Storicamente, la dicitura
"presentato e/o prodotto da Quentin Tarantino" vuol dire poco o niente. Con
Hostel credo si sia toccano il fondo.
Due americani ed un islandese vanno in giro per l'Europa in cerca di gnocca e droga; verranno indirizzati in Slovacchia (
"tante donne per pochi uomini, dopo la guerra"... ehhh?!?! I registi che che non sanno usare un atlante sono pregati di ambientare tutti i loro film in Texas).
La prima metà del film trascorre tra gentili signorine perennemente ignude, in perfetto stile
porno-soft adolescenziale.
Poi uno del gruppo scompare, e la ricerca porterà ad uno strano luogo dove pagando puoi torturare a morte delle vittime raccattate per strada. Gli spettatori pagherebbero per essere al posto delle vittime...
Una vera monnezza: zero tensione, ritmo e atmosfera; la trama fa schifo e quel che veniva pubblicizzato come l'ennesimo
film più splatter della storia finisce col mostrare poco e niente in fatto di efferatezze, senza alcuna originalità.
Unica nota simpatica (benché non sia niente di nuovo), il sacchetto per il vomito consegnato all'ingresso.
La vostra missione, se deciderete d'accettarla, sarà di stanare Eli Roth e di soffocarlo con questo sacchetto per il vomito. 
Dello stesso "regista", ricordo
Cabin Fever: anche quello parecchio trash, anche se questo
Hostel riesce ad essere ben peggiore. Il che è tutto dire...
Voto: 3 (ma poteva anche essere 1).
Trashometro
® 3/10:
Tarantino, Quentin
Nome di battesimo: Tarantino, Quentin Jerome
Data di nascita: 27 March 1963
Altezza: 6' 2½" (1.89 m)
Ultimi lavori: Biografia:In January of 1991 a film titled Reservoir Dogs (1992) hit the Sundance Film festival. The writer-director was a first-timer by the name of Quentin Tarantino. The film garnered critical acclaim and the director became a legend in the England, UK and the cult film circuit. Three years later he followed up 'Dogs' with the film Pulp Fiction (1994). 'Pulp' premiered at the Cannes film festival, where it won the coveted 'Palme D'Or' the virtual equal of the Best Picture at the Academy Awards. At the '93 Academy Awards, 'Pulp' was nominated for the Best Picture Oscar, in addition Best Director and Best Original Screenplay, among others. Tarantino and writing partner Roger Avary came away with the award only for Best Original Screenplay. (Where Roger uttered his now famous line, "I've gotta go pee".) In 1995, Tarantino directed one fourth of the Anthology Four Rooms (1995) with friends and fellow auteurs Alexandre Rockwell, Robert Rodriguez, and Allison Anders. That film was released on December 25th in the United States to very weak reviews. This is mainly due to the heavy cutting of the first two segments and the introduction which make much of the plotline unintelligible, and creates a complete mess out of the second segment, directed by Alexandre Rockwell. The best two segments of the film are Robert Rodriguez's and Tarantino's. Tarantino's next film was From Dusk Till Dawn (1996), a crime/vampire film which he wrote and co-starred with George Clooney. The film did fairly well theatrically.
Trivia random: Considers two of his best friends to be Paul Thomas Anderson and Sofia Coppola.
Citazione random: On becoming famous: "Going into a videostore and going through the videos, looking at every title they have, trying to find some old spaghetti western, that's gone."
Hostel (2005)
Regista: Eli Roth Scrittore: Eli Roth Genere: Horror
Valutazione: 6.1/10 (5947 voti)
Durata: 95 min
Paese: USA
Lingua: English, Czech, German, Icelandic, Japanese, Dutch, Italian, Slovak
Cast:Trama:3 backpackers are in Amsterdam where they get locked out of their youth hostel. they are invited into a mans house where he tells them of a hostel somewhere in eastern Europe where the women are all incredibly hot and have a taste for American men. when they get there everything is so to good to be true the hostel is "to die for"
Trivia random: Eli Roth wanted to have the world premiere of the finished film at the 2005 Iceland Film Festival. During the festival, Roth and Quentin Tarantino were made honorary Vikings at Viking Village, in a ceremony arranged by Eythor Gudjonsson. Roth's Icelandic name is Eli Sheldonsson, and Tarantino's Icelandic name is Quentin Conniesson.
Cabin Fever (2002)
Regista: Eli Roth Scrittore: Eli Roth,
Randy Pearlstein Genere: Horror, Thriller
Valutazione: 5.2/10 (10400 voti)
Durata: Argentina:93 min
Paese: USA
Lingua: English
Cast:Trama:An offbeat horror tale about a group of five college friends on vacation at a remote mountain cabin when one contracts a flesh-eating virus. As it spreads among the friends, their true feelings and personalities emerge as they struggle to survive the virus and each other.
Trivia random: The song "Wait for the Rain", heard at the beginning of the film as the kids are driving to the cabin, was originally the theme song for Wes Craven's The Last House on the Left (1972). An updated version of the same song plays over the end credits, sung by the kids of 'David Hess' , the singer/songwriter of the 1972 version.
Roth, Eli
Nome di battesimo: Roth, Eli Raphael
Data di nascita: 18 April 1972
Altezza: 6' (1.83 m)
Ultimi lavori: Biografia:Eli Roth began shooting super 8 films at the age of eight, after watching Ridley Scott's "Alien," and deciding he wanted to be a producer/director. Roth made over 50 short films with his brothers and friends before attending film school at N.Y.U., where he won a student Academy Award and graduated Suma Cum Laude in 1994. He worked in film and theater production in New York City for many years, doing every job from production assistant to assistant editor to assistant to the director. By the age of 20 Roth was development head for producer Fred Zollo, and eventually left to write full time. To earn his living, Roth did budgets and schedules for such films as "A Price Above Rubies" and "Illuminata," and often worked as a stand-in, where he could watch the director work with the actors. In 1995, Roth co-wrote "Cabin Fever" with friend Randy Pearlstein, and the two spent many years unsuccessfully trying to get the film financed. Roth left New York in 1999 to live in Los Angeles, and within four months got funding for his animation series "Chowdheads." Roth and friend Noah Belson (Cabin Fever's "Guitar Man") wrote and voiced the episodes, which Roth produced, directed and designed. The episodes were due to run on W.C.W.'s #1 rated series "Monday Nitro," but the C.E.O. was fired a day before they were scheduled to air, and the episodes never ran. Roth used the episodes to set up a stop motion series called "The Rotten Fruit," which he produced, directed and animated, as well as co-wrote and voiced with friend Noah Belson. Between the two animated series, Roth worked closely with director David Lynch, producing content for the website davidlynch.com. In 2001, Roth filmed "Cabin Fever" for a shoestring budget of $1.5 million, with private equity he and his producers raised from friends and family. The film was the subject of a bidding war at the 2002 Toronto Film Festival, eventually going to Lion's Gate, instantly doubling the "Cabin Fever" investors' money. "Cabin Fever" went on to not only be the highest grossing film for Lion's Gate in 2003, but the most profitable horror film released that year, garnering critical acclaim from The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Empire Magazine, and such filmmakers as Peter Jackson, Quentin Tarantino, and Tobe Hooper. Roth used the "Cabn Fever"'s success to launch a slew of projects, including "Scavenger Hunt," a teen comedy he will write and direct for Universal Studios, and "The Box," a horror thriller he is co-writing with Richard Kelly that Roth will direct. In May of 2003, Roth joined forces with filmmakers Boaz Yakin, Scott Spiegel, and Greenestreet Films in New York to form Raw Nerve, LLC, a new production company that will produce 3-5 intense, scary, lower budget horror films annually.
Trivia random: Does incredible voice impressions, and will often entertain his cast and crew during long camera setups with imitations of everyone working on his film.
Citazione random: "I am very lucky to have good people around me to bounce ideas off of. They bring out the best in you."
3 commenti:
Uomo, tu hai decisamente troppo tempo libero. ;)
Magari! Ah, se penso che non riesco a seguire neanche un reality... ;-)
Tra l'altro è arrivato Serenity a noleggio, spero di riuscire a vederlo la settimana prossima.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.
Non mi stroncherai Serenity vero? E Firefly l'hai visto? NO? E come si fa...
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