Posted on 07/21/2012 4:13:16 PM PDT by InHisService
Hollywood consistently churns out movies that are filled with very graphic and gory violence. While I'm not blaming them for what this sick killer did, let's face it: we live in a culture that embraces violence. How do we embrace it? By paying our hard earned money to see movies where people are shot with guns, mutilated, killed and blown up on a regular basis.
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I too hate the violence and the language in Hollywood’s offerings. But then again, I, like Rush, just love “Breaking Bad”. It’s not as good as Downton Abbey but it’s still a very engaging series.
Am I crazy?
I wonder if a case can be made for the killings and other very bad things being connected to the “self esteem”, “empowered children” and removal/criminalization of parental/school corporal punishment generation having come of age?
Look back at when this sort of crap started, and you tend to find the non-disciplined generation just starting to hit its stride.
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There are enough moral police on FR that would like to.
Agree.
After 25 years of Prosecuting, and reading every study known to God and Man, one has absolutely nothing to do with the other. Zero. Nada. Now I can’t stand movies like that, but we are focusing on a canard if we think it’s the movies kids watch. Studies have made it abundantly clear there is no coloration. It’s how I prosecuted serial killers who were from Christian families. Environment has less effect than you’d think.
I don’t say ban these things. People should make better choices about what they pay to see.
I’m not into the violence either but I also like Breaking Bad. ( I Call it “Erasing Hal”)
This psychopath’s blookwork will comeback w/ high blood pressure (salt) and high sugar (most likely fromm Soda). Add that to the guns and you just made one of Dur Bloomberg’s dreams come true.
Quit using experience and studies. It’s clearly time to overreact and ban everything.
Personally, I find what I call “violence porn” a good deal more disturbing than the mere portrayal of violence.
Violence porn is where the violence is portrayed in such a way as to make it appear interesting and exciting and for the audience to be sucked into identifying with the perpetrator. In particular when it involved identifying with the torment, degradation and humiliation of another person.
BTW, do NOT enter “violence porn” into a search engine. Other people mean something rather different from the way I use the term here. Yikes.
The actions of one do not “define us all.” The actions of some, who choose to randomly kill innocent people is a commentary on our society.
But some time around the 1990s, Hollywood discovered exporting movies to the rest of the world, and the rest of the world didn't like the violence. So Hollywood has learned to tone things down. Today you can hardly ever see blood on the screen, even in a war scene. I have seen the Dark Knight Rises, and there is no blood in the movie.
Exhibit One: 1990 Total Recall
Exhibit Two: 2003 Return of the King
You're good, but I spit in the eye of the Galactic Overlord
and have a PhD in both wormholes and cereals. So stuff it.
When you have to talk about how you're "all that".. you're not.
Perhaps their culture embraces the sanctity of life better than we do here? There could be many reasons. Any Japanese person I have ever met is very respectful. Their children are raised that way with morals and values we haven’t been able to successfully teach our children.
The market will solve this problem if people just say “No”.
It’s sad how many people want to see movies like that.. Its society that created the movies.. the movies didn’t create the society.
It looks like there were a lot of very young children in that theater for a midnight movie. To me that sounds like some very poor judgement on the part of the parents.
Back in the 80s as a young 20 something I went to the midnight movies on occasion and there were never the young kids there.
I’ve got a 22 year old niece with two kids with different fathers. She’s married to a guy who comes around when she gets her welfare check so he can buy video games. She’ll drag her toddlers out in the middle of the night because they come second to what mom wants. From what I’ve seen, all her friends are the same way.
The movies are a symptom, not the cause.
Correction, he does get a cut on his forehead once.
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