Violence

[Lil Red]

last night, i watched:

The Boondock Saints
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
The Girl who played with Fire

i loved them all.

since it was through netflix, i did skip over the more gratuitous scenes.

[CatherineM]

We've been watching Pacific. If I fast forwarded through all the violence, I'd only get opening and closing credits with an occasional sex scene.

[Lil Red]

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We've been watching Pacific. If I fast forwarded through all the violence, I'd only get opening and closing credits with an occasional sex scene.
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never heard of it.

what i mean by gratuitous is the forced sex scenes, and the consensual sex scenes. 'the girl with' movies are def, def, definitely adult films.

[CatherineM]

[quote name='Lil Red' timestamp='1295122344' post='2200447']
never heard of it.

what i mean by gratuitous is the forced sex scenes, and the consensual sex scenes. 'the girl with' movies are def, def, definitely adult films.
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It's that HBO miniseries about the marines in the pacific during ww2 by the same people who made band of brothers.

[rkwright]

I recently watched the pacific series. I think the violence is pretty brutal, but I imagine that is exactly what it was like. Considering it was based off of Sledge's diary, I have no doubt that many of the scenes (the trophy scenes) are accurate. It is much more brutal than say Band of Brothers or Saving Pvt. Ryan.

BTW I saw the girl with the dragon tattoo. It was a pretty good plot line, but the whole rape scene early on - COMPLETELY unnecessary. It added nothing to the movie/plot line at all.

[Semper Catholic]

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I recently watched the pacific series. I think the violence is pretty brutal, but I imagine that is exactly what it was like. Considering it was based off of Sledge's diary, I have no doubt that many of the scenes (the trophy scenes) are accurate. It is much more brutal than say Band of Brothers or Saving Pvt. Ryan.

BTW I saw the girl with the dragon tattoo. It was a pretty good plot line, but the whole rape scene early on - COMPLETELY unnecessary. It added nothing to the movie/plot line at all.
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LOL WUT Lisbeth getting raped is the entire reason for her getting revenged and a major point of the series.

[MithLuin]

Yeah, I thought it was a very graphic rape scene, but not gratuitous. The whole point of the movie is victims getting some poetic justice and fighting back against monsters....so she had to be portrayed as the victim first. I chalked up the graphic nature of the scene to the fact that it was a Swedish film - different rules.

I have also just rewatched Boondock Saints (thanks to a discussion of vigilantism over on the Debate Table) and I love that movie. I do wish they didn't curse so much in it (they earn the R rating in I think every scene), and I wish they didn't flub up the scene at mass in the very beginning. I've never seen the sequel, but I must say, the original is a very well done movie!