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What do you think about film violence? Is there too much of it? What makes a film violent?

I'm doing some coursework on it and was wondering what you thought about it. If you could answer these questions I'd be grateful.

**What do you think affects the violence in a film? Is it how graphic it is, whether it's realistic, the intent behind the violence, the situation of the victim, the amount, the seriousness of the injury... etc?

**How does violence in a film affect you? Does it put you off, attract you, not bother you whatsoever... etc?

**Do you agree with the current film certification? Is it too restrictive, too loose... etc?

And if you could leave your age (you can give an age range if you want) and gender that would be great. Thanks :)

What do you think about film violence? Is there too much of it? What makes a film violent?

I'm doing some coursework on it and was wondering what you thought about it. If you could answer these questions I'd be grateful.

**What do you think affects the violence in a film? Is it how graphic it is, whether it's realistic, the intent behind the violence, the situation of the victim, the amount, the seriousness of the injury... etc?

**How does violence in a film affect you? Does it put you off, attract you, not bother you whatsoever... etc?

**Do you agree with the current film certification? Is it too restrictive, too loose... etc?


And if you could leave your age (you can give an age range if you want) and gender that would be great. Thanks :)


1. I think it is how realistic it seems to many.
2. It depends on the story, characters and the general idea of the film but mostly it does not bother me. I think some storys need it to tell it correctly.
3. Well not really, I think it is to loose.

I'm 20.

1: I think all of those determine how violent a film can be interpreted as. As for which is a more defining factor, I'd say intent, personally.

2:It doesn't affect me in the least.

3: I think it is too restrictive to the wrong ages. Judging solely by British classification, I believe that pretty much all films could be moved to the classification lower than it is, and with parental accompanyment, restrictions shouldn't apply. I believe the 18 rating should be removed. If you can't watch an 18 at 15 and remain unaffected, you never can, in my opinion.


I'm male, and 18.

What do you think about film violence? Is there too much of it? What makes a film violent?

I'm doing some coursework on it and was wondering what you thought about it. If you could answer these questions I'd be grateful.

**What do you think affects the violence in a film? Is it how graphic it is, whether it's realistic, the intent behind the violence, the situation of the victim, the amount, the seriousness of the injury... etc?

**How does violence in a film affect you? Does it put you off, attract you, not bother you whatsoever... etc?

**Do you agree with the current film certification? Is it too restrictive, too loose... etc?

And if you could leave your age (you can give an age range if you want) and gender that would be great. Thanks :)
Really graphic violence can be cheesy, gross or really, really disturbing. It depends on the motivation....rape scenes or scenes where children are harmed are probably the most disturbing for me, now matter how graphic or hinted at. Really gross shots of body injuries bother me, because I feel that it is done with no real purpose...it does not improve the picture, it simply attracts the gore-fans. Even 'realistic' violence meant to show how horrible war and crime and so on are don't need to be so exploitative of the human body. Movies that hint, but don't expose, are much classier, and usually affect me much more deeply than out and out gore. I think the current film certification is crap...it's not consistent, and even PG shows are full of vulgarity and un-gorish violence that is still disturbing....like a man hitting a woman or child or visa versa....certainly not shows I'd watch with my kids. Pretty much all that I feel comfortable watching with my family are G movies....it's like movie makers don't want to get labelled with a G, so they toss in some violence or profanity to make it more desireable. New movies piss me off.


Female, 26....overly sensitive to violence I admit, especially anything involving children (that's happened since I became a mother)

Vilonce for vilonce sake is stupid. If its in a film it should have some purpose to the story.

The whole violence thing is just stupid. There are 2 even sides of the argument, but really...
I heard a report on the radio about cartoon nursery rhymes getting to violent.
Apparently the images of humpty-dumpty falling off the wall are to violent :headbang:

People should be able to put whatever violence they want in a film. Nobody's compelling people to watch it, and if somebody's offended by strong violence, they can steer clear of those films.

I dont watch many movies that are considered popular, so I cant honestly say Im in tune with the amount of violence in movies today. The last movie I watched that I considered way too violent was The Passion of the Christ, which in my opinion shouldve been rated NC-17. I think violence in a movie is generally a big turnoff. If they have to resort to graphic violence, you can generally count on the movie being total crap. The same goes for sexuality in movies. 95% of the time, if they must resort to graphic sexuality or violence, then it means the plot is severely lacking.

*1 Films are an escape from reality so I don't care how graphic it is as long as it's not offensively targetted at any specific person/group. So 100% the intent behind the violence for me.

*2 Doesn't bother me whatsoever because I know there's plenty of brutally violent events in reality that I'll never see. I am (almost) 100% de-sensitised to images of violence, real or not.

*3 I speculate that restrictions in North American film do a good job of discouraging unneccessary violence in movies or ensure that only mature audiences watch the more violent movies so I don't have a problem with them at all.

21, male.

A little violence on TV is nothing compared to real life.

I dont watch many movies that are considered popular, so I cant honestly say Im in tune with the amount of violence in movies today. The last movie I watched that I considered way too violent was The Passion of the Christ, which in my opinion shouldve been rated NC-17. I think violence in a movie is generally a big turnoff. If they have to resort to graphic violence, you can generally count on the movie being total crap. The same goes for sexuality in movies. 95% of the time, if they must resort to graphic sexuality or violence, then it means the plot is severely lacking.

Yes, but there are plenty of movies that have totally lacking plots, are designed to be nothing but T&A, and have no nudity! What's the point in that? Or all of those softcore porn movies that the big chain movie stores rent out with all the nudity edited out? Why stack half the rack (no pun intended) with porn and take out all the nudity?

Violence, nudity, and even plot development are like ingredients in food. Drama can function without violence and apple pie can function without ketchup.

Graphic sexuality or violence can function well in a movie and need not be treated like taboo spices in cuisine. Unfortunatly conventional movies treat those things like tabasco sauce so people who like the heavily spiced movies have to turn to porno or Quentin Tarentino movies, both of which are like drinking tobasco sauce right out of the bottle because you can't find anyone who knows how to cook a decent pot of chili.

27 male

Violence on film is acceptable, provided the film is given an appropriate age rating.

I am not really effected by film violence and it sometimes is nessesary in a movie but I do think that the rating system is really lacking there are many pg-13 movies who target younger patrons yet barely make it into that pg-13 area.
male 19

Yes, but there are plenty of movies that have totally lacking plots, are designed to be nothing but T&A, and have no nudity! What's the point in that? Or all of those softcore porn movies that the big chain movie stores rent out with all the nudity edited out? Why stack half the rack (no pun intended) with porn and take out all the nudity?

Violence, nudity, and even plot development are like ingredients in food. Drama can function without violence and apple pie can function without ketchup.

Graphic sexuality or violence can function well in a movie and need not be treated like taboo spices in cuisine. Unfortunatly conventional movies treat those things like tabasco sauce so people who like the heavily spiced movies have to turn to porno or Quentin Tarentino movies, both of which are like drinking tobasco sauce right out of the bottle because you can't find anyone who knows how to cook a decent pot of chili.

27 male

Someone's hungry eh?

Anyway, film violence is fine with me as long as movies are labelled wtih weather they are violent or not, instead of being flat out censored. Then it is the responsibility of the viewer to watch it or not. I am not a big censorship fan but that come from video game censorship, which is WAY more restrictive than what people get away with putting in movies and that ticks me off!

I'm all for punching people in theatres.

**What do you think affects the violence in a film? Is it how graphic it is, whether it's realistic, the intent behind the violence, the situation of the victim, the amount, the seriousness of the injury... etc?

How gratuitous it is, whether or not it is necessary to the plot

**How does violence in a film affect you? Does it put you off, attract you, not bother you whatsoever... etc?

It depends, if it is integral to the plot, it doesn't really bother me, but if it's not, than it puts me off. Anything gratuitous usually does.

**Do you agree with the current film certification? Is it too restrictive, too loose... etc?

I think it's fine the way it is in general, though occasionally a particular movie will be rated to lightly or too restrictive.

I am a female and i will be 27 on the 31st

**What do you think affects the violence in a film? Is it how graphic it is, whether it's realistic, the intent behind the violence, the situation of the victim, the amount, the seriousness of the injury... etc?

Effects of violence, well, it helps especially if you need to add realism to the movie and sometimes dramatize the situation. Like a war scene (Saving Private Ryan for Example), you need to show people getting shot and really dying, to show the seriousness of it. You can't have people running around shooting guns and then nobody dies and the bad guys raise a white flag. That'll be lame.

**How does violence in a film affect you? Does it put you off, attract you, not bother you whatsoever... etc?

Neither. Though sometimes violence sometimes adds realism and makes the movie good. Though gratitious ammounts of violence for no reason is kinda stupid.

**Do you agree with the current film certification? Is it too restrictive, too loose... etc?

Restrictive. Could lax abit. I think teenagers above the age of 15 should be able to comprehend and watch all sorts of violence without getting too influenced, but full-frontal and sex for 18 and above.

And if you could leave your age (you can give an age range if you want) and gender that would be great. Thanks :)[/QUOTE]

20. Male