Showbiz Groups Pledge “To Seek Meaningful Solutions” On Gun Violence

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• Translation…Don’t blame us again…this shit is on you Washington.

  Comment by angriest planet — Thursday January 10, 2013 @ 7:53pm PST  Reply to this post

• Translation…we’ll continue to be hypocrites and blast people away in movies and then shame law abiding citizens.

  Comment by Ugly Truth — Thursday January 10, 2013 @ 9:40pm PST  Reply to this post

  • Uh, yeah, as long as other countries are able to consume the same violent games and films and not have massacres, we’re gonna assume something else is to blame – like, I dunno, the prevalence of military weapons among American civilians.

    Comment by Barry — Thursday January 10, 2013 @ 10:24pm PST  Reply to this post

    • Word.

      Comment by Michael Heister — Thursday January 10, 2013 @ 11:45pm PST  Reply to this post

      • Yup. Same movies and video games across the planet but half the world’s guns are in America.

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        Comment by herocookie — Friday January 11, 2013 @ 6:25am PST  Reply to this post

        • Fool. You peddle violence and death for a living. Shame on you. You glorify violence and shove it down our kid’s throats. You are just as guilty as the mad men who kill at will. Wake up fool.

          Hitler promoted gun registration, then regulation and then confiscation. How did that turn out for you? Remember that one? Count that in your logic and then add it up. Think before you spew your skewed logic.

          - A law abiding, gun owning producer in Hollywood.

          Comment by Chris — Friday January 11, 2013 @ 9:02pm PST  

• Just a reminder. One of the most popular Japanese films of all time, Battle Royale, was literally about high school kids gun-massacring each other on an island. It was only rated 15, so any kid 15 and over could freely buy a ticket. It was a huge hit. Now show me where that translated into real gun massacres in Japan. Show me, I’m waiting.

  Comment by Barry — Thursday January 10, 2013 @ 9:43pm PST  Reply to this post

  • Just to quibble a bit, Battle Royale was about a class of high school students dumped on island with weapons and exploding necklaces forced to kill each other off one or two at a time.

    Comment by Michael Heister — Thursday January 10, 2013 @ 11:52pm PST  Reply to this post

• Violence in storytelling serves a legitimate social function when it’s done with understanding of it’s cathartic purpose, c.f., Oedipus, Grimms Fairytales, etc. On the other hand, violence and gore for the sole purpose of spiking adrenaline levels serves no social purpose other than increasing profits and shareholder value, but at what cost? Newtown. Aurora. Etc. At the root of all this is capitalism without a conscience, and the absence of conscience is the failure of organized religion. Lay that at the feet of your Rabbi, Priest, Mullah, etc.

  Comment by Chris — Thursday January 10, 2013 @ 10:14pm PST  Reply to this post

  • IMHO, the MPAA will wind up tweaking their ratings system a bit to indicate types of violence.
    I’d recommend three R ratings – R-Violent, R-Hand Lotion, and R-Hand Lotion & Spiked Glove.

    Comment by Michael Heister — Friday January 11, 2013 @ 4:03am PST  Reply to this post

• So….i grew up watching all the Friday the 13th’s……all the Texas Chainsaw Massacre’s…..and anything other film that held a body count…..then i grew up to be a medic…..go figure. But i, as well as others, never felt like contributing to those actions. It’s a mental health issue…..deal with that.

  Comment by steveomedic — Friday January 11, 2013 @ 7:55am PST  Reply to this post

• they blame violent video games and movies for the slayings

  if that is true then why does not my generation spend days on end in dark buildings running down dark hallways eating glowing magic pills, while being chased by colorful ghosts, while listening to very repetitive music, while making bonk, bonk bonk, sounds all day???

  Comment by lighttech — Friday January 11, 2013 @ 11:46am PST  Reply to this post

• What a bunch of baloney! Movies like Dredd and DJango Unchained don’t get made unless there’s gun violence in them. Hollywood will say whatever they want to appease whatever audience they want. That’s what they’re best at. As Al Swearingen said…”What’s that cat piss smell…?”

  Comment by John Brune — Friday January 11, 2013 @ 7:33pm PST  Reply to this post