Violence over matter?
Sometimes I wonder when watching movies like Saw and Hostel, is this all really?
An entire movie not based in good ideas, some degree of quality or a group of people who worked on it with fascination, but based in sheer violence?
I might be wrong and I am just not getting it, maybe there is something to watch in a senseless movie like the ones mentioned above and many, many others. The problem I have with them comes not from what they are, but for who I am.
What do I mean?
Well, my taste of course! Not everyone can share the same taste, and if we all did, oh My, what a boring world would we live in. The difference of opinions is what build our society, and it is what makes us advance as a race. Having your own opinion and sticking by it, forming it and shaping it, then sharing it with other people, when you receive *their* opinion, and that 'exchange' is what makes us involve.
Taking that entire idea to a smaller scale, a much much smaller one, in film-making the difference of opinion is what made the film-making industry involve. Not as an industry, but as an art-form. People who were good at something and tried to do it better, and because film-making is an art-form, people tried to be better than others in different ways. Which led people up to not only surpassing others, but spreading, changing, and growing. I am speaking of all the genres and all the different sub-genres.
Perhaps I was wrong. Movies like Saw that are a sub-genre of slasher horror, maybe they have something to give, a chain reaction that will trigger another sub-genre that will actually appeal to me.
To be fair, people who like these kind of movies are not wrong in any way, everyone has a different perception of entertainment and how he/she enjoys herself/himself.
All I want to say is *personally* for me, I prefer my violence explained. I want my violence to have a reason to be where it is and to advance the plot.
Now you may ask, John, what movie is both Horror and somewhat 'Slasher' but with violence that is there to also advance the story and character development?
Well, here's one of them:
Sometimes I wonder when watching movies like Saw and Hostel, is this all really?
An entire movie not based in good ideas, some degree of quality or a group of people who worked on it with fascination, but based in sheer violence?
I might be wrong and I am just not getting it, maybe there is something to watch in a senseless movie like the ones mentioned above and many, many others. The problem I have with them comes not from what they are, but for who I am.
What do I mean?
Well, my taste of course! Not everyone can share the same taste, and if we all did, oh My, what a boring world would we live in. The difference of opinions is what build our society, and it is what makes us advance as a race. Having your own opinion and sticking by it, forming it and shaping it, then sharing it with other people, when you receive *their* opinion, and that 'exchange' is what makes us involve.
Taking that entire idea to a smaller scale, a much much smaller one, in film-making the difference of opinion is what made the film-making industry involve. Not as an industry, but as an art-form. People who were good at something and tried to do it better, and because film-making is an art-form, people tried to be better than others in different ways. Which led people up to not only surpassing others, but spreading, changing, and growing. I am speaking of all the genres and all the different sub-genres.
Perhaps I was wrong. Movies like Saw that are a sub-genre of slasher horror, maybe they have something to give, a chain reaction that will trigger another sub-genre that will actually appeal to me.
To be fair, people who like these kind of movies are not wrong in any way, everyone has a different perception of entertainment and how he/she enjoys herself/himself.
All I want to say is *personally* for me, I prefer my violence explained. I want my violence to have a reason to be where it is and to advance the plot.
Now you may ask, John, what movie is both Horror and somewhat 'Slasher' but with violence that is there to also advance the story and character development?
Well, here's one of them:
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