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I don't go to horror movies.
It's not because they're all terrible or devoid of plot or character (although I hear that a good majority of them are). I just can't stand gore. Sure, I can watch folk get shot onscreen, or small knife/sword wounds or slashes, or the aftereffects of fights, where they're invariably a little smeared with blood or wearing red contact lenses or what have you. That's all fine.
However, chop someone's limb or head off in front of the camera, or have blood and bone and bits of innards flying everywhere, or really closely detail exactly how this body is getting torn to shreds in minute detail - bleargh. No, thank you. Stomach can't handle it.
(I also don't watch medical dramas. Sorry, House.)
Horror movies these days tend more to go towards gore than their less-effect-laden counterparts in earlier ages; it's just rather a fact. I also understand some people love horror movies and all the gorey bits. Awesome! But because I don't like watching them, I don't go watch them, and all is well in the world.
I do like watching other kinds of movies. Action, drama, comedy, suspense, fantasy, whatever. I have favourites in all sorts of genres.
When I'm watching an action movie that has been solidly placed into a certain subset of action movie genres, I do not expect to find sudden giblets and spurts of blood and bones crunching everywhere. This makes me squeamish and sad, particularly when the movie was pretty darned good otherwise.
In other news, The Watchmen could have been a pretty darned good movie.
It's not because they're all terrible or devoid of plot or character (although I hear that a good majority of them are). I just can't stand gore. Sure, I can watch folk get shot onscreen, or small knife/sword wounds or slashes, or the aftereffects of fights, where they're invariably a little smeared with blood or wearing red contact lenses or what have you. That's all fine.
However, chop someone's limb or head off in front of the camera, or have blood and bone and bits of innards flying everywhere, or really closely detail exactly how this body is getting torn to shreds in minute detail - bleargh. No, thank you. Stomach can't handle it.
(I also don't watch medical dramas. Sorry, House.)
Horror movies these days tend more to go towards gore than their less-effect-laden counterparts in earlier ages; it's just rather a fact. I also understand some people love horror movies and all the gorey bits. Awesome! But because I don't like watching them, I don't go watch them, and all is well in the world.
I do like watching other kinds of movies. Action, drama, comedy, suspense, fantasy, whatever. I have favourites in all sorts of genres.
When I'm watching an action movie that has been solidly placed into a certain subset of action movie genres, I do not expect to find sudden giblets and spurts of blood and bones crunching everywhere. This makes me squeamish and sad, particularly when the movie was pretty darned good otherwise.
In other news, The Watchmen could have been a pretty darned good movie.
