Now, I enjoy a good, shooter, bloody action movie. This however, shouldn't have been that movie. Now, I am not saying that people shouldn't die, but really? *beep* buckets of blood, that scene in the motel with the women's head exploding? It just seemed out of place and immature.
shareI think the film was certainly needlessly violent. You definitely won't hear me providing any clever rationalizations for my reaction to all of it, though- I loved it! I saw Drive twice in the theater, and part of my motivation for seeing it a second time (besides enjoying the movie and its violence) was just to see and hear the audience reactions again! The second time there was a rather loud "OH SH*T!!!" from the dude in front of me during the shotgun scene. Ha Ha Ha! Just think about this, though- since Drive depicted these acts in all of their graphic relish, millions of viewers now know that violence in real life isn't pretty.
shareFor what it's worth, I didn't think it was needlessly violent--just needlessly graphic. We heard the head stomp--did they have to show it? We saw the shotgun blast--did they have to show the head explode, too? There are a number of other examples. The violence would have been just as shocking without being so explicit.
That was also what I had against Braveheart. Violence is dictated by plot. The style and extent of how it is depicted is not.
Liked the film--hated the director's choices in that area.
I grew up as a kid on 1960s action movies and seeing as this film is an homage to that type of action film, it was not needlessly violent. Back then, the violence was used sparingly so when it came, it takes you by surprise, and it was BIG. This film is no different.
TEAM CAPTAIN AMERICA
"We need a plan of attack!"
"I have a plan: ATTACK."
Go watch Tokyo Gore Police (great film btw) and come back and you'll see the violence was fitting. Thus is life when you do these kind of things.
shareYes, I totally felt that.
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Perhaps not needlessly, exactly, but I definitely thought it was too much. Stylized violence is fine with me, as long as it's not explicit. For me, the worst scenes of violence in 'Drive' were just too much. Otherwise, a wonderful film, however.
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What I would otherwise think is a good psychological thriller is cheapened by the pseudo-artistic portrayal of uber-violence (makes Tarentino's violence look almost innocuous).
Gregory.
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Psychological Elements vs. Portrayal of Violence
2 different categories... But disliking one ruined the other for you?
Side note: violence is violence, it's not pretty. It's gruesome, we're squishy creatures.
We've met before, haven't we?
That could have been one of the film's points--to show that the aftermath of violence is disturbing and disgusting instead of feeding an audience's need for Hollwyood-style violence. Real crime news stories on US TV are censored but on Latin TV, they show bodies and blood in the streets; the shocking reality of what people do to each other.
shareAgreed, without the violence this is yet another troubles with the mob/revenge movie. Add the ultra-violence however, and suddenly, some people think it's special. In short, they put in the violence because they knew how boring the movie was and needed to finally wake up their audience after literally an hour of brooding zooms and lengthy camera pans.
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