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Originally Posted by LifeDistortion
Finally, I watched The Green Inferno. Before watching this movie I had yet to say I liked any Eli Roth movies. Not a fan of Cabin Fever or either of the two Hostels, and I had not heard anything to make me look forward to The Green Inferno, but since it was available to watch I gave it a shot. This was another case of, "that's it?" And I think I feel that way about Roth over all. I honestly don't feel he had anything to add to the "cannibal" film as a sub-genre. It neither challenged its audience, or shocked them. It was gory, but really the horror aspects of it were no more cringe inducing than anything he had already done in Hostel. The cannibalism aspects were not frightening or disturbing, just gory. One might say Roth had a point with the whole social media activism, but he didn't explore that enough to drive any point of view on it. That's my mediocre movie marathon.
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I agree, although I did find myself enjoying it. You're right though: nothing new and not enough done with the social activism stuff, which I saw it mostly as a satire of.