I like gore. It's a good equalizer. At the end of the day, we all exist in the same corporeal bodies that can be sliced, hacked, carved, and eviscerated in any number of creative ways. (Oh, I'm sick, you say? Well you've been reading Tila Tequlia's Twitter feed for the past week-so judge me not.) The only problem is that somewhere along the line between The Little Mermaid and Hostel, gore became the new black. Mainstream Hollywood now relies on it, mostly to compensate for garbage scripts and awful acting. "Sorry, no decent concepts or plot lines on the menu today, but we do have a grisly melange of shofar-shaped organs in a bloody reduction, sprinkled with bush-league dialogue." Which is a shame, because good gore really shouldn't be wasted on crap movies-it's like having an Oscar-worthy performance in Cheaper By the Dozen 2. READ MORE