A revenge fantasy? Are you sure? I saw it as naive, idealistic people encountering the cruelty of the world. But revenge? For trying to save the rain forest? That's just plain fucked up.

I dunno. If they were tortured & devoured at a comic book store, Gamestop, or maybe a gaming convention then I could see it as pandering to Gamergate.

As it stands, it just looks like a rehash of stale 70's gorefests.

If his intention was to insult SJWs, it's clearly working.

@ Caminante Nocturno, what doesn't insult them?

If his intention was to milk easy cash from from the sort of people who will reflexively line up for anything that "insults SJW's" it will definitely work, too.

MRA and Gamergate kids are so desperate for validation at this point that I'm pretty sure I could get rich charging them each for me to kick them in the dick, so long as I could convince them that the SJW's are very strongly opposed to them getting kicked in the dick.

>>>If his intention was to insult SJWs, it's clearly working.

I don't think it was. This movie has been on the shelf for a couple of years. It was supposed to come out in 2013, and there was a problem with the distributor, or something,. Gamergate wasn't a factor at the time.

As usual, because of the structure of POETV, we're watching the trailer and talking ?about the movie before any of us have seen it. So who knows what's going on>

I got the feeling that Cam's comment was directed at me, but while a "revenge fantasy" might be a little offensive, mostly it would just be stupid, it's an empty headed cliche to contrive to manipulate the audience into cheering for the torture, How much more terrifying and real if they don't deserve any of this but it happens because it's a terrifying world where bad things happen to good people?

I think we can all agree this looks like a total piece of shit

Hah...manbabies who still think that calling someone a social justice warrior is some kind of insult.

Like right wing shitheads who think you will collapse in tears if they call you a "liberal" or "progressive."

I was actually thinking about Roth this morning, trying to remember if Machete actually did the grainy Grindhouse style in the theatres like the trailer did. I know that's Rodriguez but Roth's fake trailer for Thanksgiving in the same Grindhouse movie is more the film from him that I'd like to see.

What would be a better term?

Twitter slacktivists who manage to be dumber than Teabaggers?

Self-righteous manbabies who are all for doxxing and hounding people because they hold the "wrong" opinions?

Idiots and flibertiggets still stuck in super-embarrassing FUCK YOU DAD-adolescent rebel mode, only with more smirking and smugness?

Incredibly privileged people who've never worked a hard day in their lives, don't plan to ever, and spend most of their time on the social media networks engaged in super-important blogging and tweeting and lecturing people who have the nerve to disagree with them on how they need to check their privilege?

I suppose some people have differing opinions in regards to what counts as "social justice". To me, it certainly isn't this recent wave of internet lunacy.

The film is actually a year old, but never made it to theatrical release. I think it's going to be straight-to-video or streaming thing.

Anyway, it's about a group of trust fund kids who travel to the rainforest to save an indigenous tribe from advancing deforestation. Their plane crashes, though, and the survivors are captured & eaten by the very tribe they were trying to save because IRONY!

And Roth originally said he made the movie as a criticism of spoiled rich kids who jump on a plane and head to disaster areas or uncivilized places to help people but are either just incompetent or even sometimes make things worse. What kept it out of theaters was the insensitive portrayal of indigenous peoples as savages who like to eat white people along with Roth's usual clich� of attractive young women screaming and crying as they get tortured to death.

But now, he's claiming he made it as a big middle finger to the "White Knights" and "Social Justice Warriors" of the online world and so the GamerGaters and MRAs are all clamoring to see it and demanding justice for poor Eli Roth who is being censored and oppressed by the feminazis.

Eli Roth is a terrible person who makes terrible movies for terrible people to masturbate to.

If that's what he's doing, then it's working like a charm, because the more you complain about this movie, the more I want to watch it.

Go for it.

Mine has always been Attack of the Killer Tomatoes.

Looks like Roth's marketing gimmick is working like gangbusters.

1. Agreed; this movie is a needless remake. Like the upcoming Ghostbusters fiasco.

2. Actually, the movie goes off the rails thinking a bunch of trustafarian, leg beards would place themselves in actual danger & venture from the twitter hugbox.


3. Both Gamergate & the AGGro's have trolls who threaten & doxx one another. I'm a moderate libertarian/leftist (imagine a pro vaccine Bill Maher) GG'er due to the fact that hipsters with gender studies degrees are trying to censor my games. The Authoritarian left is getting to be as bad as the GOP's Tea Baggers.


4. Say provocative things to a 13 year old & he'll become volitile. It's a lot of hot air. BTW, correct me if I'm wrong but no one has been convicted for doing anything remotely violent. You've been on the internet for years. I'm sure you've received your share of empty, hollow threats.

5. Sticks & stones, dude. I loathed Tipper Gore & Jack Thompson for advocating censorship. Now, I'm seeing a smug group of hipsters to the left of Stalin trying to ruin my pastimes. I'm not having it.

I do know some rich kids who have done things like Mercycorps or Americorps etc. And another one is now a marine. Then again it depends on your definition of trustafarian, which is really a white kid with dreadlocks, the hair ostensibly being the reason for unemployability in a lot of work spaces. But it's a loose definition like hipster.

@ infinite zest,

You are quite fortunate to know some cool people. The over privileged fedora bearers in my neck of woods are insufferable attention whores. The mere act of walking down the street is taken to performance art levels.

Holy shit, Pillager, I was going to make fun of you for screeching about video games like Christians screech about gays, but this list blew my fucking mind.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_banned_video_games

Fuck you, Japan and America, you're the worst.

No one significant is trying to censor your games, Drama McQueen.

Females (girls and women), as a consumer segment, are asking that games -also- cater to them, instead of -exclusively- to your ilk.

And mostly it's tiny shit, like adding female avatars. Your kind is literally calling the equivalent of a holocaust over something that's equivalent to Ford offering an extra color choice.

And people would be more willing to listen to that oft-neglected consumer segment if they didn't let a bunch of insufferable little weenies speak for them.

Or they were being ignored until your degenerate hordes decided to attack a handful of women that mentioned that they were being ignored.

Now they're getting lots of attention, and you set back the perception of male gamers about 15 years....good job. Idiots.

Damn, you guys. Just to go the Mechwarrior 3 video and ask Cayla Woods how many games she's had pulled, rewritten, and rereleased for failing to meet her standards. I bet it's hundreds, if not thousands.