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| Deadpool Psycko | May 21 2012, 08:46 PM Post #1 |
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So, I just watched Grizzly Man over the weekend and it definitely interested the shit out of me. If you're unfamiliar, it's about Tim Treadwell who was a Grizzly enthusiast and spent about 13 or so summers in Alaska studying the brown beasts. The point of this is that the documentary defines his life up until his death in which he and his girlfriend were mauled to death by a bear and while unreleased, about 6 minutes of audio exists that in detail describes their last moments. The description is pretty terrorizing in itself. In a sad admittance, I want to hear this audio. During the doc, it is mentioned that one of his close friends received the audio as his last belongings and vowed never to release or even listen to it. The documentaries creator is shown having a listen and can't listen past a couple minutes as well as urges her to never listen and if so, destroy the tape. Sadly, that just intrigues me more. I've watched countless attacks and even deaths on tape at the hands of insects, sharks, lions, hyenas and whales. I've only seen so much on bear attacks and in honesty, it's just something that interests me. Not for amusement but general intrigue. If you've seen it or not, let me hear your thoughts. |
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| SgtMaj AJJ | May 24 2012, 03:09 AM Post #2 |
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I've added it to the queue. Death captured raw and unadulterated is fascinating and not for the feint of heart. As someone who's seen Faces of Death and other snuff clips over the years, if the audio was released, I would listen. For as long as I could. |
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| ASLANS R0AR | May 24 2012, 01:56 PM Post #3 |
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I'm torn with this stuff; there is definitely a fascination with seeing/hearing stuff like this, but for me at least, it doesn't produce anything good. |
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| Scruff 815 | May 24 2012, 06:56 PM Post #4 |
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See now I love gory horror movies. I love really extreme movies like Irreversible and Martyrs (though to be fair, a lot of the attraction with those two is the story and the character stuff more than the depravity). I love a good UFC fight - the more brutal the better. I used to buy Bizarre magazine every month, which was always chock-full of pictures of babies, animals and people with genetic deformities and unpleasant wounds and such. But I have absolutely zero interest in any kind of footage showing actual human death. Some things can't be unseen, and I'm ok with not seeing that stuff. The only thing like that that's ever tempted me is a documentary called The Bridge, which (wiki quote time) "is a 2006 documentary film by Eric Steel that consists of the results of one year's filming of the Golden Gate Bridge in 2004, which captured a number of suicides, and additional filming of family and friends of some of the identified people who had thrown themselves from the bridge". Fascinating concept but I don't care enough to actually watch people die. True story - once, at a house party, a man coked out of his brain walked up to me with his mobile phone in hand and asked me, "DO YOU LIKE MURDER?". No, scary man, no I don't. |
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| TheOneInYellow | May 25 2012, 01:41 PM Post #5 |
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When it comes to depravity, snuff, murder, torture, so forth I am quite strict. I can watch them if they are set in a fictional tone, such as films, TV, comics, manga, anime, and even audio. But if it is based on reality, with real humans? Nope, can't watch/listen. It makes me physically ill and really sickens me (depending on the material, it is either far too tragic, or just outright disgusting). Obviously there is the grey line, where such topics are fictional, but are presented as real (hyper-realistic, or blurring-the-lines media). These too are unwatchable to me. Two films a few years back, called 8mm, and later Lord of War, both staring Nicolas Cage, are as close to such topics as I have come close to watching. The first is really sick, in which a private detective is tasked to track down the identity of a woman from a short snuff film clip (hence name of film). It portrays the hard parts of the American underground pornographic industry (though this industry exists almost everywhere), the illegal shit. I have watched it once, understood it, and will never watch it again. That's not because I hated it, but one watch was enough. The second gives a glimpse into the illegal black market arms trade, including blood diamonds and, as many of us may already know but rather not think about, the roles in governments when it comes to selling weapons, and how these reach the hands of terrorists, killers, genocidal armies or paramilitary groups, and children. I can watch this again, but so far I have seen it once, and it was a brutal reminder of how the weapons trade in our world operates (or at least the film was a good representation). What shocked me, though, was that the film was based on an amalgamation of several true stories, and all the conflicts had occurred (or still continue); it made me rage quit at this industry. Coincidently, the Halo universe actually has some of these topics in one of its stories; callous cold-blooded murder, and torture with scope for psychological sexual torture (Cupid's Knife). This is from the radio diorama, and formerly ARG, I Love Bees. Yep, hardcore, as you listen to the audio, so your imagination is active. Very dark. Finally, the darkest game that I have played which introduces some pretty bad human atrocities, that you watch in game, come from the recently released Max Payne 3 game. The first game in the series allowed you too see Max's baby daughter dead corpse covered in a bloody cloth; at the time, that was very hard to watch (his nightmares later, in which he, or really you, walks trails of blood, show that the blood is from his daughter. He was psychologically traumatised). I don't want to reveal and spoil what happens in MP3, but I don't think any game writer has had the balls to write, or script, the stuff that Rockstar has done; such events in MP3 outweigh anything in Manhunt, for example, simply due to the extraordinary realism of the narrative and dialogue. So, to DeadPool and SgtMaj AJJ, I agree that such material is very fascinating, especially in terms of human insight and, to a degree, for scientific study. However, as much as I have a very large stomach for fictional mediums that show such material, I cannot watch the real (or presented as real) thing. |
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| ASLANS R0AR | May 25 2012, 02:04 PM Post #6 |
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good points, Yellow. Both you and Scruff pretty closely mirror my thoughts on it
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| Deadpool Psycko | May 25 2012, 03:12 PM Post #7 |
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@ SgtMaj Ajj - Well, at least I'm not the only one. I would honestly be studying it for further evidence of the incident rather than listening to it to satisfy some sick urge. I'm actually on a thin line of squeamish vs desensitized. I honestly CAN NOT watch anything with needles. I. Fucking. Hate. Needles!!! Period. And I'm not too keen on the Gore Genre unless it's done...I guess to say, Tastefully. The first Saw was brilliant. Great plot, amazing twist and the bad guy "wins". Rarely happens and even so when you're impressed with their work. Hostel....good god damn hell if you're ANY type of squeamish - DO NOT WATCH!! It focuses on the Torture for Cash kidnapping element that seems to frequent around Europe where a group of twenty somethings are kidnapped and "sold" (so-to-speak) to be tortured. If you've ever heard about The Eyeball Scene then you should know enough. There are few movies I actually WISH I could un-watch. This is one of them. @ Yellow - Agreed with 8mm. Saw it once and will probably never watch again. I forgot some things...but I'm fine with that. Lord of War wasn't nearly as bad as the aforementioned. I think the worst part about it is that this is a real life incident where The Bad Guy Wins but obviously in a disturbing way without the gore. The best line in that is "...The reason I'll be released is the same reason you think I'll be convicted. I *do* rub shoulders with some of the most vile, sadistic men calling themselves leaders today. But some of these men are the enemies of *your* enemies. And while the biggest arms dealer in the world is your boss - the President of the United States, who ships more merchandise in a day than I do in a year - sometimes it's embarrassing to have his fingerprints on the guns. Sometimes he needs a freelancer like me to supply forces he can't be seen supplying. So. You call me evil, but unfortunately for you, I'm a necessary evil. " And this is all true. Hannibal is actually another one that manages to top it's predecessor, Silence of the Lambs AND still be just as good. Just sad they traded Foster for Moore. There is one frightfully disturbing moment where Detective Pazzi (Named after the famed Medici Assassination Conspiracy) is hung from his balcony just after Dr. Lecter guts and disembowels him as he tosses him over so his entrails splash on the street. The other fright in the movie comes from the result of the surviving victim, Mason Verger played by Gary Oldman Spoiler: click to toggle - It's not the most disgusting image you'll ever see, but I'm actually eating as I type this...yeah. Courtesy Finally...The Exorcist. There's many reasons why that movie was BANNED upon release in most areas. The crucifix scene, while not even gory or anything is just flat out cringe-worthy. I think in terms of games, the darkest i've played is obviously Resident Evil (as it's progressed) but it's definitely gone more of a visually bearable series over say Dead Space which takes the full cake. The opening scene of DS2 has probably got to be the most disturbing and riveting intro to a game I've ever seen. The first game alone had my jumpy-scared over simple things like the timing of the crashing crescendo of the music, flashing lights and a necro bobbling around a corner into view. |
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| Scruff 815 | May 25 2012, 07:44 PM Post #8 |
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I the Saw series. The sequels never get as good as the first of course, but the super-complex storyline is a rarity in the horror genre, and there are some great actors in the sequels. Saw 6 came the closest to capturing the awesomeness of the first. If you hate needles you must've loved the needle pit in Saw 2 ![]() Hostel - maybe it was overhyped when I saw it, but I thought it sucked. The gore wasn't that gory, the eyeball scene had me laughing out loud in the cinema, and the story was fucking boring as hell. However I really enjoyed Hostel 2. The Exorcist is a great film. And yeah, a 12-year-old girl masturbating with a crucifix is pretty much the most controversial thing I've ever seen in a movie... 8mm is also a fantastic film. Dark as fuck and hard to watch, but absolutely fantastic. Gamewise, the first Condemned is pretty much the darkest, nastiest thing I've played. Great game, too. |
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the Saw series. The sequels never get as good as the first of course, but the super-complex storyline is a rarity in the horror genre, and there are some great actors in the sequels. Saw 6 came the closest to capturing the awesomeness of the first. If you hate needles you must've loved the needle pit in Saw 2 

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