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Th e disgusting billboard advertising the new Tarantino film

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unicorn · 24/03/2006 08:47

Has anyone seen it?
I think it is vile, and want to complain about it...particularly given that it is very close to my lo's school.

(it's for the film 'Hostel' (18) and shows a person bound up and very bloody.. basically glorifying torture by the look of it)

Who do I complain to?

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puff · 24/03/2006 08:50

\link{http://www.asa.org.uk\Advertising Standards Authority}

It sounds grim

Saggarmakersbottomknocker · 24/03/2006 08:53

It is grim. Horrible.

Oliviab · 24/03/2006 09:02

Haven't seen it but ooh is there a new Tarantino film out?
Would also be annoyed to see a giant bloody torture victim near a school. We have billboards near our house, hope it doesn't end up there too. Doesn't sound very appropriate fior anywhere TBH.

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unicorn · 24/03/2006 09:03

complained to the ASA.. now, is the council responsible for it too?

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WideWebWitch · 24/03/2006 09:13

I haven't seen it, link anyone?

Flamesparrow · 24/03/2006 09:16

Just the tv advert looks like its a lot of gore and swearing with no point to it, so I'm thinking the poster is along the same lines... I'm not normally bothered by things like that, but I think I'd be complaining too.

SaintGeorge · 24/03/2006 09:17

There is a range of posters for the movie, but I assume \link{http://www.joblo.com/index.php?id=9614\this one} is the one unicorn has seen.

donnie · 24/03/2006 09:17

I haven't seen it but it sounds vile. I do think Tarantino is a glorifier of violence but so many people say he is fantastic - emperor's new clothes or what?
I might complain.Unicorn, you could write to local newspapers too.

sleepycat · 24/03/2006 09:25

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Callisto · 24/03/2006 09:28

I am not a fan of Tarantino - far too violent (though I do love a good horror movie). Definitely complain to the ASA and your local council Unicorn.

Callisto · 24/03/2006 09:29

Is that really what the film is about Sleepycat? How revolting.

sleepycat · 24/03/2006 09:31

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Callisto · 24/03/2006 09:34

Sadly I think that people will flock to see it just like people slow down to see blood when driving past an RTA.

Flamesparrow · 24/03/2006 09:39

Oh! The same guy that did cabin fever... explains a lot. Obviously got a bigger budget (and probably a less comical script)

puff · 24/03/2006 09:53

OMG - I've just looked at the link - the poster is vile and the clips from the film are horrific.

I'm going to complain on the strength of seeing the ad on the link.

Stuff like this being passed really pisses me off.

Flamesparrow · 24/03/2006 09:58

When did things get so much more relaxed? Was it reservoir dogs or the other one that was banned for a while, and this looks much more urgh....

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unicorn · 24/03/2006 12:05

saintgeorge.. the billboard poster is similar to the link but I don't think the head (sik) is in the frame..it is much bloodier though, and is massive.
The slogan on it is something like "Sick Vile and Disgusting.. but totally brilliant" (with warnings about extended scenes of sex and violence)

I have complained to the ASA, and want to know who thought it was acceptable to approve this at the council.

I realise the publicity merchants have achieved what they are setting out to do...
maximum outrage.. nevertheless I shall still continue my complaint.

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charliecat · 24/03/2006 12:08

I have saw a ripped off copy of this and it was awful. Has to switch it off. It was like a nasty sick porn movie for monsters.
At the point where a bloke was going to cut a womans eyeball off I switched off. Really sick viewing.

HRHQueenOfQuotes · 24/03/2006 12:11

I'm usually not bothere by this stuff - but I saw the trailer last night, and just looked at that link and I'd complain too.

Caligula · 24/03/2006 12:13

Definitely complain to your council. All the ASA can do is tell the ad agency to remove the ad after the event, when maximum publicity has been achieved, and sometimes, fine the client, but they hardly ever do that. The council otoh is vaguely accountable to the public and should therefore have some responsibility about allowing this kind of crap to be displayed. It can take away the contract from the outdoor company, but of course that never happens either.

Outdoor advertising is advertising which is seen by everyone, and therefore should be suitable for everyone. Particularly near a school.

Cynical bastards.

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unicorn · 24/03/2006 12:48

hmm...
Just spoke to the council, it appears whilst they are responsible for approving the size and location of billboard hoardings, they are not responsible for the content.

That is down to the ASA.
They did suggest I make a complaint to the police though (under the offensive material act)- what do you think, is it worth it?

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Caligula · 24/03/2006 12:55

No. The police aren't interested in burglary, let alone posters! Grin

But the council are responsible for content - not directly, but they can question the outdoor contractor's for their placement of inappropriate ads. And the outdoor contractors in turn, have a duty to ensure that the ads they use in various sites, fit in with the character of the area - hence restrictions on advertising near schools, for example. It's buck passing to say it's all up to the ASA.

Who is the outdoor contractor? You could complain to them.

waggledancer · 24/03/2006 12:55

Would be worth ringing and seeing what they can do.

This sort of film and advertising glorifying violence and degradation really concern me. What's the bet that those 6 who murdered the young girl in Reading grew up watching this sort of stuff?

Enide · 24/03/2006 12:59

time out review:

Hostel
After the flesh-eating horror of ‘Cabin Fever’, writer-director Eli Roth brings us a grisly tale of abduction and torture. Laced with an unsettling humour that vacillates between bleak and black, this is another low-budget, high-concept horror movie. Sadly, as with Roth’s promising but flawed debut feature, its central conceit is more compelling than what ended up on screen. Together with their crazy Icelandic pal Oli (Eythor Gudjonsson), American backpackers Paxton (Jay Hernandez) and Josh (Derek Richardson) are lured to a small Slovakian town by the promise of compliant Euro babes. The signs are promising: the hostel is packed with semi-naked women, and they hook up with Natalya (Barbara Nedeljáková) and her sexy pal Svetlana (Jana Kaderabková). But a visit to the torture museum turns out to be a trailer for the main horror feature, in which they will star. Soon after, Oli and Josh go missing, and Paxton finds himself manacled to a chair in an abandoned factory.

There are two contradictory impulses here: a visceral, nightmarish genre movie with some spurious basis in a post-war Balkan reality; and a more knowing satire about crass, xenophobic Americans abroad getting their just desserts. But where does this leave the audience when Josh is getting his Achilles tendons slashed with a scalpel? Too often, Roth’s fanboy enthusiasm runs away with him, the brilliantly staged charnel-house horror tipping over into adolescent gross-out humour. Also, despite a tighter, Quentin Tarantino-vetted script, there is no real sense of escalating terror: it’s just one damn blow-torching after another. Nigel Floyd