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If I want to see horror and violence, I watch C-SPAN and the nightly news.
I watch movies for entertainment, not for blood and guts.
Who will stop this war of lies? Keith Olbermann May 23rd, 2007
by Ed in Montana on Fri Feb 01, 2008 at 06:54:07 PM PDT
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although Jaws was okay (just don't enjoy that part of it). I do like the movies such as Die Hard, which have lots of explosions but it isn't violence, as you delineate it. It is nice and sorta clean, and generally without people in bits. That I could see elsewhere, like on the news, as Ed points out.
The torture porn stuff that people go to see these days is just mind-boggling to me.
But a nice discussion in the diary, even if I have no desire to see these movies you discuss!
by annetteboardman on Fri Feb 01, 2008 at 07:14:32 PM PDT
Know what? I think there's a correlation between the rise of torture porn and the rise of torture as per the Regime. Each is a reflection of the other.
Some people can watch that stuff and keep their perspective; others get caught up in it and it becomes part of their attitude, e.g. "if we have to turn a few ragheads inside-out, so be it."
Makes me wonder about other historic periods, such as the 1930s in Europe.
by G2geek on Fri Feb 01, 2008 at 07:28:51 PM PDT
is a good example of what filmgeek is talking about: very effective use of the threat of violence. There's one scene in a gas station in the middle of nowhere where not a drop of blood is shed - but it's the most terrifying scene in the movie, IMO.
Very little gore in that movie, if any. Extremely violent, because it's about a guy who is a sociopathic killer.
As nightfall does not come all at once, neither does oppression. - Justice William O. Douglas
by occams hatchet on Fri Feb 01, 2008 at 07:37:38 PM PDT
That that is a very interesting movie.
But on CSPAN the other day, there was this scene with Harry Reid and Jay Rockefeller over FISA, where not a drop of blood was shed, but you could hear the shredding of the Constitution in the background.
That's about as horrific as I can take!
by Ed in Montana on Fri Feb 01, 2008 at 07:53:20 PM PDT
what you speak of is horrifying beyond comprehension.
by occams hatchet on Fri Feb 01, 2008 at 09:15:46 PM PDT
wide narrow
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