Grotesque, Nasty, and Pointless

Rating: Null/10 (2 April 2005)

First, let me begin by saying that I really was VERY excited to see this film. After the first twenty minutes went by and I realized what the film was REALLY about - I almost left the theater to get my money back, but realized that I would be leaving my friend stranded, without a ride if I did so.
How they filmed the movie was great. I thought it was inventive and very artistic. That however, does not make up for the meaningless and endless violence.
I don't understand why some people enjoy these kinds of movies. People do NOT need to see a man's testicles being ripped from him, or a man's head sawed off, of a dog devouring a body who's limbs have been severed.
Also, the depiction of women in the film is despicable. Every woman is a whore, sometimes a whore with guns, and they are all punching bags. Now, this statement could be passed over by people saying, "Yeah, sure....but look at all of the OTHER violence that happened to EVERYONE ELSE in the film!" Exactly my point.
I spent a good part of the film staring at the floor to avoid the gruesome and inhumane depictions of the human race at it's most horrific state. This world does not need to see that kind of violence.
At one point, when yet ANOTHER person had a bullet blasted through their skull, the guy behind me said, "That's f**king awesome!" Well, how "f**king awesome" would it be if that man with a bullet lodged in his brain were his father - or, bringing it to real life - one of the soldiers that we've lost in Iraq thus far.
I just don't understand how such gruesome and glorified violence is entertaining. It's one thing to have a wrench thrown at you to train for dodgeball and have that be funny, but watching a man graphically whip a woman he is about to rape and be told that THAT should be funny to me? I'm sorry - I think things like that are very real, happen every day, and I'm thinking they aren't so funny to the woman who has been violated.
If you enjoyed this movie, I don't blame you. I blame society.