[allmendream]

Violence for the sake of violence, like gladiatorial games in Rome, will always lack the long term appeal of actual heroism.

While such gore fest debauchery may have an appeal to the mentally lazy and debauched - it will always lack appeal to the high minded.

The mass appeal of “Saw” and such garbage is a symptom of the disease, not its cause.

In a society more familiar with actual heroism such a movie would lack popular appeal. While churchlady busybodies may condemn ANY movie with violence - I think a good rousing violent story of heroism is a COUNTER to such garbage - not a ‘gateway’ or sideline of such.

[rarestia]

Agreed.

Violence is necessary to remind us that it should be reserved for extreme circumstances. The gore-fest debauchery, as you explain it, seems to be de rigeur in today’s Hollywood. Comic action movies (i.e. Batman, Spiderman, Transformers), I would consider entertaining, but when you have millions of teens sneaking into movies like Saw, Hostel, Final Destination, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, et al., you have millions of young minds seeking to play out these morbid fantasies as a proxy for their understanding of the violent human condition.

This kid was obviously a psycho. Whether or not he got his ideas from the movies remains to be seen, but I agree, it’s not likely.