Reviewed this in 2013. 13 years ago.
Martyrs (2008)
Basic plot: Two girls are kidnapped and tortured by a vast secret cult that believes torture brings you to religious ecstasy; like what happened to Jesus and the other historical martyrs, and that if you can dish out enough agony, you literally get the victim close to God, and can reveal the secrets of the universe.
I hated this one.
I don't want to go into the spoiler detail that I went into on Facebook, but...suffice it to say, it's torture porn, but with a pretentious philosophy that doesn't add up in the logic department.
None of what the bad guys do makes logical sense, even accounting for that they're maniacs.
Pissed me off.
Give it a miss.
So, here's my Facebook spoilers...
Eh, the violence was done well, but...my analytical side kept asking things like "how does this conspiracy have so many members?
How do you let that sort of thing out of the bag to potential recruits?
It's not like you can advertise on Craigslist. Where did they get the workforce to build this underground torture chamber? Where did they get the raw materials without raising questions? Where did they get this custom dungeon equipment?
All of this requires more and more people you have to let in on the conspiracy, and more potential people to blab. Wouldn't they have to kill all those people to shut them up?
Wouldn't all those disappearing people raise suspicion?
And...do none of these morons read science articles? This whole near-death load of bullshit can be replicated with brain stimulation. They've known about it since...well, when their dumb conspiracy would have started, around the 90's.
No one brought this up? They're aping science, why turn around and reject it?
Okay, religious morons, I know, but still...", and so forth.
After seeing how deep the rabbit hole goes on Jeffrey Epstein, and seeing what chickenshit boot-licking capitulators Republicans are to Trump, and finding out how brazenly depraved almost the whole goddamned billionaire class are, and very recently watching an unsettling documentary on the Children Of God cult, yeah, this movie cult could totally fucking exist.
And as for the pseudo-science, again, look at real life.
Look at RFK Jr, and how many think his quackery is brilliant.
I take it all fucking back.
Oh, it WOULD leak out to the world eventually though.
But it wouldn't matter.
The Children Of God shit got out, and no one fucking did anything.
Nothing is currently being done about the Epstein files, and Ghislaine Maxwell is all raring to go for her fucking pardon.
I still think its an icky movie that bums me out, but now it bums be out because it could indeed happen.
😔😒😡
8 comments:
Alan Greenspan died at the age of 100 today. You gonna do a little red x's over the eyes obituary for one of Ayn Rand's closest friends?
Eh, I dunno. I wish he had a clear nemesis I could celebrate, like I did for Renee Good over doing the Charlie Kirk one.
In other good news, James Carville threw a tantrum over the progressive wins in New York, and quit the Democrats. Good riddance, you corporate diet-Republican shit-pile. Of course he had to slander progressives as anti-semites to poison the punch bowl on the way out. Classy, grandpa.
https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/im-done-im-not-in-that-fcking-political-party-james-carville-freaks-out-after-progressives-win-big-in-democratic-primaries/
Err....I haven't even THOUGHT about Carville since, like, 2000. I didn't even know he was still alive.
Oh, MSNBC still parades him like he's Yoda, and they lap his bullshit up like hot sauce off a Dairy Queen. He was telling Dem candidates to throw trans people under the bus. Then Mamdani won under a platform of equal rights for everybody. Carville's never backed down, and gone "oh, shit, I was wrong". Fucking old buzzard.
Oh, and I just found out the sonvabitch works at Palantir. 😒
HAHAHAAA!!! When I reviewed the big Poe omnibus, I said "The Devil in the Belfry" reminded me either of an 80's metal video, or a Wes Anderson movie. But then I added that Wes would have Bill Murray as a cowboy come in to get rid of the fiddle playing imp. Whelp, Wes Anderson is really making Bill Murray into a goddamned cowboy. I Nostradamus-ed that shit.
https://www.darkhorizons.com/wes-anderson-bill-murray-plan-a-western/
I rewatched a few of the old Wes Anderson movies that I used to hate recently (they were part of my big movie spree in 2005-06 because I didn't own my own DVD player before that and I rented like 200 movies I'd always intended to watch.) I used to hate them but now I couldn't even work up the energy to get pissed off at the cutesy stuff, or even the ending of "Rushmore." "Moonrise Kingdom" and "The Grand Budapest Hotel" were okay but I don't think he's ever made a movie that I really loved. I haven't watched the last few though.
And he's....*checks*...FIFTY SEVEN YEARS OLD?!? The fuck?!? Why was I still thinking of him as a young filmmaker? That's older than Wes Craven was when he made "Scream"! How fucking old am *I*?
I'm starting to think that ANY filmmaker who lives long enough and has a career long enough will try a Western, or at least a Western pastiche.
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