Quote from: Crom on Dec 04, 2007, 11:12:35 PM
If brutally killing women and children doesn't get you an 18, what does?
Ooh, ooh! Not having an immature atmosphere, not using gratuitous CGI for gore - Although I realise that was pretty much out of anyone's control - emotional impact, visceral impact, good acting and that ... what's it called ... restraint! Yeah.
"Restraint?" you say! "Bitch be crazy! Restraint doesn't give you a higher rating!"
Except for the fact that by withholding on some scenes you make others far more effective. It's the saturation effect. If you keep chucking gore and shocks at an audience, they're going to get real jaded real fast. I watched
Hostel, the uncut version, all the way through, and by the time it got to the eye bit I just didn't give a damn anymore. But I showed the eye bit at the end to some people who hadn't seen the rest of the movie and they damn near threw up on the spot.
The ratings peeps take that kind'a stuff into account. High impact violence. If you have heads splattering and kids being killed and women being ravaged every ten minutes, shit, it just turns into farce. And these day every horror movie and its dog is trying to be 'shocking' and 'break the rules' by killing kids in increasingly nasty ways. We've seen it all before. It was vaguely effective the first time. It was laughable the following three hundred.
