A note on violence

Rating: 2/10 (14 September 2012)

In all the reviews I've read here, none seems to mention one basic thing: the explicit cartoon-style violence of the film. I know that's the whole point of the film, I know it's a parallel world, and I know it's supposed to be comic-like, but the constant slow-mo beheadings and blood splattering are nauseating. I've clearly seen too few of these kinds of movies and am equally clearly old-fashioned. But to read reviews saying "it's boring" or "the action is fun" – have we become so completely jaded that we think killing sprees are a bit of fun (yes, I know it's like a cartoon, yes, I know Lincoln's slaying evil in the film - I'm talking about the principle of the thing)? Are we so blasé that we need even more gore to be stimulated into feeling anything?