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Originally Posted by Norma J
Unnessecary gore is just pointless though?
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that is only true unless its meant to add shock or humour to a film. takashi miike uses ultra blood and gore to either get a few laughs or to add a certain gut wrenching "holy fucking shit!" factor to his work. otherwise, excessive gore can be a bit tasteless. but then again, look at the old james bond films, some guy will get shot and somehow the bullet hole is so clean theres no blood whatsoever, wow! fuck that, when someone gets his head blown off theres gonna be blood, and lots of it. i thought the shower fight scene in eastern promises, which employed heaping amounts of blood and gore, was the BEST fight scene in the history of cinema. At the end when the seemingly dead guy wakes up and starts strangling viggo, so viggo snaps his arm in three places and puts the knife through his eyeball, that whole part was just to add more shock factor, and it worked brilliantly.