Kick-Ass was a REALLY (http://www.atomicpopcorn.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/KickAss_03_SecondPrinting.jpg) graphically violent comic book (the image I linked isn't even one of the worst), even the panels without the direct violence in them usually have an abundance of blood spatter, and I think that was a lot of the point of it. The whole comic was about showing that the whole being a masked superhero thing is a noble and easy thing to do, because it's just really gritty and violent and it fucks up little girls instead of creating heroes.
Watchmen was graphic, but I thought the social commentary and philosophical questions was sort of the main focus of it, which is why I didn't like the violence in the movie. It felt very exploitative and "lol chainsaw off someone's hands for funsies and shock value" to me. D: And while I personally have no issues with gore (though I do think it's funny there's so much violence shown in movies, but if there's a hint of a nip slip there's censorship everywhere), I don't like it when it feels like it's there just for shock value.
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Date: 2010-09-14 12:29 pm (UTC)Watchmen was graphic, but I thought the social commentary and philosophical questions was sort of the main focus of it, which is why I didn't like the violence in the movie. It felt very exploitative and "lol chainsaw off someone's hands for funsies and shock value" to me. D: And while I personally have no issues with gore (though I do think it's funny there's so much violence shown in movies, but if there's a hint of a nip slip there's censorship everywhere), I don't like it when it feels like it's there just for shock value.