From a prompt in my Friends with Pens pen-pal group on Yahoo.
> Notes: Do you think that today’s films are excessively violent?
Todays films are definitely excessively violent.
I’m not really opposed to that though. Since the Saw series, Hostel and now even Sweeney Todd are high on my list of favorite movies (and the fact that I’m a horror/slasher/gore junkie) I can’t say I dont like the voilence.
What I dont like is seeing parents taking children to see such movies. I can’t think of the last time I’ve gone to see a horror film and didn’t have a young child in the theather with me, scared out of their minds and their parents telling them, “Don’t Look.” every few seconds.
In both Freddy Vs. Jason and Resident Evil 3 I had small children sitting right in the seat beside me, or right in the seat behind me, and got to witness all their fear.
Thats just wrong.
Violence is okay for those of us old enough to enjoy it, its not okay to scare the beejunkus out of people too young to realize that its not real.
Then you get into the debate on whether media makes bad people do bad things. But thats a whole ‘nother can of worms.
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