Complaint-graphic language/images in movies & tv

[OneEyedDiva]

Ed, I couldn't agree with you more! In fact, I've talked about this with friends. Why do writers feel they have to insert the F word in every sentence. It's such a turn off that there are shows and movies that are being touted as so good that I won't watch because of that. I did watch a show recently that used the F word but didn't overuse it. I think that writers thinking they need to insert those words in every other sentence to please their audiences is actually an insult to our intelligence and/or a sad commentary on what this society has become.

I've also stopped watching shows because of the blatant lewdness. But I saw it coming and predicted about 10 years ago that T.V. was headed down that path. I remember the days when even Lucy and Ricky, a couple that was married for real, had to sleep in twin beds on their show. Now we see too much of what goes on in bed on the screen and now same sex couples are included. Remember years ago when Ellen lost her show just for admitting she was gay?! What's most disturbing is that these sex scenes have been shown in shows allegedly geared to teenage audiences. I know, however, that teens these days are quite different from how we grew up and are more exposed to these things in real life.

 

[jerry old]

Feel that I have to mention an exception: Lian Neeson action/adventure movies
have very little profanity or sexual encounters on his part.
His one exception was 'A Walk Among the Tombstones.' with the dismembering of
victims.
He is excellent as a world-weary individual letting his expression and events speak
rather than dialogue....
Lots of killings, so I suppose he qualifies as a graph violence actor.

 

[RadishRose]

We live in a death culture. There is very little in cinema or TV that doesn't include death.

Murder mysteries, murder every night on detective/cop shows/westerns. If not outight death, then danger of it.

That's what entertains most people.

 

[Sassycakes]

The first time something I didn't think was appropriate was Sharon Stone in Basic Instinct. I think that was the movie. I just remember being surprised by what they showed.

 

[bingo]

it's about choosing carefully..we are watching deadliest catch...only the crab die

 

[Aneeda72]

I watch a lot of tv. If it’s too violent, too bloody, or too much stupid sex, such as the ever popular up against a wall sex-ouch! I close my eyes. This works. I like the storylines, the plots etc.

 

[Lakeland living]

Don't watch tv at all here, not in almost 10 years now. Don't miss it at all.

 

[Don M.]

I suspect that all the violence that appears in movies, TV shows, and video games, etc., has a marked effect on a lot of our younger people who begin to think that such activity is "Normal".

 

[Ruthanne]

We live in a death culture. There is very little in cinema or TV that doesn't include death.

Murder mysteries, murder every night on detective/cop shows/westerns. If not outight death, then danger of it.

That's what entertains most people.

I agree and I believe people are addicted to it. Some can't stop watching it. I can and have for the most part.

 

[fmdog44]

I don't like it when the F-bomb is deliberately jammed in to the script for reasons unknown. I watch a movie and suddenly realize the F bomb is coming out every 8 seconds because the dialogue is hollow and meaningless.

 

[jerry old]

You got it fm44: profanity it is filler for poor script writing.

Thirty years ago, when I was caught doing something stupid and it was brought to
my attention-gave the person a good cussing to cover my inadequacies.
I guess script writers are doing the same thing.

 

[Butterfly]

Profanity has its place sometimes -- I mean if you are watching a movie about WWII, you can't really think it's realistic to have the soldiers say "oh gosh" or "gee whillikers" or "heavens to Betsy" when they realize a bunch of German tanks are about to squash them flat. That would sound ridiculous.

 

[Sunny]

Gee willikers and heavens to Betsy would make a great SNL skit about WWII.

 

[Aneeda72]

Profanity has its place sometimes -- I mean if you are watching a movie about WWII, you can't really think it's realistic to have the soldiers say "oh gosh" or "gee whillikers" or "heavens to Betsy" when they realize a bunch of German tanks are about to squash them flat. That would sound ridiculous.

The swear words used in WWII were much less profane than now. My dad’s favorite and worst profanity expression was “I don’t give a tinkers damn.” He was a WWII vet. I never heard granddad swear-WWI.

 

[Butterfly]

I think profanity was just as profane as it is now. It's just that people were more careful about what they said in polite company. The F word and others like it have been around a very long time.

 

[Butterfly]

Gee willikers and heavens to Betsy would make a great SNL skit about WWII.

Heavens to Betsy -- here come those pesky Germans again! Goldern it, they've got flame throwers, too! Oh, fudge, we're all going to die.

 

[Barbiegirl]

Profanity has its place sometimes -- I mean if you are watching a movie about WWII, you can't really think it's realistic to have the soldiers say "oh gosh" or "gee whillikers" or "heavens to Betsy" when they realize a bunch of German tanks are about to squash them flat. That would sound ridiculous.

I would seriously pay full price to see a remake of Scarface in which the characters used nothing but old fashioned slang like "malarkey" and "twenty-three skidoo". Paging Mr. de Palma...

 

[Sunny]

Heavens to Betsy -- here come those pesky Germans again! Goldern it, they've got flame throwers, too! Oh, fudge, we're all going to die.

Sort of like the old Tom Lehrer football song.

Fight fiercely, Harvard, fight fight fight,
Impress them with our prowess, do!
Come on, chaps, do not let the Crimson down,
Be of stout heart and true.

Come on and fight for Harvard's glorious name,
Won't it be peachy if we win the game?
Oh, goody!
Let's try not to injure them,
But fight, fight, fight,
Let's not be rough, though,
Fight, fight, fight,
And do fight fierecely
Fight, fight, fight!

(He was a math professor at Harvard. He must have been a hoot!)

 

[jerry old]

Hollywood has taught us the young males in Boot Camp are incapable of coherent
conversation. They have to blister the air with profanity-apparent profanity is a method
for these young males exhibit their masculinity. Their too young and dumb to know
there are other methods.

Yea, that is what we did, I did it, those in boot camp now are doing it and it is a
forever behavior.

Hollywood's presentation of any film involving boot camp or killing should be
labeled, "Cussing movies."

 

[Butterfly]

Sort of like the old Tom Lehrer football song.

Fight fiercely, Harvard, fight fight fight,
Impress them with our prowess, do!
Come on, chaps, do not let the Crimson down,
Be of stout heart and true.

Come on and fight for Harvard's glorious name,
Won't it be peachy if we win the game?
Oh, goody!
Let's try not to injure them,
But fight, fight, fight,
Let's not be rough, though,
Fight, fight, fight,
And do fight fierecely
Fight, fight, fight!

(He was a math professor at Harvard. He must have been a hoot!)

I'm a big fan of Tom Lehrer. I especially like "In My Home Town." When I was a teenager, my best friend's father was a mathematician and a fine pianist and he used to play and sing Tom Lehrer stuff. We all loved it and would routinely crack up.

 

[MarciKS]

There is a reason sex and violence is in our movies, and TV shows. It sells. It makes money. While we may decry its use, the fact is we flock to see that stuff.

I don't flock to see that stuff. I refuse to take it in. If I see a program or a movie with stuff in it that I can't stomach...I will not watch it. I try to look ahead to see before I do.

 

[fuzzybuddy]

Quote "I don't flock to see that stuff. I refuse to take it in. If I see a program or a movie with stuff in it that I can't stomach...I will not watch it. I try to look ahead to see before I do. "

I'm not a great fan of those movies either, nor am I a fan of 'chick flicks'. But the people with dollars in their hands aren't us, but teenage males for the graphicly violent flicks, and for 20+ women for the chick flicks. And most studies say that teen boys process the violence as entertainment, rather than reality.

 

[OneEyedDiva]

it's about choosing carefully..we are watching deadliest catch...only the crab die

That's not quite true. The show has lost a few cast members. Even though I never watched the show, I noticed that it seemed like every time I turned around I was hearing that a cast member died, starting with their captain Phil Harris in 2010. The latest is Mahlon Reyes who is not listed in the first article because his death was just reported yesterday.
https://popculture.com/reality-tv/news/deadliest-catch-stars-who-have-died/#1
Death of Reyes"
https://extratv.com/2020/08/03/deadliest-catch-crew-member-mahlon-dead-at-38/

 

[jerry old]

It was and remains the most intense program on TV.
The other reality shows are 'fixed' to one degree or another; you can't fix the storms in the Bearing Sea.

I wondered how they got film crews to film the fishermen-yes, they have a bigger boat and are safer, but placing yourself in jeopardy?

 

[Butterfly]

It was and remains the most intense program on TV.
The other reality shows are 'fixed' to one degree or another; you can't fix the storms in the Bearing Sea.

I wondered how they got film crews to film the fishermen-yes, they have a bigger boat and are safer, but placing yourself in jeopardy?

They probably paid them a whole buncha money.