Which of these do you find most offensive in film?

[Andrew Benz]

Cool Bruce. Nice subject matter for you 666th post. Hahaha...

I too have to go with the realistic violence.

Andrew

Bruce hope you had a great visit home in SA.

 

[Tom Lowe]

Who are the two squares who voted for "Sexual Content"???

 

[Jaime Vallés]

Blood and gore. I've never been into horror movies, and I find the recent slew of torture flicks extremely unappealing. I love good suspense thrillers, and most of the good ones have very little gore. The audience's imagination is a lot more powerful than a bucket of red corn syrup.

 

[jaadgy akanni]

The acting styles of Ben Affleck, Steven Segal, Armand Assante, JeanClaude Van Damm...very offensive and nauseating

 

[Jeremy Torrie]

What I find most offensive is how certain films actually get financed. Why would you put several hundred thousand or a few million into a project that any reasonable person knows by reading the script that it has no chance of making its money back? I guess the answer is ego.

Bad writing would be my biggest beef, then bad direction, followed by bad acting...

 

[Desert Rune]

I didn't vote because I found none of the above to be offensive. I'll only find it offensive if the subject matter was mocked for laughs but in a serious film, totally acceptable.

Passion of the Christ wouldn't be what it is if realistic violence was toned down, nor would a film like Baise-Moi rip you from your seat if they hid the graphic sex.

 

[number6]

So I just cast my vote for "Blood & Gore".


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Just ducked into this thread and saw where Bruce had posted, and decided to read his post because he usually gets to the meat of things. You can imagine my surprise to find that Al Gore is running as Vice President again, only this time with Hillary Clinton (I don't think it very nice Bruce, to give Hillary the nickname "Blood". After all, she's surely past menopause by now.) Anyway, I think it too early to commit to a candidate so I will not say definitely I will vote for "Blood" and Gore.

 

[Jonathan L. Bowen]

Uh, none.

How about "bad script" or "shitty acting" or "derivative crap"?

HAHA, that's what I'd vote for.

Well for me, I really don't like gross gore, if it's basically semi-fake gore I actually PREFER that, I think sometimes it's better for it not to be as realistic, I know that sounds crazy, but overdoing the gore really makes me sick. I am not a fan of the whole gore and guts horror movies, or torture movies. Blood is fine, even tons and tons of blood, but close-up gore and really nasty stuff makes me sick.

Although I have to admit excessive sexual content, whether words or pictures, makes me the most uncomfortable. I don't care to watch that kind of thing with other people present -- if I was going to watch highly sexual content I'd just rent a porno and watch it alone, so it should stay out of my films please. Thank you. As a director there are just some things I would never tolerate and that's one of them. It may be totally true that 95% of films in this world have added love stories because that sells, and that's what your average American wants to see. But my movies won't have that crap. There's nothing useful or interesting to explore with that, just cliched old territory that bores me. If I came to this town to remake the wheel, you know what, I'd stay home and just work at Home Depot and rent movies on the weekends. No thanks. I came here to make the movies I want to see that aren't being made, and if that means my audiences are smaller I'm fine with that, because so too will be my budgets. It's a fair trade-off.

So for me this question is a close running between excessive gore and excessive sexual content. I don't care if there's some nudity, like incidental nudity, a girl is hopping into the shower, sweet, ok whatever. I know film is a visual medium, that sells tickets, it's ok. But I don't need really personal stuff being shown, that's just not cool with me.

Lots of killing is always good, any movie where at least 50 people die on screen is probably somewhat entertaining. Swearing is great, especially in South Park and Pulp Fiction.

 

[jaadgy akanni]

I'm offended by how sometimes certain men and women of certain ethnic groups are made to look sexless, servile, or lacking the ability to express valuable thoughts or actions.
Also, still in the 21st century american movies go out of their way to convey the message that whites only pair up with whites and blacks only with blacks, asians with asians, and so on.
i'm sure that meetings are held where someone utters the words "oh no, we can't have Julia Roberts kiss Denzel 'cause that would offend middle class America-and they're the ones who pay for tickets"
And in that sick, racist pursuit, they give us a movie that depicts a relationship between 2 warm blooded, sexual beings with feelings, sense of sight and smell, who somehow manage to defy all the laws that govern human sexual attraction and obviate what happens between a man and a who find compatibility and reciprocity, especially in this case,where the man protects the woman from harm and danger. All that left a bad taste in my mouth, 'cause we all know that in real life they would've ended up in love and F@##*king each other to the bone. But oh no....G@#$d forbid!
Totally ridiculous!! Man, I hate the Pelican Brief for insulting my intelligence and my common (human) sense.

 

[Jonathan L. Bowen]

The way the big studios think about anything like that really is insulting to the intelligence of a lot of us, but they think about the "average middle class American" and I can guarantee you they don't hold that demographic in much esteem. They think that most people are morons, and they're probably right, so they often aim movies at morons.

 

[explosive]

The survey hasn't included "Tom Cruise" as an option.

 

[Andrew Benz]

The survey hasn't included "Tom Cruise" as an option.

Now that is funny! ... and so true.

 

[Nathan Buxton]

I said blood and gore. I chose that because "Realistic Violence" implies that it would tastefully depict a violent scene where as "blood and gore" qould exploit it.

 

[Gunleik Groven]

Nope, no vote...

Depends totally on context whether any, all or none of these subjects are offensive. None are in themselves.

Sorry...

On the other hand
If you said:

Standard "correct" short-film dramaturgy

I'd trhow my vote any day

G

 

[Kevin Halverson]

I had to look at the poll twice, I was about to vote for my favorite and it wouldn't let me select them all!

Seriously, I agree with several others, I don't rule out any of them on their own, it all depends upon the story they occur within. So, no vote from me either.