Blood in the movies and t.v shows

[Redwallfan7]

I don't, how about you?

[Rainshadow]

  I'm not overly disgusted about blood in movies, but I don't absolutely love it either.  I mean, I watch NCIS!  Naval Criminal Investigative Services!  Of course there's gonna be blood!  But it still kind of grosses me out.  Not much though.

[Rusvul]

 silly or moderated blood effects are good. like blood on someones face, or the black knight scene in monty python and the holy grail. but i hate video games with blood or anything overly gory. i think overall, it should be used less as a general rule.

[Redwallfan7]

I think if it's appropriate to use blood for the scene, it works. I wouldn't want to see a movie that's based entirely on blood though.

[psilocybin]

I have no issues with blood in movies, TV, or video games. Blood is a natural  part of life if you have issues with it then you have issues with reality.

[Flandor]

If there's blood, I prefer it being so over the top that it becomes laughable (Kill Bill, Mortal Kombat games, etc) or very realistic so as not to be desensitizing.   Gory horror movies and action flicks make my stomach turn.  I don't abide careless violence well unless it's done to be funny or over-the-top.

To sum up:

Saving Private Ryan - appropriate

Pulp Fiction, Mortal Kombat, etc - acceptable

Saw, Hostel - unneccesary and disgusting

[Tiria Wildlough]

I don't mind a bit of blood, such as a cut on someone's face, but loads of it is disgusting.

[Dawnwing]

Yeah, I don't mind it if it's not bad, and realistic, and appropriate for the scene.  I don't like it when it's there to a gratuitous extent though.  

For example,  they were showing a film called "Special" made by some independent company at a theater near me a couple years ago (they'd always done that for a local event, some random independent film, until recently they started doing really old films instead).  The film itself was built on an entertaining premise: The main character volunteers to be part of the test group for a new antidepressant drug, and he thinks that it has given him superpowers.  They could have made it into a hilarious film, but apart from a few scenes, it really wasn't all that funny, and here was this scene where these guys beat the main character to like an inch of his life.  It was a long scene, and I just didn't want to watch this guy get hit and bleed over and over and over, and it was totally pointless to the plot as far as I can recall.  The rest of the film was mediocre; that scene put the film onto my relatively small "movies I dislike" list.

As far as video games, I prefer it rather clean too.  Most games I've played so far have really not had any, just a small amount, but I started playing Skyrim this summer, and that's definitely the bloodiest game I've played so far.  It's not so much the blood that appears during a battle, that's more realistic and there's not as much of it, but I dislike how sometimes enemies can cut your head off (it's only happened to me twice in the 180something hours I've played, but still it's disturbing to see!), and I don't like the "finishing move" cutscenes (apart from the arrow ones because those are pretty clean and it's kind of neat to see the camera track your arrow this huge distance).  And sometimes you can find bodies with blood on them or on the ground; some of those are pretty gross.  Don't get me wrong, it's still a fantastic game, probably my favorite, just the blood could be toned down slightly.

[psilocybin]

Blood is not gross. It is part of life. The problem is that most people are so disconnected from the natural world normal things like blood, insects, and even death result in negative reactions.  Now you can argue about the gratuitous use of it in media, but if you had lived in a time where people were more connected to the world they lived in you would not even bat an eye at the sight of blood.

[Lutra]

Done tastefully, and reaslistically, then no problem.  Its going to happen.  To be shot and not bleed, well we all know that would never happen.

Things that overdo it for the fear factor I could live without.

[DanielofRedwall]

Like others said, as long as it is done realistically and tastefully, I have no problem. However, I am easily quesy, so a scene with over-the-top blood makes me sick, as does something like a torture scene. But I don't mind too much if it is all part of the scene (like

HP and the Deathly Hallows

Snape's death scene in "Harry Potter"

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). In Bali, I was flicking through channels in the middle of the afternoon and for a second I just had to come across "that scene" of "127 Hours". I felt like throwing up, and it was only for about three seconds that I saw it. I could never watch a whole movie like that. Strange how they would show it in the middle of the afternoon though.

[Redwallfan7]

Like others said, as long as it is done realistically and tastefully, I have no problem. However, I am easily quesy, so a scene with over-the-top blood makes me sick, as does something like a torture scene. But I don't mind too much if it is all part of the scene (like

HP and the Deathly Hallows

Snape's death scene in "Harry Potter"

[close]

). In Bali, I was flicking through channels in the middle of the afternoon and for a second I just had to come across "that scene" of "127 Hours". I felt like throwing up, and it was only for about three seconds that I saw it. I could never watch a whole movie like that. Strange how they would show it in the middle of the afternoon though.

in Firefly, they showed a guy with blood running down his face. It didn't get me sick, but I wouldn't want a whole movie with just blood.

[Flandor]

Ah, yeah 127 hours was rough, Daniel.  I stuck it out though, because I feel like it's not gratuitous, it's an accurate representation of a pretty ghastly thing that he had to go through.  Similar to how Saving Private Ryan turns my stomach at quite a few points, but I watch it anyway to remind myself of how horrific wars are.  The scene with the medic taking machine gun fire into his stomach is just awful, but rather than in action movies where peoples get shot, bleed a lot and then die without much ado, they show just how much a wound like that hurts.  He cries for his mother and it's quite heart-wrenching.  That, to me, is an appropriate use of blood and violence in a film, thought it definitely makes me feel ill.

[UNKN0WN]

I'd say that the gore in the Passion of the Christ was necessary