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Since when did "Rated R for Strong Brutal Violence Throughout!" become a positive selling point for our entertainment?

I refer to the trailers and banner ad (above) for the movie "Pathfinder".

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MA0458

I agree. Very annoying.

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KingBear

We've become a society of unbridled extremism, not just in visual entertainment but in virtually all things. Think about it - extreme food (quantity), clothing styles, music, politics, consumption...

Or am I making too much out of this? :???:

tba-golfer

I am so very out of touch with pop culture, be it movies, tunes, TV.
The majority of what I blip through on the tube is, to me, cheaply produced, sensationalist tripe, most of which is designed to offer the viewer to feel some sort of superiority or gloat-ability over the "cast." This at least is my view of the "reality" shows; which of course have nothing what so ever to do with reality. The lowest intellectual class has risen to be the ideal market group for mass media it seems. Even newspapers and magazines have dumbed their verbage down to accommodate readers with fifth grade comprehension skills. And don't get me started with Talk Radio!
But, I was never a Candid Camera sort of person. I don't enjoy jokes being played upon the naive or innocent. I also don't enjoy contrived 'competitions' where the spoils go to the sly, greedy tricksters. I especially don't buy into the dumb is hip, you just don't get it, 'whatever', text message glossary, slacker chic ethos.

Rant now concluding...
:hammer:

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itchin

I dont think you are wrong at all. Extreme weather forecasting, extreme sports, and in the olympics no less. Competitve eating-ultimate fighting and Triumph Speed Triples. :-D

We are told what to like and most, being the consumer lemings that we are go happily along with it. Because it's " IN ".

I have spent the last three years of my life really thinking about what it is i want and what it is i need, and getting rid of most of it. Feels FANTASTIC to really simplify your life like that. There is a fine line between owning a bunch of stuff and it owning you. Rant over.

Sorry to hi-jack your post. You are correct in my thinking. It's all gotten out of hand and i find myself pullin away from it all.

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BlueBird

I've been thinking the same thing about those ads.

My theory on western pop culture obsession with violence: Boring, predictable lives and human evolution.

We evolved for two million years in an extremely tough, stimutlating environment. We were physically active and fit because we had to be to survive and reproduce. Now, we sit in excessively predictable environments, with indoor climate controll, drive one mile to the grocery store, and watch tv after getting back from the 9-5. This obsession with violence and 'exciting,' adrenaline-pumping entertainment has to be some kind of reaction caused by excessive non-stimulation. IMHO.

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stanegoli

Got to agree with you on this.
My feeling at this time is that if the movie came out of Hollywood I don't want to see it.

For a really good movie, made the way they ought to be, see "The Lives of Others". Don't be put off by the fact that it is in German with English subtitles, that does not detract at all from a very well crafted movie featuring real people.

stevent

I'm actually looking forward to seeing Pathfinder, I thought it looked pretty good. I like those types of movies myself, not gratuitous violence but it's set in a time when Vikings were on the rampage everywhere and Native Americans never where the peace-loving tree huggers they're depicted as now.

What I can't stomach is network TV, about the only thing I watch is Sci-Fi or one of the History or Discovery channels or BBC America other than that I mostly watch DVD's

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mdgore

Grindhouse!!!!! FTW!!!!!!

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markbvt

What irritates me even more is that Pathfinder is a remake of a Norwegian movie of the same name that came out in the late '80s. Difference being, the original was based on an old Lapp legend and was a really good movie. This Hollywood remake looks like utter rubbish.

--mark

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