Extreme violence in entertainment

[s_lone]

All over the Montreal metro stations, I see large posters for SAW 3, the most recent horror movie. The poster shows a rather gruesome image of man's mouth with half the teeth ripped off by a tweezer. All the kids in the city can see this when they go to school. Do you think this is acceptable?


What do you think of the latest trend in horror movies? Intense, gory and SADISTIC violence...

The SAW franchise, The new batch of Texas Chain Saw Massacres, HOSTEL, The Hills Have Eyes (remake)...

 

[the caracal kid]

it makes me think of Rome.

 

[s_lone]

Yes, but it is make-belief... Does it make it OK?

 

[china]

HI s_lone
Do you think this is acceptable?
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There are numbers of things that aren't acceptable in our country ,but our minds being so conditioned ,"create make -belief".
No , It doesn't make it 'OK'.

 

[The Project Man]

Censorship?

It is something we should deal with on a daily. If you have children in this world as I do, you discuss, discuss, discuss.....

 

[DurkaDurka]

Kids will be exposed to violence by many different mediums, TV, Movies, Video Games, the Internet etc. Do you really think a static poster is going to make a huge impression on them when they can easily just download the full trailer from the internet?

 

[s_lone]

Kids will be exposed to violence by many different mediums, TV, Movies, Video Games, the Internet etc. Do you really think a static poster is going to make a huge impression on them when they can easily just download the full trailer from the internet?

Well it might exactly be the poster that would push the kid to check out the trailer on the internet.

You are right, kids will be exposed to violence everywhere, but to what extent should we accept this form of extreme violence as entertainment? What does this say about our society?

 

[LittleRunningGag]

You are right, kids will be exposed to violence everywhere, but to what extent should we accept this form of extreme violence as entertainment? What does this say about our society?

Could be worse. At least its just make believe. We could be feeding Christians to the lions.