Since it's the most widely spread topic on lj right now

[lodessa]

[Poll #1367127]



Feel free to talk about what in particular you liked or didn't like about either version in the comments.

Comments

[lodessa.livejournal.com]

I'm curious about what you mean exactly by gross in this context. Could you maybe elaborate?

[caitiedidit.livejournal.com]

I mean gross in the most basic sense. People's arms were sawed off, ears were bitten off, dogs chewed on little girl's bones, etcetera. Gratuitous gore is gratuitous!

[lodessa.livejournal.com]

Hmm... It's interesting you mention Sin City, because I found that to be at least as gory as Watchmen in that sense. The only moment in which I really felt was particularly overly gratuitous was the one where the criminals drilled through the guy whose hands Rorschach broke in the prison. But then again, having read the comic book I knew that the dogs were going to be chewing on the little girl's bones so it didn't have the same shock factor.

I actually thought for the most part they did a good job of making it violent instead of gory by having the sound of bones breaking etc. instead of showing them jabbing out of people's arms and such. But, like I said, I imagine knowing what was coming probably completely changed my experience of it.

On the other hand, I suspect that maybe the difference (based on what the story is about) is that the gore/violence was actually intended to unsettle you as opposed to give you a rush. It was extremely ugly, none of the ballet of blood of Kill Bill.

[caitiedidit.livejournal.com]

It is fully possible that time has dulled some of Sin City's goriness for me. But then, I was also expecting Sin City (and this goes double for Tarintino movies) to be gratuitously violent. Not so much with Watchmen. Like, I knew it was rated R, and I knew this was the same director responsible for 300, but Watchmen was marketed differently. Like, I was expecting a noirish mystery set in a dystopia/the thinking man's super hero movie.

[lodessa.livejournal.com]

Yeah, It seems like expectations probably have a lot to do with how gory things seem to us.