What's the difference between "Violent" vs "Hyperviolent"?

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We even have a special category, just for this!

Anyway, what's the usual dividing line between media being called "violent" vs "hyperviolent"? The graphic nature of the violence being presented?

for video games: Is GTA:SA more violent than say a WWII shooter due to the nature or amount of violence? Or does it take something really fucking sadistic like Manhunt or Postal 2?

for movies: what about something like Saving Private Ryan, which is a really fucking graphic WWII flick offset by long periods of drama, versus something like Hard Boiled or a Jackie Chan movie in which the violence is far more constant but completely unreal?

― kingfish superman ice cream (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 19 September 2005 16:14 (twenty years ago)

I guess this is a question of word choice: for those that actually use that word, what's the threshold for when that word applies? when does one become the other?

― kingfish superman ice cream (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 19 September 2005 16:16 (twenty years ago)

With hyperviolence the blood spurts in slow motion and you can see the tendons and bone fragments.

― Aimless (Aimless), Monday, 19 September 2005 16:19 (twenty years ago)

so it's just the graphic nature of the violence portrayed?

― kingfish superman ice cream (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 19 September 2005 16:33 (twenty years ago)

I've never heard of "hyperviolent." Why says that?

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Monday, 19 September 2005 16:34 (twenty years ago)

um... who. Also why.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Monday, 19 September 2005 16:35 (twenty years ago)

They say it to hype the violence in a particular movie:

"So hyperviolent you'll be spitting out teeth!" -Newsday-

"I spewed on the screen and no one knew it. Super hyperviolence!" -Women's Wear Daily-

"If you bring your children to this movie you'll have to kill and eat them afterward, to prevent them from growing up criminally warped by all the hyperviolence in this flick." -Rex Reed-

― Aimless (Aimless), Monday, 19 September 2005 17:09 (twenty years ago)

It's like the hyperspace scenes in Star Wars, except with severed limbs.

― Old School (sexyDancer), Monday, 19 September 2005 17:13 (twenty years ago)

TS: Hyperviolence vs. Ultraviolence

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 19 September 2005 17:17 (twenty years ago)

If I refuse to choose, you won't come after me with a chainsaw, will you?

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Monday, 19 September 2005 17:26 (twenty years ago)

"hyperviolence" involves the forced extraction of unicorns from wormholes

"ultraviolence" is an obscure Japanese videogame power-up

― M. V. (M.V.), Monday, 19 September 2005 17:37 (twenty years ago)

If I refuse to choose, you won't come after me with a chainsaw, will you?

if you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice!

Chainsaw time!

― kingfish superman ice cream (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 19 September 2005 18:16 (twenty years ago)

hahahah.

"and I TRIIIIIIIED to kill him with a forklift!"

― kingfish superman ice cream (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 19 September 2005 18:17 (twenty years ago)

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