Your Unpopular TV/Film opinions.

[Exhuminator]

Having a kid pretend to viciously murder people for the sake of adults' entertainment is despicable. It's a spectacle for the viewers because it's shocking and wrong due to the child's age and the act itself. This shit's one step removed from child porn, just fulfilling a different fetish is all. No sir, I don't like it.

Then my dad showed me the film the crying game. That film seriously disturbed me at that age. I had a hard time handling it.

Wow, yeah, that's not proper viewing material for a child.

If it makes you feel any better, my dad let me watch the Faces of Death series when I was in elementary school. I'm no psychologist, but I'm betting that wasn't good for my personal development.

[marurun]

Well, parents also provide emotional support, safe environments, etc... Good parents will also be better able to determine if their child has the emotional maturity to come to terms with a role like that.

[Exhuminator]

Let me put it another way. If you think watching a young child brutally slaughter adults is good popcorn fun, that says volumes about you as a human being.

[marurun]

Let me put it another way. If you think watching a young child brutally slaughter adults is good popcorn fun, that says volumes about you as a human being.

I think there's quite a lot of "it depends." If that is all your film is, yeah, that's an issue. If there's a few scenes of that and they serve a particular larger purpose, then I don't see it as a big problem, especially if said adults have a healthy ability to separate reality from fiction.

[Segata]

Having a kid pretend to viciously murder people for the sake of adults' entertainment is despicable. It's a spectacle for the viewers because it's shocking and wrong due to the child's age and the act itself. This shit's one step removed from child porn, just fulfilling a different fetish is all. No sir, I don't like it.

Then my dad showed me the film the crying game. That film seriously disturbed me at that age. I had a hard time handling it.

Wow, yeah, that's not proper viewing material for a child.

If it makes you feel any better, my dad let me watch the Faces of Death series when I was in elementary school. I'm no psychologist, but I'm betting that wasn't good for my personal development.

My mom was not happy about it. She didn't liek I rented horror films in the 80s but reluctantly allowed it because I started getting into horror makeup making my own props and haunted houses at halloween. I made costumes with help and won some awards. I idolized Rick Baker and Stan Winston so in that respect she thought it was a hobby. She still didn't like it. The crying game that's something different. She was pissed about that.

[strangenova]

Let me put it another way. If you think watching a young child brutally slaughter adults is good popcorn fun, that says volumes about you as a human being.

Better than watching the adults capture and brutally slaughter a young child.

[marurun]

Let me put it another way. If you think watching a young child brutally slaughter adults is good popcorn fun, that says volumes about you as a human being.

Better than watching the adults capture and brutally slaughter a young child.

Yeah, even with VERY good story justification that's hard. That's the kind of scene most people merely tolerate at best.

[Exhuminator]

Better than watching the adults capture and brutally slaughter a young child.

The inverse you say? I can't recall a movie where an adult female goes around decapitating young boys in extremely graphic ways. Please tell me what movie that was.

[strangenova]

Better than watching the adults capture and brutally slaughter a young child.

The inverse you say? I can't recall a movie where an adult female goes around decapitating young boys in extremely graphic ways. Please tell me what movie that was.

I wasn't stating the inverse, only how the scenario would have played out if she wouldn't have fought them.

Ex I think you might be taking this too far.

[Exhuminator]

Ex I think you might be taking this too far.

Fair enough, it's just something I feel strongly about. I'll bow out of the conversation for a while.