Anyone else bored by the over-the-top violence in media?

Originally posted by The Nuul
I dont let this stuff get to me, if I want to watch it than I will if not than oh well....its not going to make or break me.

As for the games and movies? its up to the parents to control what the kids do and not do. Its the parents fault for letting stuff get to far and not the game/movie makers. They have every right to make their product how they want to. The stores however should follow the rules that they cant sell mature rated stuff to kids and let the parents by them. But its all about making money.

Bottom line is if you dont like it than dont watch it or play it.

EXCELLENT WORDS

Originally posted by Final Blaxican
I'm referring specifically to TV shows/movies and video games.

Originally posted by Final Blaxican
No it's not.

Yes it is. 😐 I win.

Originally posted by Final Blaxican
No, because they have different meanings. ermm

I can watch someone get chainsawed in half in Gears of War and watch someone get shot in a movie without flinching, but I gagged when I saw all the blood covering my friends leg and face when I drove with him to the hospital. I had to turn away when I watched a dude get his elbow snapped in an old UFC replay, but again I've seen it a dozen times and seen everyone of Steven Segal's movies and I hardly care then.

There is an extrmeley large difference, psychologically, betwen violence in fiction, and seeing it right in front of your face and knowing that it's really happening and someone is really suffering

Wow...this point seems...strangely familiar. I can't quite put my finger on it.. 😖hifty:

No I am not.

Originally posted by Final Blaxican
I'm referring specifically to TV shows/movies and video games.

I dunno. Between movies like Saw and Tarentino flicks like Kill Bill, video games like Gears of War, anime like Bleach, which isn't even ultraviolent by Japanese standards but shows people utterly drenched in blood... I'm just completely desensitized by violence. I haven't seen someone get killed and consciously thought "damn... what a painful and disturbing way to die", in like 5 years. The media continues to market extreme violence as a high point in whatever they're selling, video games (New limb dismembering head popping action!), movies (I want 20 Nazi scalps!), and TV shows (His weakness is his brain, without his head he's vulnerable!), and I just yawn and flip the channel. Honestly, I'm not intrigued in even the slightest manner. All of the curiosity and taboo that is apart of graphic violence has disappeared.

Does anyone else feel this way? I know people who will go to watch a movie without eve knowing what it's about aside from the fact that its supposed to be incredibly violent, and they try to get me to come and I'm just like "Dude it's blood so what I've seen so much in my life time that it might as well be ****ing grape juice".

When you say you are de-sensitized by real world violence, do you mean you have on scene at a shotting, bombing, beheading or just by what you have seen on screen.

You see it alot in the Forces. Young men who think they are the hardest thing since granite was invented and the first time they see a dead body or see someone get shot they soon have a short, sharp dose of reality.

Originally posted by MilitantDog
When you say you are de-sensitized by real world violence, do you mean you have on scene at a shotting, bombing, beheading or just by what you have seen on screen.

You see it alot in the Forces. Young men who think they are the hardest thing since granite was invented and the first time they see a dead body or see someone get shot they soon have a short, sharp dose of reality.

Granite wasn't invented, but you probably have a point otherwise.

Originally posted by Mindship
There's a lot about the media I'm bored with, foremost of which is the lack of creativity/originality and the anything-for-a-buck mentality which inpires it.

couldn't agree more

Originally posted by inimalist
couldn't agree more

You should try foreign media. Different cultures have different cliches.

Originally posted by Symmetric Chaos
You should try foreign media. Different cultures have different cliches.

any suggestions?

I've pretty much stopped watching TV and movies, unless I find something good on the internet. BBC news is it.

Originally posted by inimalist
any suggestions?

I've pretty much stopped watching TV and movies, unless I find something good on the internet. BBC news is it.

Besides anime I can't think of much in the way of TV and movies (Elfen Lied for really extreme gore/horror that's pretty much impossible without animation, Death Note of FMA for character studies, Gurren Lagan for mindless fun).

There are tons of translations of really good authors though. Isabelle Allende (House of the Spirits) and Gabriel Garcia Marquez (100 Years of Solitude) are the prototypical magical realism authors from Latin America. Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart is a great example of an extremely different cultural point of view.

Originally posted by Symmetric Chaos
Besides anime I can't think of much in the way of TV and movies (Elfen Lied for really extreme gore/horror that's pretty much impossible without animation, Death Note of FMA for character studies, Gurren Lagan for mindless fun).

There are tons of translations of really good authors though. Isabelle Allende (House of the Spirits) and Gabriel Garcia Marquez (100 Years of Solitude) are the prototypical magical realism authors from Latin America. Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart is a great example of an extremely different cultural point of view.

cool 🙂

I'll check it out hopefully.

Not so much to do with violence on tv but death in general. Some people are saying that Jade Goody may be contemplating televising her death from cervical cancer in order to make money so her 2 sons have a financially secure future. So it begs the question whether that's the kind of thing that should be encouraged on tv. Is there a point where enough is enough?...Will it have a positive effect on people in that it would encourage them to have regular checks for cancer? (Apparently there is already a large increase in young women getting smear tests done which is being attributed to Jade Goody's illness)

I'm all for things such as the Gunther Von Hagens shows in which he performs autopsies live on tv because i think they can expand people's knowledge about subjects.

Should news footage be less censored in order to portray the real problems in places such as Darfur and Gaza?

Originally posted by MilitantDog
When you say you are de-sensitized by real world violence, do you mean you have on scene at a shotting, bombing, beheading or just by what you have seen on screen.

I never said real world violence. In fact, that's the opposite of what I said.

Why do people keep saying that I'm desensitized to real world violence? I never said that. Why?