Too violent for me

Watched "Looper" last night and was not impressed by the violence. We almost had to change the channel.
 
It's almost like films are trying to compete with cell phone filmed atrocities or replicating them even- "Savages" with South African necklacing eg.
 
I seem to have a real problem accepting deliberate cruelty.
 

Most people accept sadism in their movies just fine. Things like Saw make alot of money. Probably I'm being sexist saying it but I'm always surprised when girls like that kind of stuff. Growing up I thought they would have an attack of the vapors or something if exposed to extreme cruelty. Not so!
 
This movie Looper is rated R in NZ- which I think is 15 years or older. Blue Velvet was R18 I think and about a tenth as horrible.

BTW, I agree w/ you.
 

backwoods
Watched "Looper" last night and was not impressed by the violence. We almost had to change the channel.
 
It's almost like films are trying to compete with cell phone filmed atrocities or replicating them even- "Savages" with South African necklacing eg.
 
I seem to have a real problem accepting deliberate cruelty.
 

Why didn't you change the channel?
Lot of things that others may enjoy that I don't.
What others, outside of my family, feel or think about such
things isn't much concern to me.
It is somewhat strange to me that you'll spend time watching
something that is unfavorable to you and yours rather than change the channel.

I agree with you about Looper.  I stayed with it, against my better judgement, hoping that the story would develop.  In the end, it didn't.  There was no character development, no internal consistency, and no point in having Bruce Willis in this movie.
 
I know.  You're completely shocked.  "Bubba has some better judgement?"  I do.  I keep it in a jar next to the Good Intentions.

Aw....films we do like is a much better topic...
here's one I really enjoyed:

Has anyone noticed how annoying and distracting 3-D can be in some films (Green Hornet--not Spacey's picks) and how great it can be in other films (Prometheus)?  Have you seen any films where 3-D was good, bad or meh?  

Di****able Me, eh?  Rated "S" for ****y?

The only 3d I've watched is on my system. All Blu-ray and I can say
that nobody in my family has had anything negative to say about it.
 
I can't think of one of them that isn't totally 3d. The credits are even 3d.
I've had credits roll seemingly into the room and vanish in a puff of smoke
over the coffee table.
 
I've pre-ordered Star-Trek and it comes with a phaser! Look out!
 
 

There was a lot of gratuitous violence in the Final Destination movies too, but those are different.  I thought they did a good job of making you think someone was going to die one way then doing it from an unsuspecting angle.
 
On a different note, I remember watching Burn After Reading which, supposedly had this "all-star" cast including Pitt and Clooney.  Almost every other word was an unnecessary expletive with tons of blatant sexual references.  It was if they were trying to set a record for putting as much class-less crap into a movie as they could.  I don't think I even finished watching.  Evidentally Hollywood has decided that it's cheaper to produce a winning movie stuffed full of drugs, sex, language and violence (the 'ol DSLV you typically see now-a-days next to the "R" rating of most flicks) than it is to invest in an actual plot with decent acting.

backwoods

 
Why didn't you change the channel?
Lot of things that others may enjoy that I don't.
What others, outside of my family, feel or think about such
things isn't much concern to me.
It is somewhat strange to me that you'll spend time watching
something that is unfavorable to you and yours rather than change the channel.




Wasn't the only person watching so wouldn't be right to change channel. Might have been considered rude, like hijacking (changing channel) of thread :)



My apologies for the hijack.  We now return you to  your regularly scheduled program.