What is Torture Porn?
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An ignorant, degrading, condescending, judgemental and hypocritical phrase asserted by fuckwit Bible-thumpers and conservative critics to films like
'Torture porn' is a term that doesn't apply because it's BEEN applied by assholes, to films that have violence and nudity. Said assholes like to assume fans of these films are sadists who jerk off to this kind of thing or something, which in reality is fucking bullshit propaganda at it's finest. Most people who label
Case in point: Hostel. Yes, it has porno-style nudity, and yes it focuses on torture and gore. However, if you give it a thought (I know how uncomfortable haters of "torture porn" are with that God-awful "thinking"), you might see it as a film about the darkness of human nature within itself, and in a way it makes us think about the price of life. If you think I'm just making this shit up as an excuse to watch people die in agony, you're a goddamn moron, so please fuck your mother and die.
I don't even HAVE to defend the Saw films, because any fan of the Saw films can show the philisophical subtexts to the Saw films, which I will defend to my last breath.
Another point: THEY'RE JUST MOVIES. No one is really getting tortured, it's just special effect and makeup. You want torture porn? Read the Bible, and shut the fuck up.
Retard: Saw III and Hostel II are torture porn! I'm better than everybody because fans of those movies are sadists!
Smart person: Have you even seen those movies?
Retard: Uuuuuuhhhhh. . .no. But Oprah said they're bad!
Smart person: Exactly. You have no idea what you're talking about, SO SHUT THE FUCK UP and stop using that bullshit rhetoric mantra about fans of films who in real life are perfectly normal.
Retard: Saw fans are psychos! Hostel fans are sadists! Torture porn! Jerking off to gore! McCain/Palin 08!
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A phrase for a genre of horror films that seriously-very-douchebaggy critics came up with, and critic-sheep use as a mantra.
They tend to mindlessly apply them to the Saw films, The Devil's Rejetcs and Hostel without actually doing any research. But when your opinion is popular, you don't need to do research, amirite?
Saw is usually accused of starting the torture porn genre. For more on that theory, see: flat-out fucking lie
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Plus, the Texas Chainsaw/Halloween/Friday the 13th remakes have been regarded as "torture porn" by some, even though they're the same as they were twenty years ago.
So...it is possible that we're just in an age of oversensitive-politically-correct douchebaggery?
Our crack team of researchers say...yeah, pretty much.
Person who thinks: Hostel and Saw aren't actually made for sick people, if you take time to really analyze it, you'll see it is deeper than it appears. The old adage "never judge a book by its cover" applies in most corners of life, including horror films.
Moron: That's just an excuse to watch someone get tortured with torture p0rnz in teh movie pictures!!1
Person who thinks: Actually, Saw fans are people who see the films not even for the gore, they enjoy the characters, the message, the story--
Moron: That's just an excuse to watch someone get tortured with torture p0rnz in teh movie pictures!!1
Person who thinks: They're still just movies. Besides, if they're meant to be horror, isn't that what they're supposed to do? If they exploit on it, isn;t that the whole point? Would you call a sad romance film that exploits audience emotions "romance porn", or a funny comedy that exploits the audience sense of humor "comedy porn"?
Moron: That's just an excuse to watch someone get tortured with teh torture p0rnz in teh movie pictures!!1
(Super-impose on the screen):
Arguing with someone who thinks Saw/Hostel are torture porn; it really is like dividing by zero.
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An expression referring to some modern horror/thriller films you have to have a moron level of 23 (on a scale of 1-5) to use anymore. For Christ's sake, it's 2009. "Torture porn" is a silly phrase meant to refer to some movies, like Hostel, a phrase which is as old and outdated by now as segregation laws.
You have to be either
A: A complete retard
B: A troll
C: A pissed off old guy
D: A film critic with a basketball hoop up his ass
to actually use this term. In fact, if you use this term, that invalidates any argument you may put forward.
In other words, get over it and bitch about something new.
WAAA!!! THAT'S TORTURE PORN!! I'M GONNA MOD DOWN YOUR COMMENT ON URBAN DICTIONARY!! WAAAA!!!
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Complete retard: "If you liked a movie like Hostel or Saw, you're a sadist or a psycho or something! The whole fanbase! I judge people without knowing them or having any frame of reference as to what the hell I'm talking about, they all just love torture porn because I saidz so!"
Smart person: "WOW! Did you spend all that time philsophizing and doing all that hard-hitting data research about the Saw/Hostel fanbases...up your
ass , by some chance?"
Compelte retard: "You are the Antichrist!!!!"
Smart person: *facepalm*
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A term coined by various critics which discusses the current trend in horror Hollywood which consists of horror movies having no story whatsoever but gratuitous images of people having random body parts removed--from legs, heads to even penises (The last in
Guy: Want to rent Saw III or Hostel II?
Girl: I'm so sick of all this torture porn!
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