Thread: Last movie you saw - and rate it

Originally Posted by MOtorboat

P.S. I do think King is doing some trolling on Scorsese. I’m serious when I can’t fathom someone hates all those movies. That’s not real.

Yes it seems attention seeking. But playfully, most likely.

Originally Posted by MOtorboat

You’ve witnessed a curb stomp murder?

I feel like authentic violence is not permitted... Perhaps it doesn't sell. Perhaps it's taboo. But the verbal aspect...why doesn't it exist in R films? I've seen shit way more pants pissing than Hollywood allows. Why has it not been captured on film? Anyone feel me?

There is nothing wrong with this scene. Eat a dick, King.

Originally Posted by Hawgdriver

I feel like authentic violence is not permitted... Perhaps it doesn't sell. Perhaps it's taboo. But the verbal aspect...why doesn't it exist in R films? I've seen shit way more pants pissing than Hollywood allows. Why has it not been captured on film? Anyone feel me?

Better take your combat dump before leaving the wire.

Originally Posted by MOtorboat

There is nothing wrong with this scene. Eat a dick, King.

They really could've done a MUCH better job there.

Originally Posted by Hawgdriver

I feel like authentic violence is not permitted... Perhaps it doesn't sell. Perhaps it's taboo. But the verbal aspect...why doesn't it exist in R films? I've seen shit way more pants pissing than Hollywood allows. Why has it not been captured on film? Anyone feel me?

Taboo is one reason, although there are several famous boundary pushers in the history of film.

The MPAA or whatever the abbreviation for the ratings system is prevents a movie too violent/vulgar from being able to be played in theaters. So that would be another reason it’s tempered.

I would argue that the vast majority of movies that are/could be as violent as you want them to be would be really lame movies. If you can’t make a good movie without being over-the-top with violence or sexual then your movie probably sucks.

Also people have different thresholds for violence and I would assume most people haven't witnessed the kind of violence you seem to have witnessed. In other words, no there is no market.

Originally Posted by aberdien

Taboo is one reason, although there are several famous boundary pushers in the history of film.

The MPAA or whatever the abbreviation for the ratings system is prevents a movie too violent/vulgar from being able to be played in theaters. So that would be another reason it’s tempered.

I would argue that the vast majority of movies that are/could be as violent as you want them to be would be really lame movies. If you can’t make a good movie without being over-the-top with violence or sexual then your movie probably sucks.

Also people have different thresholds for violence and I would assume most people haven't witnessed the kind of violence you seem to have witnessed. In other words, no there is no market.

Good response.

I don't think I've seen half as much as a lot of people, so that's why I find it surprising how tame Hollywood is.

I mean, good grief. $85 is the price of a life in some Mexican border towns.

Is this a boundary pusher in your eyes?

That scene was one of the worst scenes I’ve witnessed.

I couldn’t take him seriously as a tough guy let alone killer seriously.

Sorry.

Originally Posted by Hawgdriver

Good response.

I don't think I've seen half as much as a lot of people, so that's why I find it surprising how tame Hollywood is.

I mean, good grief. $85 is the price of a life in some Mexican border towns.

Is this a boundary pusher in your eyes?

I am not going to watch that because I don’t want any my phone to explode/run out of data.

The question I guess is what do you want to see that is not being shown? Movies are as violent as they have ever been.

One that did push boundaries: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sal%..._Days_of_Sodom

Watch A Serbian Film and get back to me. Abe is right, the violence is out there its just a matter of the type of film and/or if its any good in terms of plot and script.

Originally Posted by aberdien

I am not going to watch that because I don’t want any my phone to explode/run out of data.

The question I guess is what do you want to see that is not being shown? Movies are as violent as they have ever been.

One that did push boundaries: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sal%..._Days_of_Sodom

Cannibal Holocaust was boundary-pushing too I guess.

It's not that I want to see heinous or gratuitous violence, it's more the intensity and ferocity of dialogue/interpersonal conflict. It rarely comes across as provocative or intimidating when that seems to be what the director/writer is aiming to achieve.

We allow a lot of gratuitous violence--look at Joker. It's not that stuff--the on-camera depiction of wanton and graphic harm and violence.

It's the meaning and intent, the dialogue and mental imagery...the language of it all.

Originally Posted by Northman

Watch A Serbian Film and get back to me. Abe is right, the violence is out there its just a matter of the type of film and/or if its any good in terms of plot and script.

Which one?

Originally Posted by Hawgdriver

Cannibal Holocaust was boundary-pushing too I guess.

It's not that I want to see heinous or gratuitous violence, it's more the intensity and ferocity of dialogue/interpersonal conflict. It rarely comes across as provocative or intimidating when that seems to be what the director/writer is aiming to achieve.

We allow a lot of gratuitous violence--look at Joker. It's not that stuff--the on-camera depiction of wanton and graphic harm and violence.

It's the meaning and intent, the dialogue and mental imagery...the language of it all.

Can you give an example?

Originally Posted by aberdien

Can you give an example?

I'll think on it.

Originally Posted by Hawgdriver

Which one?

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