R-Rated Movies - Hold up to yesterdays Movies?

[Sage Ninja]

I was cruising around Retojunk.com and I found this little article about this guy and his experience with trying to get into R-Rated movies when he was sixteen. He goes into how he is an adult now with the ability to see any R-Rated movies he chooses but doesn't feel today quite messures up to when he was a teen. He even had a few argumants to back up his opinion. here is the link:

http://www.retrojunk.com/details_articles/1859/

so what do you all think? Does he make good points that you agree with?

[RaphistheBest]

Wow. I totally agree with him. I was all excited to watch Hostel then I was told that all it was was porn and some killing that wasn't all that great. But Saw... I liked Saw. I haven't seen the third one and it makes me sad but I know I'll see it sometime. I found Saw to be more of a pyschological thriller/scary movie because of the twisted ways Saw had people basically kill themselves. But yea, he's totally right. Die Hard totally kicks ass. All of them. Now I'm worried about the one that I'm going to see tomorrow.:(

[KROW]

I agree with him, as well. I go to see the latest horror-fest and wait for the shock when all I get is annoyed by the lack of terror. Basically, all horror movies do now to scare the bejesus out of you is have the soundtrack quiet, then create this loud noise with the violins or some other such instrument to jolt you. That's pretty lame. It's like walking down the hallway and having your little brother or sister leap out and scream like a kitten. You're startled for what, 2 seconds at the most? Then you run after your sibling and whack him/her with a pillow for 5 minutes.

The only thing I don't agree with is his views on Saw. To me, the Saw films weren't horror- or slasher-esque, but thriller/suspense films. Sure, there was gore and violence, but come on. Slashers are movies with a dude in a knife chasing after some waif that trips too much; horrors are mostly monsters or beings that don't exist that try to eat/kill/possess you.

But, I do think that R-rated films need more chutzpah and less menial tactics to really be classified (and justified) as R-rated.

[RaphistheBest]

I agree with him, as well. I go to see the latest horror-fest and wait for the shock when all I get is annoyed by the lack of terror. Basically, all horror movies do now to scare the bejesus out of you is have the soundtrack quiet, then create this loud noise with the violins or some other such instrument to jolt you. That's pretty lame. It's like walking down the hallway and having your little brother or sister leap out and scream like a kitten. You're startled for what, 2 seconds at the most? Then you run after your sibling and whack him/her with a pillow for 5 minutes.

The only thing I don't agree with is his views on Saw. To me, the Saw films weren't horror- or slasher-esque, but thriller/suspense films. Sure, there was gore and violence, but come on. Slashers are movies with a dude in a knife chasing after some waif that trips too much; horrors are mostly monsters or beings that don't exist that try to eat/kill/possess you.

But, I do think that R-rated films need more chutzpah and less menial tactics to really be classified (and justified) as R-rated.

I know what you mean. When the Grudge came out a lot of people in my school were going crazy about it so I decided that I would see it. I worked at the theater in our town at that time and decided to watch it for free the next night I had off. A couple of friends of mine went and seen it before I did and they ended up leaving before the movie was over. They came up to the counter and told me not to bother and to watch for some pre-teen girls when the movie was over. There were three of them and one would be covered with butter. Apparently they jumped and screamed at every little thing and kicked their seats constantly so eventually they just turned around, dumped their bucket of popcorn on one, and told them to shut the hell up. It was pretty funny.

And you're right about the Saw movies. The second one for me was more mentally scary than the first one cause I have an issue with things going into people's eyes and the opening is that guy that has to take out his own eye to save his life. Sure he failed and died but with how close he was getting to his eye with that knife was just horrible for me. And then there was that pit of needles and syringes. I have a terrible phobia of those and I had to leave the theater. I was shaking and almost crying. So yea, that scared the hell outta me.

[Storm Wolf]

I agree with him, as well. I go to see the latest horror-fest and wait for the shock when all I get is annoyed by the lack of terror. Basically, all horror movies do now to scare the bejesus out of you is have the soundtrack quiet, then create this loud noise with the violins or some other such instrument to jolt you. That's pretty lame. It's like walking down the hallway and having your little brother or sister leap out and scream like a kitten. You're startled for what, 2 seconds at the most? Then you run after your sibling and whack him/her with a pillow for 5 minutes.

The only thing I don't agree with is his views on Saw. To me, the Saw films weren't horror- or slasher-esque, but thriller/suspense films. Sure, there was gore and violence, but come on. Slashers are movies with a dude in a knife chasing after some waif that trips too much; horrors are mostly monsters or beings that don't exist that try to eat/kill/possess you.

But, I do think that R-rated films need more chutzpah and less menial tactics to really be classified (and justified) as R-rated.

I agree with that completely. I've felt for a long time, when sneaking into a R- rated movies as a young teen that the only thing that made it R rated was the cussing. Especially with the horror genre. What happen to all the R-rated horror movies? you ever noticed how they are all PG-13 now? Horror and slasher flicks were just meant to be R-rated.

I wanted to go to that horror fest they had in select theaters, but I had to work. KROW and I eventually rented them when they came out on DVD....after that I was glad I didn't spend the money in theaters. Only two or three of them were anything close to decent. At best they just made you want to take a nap. There wasn't even any intensity or gore at all. The better ones mainly just played on your fear of something or just made you think.

[RaphistheBest]

At best they just made you want to take a nap. There wasn't even any intensity or gore at all.

I know what you mean. I remember when there was a bunch of hipe about The Ring. I never watched it because someone of my friends told me that they feel asleep watching it. When The Ring 2 came out I told myself that I should give the first one a try cause maybe the second one would be better. Well the night that I was going to watch the first one a friend forgot it so we just watched the second one. I fell asleep within the first 30 minutes. What a waste of time.