Stephen King sagt, dass die Gewalt von Superheldenfilm „fast pornografisch“ und „das ist falsch“: Stadtblöcke werden zerstört und „Sie sehen nie Blut“.
https://variety.com/2025/film/news/stephen-king-slams-superhero-movie-violence-pornographic-1236508011/
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> “If you look at these superhero movies, you’ll see some supervillain who’s destroying whole city blocks but you never see any blood,” King said. “And man, that’s wrong. It’s almost, like, pornographic… I said [for ‘The Long Walk’], if you’re not going to show it, don’t bother. And so they made a pretty brutal movie.”
I agree and I’ve always found it interesting that showing violence is so acceptable, but showing the consequences of violence – blood and gore is so taboo.
But that’s not the movie’s fault. It’s because in the American film rating system, blowing up city blocks is PG-13, but lots of blood is probably not.
I love him but Stephen king is the last person on earth that should be saying shit like this lol
Can’t sell Lego sets with blood and gore
I kinda agree with him.. I think some superhero action feels weightless at times like two action figures clanging together, but I don’t need to see blood and guts flying everywhere.
I’ts largely because of the ratings system. Look at movies like Logan or shows like The Boys, there’s tons of blood in stuff like that.
He should watch invincible, the civilians get it really rough in that show
Marvel is fun fantasy escapism, I don’t think anyone wants to see captain America pealing off someone’s skin and hair from his shield after knocking them around
That is why I like „Boys“. They show exactly what it would look like.
Few scenes in the MCU actually addressed the impact of the destruction. Tony Stark made a mention about about an entire city being destroyed by Ultron.
Wow it’s almost like they want to appeal to a wider audience and can’t be showing that shit to kids.
It was very strange feeling coming out of avengers I when I was living in Manhattan
This coming from the guy who made kids have an orgy in his book. And a man fuck another man’s asshole with a gun?
Because that’s not the point of them. They’re meant to be fun fantasies. If your complaint is that the films about people flying around shooting eye lasers at robots and aliens aren’t as realistic as you’d expect them to be, then you may just not be getting the general premise of the films.
Thats funny coming from someone whos written porn
That’s nice bucko, now shut it and make with the typing of words.
As a homeowner and a taxpayer, I watch those things and think „Good God who’s going to pay for the rebuilding?“
Civil War was literally about the collateral damage superheroes cause, and the anguish from the victims.
Other movies like Superman put huge effort into showing people being evacuated so we can just enjoy the carnage without worrying about loss of life.
Same thing Del Toro did with Pacific Rim. He put great effort into showing the buildings had emptied before the fights.
It’s okay to have fun sometimes Steve.
The city destruction in Man of Steel was crazy. Zod and Superman did like ten 9/11’s in Metropolis. I really appreciate the new Superman film when he takes time to check on civilians in the high rise buildings and tries to minimize the damage while fighting throughout Metropolis.
this is a subtheme of The Boys. A gross show but raised good questions.
Don’t you see caps blood after bucky shoots him in winter solider?
Stephen King said that, huh…
Sounds like Stephen never read a single comic book as a child…
Damn this is actually a really good point
Just commentee this elsewhere, but I kind of get his point in a way.
A LOT of comic book movies seem want to have it both ways these days. They want genuine stakes and loss, whilst remaining light and accessible. But IRL, the kinds of threats a group like the Avengers faces would be existentially horrific *in the extreme*, yet you see barely any notable violence actually shown and the characters in the midst of it are all cracking jokes, it’s just kind of odd.
Either have the stakes be smaller so your level of violence doesn’t need to be sanitised (Raimi’s Spiderman), or lean into the violence and horror so you can actually show it (Reeve’s Batman).
He should watch the boys and stop having some controversial comment about everything. Stick to politics. He’s really good at that.
Whenever a building gets destroyed or falls or whatever in superhero movies, I always think “theres no way that didn’t just kill hundreds of people”
Also reminds me of that scene in Watchmen (TV) where it actually shows a bit the aftermath of the event at Coney Island in New York circa 1985. That scene was brutal but seemingly realistic. Supposedly millions of people died in that event so it made sense that there were bodies absolutely everywhere
i think thats what people actually mean when they want a ‚realistic interpretation of a superhero movie.‘
its not supposed to just be pop culture issues just shoehorned into the plot, its about the things that are present already in the movies that we just kinda breeze over to keep the fun going
Action minus gore is basically the whole point of comic books. Ain’t their fault that other movies aren’t doing other things. I admit it goes way too far into very basic metaphors very often, but I’m really just not watching godlike magic robots punch one another for philosophical reasons, and the comic book violence is a feature not a glitch.
There’s a scene in Andor (mild spoilers) where a droid throws a women like 20 feet and she lands on concrete. It kills her. So many people were like… „What? How?“ I feel like they’ve been desensitized by super hero movies and all around crazy antics in film (Star Wars included).
Yeah… you get thrown 20 feet and land on concrete. See how well you take it. You’re not a super hero. If you do survive… you’re going to be messed up.
Coming from this dude?!
As always with these movies – the smell must be overwhelming.
everyone saying The Boys this or Invincible that. no one talking about Alan Moore’s Watchmen depicted graphic violence this in the squid based whole city destruction final scene just for Zack Snyder to gloss over it in the movie adaptation
Maybe that’s why I’ll always love BvS for showing Bruce Wayne drag a maimed employee out of the rubble.
Never thought about it but now that I do this is probably exactly why I like things like the MCU or the new Superman movie over stuff like The Boys or Invincible.
*The Boys* enters the chat. Such a great show that I’m just now catching up on.
I look at superhero violence VERY differently than something like Reservoir Dogs for instance. Superhero movies are showing a fictional reality, meaning I don’t think I’m ever going to run across a being that can shoot laser beams from its eyes, etc. But for realistic violence I do appreciate seeing consequences to those actions as they can be very plausible.
Noticed this in the Avatar movies. The violence is grotesque but there is only a few instances where blood is showed and most times it was very minor compared to what would actually occur in terms of the violence depicted.
There was a show on TV maybe 10 years ago that was about regular people who lived in the DC(?) universe and dealt with the consequences of super hero fall out. The show itself (can someone help me with the name?) was kinda meh but I thought the concept was great
he isn’t wrong. it is the infantile belief that something holistic (violence, chatbot interactions) can be silo-ed into bins along a continuum (explosions + no blood, chat + bizarre ethical guardrails).
Marvel and DC feed into the American military worship and fantasies.
Violence becomes macho and glory. Everyone they kill is deserving. There’s no gore and collateral damage, just fun and aftermath sex
So he hasn’t watched The Boys
I feel like he has a point. But he’s also missing the point. If you are watching MCU films and thinking… this movie needs more blood. Its almost like watching a Rom Com and asking to see it all, full penetration. And maybe that’s where it becomes „pornographic“.
Says the person that wrote THAT SCENE from It??????
It is that way because they go for a PG-13 rating. Most R rated superhero movies are pretty gore-y.
Brother that’s because those movies are PG-13, adding blood and gore would make it R Rated… 😫😭
Who gives a damn?
This statement is why I think *The Boys* is far and beyond any MCU movie.
Like, superhuman strength, speed, agility and intellect. That hero punches/kicks/strikes a mortal human? *SQUISH*
MCU = free or meaningful consequences (except that one time they let the baddie win for a movie and then the good guys come back and win again – a la star wars trilogy treatment)
Let’s not leave any movie out and state that this goes as far back as TDK, which is also violent with gun use and has zero blood.