A movie that gets a PG-13 rating can show someone running down a street killing 27 people. And there are no repercussions.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
As anyone who has recently seen PG-13 movies knows, the level of violence in them has increased to the point of making the Motion Picture Association of America's voluntary rating system meaningless.
I don't like PG-13 horror movies. I think they're a contradiction in terms.
I don't think movies are the reason why this violence exists, I think it's going to happen whether movies are there or not.
If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.
We're seeing this disintegration of the family movie into these blockbuster things that kids should not be exposed to with explosions, carnage and violence.
Because people see violence on the movie screen, they're not going to go out and hold up a liquor store and kill somebody. It really doesn't correlate.
'Zero Dark Thirty' is a great piece of filmmaking and does a valuable public service by raising difficult questions most Hollywood movies shy away from, but as of this writing, it seems that one of its central themes - that torture was instrumental to tracking down bin Laden - is not supported by the facts.
I still like the run and gun action movies and how truly dangerous it can be to make these films.
I think it would be impossible to make a movie about video games if there wasn't some violence that we know from video games.
I find the violence in PG13 movies unbearable. This kid will never run home, never have another birthday. His death is slow, nightmarish. And you have to explore the consequences - the people who live on with this death.