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Still looks a thousand times better than any modern action movie.
Old movies used blood squibs (little packages of dark red ink that explode) whereas modern movies either have no blood at all or it's all shitty CGI adobe after effects.

cgi blood spurts are much cheaper and easier than setting up squibs

This isn't realistic, and every other tv series made nowadays has graphic blood squibs and gore.

>How come we don't have this level or realism in gore these days?
Too much effort, hardly anybody goes to the trouble of setting up the squibs, setting up the blood packs, using real guns with blanks, doing it multiple times because the takes weren't perfect, movies are a production line these days so everything has to be controlled as much as possible, from the greenscreen to the guns, fuck even helmets are CG'd in now because they're that lazy

Honestly I can't remember the last TV show I saw that actually used squibs, it's all CG now, they don't even use blanks any more because it's easier to just add in a CG muzzle flash

>doing it multiple times because the takes weren't perfect
That's just wrong. In Casino Royale, they shot the scene where one of the staff hands Bond the money, going "Here's your money, Mr. Bond" like 50 times.

it isnt realistic but it feels real. we have an accumulated genetic experience of seeing billions of deaths, we know instinctively how it is, how real looks.

It amazes me that they did this shit in the 80s, with no CG, no greenscreen, having to reset everything if they fucked up the take, and the budgets were still a fraction of what they are today

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The 80s were a different time

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My sides.

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Eh. Maybe. But it's also more freedom for everyone at the top, they can change their mind months later and not have to put a set back together, recall all the actors and crew, and reshoot. It also frees up the production schedule, they don't need to get everything on camera, so they can add everything later. But that's why movies have such long post-production times now, when they're green screening everything, even simple sets.
CGI is ridicuous these days. I won't argue that. But again, I guess it's cheaper to do green screen in town than move a whole production company to location. With sets and practicals, you're committed from that point on.

But I do love me some practicals, and over the top gore like Veerhoven. Imagine The Avangers with Robocop injuries and deaths. The actors would have been drenched, soaked in blood on a regular basis.

Most of the budget these days goes to actors salaries and money laundering. Any franchise you name - Marvel, Star Wars, Harry Potter, most of the money is actor's salaries, that skyrocket disprortionately over time.

Will there ever be a director who is more squib pilled than Verhoeven?

is this the singer from tears for fears?