Poll

Your Favorite Eli Roth Film Is...

haven't seen any
7 (46.7%)
don't like any
2 (13.3%)
Cabin Fever
1 (6.7%)
Hostel
3 (20%)
Thanksgiving (Grindhouse trailer segment)
1 (6.7%)
Hostel: Part II
1 (6.7%)
The Green Inferno
0 (0%)
Knock Knock
0 (0%)
Death Wish
0 (0%)
The House with a Clock in its Walls
0 (0%)
Thanksgiving
0 (0%)

Total Members Voted: 15

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Roth, Eli
« on: October 16, 2008, 11:04:46 AM »
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Re: Directors Best Poll - Eli Roth
« Reply #1 on: October 16, 2008, 11:06:33 AM »
Pancakes!!!! Pancakes!!!

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Re: Directors Best Poll - Eli Roth
« Reply #2 on: October 16, 2008, 11:09:28 AM »
I truly hate them all.

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Re: Directors Best Poll - Eli Roth
« Reply #3 on: October 16, 2008, 11:14:36 AM »
I've seen Cabin Fever and Hostel.


I really didn't like either of them.
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Re: Directors Best Poll - Eli Roth
« Reply #4 on: October 16, 2008, 11:18:19 AM »
TG is the only positive thing on his resume - i'm sure that is due to time limitations.

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Re: Directors Best Poll - Eli Roth
« Reply #5 on: October 16, 2008, 11:19:45 AM »
Eli Roth is terrible. It is a sad fact the the best thing he has ever done was that trailer, and even then the "Don't" trailer was far far better.
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Re: Directors Best Poll - Eli Roth
« Reply #6 on: October 16, 2008, 11:20:55 AM »
Don't Like Any I Have Seen
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Re: Directors Best Poll - Eli Roth
« Reply #7 on: October 16, 2008, 11:30:19 AM »
both Hostels are pretty great, don't remember CF very well, seems weird to give too much credit for the trailer- schtick
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Re: Directors Best Poll - Eli Roth
« Reply #8 on: October 16, 2008, 11:38:06 AM »
I thought I'd seen Cabin Fever, but I mixed it up (yet again) with Wrong Turn.

Haven't seen any (except the trailer, which I can't bring myself to count).

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Re: Directors Best Poll - Eli Roth
« Reply #9 on: October 16, 2008, 11:41:36 AM »
Thanksgiving is his best work because he directs his films as feature length trailers, essentially.  In 2 minute doses, he's fine.  I really don't like him otherwise. 

Cabin Fever and Hostel both had great trailers but each film drops the ball at a certain point and never recovers.  And I can't be bothered to see Hostel II.  He's like the M. Night Shyamalan of horror.  He thinks he's a better storyteller than he is but he's got the potential to make a great (or near-great) horror film if he would just work from a script by a better writer.  His enabling friendship with Tarantino doesn't help either.

If that adaptation of Stephen King's Cell ever gets off the ground with him, as long as he doesn't rewrite the script, I'm there.