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Disturbing violence...(SPOILER ALERT!!!)

posted 10 years ago by obelix99
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I've seen a lot of violent movies but I think this one qualifies as the most violent. There are a lot of scenes where you're thinking, "Man...they really didn't need to put that in there"....Arnold wife getting executed on tape was one. The intestine hanging from the guy on the wall? Holy cow. How about brain matter on the train tracks? Why couldn't they just show the dead body in tact. We saw him get hit by the train. We saw his body tossed around in the trailer home. But did he get tossed into a meat grinder? WTF happened? The innocent civilians getting blown up in the car? The chopping off of the head on video? Man...again..not really adding anything to the movie. I realize cartels are bloody and ruthless.

MOvies like Saw and Hostel were disturbing, but those were specialized genres. This is an action movie.

[–] private-joker-fu 10 years ago

What's wrong with action movie gore? LOL The funniest/best scene in the movie was the car chase at the end where Terrence Howard hits the girl on the bike spraying blood all over the windshield. He's yelling "I can't see s^^t" with the biker's face smushed up against the glass, before rear-ending the truck. Plus movie gore is nothing compared to real gore, just google "bestgore".

[–] akoroush 10 years ago

What was the matter?

Yeah the scenes that showed the cartel/wife were suppose to make you realize how bad drug cartels really are. They are pretty much that bad in real life so the movie is pretty realistic in that regard. It made the revenge at the end more satisfying.

Also innocent civs getting killed also makes sense. How are they going to have a car chase shootout without anybody getting accidentally hurt?

The train scene was pretty strange, I don't think there should of been that much gore.. you got a point about that.

[–] voight84 10 years ago

violence in john rambo was even a bit grittier,and no one bitched because of that
real life is much more messed up....movie gore is nothing compared to that

Trolls dont have an opinion....just an urge to compensate their frustration about themselves!!!

[–] ultimatenexus 10 years ago

People DID bitch about it. The two or three threads may still be there, but I remember those threads well because I made fun of the posters. Same with 300: Rise of an Empire, where some douche complained it was 'unnecessarily brutal and bloody', and then deleted my replies to him to try and prove his own point. It's a freaking action/war movie. What the hell do people expect? "Oh, I wasn't expecting it to be THAT bad!" Pansies.

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[–] Spallone_Spikane 10 years ago

Never trust the seller man. Sabotage is clearly a Thriller/Horror film that is based on an Agatha Cristie story as IMDb indicates, but the studio butchered and edited it into a terrible action film and sold it as yet another vigilante Arnie vehicle.

I'm glad this flopped horribly, as it is clearly Ayer's worst film, but it wasn't the poor man's fault, so I feel kind of bad for him.

[–] voight84 10 years ago

horror film???you just made clear that you've never actually seen one....thriller?? YES ,a law enforcement/drug/revenge thriller with action elements...spiced up with some extra violence
when films get edited over and over its neither the main actors nor the directors fault

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[–] psychoanalysis86 10 years ago

What do you mean it didn't add anything to the movie? If it didn't add anything to the movie then you wouldn't have noticed or thought to comment. Obviously, they were seeking a more disturbing edge to visceral violence in films than is usually portrayed. Some of the comments I don't understand. He was torn up because he was in an aluminum can that got hit and run over by a train. Trains vs. flesh = train wins. The wife being tortured didn't show much besides the head shot and her screaming mostly.

Saw and Hostel featured an entirely different kind of violence where people were tortured at length. In Sabotage, the torture scenes are relatively brief.

In short, I find your objections strange. This is supposed to be more graphic than Tango and Cash. The story is darker and the violence is less easy to take in.

[–] anondragon2012 10 years ago

Why not show it?
Thats what happens in reality when guys get shot or blown to pieces.

I find it more disturbing that hollywood is hiding the truth about dead bodies

[–] Mngirl1974 10 years ago

It's not the grossest movie ever. It's rated R and shows why in the readout. I think the gore added to the movies good parts. It's also realistic - is the cartel going to hug the wife and son to death? Note they never showed the son - which keeps people like you from really freaking out. Kids and animals generally aren't shown on screen for mainstream violent movies like this. I mean where were you going with this comment? Don't watch movies like this if you can't handle it...

[–] mwleonard-1 10 years ago

It was pure vomit. Arnold will never be able to get his career back. Scumbag.

[–] private-joker-fu 10 years ago

Come on, the classics like Predator, The Terminator, T2, Raw Deal, Last Action Hero, Red Heat and True Lies will live on forever. Yeah you could call this and The Expendables garbage, but he's just having fun. You'll appreciate it if you ever get old.

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