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What was with the child fight scene?


I mean the one ~40min in during the Tokyo flashback that had two 8 year old boys practically fighting to the death. I'm not trying to reignite some violence-in-movies debate, but isn't having actual kids fight it out like that just a little excessive? Why was there not more of an outcry over this?

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Dunno the random flashbacks seem out of place, woulda made for a better mini movie or extra promoting the movie.

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BridgetTheFish

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Thanks for reminding me about that. I just responded to another post that was confused about why this movie is considered worse than the first.

Those flashback scenes were horribly done and unnecessary.

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If you want to see a "fight to the death" you should have seen me and my brothers go at it!!!

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How is that any more offensive than watching The Karate kid or 3 Ninjas? The scene clearly shows the seeds of the animosity between Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow in their youth. Nothing we haven't seen before.

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Well it sure as hell took quite a while for the master to haul his big a** into the kitchen before stopping the fight..

My mom would have knocked both of them out within 10 seconds after they started - plus made everyone in the monastery clean up the mess the two kids made.. She had damn good ears, plus a good left hook..

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