Post by lenlenlen1 on Oct 28, 2018 3:22:33 GMT
I used to not mind explosions but recently I noticed that I no longer enjoy seeing people and things destroyed .
As an example, I re-watched Speed which I has seen before and remembered liking but had to fast forward through parts of it because they were just too real to bear. For me, watching death and destruction is just not entertaining.
Death and destruction, as in horror movies, has never been enjoyable to me. What I look for in a horror movie is a director that knows how to use film language to actually scare you. Very few horror movie directors actually know how to do that. They throw in violence, blood and gore in the hopes that will do it. But it doesn't work most of the time.
But getting back to explosions, I agree that there are too many of them in action movies nowadays. Sometimes they have things blow up that wouldn't in real life just to add an explosion. However, when an action movie is well done, and the explosions are sparse and organic to the story, then they can be quite satisfying.
Using Speed as an example, there are five explosions I think: the beginning elevator, the first bus, the front of the 2nd bus, the rigged house, and the finale explosion when the bus crashes into the plane. They were mostly spread out and the movie was about a bomber. The last explosion though is an example of a gratuitous explosion.