Violent movies - Yay or Nah?

[Metalhead]

I love violence in movies if it is over the top and not at all realistic.

I would rather watch The Evil Dead than the 5 o'clock news.

What are your opinions on violent films?

 

[Forest Cat]

When I was a teenager I collected horror movies. And movies didn't bother me because it was just movies. But something has changed. I find myself thinking "why do people make this". For example the Hostel movies or the Saw movies. It's just violence and torture. I don't know, I look at it differently now. It might be because the world is a horrible place, so much suffering and awfulness. When I was younger I didn't know how bad it was. The movies remind me of that maybe, the terrible things that happen. I rarely watch horror movies or very violent movies now, it's not for me.

But Evil Dead is still good. Groovy. There's humor in those movies and it's not made just to be violent. And Bruce Campbell is very good at what he does.

Spoiler

 

[Mono]

I really enjoy it in movies like Evil Dead and recently, Deadpool & Wolverine. Those movies don't take themselves that seriously. But movies like Saw and Hostel are not for me, either. The Gremlins and Tremors movies are good fun to me as well. Though I'm not sure you'd count those. As for the news, I don't watch it at all and will always choose entertainment over it

 

[Outdated]

Violence and gore in movies doesn't bother me at all but it's not what I look for in a movie, and most movies in the violence/gore/horror genre have really crap story lines. That's what I want in a movie, an interesting and entertaining story.

An old classic like Towering Inferno proves my point - there is no story, a building catches fire and you get to watch people suffer and die, the end. There's so many others the same, like the Jaws series, as far as movies go they're all rubbish.

 

[Tom]

I watch war films and sci-fi horror. My favorites tend to be old school types that aren't too realistic. Plenty of scientists is always a good start.

And lots of inefficient law enforcement helps.

 

[Outdated]

My favorites tend to be old school types that aren't too realistic.

I loved the original Dr Who series, the sets were so cheaply made you could see them wobble as the actors moved around.

 

[Tom]

I loved the original Dr Who series, the sets were so cheaply made you could see them wobble as the actors moved around.

Yes a favorite of mine too. Call the Brigadier!

 

[NoKipAr on the run]

one word: cartoons.

I watch anime and if there's a thing I know or two: some of the most violent stuff
ever is in animation and animation alone.

because you can contort whatever you want and make the most graphic junk ever,
which adds to the surealism.

 

[Rachie]

Apart from at Halloween really I hardly ever watched this genre of movies. When considering that this year aside from anything else. One thing I asked myself well post diagnosis now and actually knowing about my sensory profile. Is this sort of scary thing which may possibly be linked to sensory seeking in some autistics actually an assault on my senses now. I have a lot of sensory issues. I still do wonder a bit.

 

[SusanLR]

The plot and story line are the most important to me for entertainment.
I don't care for the "Scream" type movies. Just a lot of nonsense with no thought behind it.
If the story is good and the effects are good the gore doesn't bother me.

Just went through this experience tonight watching tv. Tuned into a Vin Diesel movie called F9 The Fast Saga. Five minutes was enough to see it was one of those over the top too fantastic action films and nothing else shows.
Then I streamed Man of Steel. A modern Superman movie with good effects and the plot, although not new, held my attention.

Crime and psychological thrillers I like also. I like a complex plot that keeps my attention. What they show along with it doesn't bother me.

 

[FayetheAspie]

I like for a show to have a lot of action but prefer it to have little or no actual violence. Something like the 1980s The A-team series tends to be my preference a lot of the time. Lots of action but hardly anybody ever dies on the series.

 

[Judge]

Seems that's one of things John Wayne bitterly complained to Clint Eastwood about. He didn't like the level of violence found in his movies, let alone the lead actor being an "anti-hero". But then the way I see it, the two of them represented different eras of Hollywood productions.

When done right, I think it can enhance a movie, certainly making it more intense. Director Sam Peckinpah proved it over the years, making gratuitous violence a hallmark of his films, such as "The Wild Bunch", "Straw Dogs" and "Cross of Iron".

I also liked the way director Paul Verhoeven implemented the concept in films like "Total Recall (1990)" and "Starship Troopers". With the intent of satirizing dystopian futures.

And I have to mention Sam Raimi's miniseries "Spartacus" (2010-2013) in an intimate look at the brief lives of most Roman Gladiators and the story of an army of slaves and former gladiators who attempted to take on the authority of Ancient Rome. Violence depicted through special effects on an unprecedented scale.

 

[TBRS1]

I like horror movies because they are, on average, so terrible that I end up laughing at every attempt to create ever increasingly horrible and humiliating deaths.

However, when they are good (well made and actually horrendous, like the movie Se7en), and I am experiencing depression causing me to experience "mirror empathy" I can end up in fetal position, vomiting.

So... Mixed bag?

 

[Ken]

I selected dislike violence in movies. Actually, I dislike violence period. I dislike hatred and most violence is due to hatred.

I do enjoy some movies that are classified as horror; if they are actually a comedy and a plot that isn't about violence. For instance, I like Ghostbusters Afterlife.

 

[Trophonius]

I depends on how violent. I can tolerate violence in movies if somehow justified, but there is that where where it feels like torture porn. Saw movies and some french extremist movies, and japanese gore, are just like that.

I like it in action films, like Die Hard.

 

[Gerald Wilgus]

I do not like slasher movies or those where people act stupidly. More reality with existential violence like Blackhawk Down or Band of Brothers gives me reason to wonder If I could have held it together to be so tested.

There are some techniques, like initial violence that then is played upon, getting less violent as the story continues because the threat has been planted in your mind. Hitchcock was a master of that . . . Psycho is a great example of his.

 

[thejuice]

Less is more.

 

[Jeff T]

Seems that's one of things John Wayne bitterly complained to Clint Eastwood about. He didn't like the level of violence found in his movies, let alone the lead actor being an "anti-hero". But then the way I see it, the two of them represented different eras of Hollywood productions.

I think society was moving away from the simpleton 'white hats vs black hats' Westerns You know, the most 'white hat' caucasians were just and right, and the blacks, indians, and mexicans were in the way of manifest destiny,
In The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, Clint Eastwood is labeled the good. But he's only good in comparison to the other two. Tuco wasn't a good person, but he is 'less bad' than Lee VanCleef's character? It's all relative?
In keeping with this outlook, Bruce Dern was one of my favorite actors, including when he shot John Wayne's character in The Cowboys.

 

[Judge]

In keeping with this outlook, Bruce Dern was one of my favorite actors, including when he shot John Wayne's character in The Cowboys.

Bruce had a lot of great roles...always as less than the hero. Especially when he he was on the wrong end of a rope in "Hang 'Em High".

Though I liked his daughter Laura even more...a whole family of great actors.

 

[NB79]

I don't like violence in movies when is too gory or injustice, i don't want to see much injustice as innocent dying etc too much, life is already 'traumatic enough' to see a movie that is going to make me suffer.