mar 14
2008

Funny Games

The NYC critics are destroying Funny Games. I'm pretty sure I'm going to love it.

4 comments

I read about it at Vulture today. that's crazy. I actually can't wait to see it..

posted by marrina at 7:47 PM on March 14, 2008

Yeah, I think I'm gonna dig it too. Critics, shmitics. They also hated Jason X, and that was a beautiful masterpiece.

posted by Max "Bunny" Sparber at 9:39 PM on March 14, 2008

did the same critics pitch a fit over the original german version? the new version is shot for shot, so....(cinematical loved it. said it was actually scarier in english, because with subtitles you have to process what you are reading first.)
seriously it can't be worse than the saw movies, or half the horror movies from the early 70's?

posted by kittyholmes at 5:31 PM on March 15, 2008

Yeah, someone should write about this... there's a strong thread of thinking in mainstream criticism against hyper-violence -- "torture porn" is invoked constantly.

posted by Rex at 5:49 PM on March 15, 2008




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