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Originally Posted by Wowza
My wife and I watched the latest Rambo movie over the weekend. I (yes, me, a conservative 33-year-old, gun owning, heterosexual male raised with a strong male role-model) was appalled at the violence in the film. There was blood and gore for the sake of blood and gore, and it had no redeeming impact on the film. It seems to me that Hollywood continues to push the line of what is acceptable, and sheeple continue to buy into it. More vulgar language, more full-frontal nudity, more gratuitous sex, more blood and gore and violence. It leads to a desensitization, so that it is what we come to expect rather than something that is shocking. That is a sad commentary.
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Wowza, please tell me that the movie doesn't feature Sylvester Stallone naked. *suppresses shudder*
Beyond a doubt, the mass media pushes the envelope, and does as much as they can get away with. I remember hearing about a brand-new cartoon called "South Park." I watched about 30 seconds of the first episode before changing the channel. I remember traveling with the kids, not that long ago, and flipping through channels at a motel. HBO had a "documentary" about the porno industry, and showed things that normally would be rated X. FX was showing "Nip/Tuck," where two clearly 100% naked actors were doing a believable performance of sexual activity, and there were two or three other scenes like that before we got to Nick at Nite.
Two clowns hitting each other with pies is so much more acceptable. Not only is there no real injury, but there is not even a simulation of injury. Give me the Three Stooges any day!
