[ SECRET POST #3702 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3702 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I think there's some kind of a division between matter and story here - that the stories are violent, and that Gibson films them in a particularly violent and realistic way, are distinct things to me. So thank you for clarifying there.

But even then, I'm just really skeptical about the idea that movies with those themes or that style are unnecessary or bad. I think you can have war movies with very realistic even gruesome depictions of violence and have that be good... just as one example I think Apocalypse Now is a very fine movie, and I don't see how it's different here.

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When Hacksaw Ridge came out I was reading reviews and people were like, it's great but be prepared for how sickening it is. Nobody says that about Apocalypse Now. Maybe they did when it first came out but I wasn't around to see that.

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It seems to me that people who don't want to prepare themselves for it being sickening are perfectly capable of not seeing it

So I'm not sure what the upshot of all that is

[tree_and_leaf]

Also, the reviewing culture has changed since Apocalypse Now came out. I haven't seen Hacksaw Ridge, but I'm not sure you can make decisions about relative levels of violence based on reviews alone.

And in any case, I can think of more upsetting war films than AN. The Deer Hunter is fairly well regarded, and I still cannot get past the Russian roulette scene.