Complaint-graphic language/images in movies & tv

Mr. Ed

Mr. Ed

Be what you is not what you what you ain’t
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I recall the sexual revolution of the sixties and seventies, at the time I was all for it. Nowadays visual lewdness and the unnatural and overuse use of F, this and F, that., is disgustingly crude and ignorant.

Perhaps show business would cease to exist without colorful, and meaningless adjectives movie/tv productions would come to a screeching halt. Advertisers might stop investing because movie & tv quality might increase, but ratings would be at all time low without cursing and swearing.

Graphic sex scenes even the most tamed are seemingly driven by lust, not by human connection or respect. Watching movies/tv have desensitized and changing the human condition to allow disturbing thoughts and images into our psyche. Perversion of the norm is no longer relevant to what previously we valued.

I am responsible for me and although it is doubtful the movie & tv industry will stop producing graphical films on my account, at the very least I have a choice to the films I see.
 

this is part of the reason i don't have tv & certain things i refuse to watch or listen to. most of the music videos anymore involve half naked gyrating people so i have to listen to the ones with no actual video footage or just lyric ones. i posted some last night to listen to that weren't as bad but still...sheesh! anymore that's all stuff is...sex...violence & swearing. i tolerated it when i was younger but never really cared for it. anymore it's just getting worse. to the point i can't stand it.
 

i don't know why authors need to put that stuff in books @CinnamonSugar. i don't mind if there's a subtle hint at what they did like (and then William scooped Catherine up & carried her to the bedroom for a night she wouldn't soon forget). that's all that's necessary. we can figure out the rest using our imagination. i don't need the gory details. lol! i've noticed a lot of swearing in the books now too.
 
I object more to the gratuitous violence and bloodshed in a lot of stuff nowdays. I'm not talking about the Marshall Dillon shoots the bad guy stuff, but rather the awful graphic violence in many of the movies today -- pick a few off Netflix and you can see everything from disembowelings and dismemberings and graphic torture to cannibalism, ad nauseum.

IMHO, that kind of stuff is much more harmful to watch, especially for young people, than sex and bad language.
 
Totally agree. The overt sex and I have to add, the gun and physical violence too has me totally turned off to a lot of the network dramas They can’t be excused as “essential to the plot”. And even in the popular literature. I brought home 2 Mysteries by popular authors and quit both of them after a chapter or two.
A local channel is specializing in oldies and have been watching some refreshingly clean but absorbing Colombo dramas. Along with the “bad” books in my batch of library books I had a thoroughly enjoyable Agatha Christie and a C.S. Forester Hornblower novel. Going back for more
i have no interest in reading or watching dysfunction, dysphoria or dystopia. I am no prude, but I don’t feel any need or interest in wallowing in s**t.
 
I think the problem of over-exposure is the lack of mystery and imagination. Mystery of the human condition is far better received without blatant exposure that leaves nothing to the imagination worthy of pondering.
 
Our parents did not approve of our likes and dislikes, nor did they understand us for the most part, however, the new leaders of our soon to be released world may or may not be headed for trouble anymore than we were.

Generation after generation learned to adapt and adopt the world around them. We no longer belong at least by the degree we once ruled. Just because I don't like explicit movies and text does not the world better or worse than before, I am simply outdated by todays standards and morales.

While I shouldn't be concerned the truth is it is impossible to determine world outcome past or present tense. Are we responsible for the world and the mess it is in? To some degree we are all responsible, most days I don't care because I am old and no one listens to me, what's the use of it all should we turn a blind eye to the perversion effecting our families and loved ones? Or do we impose restrictions by exercising morales and values as these traits were handed down to us?

We are not lost, only slightly strayed.
 
Unless there is dialog included which moves things along, sex scenes in movies do nothing but interrupt the flow of the story. And they're boring as well, because nothing is happening, at least nothing you haven't seen a million (seems like) times before. It's much better to hint at what's about to happen, but cut to the next scene just as they get started. When this question came up in film school years ago, the professor said, "Sex is something to do, not something to watch."
 
Oh cool, maybe I've found some people who wouldn't consider me a "snowflake"...

I mostly read nonfiction, so it's not an issue; it hasn't really come up in much fiction either.

From what I've seen advertised, much of the "popular today" t.v. shows vampire/superhero/gory junk that I'd never want to watch... Awhile back friends asked me to look after their cellphone for incoming calls while they talked to someone outside; they left their t.v. on, and I ended up watching an entire episode of some awful show called "Van Helsing." Wiki describes it as "dark fantasy horror."
Nobody would be able to convince me that kind of garbage doesn't have a negative effect on impressionable kids or on anybody whose minds are already a little 'warped.'

I noticed a difference, though, in movies. Long ago, an apartment complex I lived in had HBO, and I saw some of the movies that were popular at that time. In a different place, I saw some of the same movies in their "edited for television" formats. In my opinion, nothing worthwhile was taken away in the latter. Two examples I recall were "Carrie" and "Hollywood Knights."
 
I don't like violent scenes, swearing, sexual scenes or any other scene that provokes an emotional response in me, usually one where I am crying (I do turn away, block my ears, or go out of the room) My o/h will move it on if for example there is a predicted 'rape' scene. But I have watched programmes with swearing and violence e.g The Sopranos, and that didn't affect me so I'm thinking why is that? Perhaps the Sopranos needs the use of swearing etc to portray the psychology of the 'Mafia' and present some realism - if that makes sense. I think some films/programmes use the above, swearing, violence etc when it is not necessary and just gratuitous. We all have an imagination. I've noticed stand up comedians and others have moved from the F word to the C word -awful. It's interesting (maybe) how certain words are now used in language without anyone flinching. The F word seems to be common in many people's language (not mine) but I guess if you said bloody years ago you would get a clip round the ear. Just some thoughts 😊
 
Mr. Ed said:
I think the problem of over-exposure is the lack of mystery and imagination. Mystery of the human condition is far better received without blatant exposure that leaves nothing to the imagination worthy of pondering.
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That is the exact reason I never wanted to be a gynecologist or plastic surgeon that does boob jobs.
 
Mt Fuzzbudd, exactly which “we” are you referring to? Are those things you “ flock to see“? If you belong to that “we”, have at it. I belong to a different “we”, consisting at least in part to the posters above that don’t like it either & don’t flock to it.
 
The profane is an attractive behavior uttered by teenagers to exhibit that they have 'grown up.'
Now, we can utter say naughty words that were forbidden.
We are now our own masters, we will form our own values.


You will not control our lives, nor can you enforce the mores of the 'old ways.'
Once practiced, it will becomes stale and without meaning or purpose.
However, many become stuck in their celebrations of their freedom and
continue to flaunt proscribed behaviors

Screenwriters, novelist, all those that produce products for public consumption
know that we still seek 'strange fire,' the forbidden. They pander to our baseness
that we have outgrown, or thought we had outgrown.
A residue remains: our war movies and novels divide violence, sexual behavior,
profanity is acceptable in certain situations.

When you have obtained the age where you recognize behaviors without value,
without purpose, you have also become part of the greater demographics that
do not purchases tickets, nor the other products that entertainment industry
carter to-Therefore, you are of no value, your objections are meaningless,
you have become a voiceless entity.
 
Buttefly's post # 5
Hannibal Lecter's first appeared in Manhunter,
though violent was far superior to the 'eat 'um up' movies that followed.

Does anybody have an explanation for these 'eat 'um' movies. or the other behaviors
Butterfly mentioned.

Addendum
Read the post a second time-Damn, were in bad shape: 'the sky is falling.'
 
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What is an eat 'um up movie, jerry old? I've never heard that term used before.

I can imagine that it would apply to the Hannibel Lechter movies, but are there others about cannibalism? Maybe I'm leading a sheltered life.
 
Hannibal was a bad one to 'eat um up.' I've not had the displeasure of watching
"Tx Chainsaw Massacre ' but have been told that was the first modern 'eat um up'
movie: they have also made several sequels.

The Donner Party in 1846 was the first mass cannibalism in this nation.
There were isolated cases of cannibalism in America, due to great need.

Leningrad was a case of great need as was the plane crash in the Andes Mountains,
(the pope said it was okay).
Cannibalism to avoid starvation has been around a long time and is still with us:
North Korea.

Our movies have made it an art form🥺👎
 
jerry old said:
Hannibal was a bad one to 'eat um up.' I've not had the displeasure of watching
"Tx Chainsaw Massacre ' but have been told that was the first modern 'eat um up'
movie: they have also made several sequels.

The Donner Party in 1846 was the first mass cannibalism in this nation.
There were isolated cases of cannibalism in America, due to great need.

Leningrad was a case of great need as was the plane crash in the Andes Mountains,
(the pope said it was okay).
Cannibalism to avoid starvation has been around a long time and is still with us:
North Korea.

Our movies have made it an art form🥺👎
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Life has made movies an art form, there is nothing stranger than life
 
Highly charged sex scenes and heavy breathing is a turn off to me. I like to venture to the dark side however, supernatural, witches and magical fantasy. Read the trilogy " A discovery of witches" enjoyed it immensely. Not overly fond of gore, but I do like medieval wars, castles and kingdoms. Did not watch Game of Thrones, too explicit.

Did you know porn is not real and most don't behave that way? Or so they say.
 
My advice to anyone reading this thread is never believe that what you see in movies is not necessarily reality. I’m talking about violence and some of the sexual type scenes that are portrayed as ordinary.

Not everyone that gets shot and is killed that has bled out is not found in a pool of blood. Many of them bleed out internally. We investigated a person found dead along the interstate. Our initial thought was that he somehow got onto the interstate and was struck by a vehicle. When we received the report from the Coroner, we learned that he had a bullet wound to the side of his head behind his ear.

As it turned out, this was a professional hit. The victim had been killed elsewhere and then thrown from the car as it traveled down the interstate. Professional hit men prefer shooting their victim behind the ear because there is less blood and the bullet is generally a .22, not a big gun like a .357, .44 or even a .45. The .22 makes less noise and is very effective at close range.
 

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