That's not the only reason for America's gun problem, of course, but no one in Hollywood wants to acknowledge it. Even the so-called liberal types in this industry have no problem making guns look cool. I don't get it. Are they just sellout hypocrites or what is the deal?
| by Anonymous | reply 23 | May 10, 2022 12:22 PM |
Unfortunately, it's part of US culture. Otherwise, you'd have critics ridicule movies and TV shows for showing an alternative reality where guns don't exist in US citizens' day to day life.
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | February 18, 2022 1:42 PM |
I agree. Guns should be limited to historic westerns only.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | February 18, 2022 1:55 PM |
Thank you granny. I see your AOL dial up account is still working from 1995.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | February 18, 2022 1:57 PM |
I totally agree. That's all I've got, but it's yours if you want it.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | February 18, 2022 1:58 PM |
You couldn’t be more right, OP. I’m sick of the expectation that all it takes to provide entertainment is to have people pulling guns on other people.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | February 18, 2022 1:59 PM |
America's gun culture is as old as the country itself. Add to that America's angry, violent mentality and you have the lethal social mix that is America today. Glorify guns or never highlight them again will not alter one iota America's mindless gun culture/violence.
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | February 18, 2022 2:07 PM |
What's with all the violins in movies?!
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | February 18, 2022 2:13 PM |
I'm a Canadian and it never ceases to amaze me how many guns there are in American movies. They are simply glorifying violence and a deadly lifestyle. If I see a gun in a movie poster advertising the film then I refuse to see that movie. I've had enough of guns, guns, guns.
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | February 18, 2022 2:14 PM |
I live in Europe and American films with all of those stars you forgot about 30 years ago, Steven Seagal, Sylvester Stallone, Charles Bronson (never mind that he's been dead two decades), and the rest are all over broadcast TV late night films, Westerns are popular on the same, and more modern fare involving the same sorts of guns and violence still have a market. And how does that affect daily life? Not one little bit.
Yet there are no school shootings, disgruntled workers "going postal", no sniper incidents, no one knows the term "active shooter" in any form in any language, and almost zero gun violence, even in countries where a hunting culture persists, meaning that access to guns has some hurdles but is not difficult.
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | February 18, 2022 3:18 PM |
Superheroes, guns, steroids--could we be compensating?
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | February 18, 2022 10:37 PM |
Give me pecs or give me death.
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | February 19, 2022 1:31 AM |
Movie critics seem to be much more tolerate of glorified gun violence than they used to be. Weird.
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | February 28, 2022 4:08 PM |
My brutally honest opinion:
Most Hollywood progressives don't want to take responsibility for the negative effects art and entertainment can have on society. They think this stuff can only have positive effects.
Most of them are subservient to the corporate ethos. They cave to the pressures of including a certain amount of virtual signaling (minority casting, feminism, LGTBQ, etc.) They also cave to the pro-life crowd by very rarely making pro-abortion films. They don't even have the guts to make passing pro-choice references in mainstream movies and television.
Movies and television that appeal to conservatives (whether intentional or not) is okay. Specific conservative/right-wing propaganda is largely a no-no, but some are willing if the price is right (Anthony Edwards in Top Gun is one example).
As for glorifying guns, I think most Hollywood progressives are fine with it and not as pro-gun control as they claim to be. I think some may even be naive about glorification.
Ironically, the right blames Hollywood for real life gun violence.
Hollywood is full of irony, contradictions, hypocrisy, opportunists, evil, etc.
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | May 10, 2022 6:55 AM |
I think those stories we read about 3 year olds pulling guns out of mommy's purse, pointing and firing, are just imitations of what they see on television.
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | May 10, 2022 7:44 AM |
Too many movies glorify nuns! I am really tired of this sort of thing!
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 15 | May 10, 2022 7:47 AM |
I thought it said nuns, too. But I think they’re mostly glorified in adult films.
| by Anonymous | reply 16 | May 10, 2022 10:35 AM |
And drugs, and alcohol, and smoking, and misogyny, and gender stereotypes (and I'm not talking trans), and violence, and slutification of women....
You reap what you sow.
| by Anonymous | reply 17 | May 10, 2022 10:48 AM |
Anecdotal, but every gun nut I know is also obsessed with the movie The Purge. They are 100% hoping AND convinced it will happen and it will be next Thursday or the Thursday after that.
They cannot wait until they get the chance the take out their "enemies" during "The Purge".
They cannot have enough firearms and ammo stockpiled for "The Purge".
Every "Thursday" that passes without a Purge where they're ambushed in their homes and/or get to go door-to-door to kill some mother fuckers, they get more tantrumery.
It's just such a shame we can't give them what their obviously insane hearts desire and turn them on themselves. The gene pool and world at large wouldn't miss them.
| by Anonymous | reply 18 | May 10, 2022 11:14 AM |
It’s the only solution to any problem or conflict. The only way to stop it is to shoot someone.
| by Anonymous | reply 19 | May 10, 2022 11:17 AM |
R18, You know multiple people who think The Purge is actually going to happen? Exactly how many?
| by Anonymous | reply 21 | May 10, 2022 11:41 AM |
[quote] Unfortunately, it's part of US culture.
Is that an excuse or rationalization? A justification? Whichever way, it doesn't address OP's question.
| by Anonymous | reply 22 | May 10, 2022 11:43 AM |
What do you mean about Anthony Edwards in Top Gun, R13?
| by Anonymous | reply 23 | May 10, 2022 12:22 PM |
