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Way too grimly violent

posted 9 years ago by photoe
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This movie is sold and made as a sort of PG adventure flick, but has R-rated, almost X-rated violence that I find gratuitous and revolting. Do I really need to see some old guy shot from behind with his blodd spurting out the front center screen? I guess that's supposed to make me hate the villain more. Gross, and also stupid at the same time. Could've been a far better film with not that much editing work. Whoever accepted the final edit is responsible for this atrocity. Wouldn't recommend someone under 13 seeing it, but what else is new in our society.

[–] SlickySlixta 8 years ago

Maybe it's the European directors working in Hollywood lol. They bring a specific brand of cruel violence to an American audience. Paul Verhoeven was very similar with Robocop and Total Recall, I remember seeing the part in TR where Quade uses that civilian guy as a human shield on the escalator and he just gets blasted. I found it slightly disturbing at the time, but now I find it darkly humorous, just like Harlin's work on Cliffhanger and Die Hard 2.

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[–] aloep 8 years ago

I didn't really see it as being any more violent than countless other 80s and early 90s action films.

I dislike gratuitous violence for the sake of violence. Too much graphic violence is unpleasant, but I didn't get that feeling from this.

[–] Nobodyinnit 8 years ago

I like big squibs.

[–] Scaar_Alexander 8 years ago

Dude. If you don't like violence in movies, just don't watch a) an action movie b) with Sylvester Stallone c) about merciless thugs lost in the mountain. It's so god damn obvious. I was 12 when the movie was released. It was my in my top 3 along with Jurassic Park and The Fugitive. Of course, I was impressed by the violence, but it didn't *beep* traumatize me, it was just riveting, different from what I had seen until then in that kind of flick.

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[–] StinkyGreenBud 8 years ago

Holy *beep* OP, I was 10 years old when my parents took me to go see this at the theater. Grow a pair.