I personally believe that excessive gore and violence should lead to a higher rating on movie. I mean when you think about it nudity and sexual content ups the rating on a movie way quicker than a massive zombie attack where people are killed and have their guts pouring out everywhere. It seems very backwards that so many people are immune to the grotesque nature of overwhelmingly violent scenes, yet protected from a sex scene or one shot of someone without clothes. Now I'm not saying that people should run around naked, but I find the priorities of how these movies are rated a bit skewed. I do not like horror/ gore/ excessive killing or anything of the type. I think it is bad for members of our society to find watching people being tortured, killed, ripped apart, whatever it may be, entertaining. It's all so twisted. Not too mention sexual content found in an R rated movie may influence people badly, but it will really effect those directly involved. Whereas, it only takes one unstable person to be influence by a massive act of violence in a movie to harm hundreds of innocent people.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/11/health/gun-violence-movies/index.html?c=us&page=1
Some of the violence and gore in movies can have a powerful influence over our thoughts, which then have an influence over our actions. It can be very harmful to have these horrible images running through our minds. The pursuit to make movies more realistic crosses the line with the excessive amounts of violence, especially when this violence has a negative affect on our thoughts.
ReplyDeletePersonally when I see a movie with gun violence I don't feel the need to go out and kill someone. I think that most people who go to see such a movie watch it for the entertainment and not to get the urge to demonstrate this violence. However, I do agree that some movies have gone a little overboard on expressing the gore and people may begin to think it is okay.
ReplyDeleteI can see how guns and violence in a movie could cause someone already with those callings to actually go out and hurt people. I agree that nudity, although still not appropriate, shouldn't be considered worse than killing and torturing people.
ReplyDeleteAshley Barnes 2nd
I agree completely. Excessive gore is only there to make a movie look cooler, but it shouldn't be to the point where the movie is nothing but gore and violence. The effect on society has been drastic, it's almost like when it happens in reality, no one is nearly as horrified as they should be, because they have seen it in the movies.
ReplyDeleteMcKenzie Hartmann, 4th