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Summary: An above average thriller
Review: Upon watching this movie I never knew what a "snuff" film was now I know. I must say this movie was a pretty good thriller. This film shows the dark side of the porn industry. Overall a good suspense thriller.
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Summary: Great Film
Review: 8MM is great in that it holds your attention with suspence for the whole film, and has great emotional impact. It becomes a matter of good vs. evil, and Nicolas Cage realizes that fighting evil is the only way to stop it, while ignoring it lets it proliferate. There is much evil is our society, and the only flaw in this film is that it's example is too blatant. There are many far sutler forms of evil. Anyway the ending is an emotional climax that shouldn't be missed.
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Summary: A Dark Journey Into The Underworld Of Society.
Review: I'm sure many viewers may be repulsed, angered, or offended by "8mm." But that really is the point. It's obvious this wasn't meant to be a soft movie. What "8mm" is, is a study, a journey into the dark side of society. Which isn't very pretty, obviously. The screenplay by Andrew Kevin Walker (Seven) is intelligent in the way it uses the characters and story to weave a gothic tapestry of the perverse side of the human mind. This ranks among Joel Schumacher's best work (which isn't much since he ruined the Batman franchise). Finally a film from Schumacher that's smart and well done. Of course, Walker should get more credit considering his script helped. He appears to have a knack for society's dark edges, this is also seen in his ingenious screenplay for David Fincher's "Seven," which ranks alongside "The Silence Of The Lambs." "8mm" is a dark study of the evils that lurk in the world's dark corners. Of course it should shock you and anger you and repulse you, what else do you expect from the world of porn? Nicolas Cage gives an intense and powerful performance that ignites the screen. Schumacher's direction is stylish and gothickly intriguing. This serves more as a warning, or mind-opener of what happens behind the curtain.
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Summary: Why remake "Hardcore"?
Review: Instead of a dogged P.I. bringing some sleazy pornographers up to his level, Cage's character wallows in the mire as he investigates the snuff film. What, we cannot see the snuff film, but we can watch murder by crossbow and pistol-whipping? Starts out well, but quickly nosedives.
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Summary: Contrived.....
Review: If the script and direction were focussed, 8MM had the potential to be an extremely psychological and unnerving motion picture. Unfortunetly, Joel Schumacher completely stuffed the whole thing up. Nicholas Cage's performace was completely dull IMO and I'm beginning to suspect that his brilliantly multi-faceted portrayal of a nihilistic drunk in 'Leaving Las Vegas' was a case of ol' serendipity. In addition, the screenplay and intentions of the directer were blatatly obvious. This is reinforced by MACHINE's 'revealing' monologue towards the end which subsequently undermines the credibility of the film by rendering it transperent. The notion of an average family man slowly becoming immersed within the sordid and depraved underbelly of society is an interesting concept for a character study type film, as opposed to a linear narrative approach. However, the film lacked the psychological intensity that the screenplay so obviously implies and failed on both levels- narrative and characterization. The narrative was ponderous and the attempts at subtlety failed miserably IMO. Many would argue that Cage delivered an understated performance but.........he was suffering from insomnia! ARGGHH! This movie really aggravates me! Usually I adore movies that are unflinching in their depictions of sadism-mascho, addiction, paranoia, obsession and many other 'darker' themes directly related to form/s of 'psychological instability'. Of course the protagonist/s who encounter or participate in such behaviour undergoe some form of transformation. On that level, the concept behind 8MM is definitely intriguing but unfortunetly Mr.Schumacher, easily one of the most insipid and overpaid directors currently residing in Hollywood, completely SCREWED the whole bloody thing up!
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Summary: A breathtaking look into a gut-churning netherworld
Review: For those of you who actually take the time to see past all the lurid porn garbage, you'll find a truly suspenseful thriller. The characters were really deep and well-fleshed out. It was a truly frightening experience to see Cage's world become engulfed by this new, sick, twisted one, and to see his family and his friend threatened by what he dicovered. Most people would find this way too graphic for a 14-year-old guy like myself, but I know a good thriller when I see one, even when it comes at the expense of a few scenes of of mindless waste.
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Summary: Good Movie if you stomach the Storyline....
Review: Unlike some of the reviews this has received I found this DVD (unusual that Australia has this released on DVD Before the US...)to be quite entertaining. Yes it is shocking due to the background storyline (extreme bondage stuff -SICK.....)that it involves, but this is what makes it all the more interesting and keeps you watching. Everyone is always interested in the extremes of human behaviours and this is what I found to be entertaining. Some of the acting performances left a lot to be desired , but overall if you liked Seven than you will love this will keep you going as well....
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Summary: Overblown and Glitzy
Review: The story really did have potential as well as the good actors involved, but Schumacher made it just another superficial "hollywood blockbuster." The subject matter is very dark, but the director didn't really use that to create a mood to the film. There was potential, but the results are very dissapointing.
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Summary: Brilliant Sadeian Thriller
Review: John Christian, billionaire, industrial czar, pillar of the community, respectable family man with three children, seven grandchildren, and a wife who loves him deeply, dies suddenly at the age of eighty-one. When the private safe in his study is opened, besides the expected cash, stock certificates, etc., a reel of 8 mm film is found, a film which depicts what seems to be the brutal murder of a teenage girl. Private Detective Tom Welles is hired by a disturbed Mrs Christian to find out if the film is a simulated killing, since she is a kind and caring woman who cannot bear the thought that it might be real. So begins Joel Schumacher's 8MM, a movie which has all the ingredients of a succesful thriller: extreme brutality, multiple murders, torture, mutilation, blood, greed, sexual perversion, pornography, ****speak, and, to top it all off, the 'snuff' movie around which this film turns. But there is more. Not only are the acting, photography, settings, costumes, dialogue, pacing, and the haunting background music all superbly managed, but the movie is also that rarity among the torrent of mindless trash which Hollywood, in its extreme contempt for the modern audience, inflicts on us today: it is a movie with a deep, even profound, meaning, a meaning with cosmic implications. This meaning is one which will probably escape many viewers. It will not escape those who have carefully read Sade, a writer who has replaced Kafka as the key figure of the modern sensibility. Only Sade prepares us both to witness and understand the sort of horror that we find at the center of Schumachers brilliant metaphysical thriller, a thriller in which figures who seem to have stepped right out of Sade's 'Juliette' or '120 Days of Sodom' have been transplanted into the modern world. Do not miss this movie.
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Summary: A Dark Look
Review: Nicholas Cage did a great job at acting in this film, although the film itself didn't go over that well. First off, it is an extremly realistic look into a different, sick, unpleasant, perverted world. A world which shouldn't be shown in films rated R. This movie takes it's "R" rating seriously. Nudity... Not just little shower scene nudity, but almost hardcore nudity. Swearing... No worse than any other R rated movie. Adult Content... Probably the worst I've ever seen, and Sexual Content... Again the worst. The only thing good about this movie is that I hope it makes some people become more aware of this kind of stuff. And that it makes teenagers - like me. I am a 15 year old boy - and adults alike to never get involved in such filth. The movie itself was dark, literally. Sometimes overacted, and sometimes underacted. A horrible film for anyone to see; and a horrible film for Nicholas Cage to participate in. Save your time, your money, and your conscious from kicking into gear, and saying: "Maybe I shouldn't be watching this."
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