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Which of these do you find most offensive in film?

Which of these do you find most offensive in film?

  • Strong Language

    Votes: 5 6.2%

  • Sexual Content

    Votes: 5 6.2%

  • Alcohol or Drug Content

    Votes: 9 11.1%

  • Blood & Gore

    Votes: 32 39.5%

  • Nudity

    Votes: 1 1.2%

  • Realistic Violence

    Votes: 29 35.8%
  • Total voters
    81
ChrisLyon

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I need to do this because I need to prove a point to someone. Please weigh in.

Make sure your choices are not answering the question "Which do I hate to see in a film the most" and answer which personally offends you most.

For context, I have no answer. Generally. I mean, think of the film that represents the most disconcerting in each department and then pick one of those that offends you the most.
 
Uh, none.

How about "bad script" or "shitty acting" or "derivative crap"?
 
WOW Blood and gore. High score. Is this your point?
 
No. I need more people. I can't tell you the point or the results may become tainted.
 
To me none of those are offensive, but any of them could be. It all depends on the context and manner in which they are presented. So just based on such choices with no frame of reference, I have no way to cast a meaningful vote.
 
For context, I have no answer. Generally. I mean, think of the film that represents the most disconcerting in each department and then pick one of those that offends you the most.
 
I can't stand ...lima beans....I would have to say my answer would be lima beans! I find them very offensive...

Now I ask you as an artist which color you find most offensive?
 
Things that typically offend me, or at least annoy me, when found in feature films:

* Pointless and/or forced love stories

* Comic relief or "cheesiness" inserted for no apparent reason other than to ruin a perfectly good scene - or even the whole movie.

* Happy Hollywood endings -- I'm actually a very irritable and negative person and excessive happiness can aggravate my condition.

* Bad guys that can't shoot. One of the biggest follies of action movies... My grandmother could handle a gun better than most of the stooges portrayed in action movies and shoot-em-up films. It's bad writing at it's finest, IMO. The script writer wrote his hero into a corner and then gets him out of it by having all the bad guys shoot everything within a 2 mile radius except for the guy they're aiming at.

* Sci-Fi version of the above peeve. You expect me to believe that 250 years in the future, advanced targeting systems and laser weapons are going to miss? A human target with a top speed of about 15mph? Seriously?

I could go on, but most would probably disagree with me... If everyone agreed, then mainstream box office revenue would be almost nil.
 
Jeff Kilgroe said:
* Bad guys that can't shoot. One of the biggest follies of action movies... My grandmother could handle a gun better than most of the stooges portrayed in action movies and shoot-em-up films. It's bad writing at it's finest, IMO. The script writer wrote his hero into a corner and then gets him out of it by having all the bad guys shoot everything within a 2 mile radius except for the guy they're aiming at.

* Sci-Fi version of the above peeve. You expect me to believe that 250 years in the future, advanced targeting systems and laser weapons are going to miss? A human target with a top speed of about 15mph? Seriously?
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I want to see your sci fi action flicks, I have no idea how the hero would survive the first action scene.
 
I have to agree with Darwin... Lima beans do kinda suck.

Forum members here are hardly a typical crowd and will probably not give a typical answer. It seems many or even most are voting not to vote, because they don't find any of these subjects offensive in and of themselves. Rather it's how and why they are presented that matters and to what audience they are presented. Perhaps this is the point Chris is trying to make?
 
CraigWB said:
I want to see your sci fi action flicks, I have no idea how the hero would survive the first action scene.
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Hopefully you will get to see one of my sci fi films someday. My first feature I have slated for shooting with RED is sci fi, but I'm probably about a year away from shooting it, assuming all goes well. <spoiler>the heroine is a little girl</spoiler>
 
None of the above offend me in the right context, but used gratuitously I guess some could.

Can't remember the film, but I do recall being offended by swearing once - but what I found offensive was not the actual swearing but the fact that the script appeared to have been written by a 10 year old who had just discovered a bunch of 4 letter words. Contrast this with the average Tarantino script where profusive bad language is used to brilliant effect.

I'll tell you something that really offends me: the "warnings" on DVD covers and advertisements for films. "Contains scenes of moderate fantasy violence". "Contains scenes of extended peril". WTF?
 
As someone who gets a little bit squeamish watching surgery videos on TV, I voted for blood & gore. But I can't remember the last time I saw a horror movie or anything with a close-up of blood and guts. I guess maybe I should have voted for realistic violence if it doesn't actually show a close-up result of the action. For instance, if there was a film with "shock-and-awe" bombings from cool-looking stealth planes, but then doesn't actually show the disfigured bodies from the result.
 
realistic violence.. your point chris?
 
I'd say pointlessly tacked-on sadistic violence, especially if it doesn't involve humans. Writers / directors throwing violence into the script because they can't think of a better way to communicate emotional intensity.

I have no idea if you'd call the above "realistic violence"? It's visually realistic, but not on any deeper level. So I just cast my vote for "Blood & Gore".

I just watched Lust, Caution. Thought it was utterly amazing. It has, of course, graphic sex. Deep, realistic emotional violence too. But IMHO original, unexpected and good - for a movie whose male lead is an evil interrogator, it was refreshingly free of cliched torture / interrogation scenes. I thought it a very restrained and excellent NC-17 film. Not sure that much of America agrees with me though.

Bruce Allen
www.boacinema.com
 
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