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Dookus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-15-04 11:52 AM
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28. My point is that the violence
is so over the top as to not be horrifying, but rather comic.

Somebody else mentioned "We Were Soldiers". There were scenes in that movie that horrified me infinitely more than anything I saw in Kill Bill.

I guess it comes down to if you can imagine the violence happening to you. The Kill Bill stuff was so outrageous, it never once occurred to me that *I* could have my arm cut off by a ninja-assassin. But watching "We Were Soldiers", I could easily imagine the skin on my legs being burned so badly that the skin would come off when someone tried to move me.

The comic violence just isn't "personal" to me.
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