Quote from: DoomRulz on Jun 30, 2014, 11:05:18 AMThe added gore in AvP:R was nice, but it didn't help the overall film. I'm not saying that diminishes your argument, but rather, it's one thing the sequel did better.
It isn't just about the gore though, it's the overall tone.
Even if you removed the blood and gore from
Alien, it would still be an extremely hard, intense movie. Similarly, if you threw bucketloads of blood and guts into the first
AVP, it wouldn't automatically become a thrilling, edge-of-your-seat film, it would still be a shitty emotionless drama - just with extra blood splashing around.
Requiem showed this better than anything. After the first film, they tried so hard to make the sequel more brutal, and they did it by simply throwing in a ridiculous level of gore. But there's so much more to making a film intense than just splashes of claret, and at the end of the day the movie was still a dull, uninvolving teen drama, it just happened to have gross levels gore. There was no tension whatsoever.