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« Reply #90 on: October 20, 2010, 08:29:29 PM »

I have heard much fanfare about this and will probably watch it soon.  The ATM thing just makes me laugh thinking about how it made it into film.
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« Reply #91 on: October 21, 2010, 06:10:10 AM »

I have heard much fanfare about this and will probably watch it soon.  The ATM thing just makes me laugh thinking about how it made it into film.

I just think it funny how the movie makers think this is such an original idea.
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« Reply #92 on: October 21, 2010, 06:19:33 PM »

Roger Ebert's summary of the film deserves repeating:

I am required to award stars to movies I review. This time, I refuse to do it. The star rating system is unsuited to this film. Is the movie good? Is it bad? Does it matter? It is what it is and occupies a world where the stars don't shine.

The rest of his review is quite funny, with lines like: In the film's last half, the two actresses don't scream at all, if you follow me.
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« Reply #93 on: October 21, 2010, 08:24:14 PM »

I'm not going to watch this movie.  I already have too much a bad mental image with this movie already.  The only reason I am commenting now is that I just saw the results on Spike TV's Scream Awards, apparently Human Centipede won for Most Memorable Mutilation.  Can't argue that...
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« Reply #94 on: October 22, 2010, 02:04:01 AM »

I'm not going to watch this movie.  I already have too much a bad mental image with this movie already.  The only reason I am commenting now is that I just saw the results on Spike TV's Scream Awards, apparently Human Centipede won for Most Memorable Mutilation.  Can't argue that...

Most Memorable Mutilation? so what are the other past winners [or should I be looking for this up]..

I would watch this movie if the character was like Dr. Phibes... although my vision would be much worse... I'll call my Dr. Phibes as Dr. P.

Dr. P is angry with Mr. Lawyer. "Oh your a worm, you, your secretary and your assistant." Dr. P writes something onto a brass display sign while smiling at his creation.  Dr. P has severed the arms and legs from his three victims and connecting the assisntant's face into the butt of the secretary and the lawyer's face into the butt of the assistant. "Squirm, like the worm you are." Dr. P says as he leaves his creation in a cell in a zoo. And written on the brass display about Lemur's is "The Human Worm."

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« Reply #95 on: October 22, 2010, 05:19:27 AM »

The portrayal of the doctor was what I liked most about The Human Centipede. The trailer shows him as a very dark and menacing character, which he is, some of the time. I was surprised by just what a funny character he turned out to be. Joining three people together seemed to be as much about replacing a dead pet as anything else. The doc was very fond of his "three dog."

I found a lot of the more disturbing aspects of the movie were tempered by Dr. Heiter's often comical disconnection from reality - training the human centipede to fetch the paper, pleading with his victims not to scream and sob so much because they're keeping him awake, stuff like that. The dreaded scene where the guy in front finally has to pinch one off actually had me laughing. It was certainly disturbing to watch the middle girl choking down some unseen nastiness being forced into her mouth, but consider that it happened outside, in the middle of a dog training session, and the front guy spends the whole time apologizing in Japanese, while the doctor, complete with white coat, jackboots, sunglasses and riding crop, does an excited marionette dance around them, yelling stuff like "Feed her! Yeah! Swallow it, b***h!" Dieter Laser goes so far over the top at times that it becomes seriously funny. He's menacing, he's psychotic, he's sadistic, but Dr. Heiter is also a complete doofus at times, and totally oblivious to the suffering he's causing. It's almost as if he expects his victims to be as enthusiastic about the project as he is.

For me, a sinister Dr. Phibes-like portrayal would have spoiled it.
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« Reply #96 on: October 22, 2010, 02:33:52 PM »

Here we go again. I get the feeling Sixx is going for a campier sequel, as well as a grosser one.
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« Reply #97 on: November 16, 2010, 04:53:53 PM »

Finally saw this last night and loved it!  I had to keep watching to see what would happen next.
Netflix now has this available for instant streaming so be sure to add it to your instant queue if you haven't seen it yet.

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The portrayal of the doctor was what I liked most about The Human Centipede. The trailer shows him as a very dark and menacing character, which he is, some of the time. I was surprised by just what a funny character he turned out to be.

Agreed. 
The doctor was the best part of the film.

I'm giving it 3.5 out of 4 stars and a big  Thumbup
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« Reply #98 on: November 18, 2010, 08:52:21 AM »

Looks like the doctor is based on Josef Mengele, who I'm sure inspired the story you read.

So, what was the point of sewing together three people end to end? Was there a scientific goal, or did it just give him a perverted thrill?


On TV Tropes they have a term for this: For The Evulz.  It's when a villain does s**t just because, well, they're bastards. 

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ForTheEvulz

That being said, I don't have an intention of watching this film.  I've never been a fan of the "let's watch people get tortured for no reason" type movies in any event, but this just seem particularly gross and outlandish.
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« Reply #99 on: November 18, 2010, 09:40:00 AM »

Heiter seems to be doing it more for the fun than because he's evil, although fun isn't quite the right word either. He's got a bit of a God complex, not to mention a serious obsession with conjoined twins, and a streak of sadism (you can see he gets off on some of the violence and killing), sociopathy, misanthropy, misogyny, and possibly even some kind of scat fetish, but overall, his attitude toward his creation is that it's just so freaking cool. Heiter is like one of those guys who takes a perfectly good car and mods it into some weird novelty vehicle for no other reason than he has the technical know-how and wants to make himself a really awesome toy. He's a big kid with a medical degree and a whole lot of German efficiency.

Ironically, he's made something that manages to be impressive, even though it totally sucks *ss. TeddyR
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« Reply #100 on: November 20, 2010, 07:48:00 AM »

I finally watched my copy last night and found it to be entertaining (in a sick, twisted way of course).  However, I did think the "post operation" part was too long (about half the movie) . . . they should have had more of a suspenseful build up to/through the operation and then made the "post op" parts run for about 20 minutes.  I could see them editing about 15 minutes out of this movie and the movie would not suffer by doing so.  Otherwise, I'm happy with my purchase!
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« Reply #101 on: November 22, 2010, 08:23:44 PM »

Its on Netflix streaming!!! Watching it now...I'll post some time later when I'm done with it.
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« Reply #102 on: November 22, 2010, 10:15:47 PM »

One hour and a half later...possible spoilers...

I kind of echo what Rev is talking about earlier in the thread.  Perhaps I've seen one too many violent films or maybe I'm just desensitized but I rarely find myself shocked by anything anymore in the realm of movies.  Don't get me wrong, the fact they were able to pull this off as a plot deserves kudos.  That and they were bold enough to use a concept like surgical ATM (figure it out).  But I did find this film highly predictable as many films in the past decade or two.  Also, and yep you can call me a sadist, I was saddened it wasn't more graphic.  I would have been interested to see more of the surgery itself.  And although the "feeding scene" was funny in a dark way,  I thought it should have been way over the top.  Have the front guy grunting like a madman and the middle girl making loud gagging noises.  I also would have loved to see the front or back rip away.  Yeah...I'm a sick man at times.  Bluesad

Might I just say I could have cared less about the fodder.  Perhaps instead spending time on the multiple false scares, allow us to get to know them and say like them better.  That way we feel twice as bad for their character when they are surgically joined up.  All we get are two Paris Hilton sorority b!tches who are frankly as dumb as a post.  First off, they're travelling in Germany without a clue of where they're going...at night no less.  Then they leave a trail of stupidity all the way up until they're eating sh!t...quite literally.  

Oh well, its by far not the worst film I've seen but I think I'd only watch parts of it when it comes to re-watch value.
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« Reply #103 on: November 23, 2010, 02:38:36 PM »

Its on Netflix streaming!!! Watching it now...I'll post some time later when I'm done with it.

lol... maybe oneday we'll watch this; although so far nobody is saying anything that I cannot imagine... and the graphic pics look very silly, like a face taped to underpants, and the girls facial expression is expecting a fart...

[Actually the girls facial expression does reminds me of a silly porn trailer I've seen from fartbrazil.com (please note do not check this website out at work or with children)]

The only thing I'm curious is when Scary Movie (or such) will make a joke out of this... [I would like to see that]... :)
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« Reply #104 on: November 23, 2010, 03:02:34 PM »

Don't know if it's mainstream enough for a Scary Movie type of parody, although it certainly does have plenty of spoofing potential.

Come to think of it, I'd be surprised if somebody doesn't base at least one porno movie on it.
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