Comments by "Mat Broomfield" (@matbroomfield) on "Chloe Grace Moretz Blasts Jim Carrey's 'Kick-Ass 2' Opposition" video.

  1. I don't think anyone was suggesting that Sandy Hook had contributed to violence. The assertion is that violent movies do.
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  2. Personally, I saw her rant as ignorant and a kneejerk reaction from a clueless child. The issue was not about whether Carey supports ANY movie - after all, he is silent on all others - but whether he actively promotes the move he starred in. That said, I think he was a total douche for kicking his own movie (and the other actors' careers) in the balls AFTER the fact. The cool thing to do would simply be to quietly refuse to promote it, then refrain from making such movies again.
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  3. I would suggest that violence in Japan takes different forms and is more culturally tolerated. The Yakuza are a prime example, and are virtually seen as heroes by many. You make an interesting assertion that violent media is a product of the culture, and not the other way around. I agree that some media reflects cultural events - any war film for instance, but the glorification in violence in any Tarantino movie reflects nothing but his own sick and perverse gratuitous revelling in pain.
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  4. I think there is some truth that, as it seems culturally learned, but I'm sure that in the northern states there are many progressives who find it abhorrent.
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  5. The question is, what percentage of the population are "mentally unstable"? I would suggest that amongst certain demographics (teenage males for instance) that imitation of onscreen behaviour is very high. Furthermore, I would suggest that violent movies create a long-term change in the perception of acceptable violence in dealing with confrontations.
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  6. You're right, Top Gun is a glorification of violence, but you're absolutely wrong about Tarantino. For a start I LOVE his movies, and secondly there's no way that the violence in his movies has any purpose except to glorify violence. When the second brother at the start of Django is shot and a huge gore blob splashes up, the only purpose of that is to appeal to the viewer's salacious love of gore, and that exactly makes my point. Tarantino is in love with excessive violence.
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  7. I find it incomprehensible when people assert that media has no influence upon the behaviour of those watching and listening to it. All ideas are simply the result of communication, and ideas that resonate, whether factual or fantasy, can affect future behaviour. Jim is clearly stating that SH was the event that alerted him to the dangers that violent movies may represent, not that that specific event was caused by movies.
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