Once upon a time, violence in movies consisted of the Good Guy and the Bad Guy facing off and the Good Guy would dispense justice in a tense show down.
Today, the hero bursts into a room, kills the 20 people in the room (with lots of blood) then moves on to the next room and kills 30 more.
Yeah, that might desensitize people and make them think they can shoot up a whole building and walk away. It’s not a good aspect of our culture.
Awesome point that most politicians are afraid to make...
Well, I would not mind asking the question as to why fully automatic rifles in Canada are heavily restricted by grandfathering since 1978 and in the United States since 1986 and yet Hollywood still produces movies that feature people being cut in to pieces with these types of firearms?
One hundred percent. And music like rap and “death metal.”
And who is allowing it?
Parents or lack thereof.
Two actors playing The Joker (fueled by drug abuse) went batsh!t crazy, one died.
One Joker obsessed fanboy stormed a Bat-theater and mowed down the crowd.
Bobcat Goldthwait even made a movie where a brain diseased Lefty decided to go out in a blaze of glory gunning down those who he was annoyed by (Glenn Beck, Fred Phelps, American Idol type shows...). It was sold as a comedy.
I saw where the new hot movie, Black Panther ??
Has 163 shootings in it..
Of course he’s right. We’ve been talking about this for so long that we kind of forgot about it.
163 people “died” in Black Panther. And it’s a hit.
Hollywood routinely covers itself in fake blood and fake gunfire, just as it covers itself with sex and perversion, all that has a detrimental effect on the culture of the country. Add to that a drug industry, and its pushers with diplomas hanging on the wall, it’s a recipe for disaster.
You won’t find any politicians willing to take on Hollywood, the medical profession and big pharma, because they all pump millions into both parties.
But at another point in the debate, he bragged about a scene where the good guys jump in a car in hot pursuit of some bad guys, but before they drive off, they pause long enough to fasten their seatbelts. He claimed that this scene certainly saved some number of lives among moviegoers who saw it and were influenced to buckle up.
The irony and hypocrisy of what he said was totally lost on him. On the one hand, he took credit for saving lives by depicting some good behavior, but on the other hand he categorically rejected that any bad behavior in his movies might ever affect people negatively. Unreal!