Whiskey Tango
Avenger
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Captain America had blood squibs! Name me another superhero movie that had genuine Paul Verhoeven esque blood squibs!!?!?!?
AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
Damage Control.
And for the topic at hand I personally have zero interest in seeing a bunch of civilians turned into red paste in every movie. One can let the audience come to their own conclusions through smashed buildings and wrecked cars and general destruction that results from superpowered fights without outright showing it. Anything beyond what a typical disaster film portrays would be overdoing it imo, and even that is probably a bit too much.
I agree. While the "Inglorious Bastards" side of me love to have Cap going all bloody and stuff, realistically this is a superhero movie that tried to appeal to a PG-13 crowd. Vaporizing the soldiers from the Allies and HYDRA allowed them to actually show death without going over-the-top, and I think this is a smart arrangement since the kiddies won't be too traumatized because there's no bodies involved. As for Cap being too violent, well it is still a WWII movie that we can't have a war where nobody died, can we?
haha i love reading tvtropes. It can entertain me for hours. And it's actually a pretty good resource for aspiring writers. Which i am... not.
I agree. While the "Inglorious Bastards" side of me love to have Cap going all bloody and stuff, realistically this is a superhero movie that tried to appeal to a PG-13 crowd. Vaporizing the soldiers from the Allies and HYDRA allowed them to actually show death without going over-the-top, and I think this is a smart arrangement since the kiddies won't be too traumatized because there's no bodies involved. As for Cap being too violent, well it is still a WWII movie that we can't have a war where nobody died, can we?
That site is like cracked.com or wikipedia for me tho, every time I go there I risk clicking away my entire afternoon.
I think its a simple matter of "if collateral damage or civilian casualties serve the plot or narrative then do it".
It can show a crisis of ethics for the hero, or make the audience hate the villain. It shouldn't be done to just do it, nor left out for "family", IMO.
This is America. We LOVE violence. Its boobs and dirty words that send everyone in an uproar.
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Yeah, you don't have to actually show people getting killed to show that the villain is a real threat. Your typical Bond villain creates a threat that is usually absolutely devastating to humanity and earth, but of course he never gets a chance to use his supersecret megaultraweapon, and yet the audience is fully aware that he means business.
Or in Vader's case, above, everybody in the audience knew in an instant the first time they saw him stalking into the blockade runner with his flowing black cape and skull mask that this dude was bad news.
Personally I didn't realize that Vader or the Empire were any kind of a threat until they blew up Alderaan and we saw a montage of all them peoples dying. That, and when the Ewok was shot in the back.
Wait, there was a montage of people dying on Alderaan? All I remember was the planet being blown to (non-CGI but still impressive at the time) smithereens.
I though maybe Lucas had added it in his wretched Special Editions.![]()
um Thor goes THROUGH the Frost beast's head, Cap THROWS Hydra Agents out of a plain, I'm sure they aren't going to avoid anything except the actual GORE.
Got tickets for the midnight show yesterday. It's surreal.
I considered going to the ULTIMATE MOVIE MARATHON thing, but decided against it. I don't want to be exhausted by these characters when The Avengers starts. Cool idea though.
I know what you guys are talking about earlier.
Basically you guys want Transformers, Michael Bay, and Will Smith style disaster, destruction, and rubble but in a comic book superhero movie.
But it looks like we are finally going to see a little bit of that here. And not to mention superheroes actually fighting together onscreen which we've never really seen in any of these movies before. There was a little bit in X-Men 3 but even there I felt ripped off.
Yeah, but here's where I foresee a problem. When you underplay death as a direct result of an invasion/catastrophe type premise that Avengers is setting, then were're really just fighting against villains who are causing property damage. Morningstar probably said it best, that it ends up being the latest display of CG technology thrown in our faces for 2 hours.Damage Control.
And for the topic at hand I personally have zero interest in seeing a bunch of civilians turned into red paste in every movie. One can let the audience come to their own conclusions through smashed buildings and wrecked cars and general destruction that results from superpowered fights without outright showing it. Anything beyond what a typical disaster film portrays would be overdoing it imo, and even that is probably a bit too much.