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Title: Bad Iraq memory aka worst movie ever
Post by: Balog on January 28, 2007, 09:22:26 PM

Ok, the "which Heinlein book to read first" thread reminded me of this....

So I'm in Iraq, we've just got back from a night mission. Don't remember what exactly, but most of the night runs were either security for EOD on IED sweeps or security for construction crews. Anyway, we're all sitting in the back of the hootch waiting for the Lt and Ssgt to come back from their debrief so we could do our debrief. We had a TV and DVD player back there so someone decides to throw a movie in to kill time. Not a bad idea, but they chose Irreversible.

Now, this movie has a lot going against it. It's French, it uses a telling the story in reverse gimmick, and the trailers or whatever on the DVD are like 18 minutes of weird colors flashing to incredibly grating music. I think those were trailers anyway, something in the special features. But on the plus side it has Monica Belluci, so what the hell right?

I won't bore you with the entire plot, but it has two really disgusting scenes that I'll probably never get out of my head.. A guy in a place called Club Rectum getting his head crushed with a fire extinguisher, and the worrld's longest rape scene. Just really horribly graphic stuff, made worse by how long the scenes were. The director seemed to revel in the depravity of it, and I'm not ashamed to admit that the thought of people actually watching that for entertainment makes me a little sick. I felt like Nic Cage in "8mm" when he's down in that crazy illegal porn shop.

So in conclusion: never under any circumstances watch "Irreversible," I'm really dissapointed in Monica Belluci for being associated with it, and what the hell is wrong with the french?

Title: Re: Bad Iraq memory aka worst movie ever
Post by: Bogie on January 29, 2007, 04:32:04 AM

Ahhh... Movies that make you wanna take a shower... in Lysol.
 
Requiem for a Dream is WAY up there...
 

Title: Re: Bad Iraq memory aka worst movie ever
Post by: Perd Hapley on January 29, 2007, 04:36:19 AM

Balog, I have to disagree.  You can't have a worst movie ever without Jean Claude VanDamme, Juliet Lewis, Richard Gere and Wesley Snipes.  At minimum. 

At least in that one you got to see Monica Bellucci. 

Title: Re: Bad Iraq memory aka worst movie ever
Post by: richyoung on January 29, 2007, 04:52:05 AM

Balog, I know how you feel...when I was in college, I bought a novel with F4U Corsairs on the cover, supposed to be the story of "Trusty" Trusteaux, fighter pilot.  I gotta admit, I never saw the plot twist of him falling in love with his CO during a combat deployment comming.  It was all down hill from there - tauma has blotted htememory of the book's title out of my mind, fortunately.

Title: Re: Bad Iraq memory aka worst movie ever
Post by: Phantom Warrior on January 29, 2007, 09:51:19 AM

Bogie,

Well put.  After watching "Requiem For a Dream" I just felt drained and filthy.  I still say that instead of D.A.R.E. and Project Charlie and all that crap we should just make kids watch "Requiem For a Dream."  God...

Title: Re: Bad Iraq memory aka worst movie ever
Post by: El Tejon on January 29, 2007, 10:42:59 AM

Do not discount the awesome power of French film.  Nothing will get a chick like taking her to a French film, even if it is horrible, it is French and thus a lead pipe cinch for the evening.

Title: Re: Bad Iraq memory aka worst movie ever
Post by: Balog on January 29, 2007, 12:32:58 PM

Quote from: El Tejon on January 29, 2007, 09:42:59 AM

Do not discount the awesome power of French film.  Nothing will get a chick like taking her to a French film, even if it is horrible, it is French and thus a lead pipe cinch for the evening.

If a girl actually enjoyed a movie with a five to ten minute long rape scene that ends with the girl getting beaten into bloody coma, I don't think I'd really want to be with her.