[cripplecreek]

The lack of parenting plays the biggest part.

[uncbob]

The liberals in Hollywood all want gun control yet all they do in the movies is depict completely gratuitous use of guns

[E. Pluribus Unum]

By all means, the actions of the lowest common denominator among us must define us all.

That way, we can all be presumed criminals.

It makes controlling and disposing of us so much easier.

[ClearCase_guy]

Back in the 1940’s, movies were much more wholesome — and hardly anyone got killed in that decade!

[presently no screen name]

Along with saying NO to the GOP offerings.

[AnAmericanAbroad]

If seeing violence in media causes people to become violent, then how does one explain the paradox of the Japanese?

Many of their films and even some of their anime and manga are often filled with images of the most gut-churning violence you can think of, quite a bit of it strongly associated with sexual overtones. I’m talking the kind of things that would likely make Jeffrey Dahmer and the Marquis de Sade physically ill.

So then why is Japan not a literal hell-on-earth? Why are the Japanese not all slaughtering each other in the most vile and obscene ways that even most the depraved minds cannot imagine?

If certain Japanese films, anime, or manga were well-known in the USA (outside of a few aficionados of such peculiar things) I can imagine a lot of people would be screaming bloody murder (no pun intended) about it.

The one question is, why are the Japanese seemingly impervious to such hideous depictions in their popular culture?

[BenLurkin]

B T T T

[EGPWS]

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.

If it's legal people can spend their hard earned labor any way they want to.

Are we going to ban movies and video games now because of a nut ball?

[InterceptPoint]

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?

[Grimmy]

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.

[RIghtwardHo]

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.

[Vince Ferrer]

Movies are quite a bit LESS gratuitously violent these days. In the 1980s, say, there were copious amounts of blood in each action movie, and gore was pretty routine. Most action movies were rated R. Family organizations complained, but Hollywood just put them down and complained that no one had the right to censor their "art."

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

[dfwgator]

The market will solve this problem if people just say “No”.

[DivineMomentsOfTruth]

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.

[dfwgator]

The movies are a symptom, not the cause.

[GOYAKLA]

“HORSE HOCKEY!” Quoting the late Col. Potter.
In my life time people have blamed crime and violence on Cars (Bonnie & Clyde); Bikini bathing suits (Rape); TV Intoxication (corrupting youth); Elvis (Promiscuity); Twinkies (teenage murder) Internet (Infidelity), You can name any thing and some nut job will say it contributes to man’s downfall. May I remind you of Ellis Rubin (TV intoxication and others like him.
HORSE HOCKEY, it’s the weakness of mankind!
Ban Duct Tape it has been used to murder people including a sweet little three year old in Florida.

[fr_freak]

I'm actually starting to see this whole "violence in movies and video games" thing this way:

The people that complain about this type of depicted violence only whine when the violence is overt. They never whined and complained when the violence was "sanctioned" violence perpetrated by the State. For example, where was the author of this article when the ATF was incinerating men, women and children at Waco? Where was this author when FBI snipers were executing the Weaver family in Ruby Ridge, Idaho? Where was this author, and all those like her, every time the steroid-addled SWAT teams executed a 3 am no-knock raid on the wrong address and slaughtered a grandma in her own house, or a recently returned combat marine in his own house in front of his wife and small child in Phoenix?

I never see articles spamming the internet about the evils of violence when those things occur. And why? Because, in those cases, the violence was sanctioned by the State, and was therefore OK. We mustn't question it. However, put a shootout in a movie and authors like this go batshit crazy.

Violence, in itself, is a tool. It can be used for good, when employed against bad guys, or it can be used for evil. What people like this author seem to want is a population of completely complacent, passive sheep that would never dream of picking up a weapon, let alone a firearm. Such people would be very easy to rule, and very easy to enslave. These are the same people who go apoplectic when two school kids get in a fist fight. These are the same people who want so badly to ban football, hockey, boxing, and everything else from school sports. They want us fat, lazy, soft, weak, and complacent so that when they come to clap us in chains we won't even have the CONCEPT of resistance.

I say, let violence be taught to every child alive. Let every man teach his kid to be the biggest, baddest, meanest son-of-a-bitch alive, while also teaching him the love of God, so that, when the day comes where Satan throws off his mask, he'll be facing an army, not a grazing herd.

[MinuteGal]

Let's take a look at the new Batman film:

A bank heist is carried out by men in sinister clown masks. As each clown completes a task another shoots him point-blank in the head.

A clown stuffs a bomb into a wounded bank employee's empty mouth.

A bomb is stitched inside another man's stomach - which subsequently explodes.

Another bound man is tied to a chair and set on fire atop a pile of bank notes.

A child is terrorized at gunpoint by a man with a melted face.

A man's face is filleted by a knife.

Another man's head is burned half-off.

In Daniel Craig's Bond movie, "Casino Royal" a bloodied Bond, stripped naked and tied to a chair, is tortured by having his genitals beaten with a length of rope.

In "Man on Fire" Denzel Washington shoves a bomb up the rectum of a Mexican conspirator, then triggers its explosion.

In "The Dark Knight" the Joker describes his penchant for knife-killing: "Guns are too quick. You can't savor all the little emotions."

"Great family entertainment" is touted for the Batman flick, undoubtedly right down to any three month-old babies in the family circle.

The title of this thread bears a second read.

I report, you decide.

[AmbassadorForChrist]

Agreed - Hollywood has certainly turned on consistent movies filled graphic murders and gory violence - and sadly - the villains is often glorified (not always, of course. And I too do not directly blame them, but their poor judgement of churn out countless violence films does take a toll on young minds.

But that alone is not the reason for this murder going wild and killing innocent people, sad as that is, the deeper reason is this: Satan is the God of this world, and as such, we all are sinners and capable of horrid sinful acts, but the critical, and often overlooks, source of this murderous individual type is that Satan can easily cause his devils/demons to possess people - not in the sensational hollywood approach - but in both a outward violent and both a subdued quiet approach that quells inside for years in an individual into that moment that that possessed devil unleashes his murderous behavior through that person, which we now all see (and are all its sicken to learn of these outcomes).

The media will never consider this truthful aspect - devil possession - simply never accept it - for one thing, they only understand a sensational hollywood approach manifestation of a devil - but the reality of devil possession is often quite difference from hollywood's approach. The reason for this young mans murderous actions are really not that heard to comprehend - for sins and Satan and devil possession - not sensational possession - was the driving force that strongly drove this young man to such an event. Why do I say that - Satan is identified as a murderer from the beginning - and a liar from the beginning - and since Satan possesses these sinful qualities, Satan easily converted his devil angels to imitate him in sinful attributes such as murder, etc. Satan himself is not the one who possessed this man, but his devils did and the outcome is murder - a direct imitation of the chief murder - Satan.

If you wish to comprehend this evil murderous act, then read the Bible and learn of man's wicked sinful ways throughout history, and also read history and learn of man's wicked sinful ways throughout history - we will discover one thing from this study - sin in prevalent and profuse and always with us - and each man's sin nature, and Satan and his devils all work together to lead people into murder and all sorts of sins. Throughout history there is no lasting peace, and murderers are abundant. The cause is sin, the source of this type of murderous sinful behavior is Satan's devils/demons, the solution God Son Christ Jesus for all comfort and salvation. This young man flaunted God's saving grace from the sin nature and devil/demon possession. All too often we see this evil behavior all too often. But in the end - the cause is sin and Satan's devils/demons who influence men into sinful life styles.

[BobL]

12 more people would be alive today if Hollywood learned to control its violence.

I think a good case could be made for banning Batman movies and requiring all people that have one to register them (and, hopefully, be later required to turn them in).