'Worrisome trend' as gun violence TRIPLES in box office hits since the 80s...

DailyMail online ^ | Nov. 11, 2013 | By MARIE-LOUISE OLSON

[Albion Wilde]

Original title (Brits love overlong titles):
'Worrisome trend' as gun violence TRIPLES in box office hits since the 80s, making once R-rated films like Terminator and Die Hard look like child's play

• New study says top-grossing films once rated R at the time of their release would be rated PG-13 today
• Violence in movies has nearly quadrupled since the 50s
• 945 top box office hits released from 1950 to 2012 were studied
• Movies containing sex much more likely to earn an R-rating than those with violence
• Psychologists say watching violence on screen increases aggression in real life

[Albion Wilde]

I am by no means anti-gun, in the right hands for the right purposes. But I've been appalled at the rising tide of sex and violence aimed at children and the youth market going back to the 60s. The lack of positive imagery and the glut of degradation, destruction of property, violence and kink is destroying not just our youth, but youth around the world.

[Perdogg]

I am certainly not anti-gun, but I agree and this why Hollywood needs to be called out on its hypocrisy.

[Standing Wolf]

Oh, those mean terrible awful dangerous scary violent guns! I don’t know why they’re trying to take over all the movies.

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[Army Air Corps]

Ping.

[Telepathic Intruder]

Movie directors and producers just know what sells: sensationalism. Action. violence. Sex. The disturbing trend I see is lack of storyline, like in the last Star Trek movie. It’s all padded with bare knuckle action scenes to the point where it’s just tiring. But the last thing I want is the government stepping in and telling us how much violence we’re allowed to see in a movie. Maybe they can add a new rating, that’s all.

[Albion Wilde]

Once again, it’s not about the guns. It’s about the violence porn marketed to children and youth, and distributed worldwide. Entertainment media is one of the U.S.’s largest exports, and it’s how others see our country.

[the OlLine Rebel]

Count me in.

Michael Medved was so right, 20 years ago.

[Albion Wilde]

Violence has become an acceptable form of pornography. I remember feeling "yuck" as a child in the 50s when the cartoon characters like Daffy Duck and the Roadrunner would do horrible violence with hatchets, bulldozers, etc;, and then the characters they slayed would jump up again and run off.

The money spent on wrecking cars and simulating the destruction of buildings is appalling, and in simple minds forms a blueprint. Especially egregious are the films depicting the burning or collapsing of the White House, Capitol Building, et cetera.

The truly sickening thing is that no matter how much a movie such as Brokeback Mountain fails at the box office, it not only receives awards, but also Hollywood rushes to make more of the same, and fewer of the family-friendly themes that actually make money.

[TurboZamboni]

good thing Hollyweird banned smoking in movies...since it’s a bad and major influence on kids.

[Albion Wilde]

Michael Medved was so right, 20 years ago.

Dr. George Gerbner, former head of the Annenberg School of Communications at University of Pennsylvania, wrote about this back in the 70s, and was roundly pooh-poohed.

The hypocrisy is stunning. Those who create media know that advertising imagery sells products. But when they spew garbage marketed as entertainment aimed at youth, they claim it doesn't hurt anyone, and it is up to the parents to control what the kids see. As if parents can stop teenagers from getting their eyeballs on any depraved image at all these days, with so many of their friends having smartphones and lazy parents with no supervision at other kids' houses.

[Albion Wilde]

good thing Hollyweird banned smoking in movies...since it’s a bad and major influence on kids.

I know, right? And a similar group of people as those who run Hollywood celebrate the banning of prayer in schools -- God forbid their kids hear such harmful messages as the Lord's Prayer. A moment of silence? Scarred for life?

[Telepathic Intruder]

Yes, there are movies that Hollywood itself celebrates (Brokeback Mountain and other liberal-themed), and then those they just produce to make money (with the violence and sex). I think most family-friendly ones don’t sell well because Hollywood has lost any creative imagination. They’ve strayed so far from reality that it’s probably impossible for them.

[a fool in paradise]

Movies containing sex much more likely to earn an R-rating than those with violence

Show me a movie where the characters are firing live ammo at each other.

The sex in movies uses real (if body-doubled) naked parts (sometimes in genuine congress).

Much of the time now, explosions and firefights are complete computer fabrication.

I don't watch much of the modern crapola out of Hollywood. But if it seems like a "double standard", that goes part of the way to explaining it.

[Greetings_Puny_Humans]

“Show me a movie where the characters are firing live ammo at each other.”

---

The Crow.

[Klaatu Barada Nikto]

<< Psychologists say watching violence on screen increases aggression in real life >>

Geesh! What a crock. Aren’t these the same guys a few years back that said asthma was caused by overbearing mothers and being gay was a mental disease?

If all those violent movies lead to aggression, and we’ve all been watching them for several decades now, how come the nation’s over 80 million gun owners haven’t all gone a rampage yet?

[a fool in paradise]

That film did bang up box office business.

[a fool in paradise]

From the 1950s, when Senator Estes Kefauver (D-Tenn) was using "naughty comic books" to stir up national headlines with Senate subcommittee hearings into juvenile delinquency on his way to a presidential ticket run.

The other senator in Tennessee at the time was Albert Gore Sr.. I suspect that he advised his son on this tactic when he pulled it in the 1980s prior to running for the White House in 1988 (and more successfully in 1992).

[RandallFlagg]

ZING!!!