Comments | yeahthat: Media sucks.

yeahthat

Media sucks.

Oct 13, 2004 22:02

Ally was totally right about the trailer for "The Grudge ( Read more... )

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yeahthat October 14 2004, 10:35:48 UTC

touche!

turbo_slut October 14 2004, 13:34:09 UTC

rofl
Why is everyone freaked out by that commercial?! Everyone keeps telling me that! The part where the boy meows makes me laugh insanely. I don't know why!
But I can understand for younger kids.
I used to get freaked out after seeing a Nightmare Before Christmas commercial when I was young. dunno' why...

yeahthat October 14 2004, 20:46:18 UTC

He was meowing? Why was I the only one who didn't know that? I was too scared by his rotting flesh to notice.

wetasphalt October 14 2004, 17:21:22 UTC

It scares me too. especialyl when it's like 11 o clock and I'm downstairs alone in the dark and my mom is asleep. The kid meowing and the thing coming out her hea din the shower. Why are shower scenes always so freightening? I get scared when I haev to close my eyes in the shower now!

zomnificent October 14 2004, 19:03:25 UTC

Ha Ha Ha. That was quite a hilarious post. "Won't someone PLEASE think of the poor children?!"

I don't think anything should be censored.

And I know I'm guilty of shoving pictures of grey corpses in your faces.

yeahthat October 14 2004, 20:45:19 UTC

okay zomni why dont they just show some snuff films for fun on Fox then? And hardcore porn with close ups of men's hariy balls and womens bleeding vaginas? Yeah! Fuck censorship!

zomnificent October 15 2004, 14:28:44 UTC

Well, Fox is not a porn network, that's why. Relegating that material to certain areas is not censorship. It is still being expressed, it just needs to be put in a certain forum.

If Fox did show that, then it would be the responsibility of the parents to make sure their kids did not see it. Besides, gruesome horror movie special effects and hardcore pornography are two very different things. But since it's a matter of personal taste, why should the government be allowed to ban certain materials?

I'm not sure what snuff films are.

yeahthat October 15 2004, 14:42:45 UTC

I said nothing about hiring the government to ban The Grudge. It's not a matter of censorship. It's a matter of decency and moral. No shit they have the right to do whatever they want, but if a 5 year old was watching malcolm and saw that commercial, I'd feel pretty sorry for that child. It's not the parent's fault that the media decided to show that.

And the reason I'm so mad about putting disturbing images on TV is because a few years ago when I was eleven or something I was watching the news one night, and it was a story about a babysitter brutally beating a baby. And, since there was a hidden security camera in the room, they decided to show the footage of a woman holding a baby by it's ankles mumbling at it andswinging it around the room while the baby cries hysterically. On public broadcasting. That's not exercising a right, that's fucking exploitation. It entertained people.

Snuff films are footage of a person being murdered. People buy them for entertainment.

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wetasphalt October 15 2004, 20:34:43 UTC

Point being, the tv doesn't need to be airing truamatic segments of movies during primetime public television on a network such as Fox where their target audience is probably 5-18. Just because you may think that they aren't bad to look at at all and you may enjoy them doesn't mean the 9 year old kid staying home alone for the first time ever is going to enjoy seeing that while watching tv, which I might add is what most kids staying home alone seek for comfort. And it may be about certain peoples tastes, but that only goes so far. Not enjoying people plotting against each other on tv and seeing a realistic corpse come out of someones head are two completely different things and can't EVEN be compared.