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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Viktyr Gehrig" data-source="post: 2778387" data-attributes="member: 9249">Depending on how you're describing the fight scenes, it might even be a symptom of the opposite condition. A lot of florid description of combat maneuvers is followed up by florid-- and morbid-- description of the effects of those maneuvers when successful.Not that there is anything specifically wrong with gore-- but compare Mortal Kombat with Fight Club. One of these was clearly designed for twelve-year-olds, rating systems be damned. You'll also notice that Fight Club does not linger on violent scenes-- the cinematic equivalent of a roleplayer taking several seconds to describe an action-- but instead uses them to lend emphasis to the themes of the movie.If you want high-flying martial arts spectacular, then describing combat maneuvers helps support the style; it's generally inappropriate for high fantasy, where violence is sanitized, and sword and sorcery, where it is short, sweet, and brutal.</blockquote>