Ever turn from films due to foul language?

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Fyrefox

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Call me an old coot or a Puritan if you will, but I’m repelled by films that seem to overdose on foul language. I’m not talking about an occasional expletive, but rather film dialogue that seems to feel like the F-bomb must be dropped in every sentence. I turned off a movie on Netflix the other night for exactly that reason. And to think, my mother was dragging me to wash my mouth out with soap when I brought the word cr*p home from school!

How about you? Do you find that foul language is excessive in many of today’s films while adding nothing?

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All the time... The odd f-bomb... doesn't really bother me, but I'm very quick to reach for the off switch when it's used in every other sentence... my husband calls me a prude..oh well... if that's what I am because I don't feel it's necessary to be expressive without peppering dialogue with expletives , then so be it...
 
One of the best movies I ever saw-certainly has some raw language in it-
and It's main star was George Clooney- who I never really paid attention to before.... although he is quite good looking- but I became a Fan, and the young people in the movie ( who did most of the cursing) were excellent, and had fallen into a looming tragedy, the pending death of their mother, Clooney's wife in the movie.

If you like Hawaii and if you like Hawaiian music you will like this movie.
I bought two copies of the DVD, and sent one to my daughter. There is an unrelated Decendants series on TV but this is "The Decendants."
 
That doesn't bother me as much as gratuitous violence. I have skipped many a "blockbuster" film because of that element, and other ingredients - like a lack of female characters being anything but objects to look at.

Life itself is full of so much violence as it is, if you read a newspaper every once in a while. So why do some filmmakers call such violence entertainment? I don't know.

If it's the violence of war or history, then I can more easily tolerate it because it teaches a lesson that maybe we haven't progressed so much as a society after all, right?
 
I can't remember what the film was, but it seemed as if every other word was the F word. I remember thinking that if they cut just that one word the film would only be half as long. I quit watching it and can't even remember now what it was.

To me it is just a sign of poor writing. It has lost its shock value.
 
A film, probably not. I hate hearing it in public. Someone in a store and it's f-ing everything.

Probably close to 20 years ago, I went to see Eddie Izzard in San Francisco. I thought he'd swear a lot but he didn't. Maybe 3-5, f-bombs the entire show, but they were very effective. He was also very funny.
 
papa tiger said:
Watched a John Travolta movie happening in N.Y. subway.
Nuff Fowle language to last me a year. Haha. ...
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I've recommended the Netflix is a Joke Dave Chappelle segment on Jusse Smollett to a number of co-workers. But I have told them DO NOT watch it at work. He is very liberal with the f and n words.

It is hilarious!
 
I completely avoid movies with vulgarity and most violence , and actually have pretty much stopped watching most new movies and all television programs anymore.
I read books, and if those have objectionable parts, I can just skip pages and get back to the story line in the book, which is harder to do in movies because they pepper the whole conversation with profanity.

I also dislike people who add vulgarity to their conversation. An intelligent person should be able to make their point without using profanity, or being vulgar , in my opinion.
Men who do that turn me off immediately. I guess I am old-fashioned enough to like my men to act like a gentleman….
 
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