That's the headline on CNN this morning regarding movies like Captivity which opened this weekend to a poor showing in dollars at the box office. CNN questions if movie-goers are getting burned out on these "kidnap-torture-kill" movies that have hit the big screen over the past couple years.
Let me tell you something. If all these movies are as terrible as Captivity, maybe movie-goers are just getting tired of lame plots, implausible storylines and unrealistic behavior to the point of incredularity in their movies! We went to see Captivity this weekend. Not our usual movie fare but it was what was showing. It sucked! It stunk like fresh dog poo stuck in your sneaker tread and tracked into the house onto Mom's carpet! It was that bad.
Consider-
If you really needed a high-tech dungeon built into the basement of your deceased parents home in New York City, complete with cameras, remote control drawers, doors and lockers, high decibel speaker system and knock-out gas sprayers and a multi-monitor control room- who do you call? Is there a construction company in the Big Apple called Dungeons Are Us? Can you call multiple contractors, show them your plans then take bids on getting the work done on time and below budget?
The heroine in this story changes clothes more often while in captivity than most people do in a week. And usually after she's been knocked unconscious by the sleeping gas. Presumably her captor is changing her clothes and fixing her hair for her before she wakes up. Do you know how hard it is to undress and re-dress an unconscious adult? It ain't easy.
Our little escaping fashion model turned heroine also pulls the cables from 3 or 4 junction boxes on the wall to turn out the lights! She doesn't grab the box shut-off handles to make it go dark- she rips the cables out of the top of the box! Imagine the strength of that girl!
It got almost laughable when the captive girl and her (supposedly) fellow captive are first strapped down facing each other and she is forced to watch as the captor extracts a molar from the male captive's mouth with pliers, the pain and blood then stirring the both of them into a romantic, passionate bit of lovemaking immediately after the extraction. First of all- yeah, right, that's going to happen. And, secondly- uck!
So, I'm sorry. This movie is lame, badly acted and ludicrous in its story. It has to be the worst movie I've seen in a very long time. If its representative of the genre, the entire bunch of them deserve to do badly at the box office and be sent to DVD clearance bins.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/Movies/07/16/film.horror.reut/index.html
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