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In Reply to: oh come on posted by tunenut on November 09, 2004 at 12:42:26:

No one asked Tarantino to tackle subject matter such as the brutal beating and shooting of a pregnant woman, murder of a mother in front of her daughter, or rape of a woman in a coma. He chose to tackle those subjects, and turn them into entertainment. Think about that before you accuse me of being melodramatic. All of those scenes looked pretty darn realistic to me. Didn't look like a spoof of anything.
Yes, I laughed when Daryl Hannah had her remaining eye plucked out and writhed and kicked on the floor in frustration, blindness and agony. I laughed when the eyeball squished between Uma's toes and the optical fluid leaked out. I was eating chocolate chip cookies. But unlike you, I'm not proud of my reaction.

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Actually that's the point - RGA 20:16:50 11/09/04 (0)
in a way of what Tarantino manages to muster from some of his films. Take Pulp Fiction, they're in the back of the car the gun goes off and blows brain matter over everyone. This should be a totally horrifying thing to see - it's vile, repugnant, gory, etc and yet it elicited a huge laugh from virtually everyone in the theater. It's not like the kid deserved it etc and it happened fairly early in the film.
Tarantino uses violence to an absurd level as did George Romero in Dawn of the Dead - arguably the goriest horror film to that date. Romero manages with his gory zombies to make them virtualy forgotten and later sympathized.
Tarantino is so over the top with his gory violence that it's cartoon like - heck he even has a cartoon sequence in the film and that scene is arguably the most horific morally in the whole film. I think the film is a whole lot smarter than it gets credit for - but yes the surface of it is a howler.
You should be very ashamed of yourself - tunenut 16:50:42 11/09/04 (0)
for laughing at those horrible things. But before you beat yourself up too much over it, try to remember it really is only a movie. None of this actually happened. I would not enjoy at all documentary footage of eyes popping out. But over-the-top cinematic effects? I laughed too. There are plenty of serious things in real life to get upset over. Gory movies don't upset me.

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