I love a good action film, I love seeing war films, hell platoon with the spearing of the dude on the swingy spikey thing was cool :D
But... wtf is up with "horror" movies nowerdays, theres no real horror to it, it tends to be about a murderer who just likes to make blood everywhere, Id consider horror to be something like stephen kings, Thinning/Thinner/thingy?! :D lol. But Saw 1 & 2, texas chainsaw massacre, nightmare on elm, and many others in the catagory are purely based around dying in a grotesque manner.
Death in itself is not scary.
I can deal with war films and arms and legs being blown off, spikes being shoved through peoples eyes. But when I sit and watch a horror movie I just find myself repulsed by it. I cant deal with the ichi the killer trailer let alone the entire film, but I think thats down to cruelty against women, I find myself getting angry and sick to the core when I saw the slicing of the nipples and stuff.
Hmm maybe horror is just not a genre for me, but I dont find it scary or "oooh not going to sleep at night" which to me is what horror should be, I just find it grotesque.
Did you watch Gordon Ramsey witnessing the death of his pigs in The F Word recently? :lol:
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lol no why?
I dunno, I just find it meh... I wouldnt go pay to see a film of scat, but I get the impression that when I watch such films as "Texas chainsaw massacre" that Id feel the exact same.
Repulsed, and just thing the entire film is ming.
Id rather watch The Birds (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0783240236/sr=8-1/qid=1156614478/ref=pd_bbs_1/104-8770707-3234328?ie=UTF8) vs. Halloween. (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00009UW0N/sr=8-2/qid=1156614499/ref=pd_bbs_2/104-8770707-3234328?ie=UTF8) ;)
Same here, I prefer suspense and thrillers rather than all out "RAH THIS IS BLOOD.. OH LOOK THIS IS MORE BLOOD, AND AHH THERES YOUR STOMACH CONTENTS. YUM!"
Dont see the attraction in "horror"
I dont have a problem with gore, you get used to it if you are subject to it regularly anyway. What I cant take is gratuitous violence against women for no reason.
I think the problem is theres often no justification for it beyond "hes nuts" or " hes really angry" or "hes just evil, ok?".
A director once said to make a film, think of siz or seven nasty ways to die and then put a bit of dialouge around it.
It can be cool though, like the woodchipper scene in Fargo or the guy in hannibal with the hanging and guts falling out.
Quote from: sdpI think the problem is theres often no justification for it beyond "hes nuts" or " hes really angry" or "hes just evil, ok?".
A director once said to make a film, think of siz or seven nasty ways to die and then put a bit of dialouge around it.
It can be cool though, like the woodchipper scene in Fargo or the guy in hannibal with the hanging and guts falling out.
Hit the nail on the head there mate.
Theres no storyline to these films other than as you say "the guy is a nutter".
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