Why did people puke over the arm rip scene in 127 Hours?

[Darth Cruel]

I understand why some people wouldn't like it. I think we're saying the same thing, but from a slightly different angle. It's the fact that we're not supposed to like it, but we're forced to endure it, rather than have it censored for us, like westerns in the '50s where a bullet magically kills a gunfighter without even making a hole in his shirt.



I would argue that SPR's intentions were set higher than the average action-war flick.

The Chinese take on SPR (Assembly, set during the Civil War between Nationalists and Communists) was probably even more graphic and horrific, yet it was a moving film, focusing on human emotions and suffering. The graphic nature of the violence becomes part of the story-telling, and off-sets any feelings of jingoism in killing, that you might gain from a Rambo movie.

It is my opinion that you are being misguided by the hype.

 

[CelticPredator]

You're wrong. If that's all you think that movie is, then...wow....

I guess Shindler's List is a 3 hour Jew Kill-a-thon right?

 

[Darth Cruel]

You're wrong. If that's all you think that movie is, then...wow....

I guess Shindler's List is a 3 hour Jew Kill-a-thon right?

To bring race into this particular discussion is ridiculous and damages your credibility.

 

[Deckard]

It is my opinion that you are being misguided by the hype.

I've seen you argue some stupid ____ but this one takes the cake, you honestly believe they set out to make that movie about the gore and that somehow everyone who liked it is just ____ed up in the head and enjoyed the violence.

 

[Asta]

It is my opinion that you are being misguided by the hype.

I don't take any notice of hype. I make my own judgement based on my own viewing.

That movie has such an intense opening. I dont watch it and go "LOLOZZZ OMG HIZ ARM IZ GONE!"

No, it's to show just how god awful war is. To show what these men went through on that day, how incredibly intense, violent, and horrible that day was to many. That was the point of the scene. That's why it's amazing. It's far....FAR from crap.

I've seen you argue some stupid ____ but this one takes the cake, you honestly believe they set out to make that movie about the gore and that somehow everyone who liked it is just ____ed up in the head and enjoyed the violence.

 

[CelticPredator]

To bring race into this particular discussion is ridiculous and damages your credibility.

Uh....yeah......I dont think you're a real person.

 

[DiFabio]

"LOLOZZZ OMG HIZ ARM IZ GONE!"

I guess Shindler's List is a 3 hour Jew Kill-a-thon right?

 

[Bannister]

To bring race into this particular discussion is ridiculous and damages your credibility.

I guess Schindler's List is a 3-hour glorification of Holocaust violence?

 

[CelticPredator]

 

[DiFabio]

I guess Schindler's List is a 3-hour glorification of Holocaust violence?

 

[Bannister]

Is there a site dedicated to Jack Nicholson nodding gifs?

 

[CelticPredator]

Real hero of the movie.

 

[Asta]

Who else thinks a 127-hour-long film of someone cutting off their arm is a bit gratuitous?

 

[CelticPredator]

 

[Deckard]

 

[CelticPredator]

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[Darth Cruel]

I've seen you argue some stupid ____ but this one takes the cake, you honestly believe they set out to make that movie about the gore and that somehow everyone who liked it is just ____ed up in the head and enjoyed the violence.

Have I offended you?

My point is that Hollywood did not make Saving Private Ryan as some big tribute to the vets of that war. They made it to make money and they got lucky and had some aspects of the film that appealed to different people for different reasons as is the case with films in general. The movie appealed to some by basing it on reality. They appealed to others with gore. And the same story could have been told just as realistically with both aspects gone. But they probably would not have gotten as many people to the theaters. And they capitalized on the fact that they could pass it off as a tribute.

 

[CelticPredator]

The......wrongness.......everything about it....makes me hurt.....

 

[Darth Cruel]

Let me ask you all a question.

In the movie...there was a scene where an American soldier was in a fight for his life with a German soldier. He was slowly losing the fight while his savior stood outside the door and did not help because he was afraid.

Did any of you find this scene to be hard-hitting?

It floored me. That single scene is the strongest moment in the movie, to me. And if I remember correctly...there was very little gore (if I remember correctly, the only gore they showed was a bitten nose). The scene was successful without overdoing the gore, right?

 

[CelticPredator]

Probably because that scene was with a stabbing and not a massive ground battle where hundreds of people died......?