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Yeah. That's not one of those robot soldiers or putty patrollers or whatever-the-fuck from the cartoon; a human man gets thrown into a high-speed train by what's supposed to be one of the film's heroes. And now, presumably, he's mangled on the train floor with shards of glass in his lifeless face, next to some small child who will now probably grow up to join ISIS. For some reason, Hollywood's totally fine with that being in a kid movie, just how they're fine with incinerating the comic relief in Transformers 4 before completely forgetting about his death a few scenes later.

Paramount Pictures

"Stop covering your eyes, boy. I paid IMAX 3D prices; you're watching it. All. Of. It."

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Don't get us wrong: trivial violence is a lot of fun when the action guy is mowing down rows of evil terrorists or Nazis -- but there's a big difference between Indiana Jones letting a bad guy get shredded by a war plane and Captain America's sidekick, Bucky, casually sidekicking a good guy into a turbine:

Marvel Studios

"Witness the secret origin of The Splendid Turbine-Man! Marvel Phase 7!"

Spoilers: Bucky is evil when this happens, but he's supposed to eventually turn good again, and the film spends exactly zero time letting us reflect on how fucked-up it is that he uses an innocent man as an anti-aircraft projectile. But, then again, that's just how it is now: Man of Steel carelessly murders hundreds of thousands because Superman punching a guy through a building looks cool. CGI can make casual deaths so cartoonishly removed from real life that we're spending only enough time for it to be trivial -- not long enough to realize the irony of doing so. That is, when CGI is even showing death in the first place ...