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The First Film to Make Me Physically Sick
Boro_Bandito:
Don't see Ben Hur, just see Any Given Sunday. That's all you need from Ben Hur.
Jackie Blue:
--- Quote from: KharBevNor on 18 May 2008, 17:10 ---We tend to rationalise over animal cruelty in old films as being effects trickery nowadays, when in fact they were just chucking livestock around like balloons full of viscera.
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Yeah, the PETA-like obsession with the animal killing in Cannibal Holocaust is kind of ridiculous. OK, the monkey was a little over the line, but out of a whopping six animals killed in the film, one is A SPIDER. A fucking SPIDER. How many spiders does the average person kill every year? Another one is a snake. OK, slightly higher up on the food chain, but still... it's a frigging snake. People kill harmless snakes in their houses all the time because they're too scared to pick them up.
KharBevNor:
--- Quote from: Cartilage Head on 18 May 2008, 19:03 --- That sucks. I kind of want to see every movie mentioned in this thread but haven't had a chance to yet. I really want to see the Guinea Pig films!
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Protip: There are no Guinea Pigs at all.
Given all the legal disclaimers on films, I wonder how they get away with those TV series were Bear Grylls wades through inhospitable terrain crudely bludgeoning the local wildlife to death with rocks and devouring it raw.
CamusCanDo:
I think I've read about the Guniea Pig film somewhere, fuck knows where. Isn't it basically the Japanese/Asian precursor to Hostel?
Inlander:
--- Quote from: zerodrone on 19 May 2008, 02:58 ---Yeah, the PETA-like obsession with the animal killing in Cannibal Holocaust is kind of ridiculous. OK, the monkey was a little over the line, but out of a whopping six animals killed in the film, one is A SPIDER. A fucking SPIDER. How many spiders does the average person kill every year? Another one is a snake. OK, slightly higher up on the food chain, but still... it's a frigging snake. People kill harmless snakes in their houses all the time because they're too scared to pick them up.
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Although I do feel that many animal-rights activists go way over the top, I also don't see that there's any rational reason not to be as outraged at the killing of a spider or a snake as one might be at the killing of something larger or cuter.
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