incomprehensible torture porn - DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME ON THIS FILM

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spotlightwise — 13 years ago(January 23, 2013 07:29 PM)

Scarlett Johanson how does one go about asking her out on a date?
in the film, paying for her college studies, irl for her clothes and cosmetics. Prolly, Josh Hartnett kicked himself for having asked her out. She humped and dumped him. He was gonna change her, but Scarlett couldn't be trusted.

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patrutiss-1 — 17 years ago(January 24, 2009 10:05 PM)

I wasted my time 3 times until now,i din`t think it was a waste of time at all enjoyed every minute of it.
Chill out,it was like that when i got there.

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Dragoneyed363 — 17 years ago(February 23, 2009 04:19 PM)

This movie was positively wonderful!
Sure, it got a little boring at times, but it's so suspenseful and is filled with delightful surprises everywhere you turn.
The acting was fabulous, everything else was magnificent!
Cream cheese

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LollyMM — 16 years ago(July 26, 2009 09:49 AM)

This was rubbish. The acting was bloody awful (Fiona Shaw what were you thinking!?). Josh and Scarlet are wooden actors anyway but they surpass their crapness in this film-they are a woodpeckers wet dream! Stupid pointless plot. Nasty crap. Hilary Swank femme fatale? She's too ugly to tempt anyone. AVOID (especially if bad scottish accents make your hair stand on end)

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rex_ilusivii — 16 years ago(September 30, 2009 09:00 PM)

I've just finished watching the first 15 minutes of this "thing", and had to come to imdb to check that it wasn't the burger I had today that was making my stomach turn. What an awful directing! These actors behave like their director suffered from what Woody Allen's character was struk with in the Hollywood Ending. This is bizzarly bad.

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my_boomstick — 16 years ago(November 03, 2009 04:10 AM)

L.A Confidential this film most certainly ain't but 'torture porn'? Seriously? Methinks you have absolutely no clue what 'torture porn' means.

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rowenad — 16 years ago(November 16, 2009 12:01 AM)

I also found this film boring. It could have been a great film but was absolute rubbish instead.

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Cyber256702000 — 16 years ago(November 23, 2009 05:06 PM)

Just saw it and I didn't think there was any "torture porn" in it at all. As far as gore I thought the movie was fairly tame. You have to expect some grisly scenes seeing as how the story is based on a real life case of a woman who was chopped in half.
When I think of "torture porn" movies such as Hostel, Saw 3, and Texas Chainsaw Massacre come to mind. De Palma has always been fairly good with the violence in his movies. The murders in Dressed to Kill and Body Double were done quite well. Unfortunately he falters with his actual storytelling and his films can at times be quite a mess.

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munspel — 16 years ago(December 17, 2009 04:08 PM)

Isn't torture porn just a new word for gore/splatter?
It has nothing to do with sex from what I understand.
Anyway, it's a silly concept and I didn't find anything like that in this film.
This film was very bad though. It felt like a parody of noir at times with the over acting and the voiceover. And why was it called The Black Dahlia when it was about two boring cops?

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Established1981 — 16 years ago(December 18, 2009 06:26 PM)

Its getting its UK Premiere at 1.35am on a Friday night. Which tells its own story.

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slimjim76 — 16 years ago(January 17, 2010 11:32 AM)

watched it on film4
Had no idea what was going on
Josh Hartnett is no leading man
no even on same planet as chinatown

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haewatein — 14 years ago(June 03, 2011 02:03 PM)

I mean the film is REALLY horrible but your reaction reminds me of a conservative 80yo virgin that lives in a monastery. Seriously? And you are on the INTERNET?
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nathan515 — 14 years ago(August 27, 2011 03:11 PM)

BartlebyScrivner, im with you on this one.

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franzkabuki — 14 years ago(September 03, 2011 04:56 AM)

Dont recall any abundant graphic violence in this one. No torture. No porn. What gives?
"facts are stupid things" - Ronald Reagan

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WaningMoonMage — 12 years ago(November 14, 2013 07:49 PM)

Torture porn? You obviously haven't seen Hostel.
There were barely any scenes of anyone being tortured.

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gary_overman — 11 years ago(December 02, 2014 04:08 AM)

The only thing I saw that I'd consider 'torture' was the
cutting of Elizabeth's face.
As far as the case goes, too much evidence has been lost in the nearly seventy years since the murder, that it will probably never be solved.
And that's a pity.

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wvsarafan — 10 years ago(December 26, 2015 12:25 PM)

"squirmy_monkey Mon Aug 25 2008 16:29:04
This movie bored me to sleep for the most part and the last half-hour was just disgusting. The only good scenes were the ones with Elizabeth/Black Dahlia (played by Mia Kirshner) and they were too few. The acting was awful, Josh Hartnett is flat and robotic and unfortunately the camera is on him most of the time. I just did not care what happened to him. Even Scarlett Johanson and Hillary Swank who have turned really good roles in other films, were so-so in this one. The acting was so bad and the plot was incomprehensible most of the time. Then the directors went for blood and gore hoping that that would carry the ending. It was so gross, I wanted to take a shower after it was over. yeccchwhat a total waste of 2 hours of my life."
It's incomprehensible if YOU'RE STUPID. Clearly you are.
Go back to Star Wars and leave the grown-up movies to the grown-ups.