Save me from the naughty bits of the ladies, but not just yet Lord, just not yet.

The violence is inherent in the system.  It's not going anywhere.

Englebert Slaptyback: still better than dirty, dirty naked boobies


You said "dirty" twice.

I really like 'em dirty...

Imagine Aurora never happened, but instead a summer movie contained a scene of a gunman going into a movie theater and slaughtering people. What would be the public and the critical response to that?

Pretty good if I had to guess....

 And wow, I just got to this part of the article:


So what do we do? What can we do? Forget censorship. It's socially immoral. It doesn't work, and it makes for awful movies.


 ....


The public has a bigger role, and that's to insist that any movie with any violence at all - any shooting, stabbing, bombing or rape - gets an R rating. If enforced, this would reduce the violence in PG-13 movies and prevent some violent films from getting made. At the same time, Quentin Tarantino and Martin Scorsese will still be able to make their R-rated movies for an adult audience.


If raising violent films to an R-rating has no effect, and it might not, try NC-17.

So he says that censorship doesn't work, then advocates getting violent movies bumped to NC-17? I mean I'll be the first to admit the ratings system is farked and corrupt as hell, but everyone knows that slapping a movie with an NC-17 is basically a death warrant.  No major theater chain will show NC-17 movies.

FTA:  Likewise, critics need to let the public know, repeatedly and unrelentingly, each time the Motion Picture Association of America gives a PG-13 rating to celebrations of violence, such as "The Dark Knight Rises" and "Jack Reacher."

The "culture of violence" is a good discussion to have, but this article just sounds like a lot of trolling.  Is the MPAA to blame for assigning a PG-13 rating to a movie?  The highest-grossing movie with a PG-13 rating of all time, Avatar, pulled in $760,507,625.  The highest-grossing R-rated movie, Passion of the Christ: $370,782,930.

Less than half.

From WIKI: "The MPAA administers a motion picture rating system used in the United States to rate films' thematic and content suitability for certain audiences. MPAA ratings carry no force of local, state, or federal law and the rating system is voluntary, applying only to films submitted for rating."

So, the rating system the author advocates has no political force, yet he seems to be campaigning for its use in a political fashion.  The MPAA, who acts in the interest of the studios that belong to it, sees the correlation between how much money a film makes and its rating.

Bottom line: there's a lot of begging the question in this article, and not once is the word "parent" mentioned.  Where is the discussion of parental responsibility?

Stop the hate against boobies.

wambu

Stop the hate against boobies.

Stop the boob on boob violence... wait what am I saying.

Spoiler...

The kid shoots his own dog at the end.

Rated 'R' for gun violence.

wambu: Stop the hate against boobies.

Seriously. I think the takeaway is that we want to be titillated. Whether it's violence or sex, we want things that get our blood moving (um, metaphorically?).

So let's give these goddamn repressive morons what they want - Saving Private Ryan is now verboten, Shaving Ryan's Privates is now A-OK for network TV (but only on Valentine's Day). Instead of censoring the three boobs scene in Total Recall, they censor the rest of it instead. Jenna Haze instantly becomes the favorite to win every "Best Actress" Oscar for the rest of time (well, until her lips fall off).

I  think the news is far worse than violent entertainment.  Entertainment we KNOW is fake.  The news, especially with its "If it bleeds it leads" orientation and scare-mongering "Special reports" is presenting a distorted view of reality that makes believe things that are simply not true.   Crime is way down in the US and the country less violent than its ever been.  But if you polled the middlin' inormed man on the street, I''d guarantee you they believe the exact opposite.

Moreover that feeling of danger and mailaise seeps into your unconscious even if you are consciously aware that the distortions are not true.  I personally very nearly ruined a production of Midsummer's Night Dream by the Washington Shakespeare Company this last Sunday because of it.   I was seated in the last row of the lower level on the aisle right next to the exit door, and during the third act the door burst open and a screaming man ran through it.  I was half out of my seat, aiming a punch at his groin and preparing to body tackle him, before I was even consciously aware I was doing anything.  Fortunately my wife's hand on my shoulder caused me to hesitate just a fraction of a second, and my brain clicked on the fact that the screaming man was the actor playing Bottom doing an entrance to the stage from the back of the theatre.

Until that moment I hadn't actually realized how jumpy a steady diet of news from places like Aurora and Sandy Hook had actually made me

cherryl taggart: As someone trying desperately to un-do a few years of tolerance of violence to a small child, I am all for banning scenes of blood and gore. But, I don't need the help of anybody else to do it. I simply act like a grown-up and tell my kid, no, you don't need to watch that and you can't act like that. The only time I consider violence to be praiseworthy is in the defense of the defenseless, such as small kids, animals, elderly, handicapped, etc. I wish my kid would hurry up and get to puberty, so his mind starts craving the sight of boobies, and wanders away from blood and gore. But society has a tendency to think anyone who provides girlie mags to teen boys is a perv, so I guess I'll be labeled a perv in a few years.

My thoughts exactly.

Merltech: No media outlets ever mention the man who killed kids in China with a knife

The several men. It's happens relatively frequently there.
Along with bus burnings.


Anyway, Since 1995, movies have gotten more violent and more "realistically" violent, video games have gotten more realistic, porn has become more easily available, drugs have gotten cheaper and more available and more weapons than even are in the hands of Americans.

Yet across the board the crime rates are down.

I'm with Mose

AdrienVeidt: cherryl taggart: As someone trying desperately to un-do a few years of tolerance of violence to a small child, I am all for banning scenes of blood and gore. But, I don't need the help of anybody else to do it. I simply act like a grown-up and tell my kid, no, you don't need to watch that and you can't act like that. The only time I consider violence to be praiseworthy is in the defense of the defenseless, such as small kids, animals, elderly, handicapped, etc. I wish my kid would hurry up and get to puberty, so his mind starts craving the sight of boobies, and wanders away from blood and gore. But society has a tendency to think anyone who provides girlie mags to teen boys is a perv, so I guess I'll be labeled a perv in a few years.

If it assuages your conscience any, my mom got me a subscription - in my own name, no less - to Playboy for my 12th birthday.

And I've never been convicted of anything worse than speeding.

Yet.

Holy shiat, you have a cool mom.