Gratuitous violence in movies and your reaction to them?

I am having an odd reaction to a couple movies that I have watched over the last week or so. I have not been big on movies for quite a while, but grew up loving action, horror and other movies that you would often see very violent imagery.

I was born in 79 and grew up loving Aliens, Predator, Total Recall, Robocop etc etc. Now many of these have some pretty graphic violence in them which was more of a "Oh shite" type of reaction as I was growing up.

Oddly I saw "The Predator" (the new one) was on HBO so I wanted to give it a go. For whatever reason I finished that movie in almost a depressed state. I am not sure if it was just the nonstop dismemberment, killing of characters I sort of liked or what. The original had graphic scenes, but it was almost more of a horror movie where as this was just killing everything possible in gory ways.

I am just now watching The Kingsman secret service. I knew it was a more hardcore spy type movie but had no clue what I was about to watch. I just got through the church scene and am having a WTF moment again. Extremely graphic movie in parts with a scene setting in a church killing everyone just has a somewhat repulsive feel to it. I know you are supposed to not care about these Kentucky "Westboro" type of people but it was an uncomfortable thing to watch impaling, shooting women in the head etc.

Is this a thing of me just getting older? Are these just two examples of the extremes? Thoughts?