Anyone here seen Donkey Punch?
04-10-09, 04:15 PM
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Anyone here seen Donkey Punch?
Anyone here check it out, now that it's out on DVD?
I thought it was one of the better, "things-gone-horribly-wrong" horror movies I've seen in a while. I'm not saying this is a masterpiece, but it has some nice style to it & I especially liked the performance of the one really big asshole-dude, I forgot his name. If you dig these types of genre flicks I think this is one of the better ones.
I thought it was one of the better, "things-gone-horribly-wrong" horror movies I've seen in a while. I'm not saying this is a masterpiece, but it has some nice style to it & I especially liked the performance of the one really big asshole-dude, I forgot his name. If you dig these types of genre flicks I think this is one of the better ones.
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04-10-09, 04:41 PM
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Re: Anyone here seen Donkey Punch?
I saw it a few days ago. I liked it as well. Could have been unbearable considering the characters and only 1 major setting but I thought it was handled rather well.
04-10-09, 05:48 PM
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I saw it a while back. It was a decent way to kill 90 minutes.
04-10-09, 11:45 PM
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That's 90 minutes of my life I will NOT get back. I kept on hoping it would go off into Severence territory, where people are just brutally killed. Save for the one brutal killing in the movie, the rest were kind of meh. It was clear they had a lack of budget in this. And they certainly didn't make up for that with a good story and good actors.
It fails as a horror movie, it fails as a suspense movie, it fails as an "erotic drama." It succeeds tremendously at wasting your time and being quite boring. I stuck with it hoping something would change pace in the movie, but it never does. It remained bad through out.
04-11-09, 12:44 PM
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I vote terrible
04-11-09, 01:29 PM
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I just couldn't disagree more. Its as if the reviewer had never seen a film like this before. His main criticism is that this is an exploitation film, w/ a lack of brains & it's low budget. That is the entire point of the film. It's a "things-gone-horribly-wrong" film. It is low budget, it does take place on one set & it has excessive violence. That is the entire point of the film. It's not about finding redeeming values in it's characters or judging the characters dispicable deeds which this review does. Why watch these movies if that is your mindset. This is just a film about watching just how absurdly fucked up a bunch of dumb kids can get on a boat full of drugs. Given that is all the premise is, & I know that going in, the film does a good job IMO for what it is.
04-11-09, 02:16 PM
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Didn't notice, doesn't change my point & opinions.
It's a low budget, overly-violent exploitation film about dumb horny kids descending into pervisity. That is the entire point of the film & the genre. The movie IS low budget, it doesn't try to be more, & the reviewer knocks that the film is low budget. The entire point of the film is that the characters are repugnant & dispicable, but the reviewer critcizes the movie for it, as if he is watching a low-budget sleeze-fest expecting so much more from the characters. If this is the case, why watch a genre piece like this? This movie isn't about "authentic nail-biting" as the reviewer knocks if for. The movie IS about watching a sex & drug-filled descent into insanity. But the reviewer completely misses all this & judges the movie based on something it in no way attempts to be.
It's like if you have no interest in a science fiction film, but then write a review saying the original Star Wars is a bad movie b/c it has all these funny looking aliens & takes place in space.
It's a low budget, overly-violent exploitation film about dumb horny kids descending into pervisity. That is the entire point of the film & the genre. The movie IS low budget, it doesn't try to be more, & the reviewer knocks that the film is low budget. The entire point of the film is that the characters are repugnant & dispicable, but the reviewer critcizes the movie for it, as if he is watching a low-budget sleeze-fest expecting so much more from the characters. If this is the case, why watch a genre piece like this? This movie isn't about "authentic nail-biting" as the reviewer knocks if for. The movie IS about watching a sex & drug-filled descent into insanity. But the reviewer completely misses all this & judges the movie based on something it in no way attempts to be.
It's like if you have no interest in a science fiction film, but then write a review saying the original Star Wars is a bad movie b/c it has all these funny looking aliens & takes place in space.
04-11-09, 02:41 PM
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The leeway some people give bad movies amazes me sometimes. Does this apply to other areas of life, too? What if I go into work, turn in a sub par work and at my performance review my boss says, "We knew you lacked certain skills going in, so what work you did turn in was a good job IMO for what it was. We hired you to balance our budget for the year but you did make some nifty looking spreadsheets instead." No, it wouldn't work out that way.
It just amazes me people shrug off crap just because it's low budget. Low budget doesn't mean it has to be bad. There are low budget movies out there that exceed because they turn out with good acting and a good script.
But I guess if you want to see a movie about a boat full of kids doing stupid stuff, and you can forgive crappy film making because they just didn't have enough money, then knock yourself out. But I don't need (actually DIDN'T need to) waste time watching this movie to come to the conclusion that the movie made: stupid kids on drugs do more stupid things. And if that's the only point of the movie you are after, then go for it. I was sold on the movie because it was supposed to be a decent low budget horror movie. It was an epic fail on that level.
And, YES, this movie is being marketed as a "HORROR/SUSPENSE." It's NOT being marketed as a "things-gone-horribly-wrong" film. The fact that this movie was made is the only thing that went horribly wrong.
And to add: the O didn't give the movie a bad review because it had a low budget. He gave it a bad review because the material for the movie was too thin to sustain for 90 minutes and the suspense that was in the movie was drawn out and the dialog was primitive. Sounds like some VERY constructive criticisms to me. In fact, the whole review was rather well written, and not just "ME HATE MOVIE CUZ IT WAZ MADE WIT NO MUNNEY."
Can a good movie about sex, drugs and insanity delving into horrific suspense be made with very little money? You bet! SEVERENCE, for example. Well...not quite as much sex and drugs in that one, but still... They can be made. This, unfortunately, wasn't one of them.
It just amazes me people shrug off crap just because it's low budget. Low budget doesn't mean it has to be bad. There are low budget movies out there that exceed because they turn out with good acting and a good script.
But I guess if you want to see a movie about a boat full of kids doing stupid stuff, and you can forgive crappy film making because they just didn't have enough money, then knock yourself out. But I don't need (actually DIDN'T need to) waste time watching this movie to come to the conclusion that the movie made: stupid kids on drugs do more stupid things. And if that's the only point of the movie you are after, then go for it. I was sold on the movie because it was supposed to be a decent low budget horror movie. It was an epic fail on that level.
And, YES, this movie is being marketed as a "HORROR/SUSPENSE." It's NOT being marketed as a "things-gone-horribly-wrong" film. The fact that this movie was made is the only thing that went horribly wrong.
And to add: the O didn't give the movie a bad review because it had a low budget. He gave it a bad review because the material for the movie was too thin to sustain for 90 minutes and the suspense that was in the movie was drawn out and the dialog was primitive. Sounds like some VERY constructive criticisms to me. In fact, the whole review was rather well written, and not just "ME HATE MOVIE CUZ IT WAZ MADE WIT NO MUNNEY."
Can a good movie about sex, drugs and insanity delving into horrific suspense be made with very little money? You bet! SEVERENCE, for example. Well...not quite as much sex and drugs in that one, but still... They can be made. This, unfortunately, wasn't one of them.
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04-11-09, 03:12 PM
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Re: Anyone here seen Donkey Punch?
The leeway some people give bad movies amazes me sometimes. Does this apply to other areas of life, too? What if I go into work, turn in a sub par work and at my performance review my boss says, "We knew you lacked certain skills going in, so what work you did turn in was a good job IMO for what it was. We hired you to balance our budget for the year but you did make some nifty looking spreadsheets instead." No, it wouldn't work out that way.
It just amazes me people shrug off crap just because it's low budget. Low budget doesn't mean it has to be bad. There are low budget movies out there that exceed because they turn out with good acting and a good script.
But I guess if you want to see a movie about a boat full of kids doing stupid stuff, and you can forgive crappy film making because they just didn't have enough money, then knock yourself out. But I don't need (actually DIDN'T need to) waste time watching this movie to come to the conclusion that the movie made: stupid kids on drugs do more stupid things. And if that's the only point of the movie you are after, then go for it. I was sold on the movie because it was supposed to be a decent low budget horror movie. It was an epic fail on that level.
And, YES, this movie is being marketed as a "HORROR/SUSPENSE." It's NOT being marketed as a "things-gone-horribly-wrong" film. The fact that this movie was made is the only thing that went horribly wrong.
And to add: the O didn't give the movie a bad review because it had a low budget. He gave it a bad review because the material for the movie was too thin to sustain for 90 minutes and the suspense that was in the movie was drawn out and the dialog was primitive. Sounds like some VERY constructive criticisms to me. In fact, the whole review was rather well written, and not just "ME HATE MOVIE CUZ IT WAZ MADE WIT NO MUNNEY."
04-11-09, 05:02 PM
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You keep beating this drum, Riot, but from the looks of your 2009 movie diary, we really aren’t as wildly diverse in taste as you enjoy believing.
And the 1% that remains is traditionally the cream the rises to the top of the genre. I found "Punch" aiming to be dumb just to excuse screenwriting inconsistencies and to pad itself out, not to embellish a specific artistic choice that you obviously picked up on. IMO, it's a lazy picture that leads with regurgitated shock value when the premise invited a chance for clever genre manipulation the director was unwilling to pursue. Better films of this low-tech ilk twirl the knobs with outstanding concentration on tension and diseased characterization. Again, IMO, “Punch” never rose to the occasion.
However, I did like the song from the opening titles.
However, I did like the song from the opening titles.
04-11-09, 05:33 PM
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actually i think you're a good writer i guess i'm just bitter towards you regarding a handful of reviews where i feel you go over board and come across quite pretentious (see: wall-e review). i also don't see you as a horror movie fan so your reviews in the genre are normally the opposite of what my tastes are. true, 75% of the time i end up agreeing with your reviews but in that other 25% we're normally at other ends of the spectrum.
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