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Orrex

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19. You're aware that such displays have been a mainstay of live theater for millennia?

Reply to clarice (Reply #16)

Wed Jan 30, 2013, 02:27 PM

Jan 2013

We can debate the quality of the special effects then and now, but spectators have loved blood and gore for just about as long as performers have been performing.

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Is Hollywood more violent? [View all] Lurks Often Jan 2013 OP

Like sex, violence does sell. Puzzledtraveller Jan 2013 #1

I think the biggest difference is how much violence is disentangled from the results of violence el_bryanto Jan 2013 #2

Did we see that in the past? (nt) Recursion Jan 2013 #5

Star Wars is sort of the harbinger of it el_bryanto Jan 2013 #7

Yeah. Godzilla. Any alien invasion movie. randome Jan 2013 #8

Maybe we watched different movies growing up Lurks Often Jan 2013 #10

Ah.....the good old days nt clarice Jan 2013 #13

They also found ways to sex it up even more. randome Jan 2013 #3

If I may clarice Jan 2013 #4

50's and 60's were 'whites only TV' and married couples were protrayed with twin beds.... Bluenorthwest Jan 2013 #14

No, I was speaking more about guts and viscera flying at me in 3D clarice Jan 2013 #16

You're aware that such displays have been a mainstay of live theater for millennia? Orrex Jan 2013 #19

Just not my cup of tea I guess.nt clarice Jan 2013 #20

Fair enough Orrex Jan 2013 #22

LOL !!!!! clarice Jan 2013 #25

Reservoir Dogs was 20 years ago. Texas Chainsaw Massacre was 40 years ago Recursion Jan 2013 #6

It goes in waves Maeve Jan 2013 #9

LOL..I'm old enough to remember drive-ins nt clarice Jan 2013 #12

That's why I said with exceptions clarice Jan 2013 #11

Facts are problematic for those with the Hollywood blame fever...they remember a racist sexist Bluenorthwest Jan 2013 #15

You read a lot more into my OP then what I was trying to discuss. Lurks Often Jan 2013 #21

Thanks Lurks, I tjhought the same thing when clarice Jan 2013 #24

Reservoir Dogs was very realistic, much more so than today's gore porn but being realistic, it Egalitarian Thug Jan 2013 #23

You're right--violence has been popular for decades Orrex Jan 2013 #17

Good Points Lurks Often Jan 2013 #18

All you see is tits, handguns, rockets and kick ass martial arts, non-stop rustydog Jan 2013 #26

A lot of examples of sci-fi and horror movies in this thread but those are less believable. randome Jan 2013 #27