All the violence in the media/entertainment is NOT good for us and is 'feeding the beast' so to speak. Watch Tomorrowland to fully understand what's going on here. The Time Traveler guy was right but his plan backfired sadly.

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[–]Newzok 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Haven't seen it. But yeah a lot of American stuff has a very big focus on gore and violence. At some point watching, say, family guy and they put in yet another gag where they sort of off-hand kill some people I started getting uncomfortable. The shock value wasn't even part of it anymore, it was just some throwaway. Rick&Morty similar in later seasons; the effect has worn off, now its just a thing we do-it used to be portrayed as somewhat traumatic. And don't get me started on police investigation shows. There's the famous anecdote about the shooting of the Hannibal TV series, where there's this murder tableau of two partly skinned naked bodies; they got notes that their naked butts could be seen as offensive and had to cover them up with blood. Boggles the mind. Good show though.

It's weird. Part of me thinks it's a way to desensitise us to govt violence/war crimes, part thinks it's what sells.

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In the Bush era (2003) all the fantasy films were mostly about how to pump out enough CGI and gross looking creatures. Even if the story setting is beautiful they ruin it with these weird gross looking creatures that all kinda look alike after a while. You can eventually tell which engine they are using then it all starts to look the same. I miss live actors like in the Technicolor era where they actually had to take time to film. The 'night filter' was the most fake thing usually done and it was actually pretty good for what they had but didn't need no monster crap.

[–]Newzok 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Sorta yeah. I noticed muh democracy being a thing that somehow made its way into films. First that comes to mind is that drab Ridley Scott Robin Hood movie, where he suddenly up and lectures the villagers that democracy good tyrants bad.

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Pretty much all of the movies/games feel like subconscious training manuals priming us for a future date so when they tell us to jump we only ask 'How high?'.

[–]Newzok 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah... I remember being blissfully unaware that so much of Hollywood output is propaganda. 'member Jack Bauer fighting le evil middle Eastern terrorists in 24? It did not connect with 14 year old me that it was selling me the war on terror.