[Just your average movie goer]

So the disturbing warning wouldn't be for you then. By sensitive people like myself ( ) would appreciate such things. Just something simple on the movie posters would suffice -

This movie contains scenes in which innocent women are falsely accused of witchcraft, brutally tortured into making confessions and then burned alive. If seeing this kind of thing disturbs you, then may we advise that this movie is probably not for you.

See? Easy.

[SimeSublime]

I assumed that was covered in the MA15+ Medium Level Violence sticker

[Just your average movie goer]

The problem with those stickers is you don't know what kind of violence you're going to get. I mean, take the idea of Aragorn decapitating orcs left, right and centre. It's violent... but it's not disturbing.

But seeing innocent people undergoing cruel forms of torture is a different story altogether.

To all readers... am I alone in this? Doesn't anyone else out there think that this kind of thing should be mentioned on a warning label?

[Dragonspawn]

I never actually thought of that, but you raise a great point, there should be different types of violence listed

[Just your average movie goer]

Thanks, mate. I'm glad I'm not completely alone on this.

[SimeSublime]

I have noticed that SBS sometimes goes into a bit more detail before a show about what you may find disturbing. For example, before certain episodes of John Safran Vs God was a warning for animal sacrifice.

[Mike Mac from NYU]

I think all this conversation about Female Torture {How the hell did we gett to that topic..... } leads to another cliche in movies.


GRATUITOUS & UNECESSARY VIOLENCE

This post has been edited by Mike Mac from NYU: 02 November 2004 - 11:05 AM

[civilian_number_two]

I wouldn't want a warning that gave away plot details, MG. If I'm shy about violence, I'll stick to the movies that havce NO warnings, hence NO violence, and when people tell me "you gotta see this" I'll ask them "Is it full of the sort of violence I wouldn't like?" and they'll tell me.

When did we all become so dependent on the ratings boards to tell us whether we scan stomache a movie?

But yeah, back on topic. Cliches:

Know-it-all egghead kids.

Earthshaking inventions that have left no paper trail, no notes, and exactly one prototype.

Chatty, erudite psychopaths.

[SimeSublime]

It always annoys me that the one 'science character' happens to know everything about every disipline of science, regardless of whether or not it has anything to do with their job.

[barend]

new rating system eh?
check out new thread...

New rating system....

[Xombie]

1) Character responds to tragedy by dropping to his knees, raising his arms and screaming up to the heavens (and camera): "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
fade to black.

2) Monster movies where swarms of gremlins, spiders, vampires or whatever are unleashed upon the world and yet for the ending EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM are lured to one central location where they can be spectacularly (and conviently) obliterated.

3) After EVERY SINGLE ONE of the monsters du jour is obliterated we get a shot of an egg, or pod, or baby monster du jour waiting around for the sequel just before credits rol. The End?

[Give Me The Originals Dammit]

Any film with that preachy "nature good, humans bad !" theme. God, how I hate that. I just want to eat a big bloody steak after seeing one of those type movies.

Climactic final battles where the hero stabs, shoots, or blows up the villian because the hero's, sidekick, girlfriend or pet hamster who was knocked out earlier in the fight, tosses the hero a much needed weapon which is just out of reach. If the person is such a hero, how come he can't take out the bad guy by himself?

Any movie where a geek is suddenly chic, then becomes geeky again, and at the end everyone realizes what incredible jerks they have been and everyone accepts everyones diffrences and goes out for ice cream.

Movies made from TV shows! ENOUGH IS ENOUGH ALREADY!!!!!

[Stongbah]

How about remakes or movies based off something where there's "clever" homages and injokes. Like in X-Men in a scene where Wolverine is angry about the stupid uniforms they wear, and Cyclops says "Would you rather have yellow spandex?" or something like that. The Star Wars prequels have plenty of these as well.

[barend]

i hate when a cop has been royally screwed over by someone...

and when he gets the guy that killed his wife or kids, or whatever...
puts a gun in his face... and his partner says..no! do it by the book

leaving one of two things to happen...

1. the bad guy who should die goes to jail and the cop throws away his badge or has to listen to some asshole tell him he did a good job.

2. he does the right thing then the well conected rich evil dude, who could easily spend the night in jail despite the length of sentance, and pull a couple strings and be released the next morning... pulls out a gun giving the cop not only an excuse to kill him, but neccessitating it.

i mean really...?

more so the second one...

because the first one would be setting a good example...
(it's just that i watched DEATH WISH 4 last night on cable)

but the second is just dumb...
( but i let it go in Jackie Chan films ) .

[barend]

sorry to make that a bit clearer...
in DEATH WISH 4 bronsen kills everyone... and i enjoyed that.
that's right, a lapped it up.

and that's why i attacked the by-the-book-movie-cop.