Are you aware of how polished our movies are today?

My my my was I in for a rude awakening when I rewatched the Terminator after twenty years and was shocked as scene after scene, young budding females called Sarah Connor were brutally murdered in front of my eyes. And not just, you know, fade to black as the murder is happening.. like.. really violently killed.

I wish I could have picked up some of the more violent deaths to show you, however sadly this was the only one I could find on YouTube, and most probably because this sort of film would never see the light of day these days.

If you watch the Terminators through the ages they have become significantly more airbrushed and polished as we move into the new millennium. We've went from a pure cold-hearted machine that has no emotion, it only knows how to kill -- to whatever the new terminator was. A piece of crap, that's what.

Nevertheless this shouldn't take away what an amazing piece of acting Arnold Schwarzenegger did in the first terminator. He quite literally sold the unfeeling no-emotion right off the start. It was a really good watch.

But it seems through the last 40 years we have swapped out the gritty thrillers like this film and replaced them with the MCU which is basically like a squeaky clean version of a Superhero cast. I almost miss the deep connection and hard feeling that films in the 80's and 90's used to sell. Now it's almost as if we are distant from the moviemaking.

Another scene I saw recently was the Warhammer canon on Astartes

This was a truly brilliant piece. It envelopes your experience in the grittiness and violence of Spacemarines. I admit that I didn't know anything about War Hammer until I saw this and was absolutely sold on the franchise from there. But even then it was from an outside developer. One of the "not-in-our-gang" general Joe Bloggs public.

There seems to be an eerily switch to softer filmmaking and I don't know if it's by design, or a symptom of what's happening. As people get safer and less exposed to violence, then they are less likely to create or imagine anything similar. Even the GTA games are slowly but surely becoming less controversial through the ages. In the early days of GTA you could massacre religious people. You can't now.

But then again I think it's a reflection of our society. When GTA first came to the public religious people were generally very annoying and in your face, but not so much now. Now the religious zealots have been swapped our for protestors and the gender brigade. Which in essence is just another religion.

Sigh.

But it's safe to say that we've increasingly become far more cautious and risk adverse than we ever were before. I was a timid shy boy in my youth but I was still climbing trees and talking to girls; my son does none of that. He's very similar to me as well in the way he is as a person.

Maybe life was just harder back then and our movies reflect that. Now that life is not as tough as it was (or at least I don't think so anyway then our movies reflect that also).

Nevertheless, I'd like to see a passionate drive back to the nitty gritty of films instead of this shiny disney-esque type shit we have this days.

I hope you at least do too!