to be. She then teams up with the chainsaw-wielding mother (Asami) of her brother's slain friend and together they unleash an unholy non-stop over-the-top kill fest against the equally creative machinery (drill bra flying guillotine) of their relentless ninja enemies.
So yeah, it's fucking lunacy.
Oh, and here's the trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSpCWJnnWVI
Basically all you need to know is this: If you like over the top violence like in Evil Dead or Kill Bill, then you'll hate it once you see this shit. People's faces get blown apart, shruiken dismantle and explode a man, a sword fight happens between a person with a sword and another with a dismembered arm, and all sorts of crazy shit.
Hell, one dude has a sharp bucket on a chain that he throws on people's heads and yanks on it to decapitate them. A motherfucking sharp bucket.
You all have to see this, now. Mandatory.
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Since this thread is already marked NSFW and a picture is worth a thousand words, I might as well link to the 5-minute international film festival trailer, right?
Just a wee bit over the top
So, a poor man's "Flying Guillotine?"
I like that the production level is about the same as those weird action movies that TV stations used to play at 4 AM.
that's super dude
If you don't like it why are you even in here?
Anyways...
This sort of thing isn't my schtick, but I did enjoy Battle Royale and I'm a fan of (well done) zombie movies.
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B-movie + East Asia = nerd cred
But for people like me who do enjoy the cheesy gorefests like this, it's worth mentioning.
Next time you make a thread I'll just come in and be like "LOL THIS IS DUMB I'M COOL BECAUSE I DON'T LIKE YOUR SHIT."
It's like that movie Versus. I had all these people telling me that, since I love HKBOs and their ilk, I should love Versus, but it was just overwrought, unoriginal crap.
A lot of people have a measure of pent-up blood lust.
Movies are one of the healthier ways of getting those out. Also video games.
I'm expressing my opinion that torture porn has no redeeming value and that I find the people who luuuurve it to be really really creepy?
If you want an echo chamber, this isn't the place, despite what the local fundies and neocons would have you think.
Turn death into a joke and it becomes less scary.
I'm really not a subscriber to the thought that doing something a whole bunch will make you want to do it less. Doesn't seem to match reality. Catharsis is very different to this, but I think the concept is misunderstood and used as an excuse for indulging by a lot of people.
However, I'm not aware of any actual negative behavior associated with watching boring and silly crap of this or any other sort, so I'm not particularly active in damning it as a form of entertainment.
I'm not sure that, for the typical fan of such fare, it has any more meaning than watching Dragon Ball Z, where genocide and global destruction happen whenever someone finishes screaming.
This is interesting: http://www.nber.org/papers/w13718
Interesting in its lack of control group, sure. I'm happy to suppose that in the short term violence is sublimated, but I'm less sure about the long term. Becoming inured to/developing a taste for this type of stuff is quite possible.
It also completely fails to address the fact that I'm creeped out even more by people who apparently need this stuff in order to stop themselves abusing people
I'm sure you know better than I the statistics of how absolutely horrible so many people in the world are.
I'm for anything that gets them to not do horrible things to the not-horrible people.
As for inuring them to violence, I doubt it would be any more prone to CAUSE anything than video games.
I'm much more worried about the crazy rioting assholes who watch sports.
I wonder how modern non-American Football fans compare behavior-wise to the old Gladiator Match fans where people actually died while they watched.
Anyways, point is, I'm unaware of any actual evidence that violent media causes violent behavior.
I'll grant that I have no actual evidence of it preventing it.
Personally, I don't "get" ultra-violence to begin with. I've been exposed to real violence, and real gore, and I'm mostly just bored with it all. Lacking an understanding of it, while I find it distasteful, I'm not willing to attribute any negative personal traits to it, and so am unwilling to associate it with anything but my tastes not agreeing with someone else's.
Because that's what I was trying to show. I also really don't think what you're trying to accuse me of is a dichotomy. A dichotomy is claiming that "It is either this or this and no other options."
Usually most of the entertainment from these kinds of movies comes from how ridiculous everything is. I mean come on, drill bras? That's just hilarious.
Hopefully I can check this out, looks absurdly awesome.
May have to watch.
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You can't tell me that you don't find the concept of a Drill Bra at least somewhat appealing.
Drill Bra!
I haven't seen the film but I bet there is a scene where the girl gets groped and then drills through the guys hands.
And the word "DRILL BRA!" appears on the screen in sparkling letters.
Personally I dont mind the over the top gore. I mean hell, have you ever dress an animal before? The visuals is nothing compare to the smell. I mean what's the difference between this movie and Rambo 4?
Really, why not illustrate how an argument (not that Incenjucar was really making argument there) is fallacious rather than just spouting the name of some fallacy that you (apparently) don't understand?
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I'm not sure where the distinguishing line falls for me between "gore porn" movies that I enjoy and ones that don't really do anything for me. For example, I like Kill Bill, Evil Dead, and Braindead/Dead Alive, but the trailer in the OP doesn't really do anything for me. I've also never seen Battle Royale and what little I caught of Ichi the Killer didn't make me want to go watch the whole thing. I guess I just don't understand the Japanese.
I'm not saying that watching these movies it cathartic for everybody, but for somebody that has a problem with blood lust, watching a movie like this certainly wouldn't be a release for them.
What have you done to me???
Cite?
Seriously, I very much doubt the veracity of that statement.