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Just saw the movie “John Wick” yesterday (don’t worry - Hollywood made no money from my viewing, heh) and it was literally 1.5 hours of watching a guy shooting people, often in the head point blank. Hollywood loves killing and death, as long as it isn’t done in the service of any greater good.

My 82 year old friend was traumatized by the movie “Gone Girl.” She had a hard time getting over the gratuitous brutality - she thought the promo looked like star crossed lovers and wasn't prepared for the sociopathy.
The nerve of Hollywood elites decrying killing when they routinely make movies too bloody for me to watch. I was horrified by a movie with, I think it was ray liota, in which a man is shot in the face with a shotgun. THe director waited for the audience to look away (those of us who wished to, and then when we looked back, after a second cut back to the graphic picture of a mans blown away face. I resented that -the director wanted to “catch” those of us who looked away. Gotta watch your required blood and guts curriculum. If the movie is Natural Born killers or some other sociopathic killing spree, it's suppression of artistic freedom if we say anything about the gore. But if it's clint eastwood, well then, he's not moral enough for them and we, the audience, should feel bad about watching his movie because it “glorifies” killing. Hollywood, the ones who brought us Friday the 13th and Freddy Krugar...