Your opinion on violence in movies? Poll.

[Metalhead]

Do you like action and horror movies, or would you rather watch a romance?

Please, no videos in this thread.

 

[Gerontius]

Something changed and I don't want to be seeing violent stuff.

I used to be fine with it but my father was watching Mel Gibson's The Patriot the other day and I was creeped out by the way the filmmaker seems to glory in bloodshed as a sort of choreography. Cannot tell if this was intentional; the story reminded me of those chintzy old prints of the "Apotheosis of Washington" but glorifying an individual soldier in the colonial militia. Seems terribly Hollywooded.

Something about violence in general repulses me now because I think we keep ourselves so far away from it we're desensitized to it.

Was not expecting to grow up like this. But somehow something weird is happening
.

Still like war films and westerns as well as other stuff but I don't care for this sort of thing; perhaps this is why I about quit with movies.

 

[Metalhead]

Something changed and I don't want to be seeing violent stuff.

I used to be fine with it but my father was watching Mel Gibson's The Patriot the other day and I was creeped out by the way the filmmaker seems to glory in bloodshed as a sort of choreography. Cannot tell if this was intentional; the story reminded me of those chintzy old prints of the "Apotheosis of Washington" but glorifying an individual soldier in the colonial militia. Seems terribly Hollywooded.

Something about violence in general repulses me now because I think we keep ourselves so far away from it we're desensitized to it.

Was not expecting to grow up like this. But somehow something weird is happening
.

Still like war films and westerns as well as other stuff but I don't care for this sort of thing; perhaps this is why I about quit with movies.

My opinion is that Mel Gibson is an exploitation filmmaker with a Hollywood budget.

 

[Luca]

I don’t like violence in movies. Violence is a trigger for me and I find it disturbing and unnecessary.

 

[Metalhead]

I don’t like violence in movies. Violence is a trigger for me and I find it disturbing and unnecessary.

I usually appreciate violence in movies, but I will say I hate violence against dogs in the movies - so we can agree on that.

 

[AutistAcolyte]

i was talking with another parishioner recently about how i like the john wick movies because they make really good use of set pieces and coreography. i particularly like the 4th one because now that they've established that bulletproof suits exist in that world, they've been able to get really creative with the fight coreography.

the violence is definitely over the top, but for me, its less about "look at all those people dying" and more "look at what a amazing stunts and camerawork they're pulling off"

i feel like theyre a sort of jackie chan level of film for this era.

 

[Metalhead]

i was talking with another parishioner recently about how i like the john wick movies because they make really good use of set pieces and coreography. i particularly like the 4th one because now that they've established that bulletproof suits exist in that world, they've been able to get really creative with the fight coreography.

the violence is definitely over the top, but for me, its less about "look at all those people dying" and more "look at what a amazing stunts and camerawork they're pulling off"

i feel like theyre a sort of jackie chan level of film for this era.

John Wick is a movie for dog lovers. Any dog lover can relate with John Wick.

 

[Hylian]

My favourite film franchise is Saw. I'll let that fact answer this question for me. lmao

 

[Metalhead]

My favourite film franchise is Saw. I'll let that fact answer this question for me. lmao

Tobin Bell is amazing.

 

[Gerontius]

My opinion is that Mel Gibson is an exploitation filmmaker with a Hollywood budget.

You know I never thought about it that way, but after looking at his filmography I would concede the point--You're quite correct.
That is article material. Go for it if you feel like writing.

 

[Judge]

I'm no fan of Mel Gibson, however he was only the lead actor in "The Patriot".

Director: Roland Emmerich
Producer: Dean Devlin, Mark Gordon, Gary Levinsohn
Writer: Robert Rodat

Though if you want to really know what happened in that theater of war at the time, you can read about here. Try not to be too disappointed in discovering that the British (particularly Jeremy Issacs' character "Tavington") weren't quite so monstrous as depicted in this particular film.

Ultimately IMO the film was one of the more classic examples of Hollywood butchering history.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banastre_Tarleton

 

[Metalhead]

I'm no fan of Mel Gibson, however he was only the lead actor in "The Patriot".

Director: Roland Emmerich
Producer: Dean Devlin, Mark Gordon, Gary Levinsohn
Writer: Robert Rodat

Though if you want to really know what happened in that theater of war at the time, you can read about here. Try not to be too disappointed in discovering that the British (particularly Jeremy Issacs' character "Tavington") weren't quite so monstrous as depicted in this particular film.

Ultimately IMO the film was one of the more classic examples of Hollywood butchering history.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banastre_Tarleton

He started his film career in one of the most iconic exploitation films of all time - Mad Max.

 

[Judge]

He started his film career in one of the most iconic exploitation films of all time - Mad Max.

Yep, I've seen all four of the Mad Max character films. But then Gibson was only an actor in three of them.

My favorite character was Max's Blue Heeler in "The Road Warrior". His dog in the back seat of the car who held the cord in his mouth connected to a shotgun trigger pointed at Bruce Spence. Awkward!

But I liked Tina Turner and Frank Thring in "Thunderdome" as well...

 

[Gerontius]

Yep, I've seen all four of the Mad Max character films. But then Gibson was only an actor in three of them.

My favorite character was Max's Blue Heeler in "The Road Warrior". His dog in the back seat of the car who held the cord in his mouth connected to a shotgun trigger pointed at Bruce Spence.

Blue heelers are pretty nice anyway so I can definitely understand you on that one.

We used to have a blue heeler. If there was ever a dog I could see doing that intentionally, it's a blue heeler. Talk about a one-family dog--We always said she'd be dangerous if she had thumbs.

 

[Judge]

Blue heelers are pretty nice anyway so I can definitely understand you on that one.

We used to have a blue heeler. If there was ever a dog I could see doing that intentionally, it's a blue heeler. Talk about a one-family dog--We always said she'd be dangerous if she had thumbs.

My cousin got a Blue Heeler recently. Love the dog, but she's seriously a handful. Much more than any herding breed dog my cousin ever had before.

Still a great choice to cast such a dog in that particular role....IMO.

 

[Stuttermabolur]

Violence repulses me, and I've really never been a fan of it. However, I do really like Jackie Chan films. I think a part of it is that in most of them, violence is played very much as slapstick, and people don't die in them. You also don't see blood, gore or close-ups of broken limbs or stuff like that. It's just cool and interesting set pieces to play out cartoons. I guess violence is alright if it can be shown to three year olds, but I still picked the second to last option.

 

[Crossbreed]

I like movie violence with three caveats,

1. PG restraint (R & lower ratings, especially splatter & gore, are triggering for me),
2. the violence must be sensible in some context (I find wanton human* violence to be disturbing, even with a PG-rating;** horror usually fails on this point),
3. I do not find boxing movies to be offensive so much as I find them to be boring & senseless (like real boxing).

*I do not consider wild animal violence to be senseless.
**I can make exceptions for an unhinged antagonist if the plot is about how the clever protagonist stops them. (The plot is still sensible, even if the antagonist is not.)

 

[Progster]

I dislike gratuitous violence. I once saw a movie, Reservoir dogs. I don't get why this was considered such a good movie by some critics, why people would enjoy watching someone torture another human being, and pay to go and watch it... but maybe that's the point, that people are fascinated by violence and will pay to watch it.

 

[Metalhead]

I dislike gratuitous violence. I once saw a movie, Reservoir dogs. I don't get why this was considered such a good movie by some critics, why people would enjoy watching someone torture another human being, and pay to go and watch it... but maybe that's the point, that people are fascinated by violence and will pay to watch it.

I appreciated the dialogue in Reservoir Dogs, but the violence was overkill.

 

[Metalhead]

I just watched the new Nicholas Cage movie, Renfield. That is probably my favorite kind of cinematic violence - exaggerated to the point where the excesses of it become a joke in itself.