Blood and Explosions don't do it for me Anymore.

     For the past few months I've been on sort of a movie spree. My life is at this boring stand still where something eventful happens like once every 3 days. To get me past the boring 2/3 of my current life, I watch movies about fictional exciting lives. Although I'm the type to rock back and forth crying at the slightest thought of anything scary, I've mainly been watching horror films. Most of these are older, made between the 50s and 80s. It's not that I'm too hardcore and awesome for newer films (Actualllllyyyy...), It's just that the special effects make things feel fake to me. I know it's a common complaint, so for me to even bring this up makes me feel redundant, but it ruins the films for me so often that I have to talk about it. 
 
     There are two things that REALLY annoy me with the way special effects are used in newer movies. First off, I feel like when Special Effects/CGI is used in the place of say, someone in costume with ridiculous makeup on, it just makes it feel fake. When I watch a horror film, I want to feel like it's real. I want to believe that when I walk outside that night, something is going to jump out from under my car and eat one of my limbs. When I see real actors and they are running away from some kind of scuba alien thing that is animated, I just can't get into it. It's like there's this huge disclaimer at the bottom of the screen saying "You idiot, this is all fake, why the fuck are you screaming!?"

     Next Reason... It's over used on a regular basis. There are movies where entire populations and scenery are CGId, I don't know how that doesn't annoy people, but it makes me =(. In horror films, I regularly see blood that is CGId and thrown all over people. I understand it though. Faking the blood is easier than killing a couple of virgins and carrying back their blood to the movie making place in buckets. Still...They overdo it. You'll see someone get shot WHAM there goes 5 swimming pools of blood. Like the room will be covered in it. They go from having these nice clean rooms and all of a sudden it looks like someone spilt Kool-Aid everywhere. Personally, I wouldn't mind this orgy of blood in something like a romance movie, but it makes these horror films so unrealistic.

     I see the same thing with explosions. Explosions used to be awesome. If the world ended in a giant explosion, I would die happy.

Pictured: Happiness

But I see them all the damn time. I'm bored of them. Making things overly bloody or making things explode just sort of make me sigh. I've seen it way too often. Now if they made things overly bloody while exploding, maybe that would be neat, but for now I'd love to see an awesomely horrifying movie with no explosions or blood =D