Violence in movies

Originally posted by Impediment
Yep. Fixed the title.

i love you impediment...

as for violence in films...i think films that have an overabundance of background violence tend to get overlooked...saving private ryan for example had people picking up their own limbs and random people being burned and have their faces blown off...but it gets skipped over by the psyche for some random reason (with me anyway)

much more effective are the single, extreme acts of brutality...the rabbit poachers in pans labyrinth or the fire extinguisher scene in irreversible for example...they are relatively isolated and have huge intensity...clearly they have shock value but...but not purely for the sake of it like films such as saw and hostel do...they serve a purpose...they show a character trait and the reaction to an extreme action respectively...they are neccesary but still extreme

other examples of brilliantly portrayed violence

the baseball bat scene in "casino"
the ear scene in "reservoir dogs"
the bayonet stabbing in "saving private ryan" (by miles the most effective and affecting death in the film)

I've always thought that the scene where Ray Liotta bashes that bloke's face in with the butt of a gun, is an awesome piece of on screen violence. In Goodfellas, to you people that don't know good films.

I love violence in movies.

Depends on the violence, though.

I don't like people getting raped. However, I like it if the raper gets waaaaay the f***ed up later in the film.

I find it funny how people die or when people scream after losing a limb. I don't think I'd find it funny if it were real, though. There's something about pretending that your arm actually got cut off that is morbidly humorous to me.

I think that some films have captured gore really well and others make it seem gross but fail horribly.

I love horror. I love watching the bad guys make hamburger of the protagonists.

Originally posted by jaden101
i love you impediment...

as for violence in films...i think films that have an overabundance of background violence tend to get overlooked...saving private ryan for example had people picking up their own limbs and random people being burned and have their faces blown off...but it gets skipped over by the psyche for some random reason (with me anyway)

Originally posted by jaden101
the bayonet stabbing in "saving private ryan" (by miles the most effective and affecting death in the film)

Originally posted by Röland

Just a random comment but I read that Spielberg's meaning behind that scene was how the U.S. stood by while the Holocaust happened and didn't act. Mellish being the Jews, the German soldier being the Nazi's and Upham being the U.S.

i didn't know that...but yeah...makes sense

Originally posted by Röland
I think it's along the lines that when we go into a movie, like Saving Private Ryan, we are expecting the violence because violence is naturally associated with war.

Just a random comment but I read that Spielberg's meaning behind that scene was how the U.S. stood by while the Holocaust happened and didn't act. Mellish being the Jews, the German soldier being the Nazi's and Upham being the U.S.