Should hollywood cut down on the violence and sex in the movie industry?

[lynnc35]

Do you think because the movies are getting more violent, and sex is everywhere it is affecting how society is today?

[lorettahknox]

Yes, its getting boring. I'm tired of seeing it. It's like all the storytelling is gone and all you see are butts. I'm so fed up with it! I want movies not butts! I wonder sometimes if I am the only one who feels that way.

[Abrupt]

I know that movies do have an impact on society.  I think there are elements to the violence and the way it is portrayed that are more important to take notice of than the actual violence itself.

As hinted at by lorettahknox I find most modern movies quite boring, especially the ones that require heavy effects/cgi/skin to even qualify themselves.  An old Bogart movie is far more entertaining than most of what is about today and it requires little more than him speaking his dialog.

[gramev64]

I just don't watch any movies with violence and sex.  I stay home and watch the good family movie channel.  They just make you feel so much happier!

[shepherdchik]

I think that kids and teens should be censored better from it, parents need to be more proactive about that. People have to realize that it is fake..it's only a movie. There is no reason to think it's a good idea to try it. Young adults and teens should know better and grown-ups, if they can't realize it's fake and not to be copied in real life then we have some serious problems! I think that the movie industry needs to write better and not depend on cg imaging and 3-d to make the movie good, I hate 3-d, it's a waste of my money. Movies today are severely slacking in the good story line department. I think that the rating system needs an update and theathers need to be much more proactive at keeping underage kids our of sexually explicit or violent movies. That's what ID's are for...

[lvstephanie]

I think that kids and teens should be censored better from it, parents need to be more proactive about that. People have to realize that it is fake..it's only a movie. There is no reason to think it's a good idea to try it. Young adults and teens should know better and grown-ups, if they can't realize it's fake and not to be copied in real life then we have some serious problems! I think that the movie industry needs to write better and not depend on cg imaging and 3-d to make the movie good, I hate 3-d, it's a waste of my money. Movies today are severely slacking in the good story line department. I think that the rating system needs an update and theathers need to be much more proactive at keeping underage kids our of sexually explicit or violent movies. That's what ID's are for...

I think that Hollywood can produce what they want, but know that our money will speak as to what we want to watch. I think the same is true with other forms of entertainment media... TV, computer games, even fiction books have tended to use graphic violence, language, and / or sex to sell. Unfortunately our society tends to buy this garbage, and since people buy it, others will always be producing it.

I also find it ironic how our society seems to be much more strict in following age restrictions for some items, but less for others. The last time I was carded for age verification was when buying cigarettes, less often I'll get carded for alcohol, and I've never been carded for a movie ticket, even though an R rated movie and cigarettes have the same age restriction and alcohol has an even higher age. I think that's wrong on several different levels... We treat smokers like criminals, yet are teaching our children that it's OK to drink or watch graphic stuff. If there is an age restriction, it doesn't do any good if no one enforces it. I'd hate to be a parent dropping off a couple of 13-year-olds to watch Brave and have them sneaking into Ted instead. I even remember when the music industry had to start labeling albums with graphic language; at the time stores were very strict about carding people wishing to buy those albums, but now any pre-teen can walk out of Best Buy with any musical CD (although they may get carded for a mature computer game...  )

[mc1962]

No, there is a time and place for everything.  I do think that it has gone way too far at times but thats what makes this America.......the freedom to choose.

[sak4kat]

I don't necessarily think Hollywood needs to cut down on violence and sex - I do however think that the ratings need to be strictly enforced.  Children shouldn't be allowed to watch rated R movies period.  It seems as the years have passed Rated PG 13 are more like rated R as it is.  I have a difficult time allowing my children to watch many movies and prefer to watch them first and then make the decision to allow them to watch or not.  I think such early exposure has created a numbing factor.  Between technology, brilliance and lack of moral installment I would imagine unnecessary senseless tragedies are going to occur.   Maybe a carding concept needs to be enforced in theaters.  Parents or not children just can't see movies that aren't meant for children to see in public theater. 

[Screwedupclick4life337]

Yea but that won't  happen  because  its all about the money

[vickysue]

I want spend good money for a bad movie. or watch them on tv. Some of the stuff they have on tv is not worth watching either. So it is a good book,working in garden or working on hand crafts. Or doing FC or my other site. Earning free money is better then spending it on crap. Thanks FC

[MichelleHW101]

Honestly, I truly think it depends on how both are portraited.  For example, I cannot picutre a war moive such as Saving Private Ryan whose main purpose is to show the horor or violence of war being toned down to the way it was back prior to the mid-70's when there was a law in place that prohibited violence, bad language and sex/nudity.  (No kiding.  Director of Gone with the Wind was fined $500 just for making Rhett Bulter end the movie with the word damn.)  After the mid-70's (and someone can look it up but I beleive the law ended around 1975) they came up with a rating system which allows views to make their own decison on whether they want to see a movie (also listed is why a paticular movie was given such a rating).  Action sequenced such as the Bourne trilogy with it's PG-13 rating I think are fine.  The sex, well to be frank I never found a sex scene that added to a movie and if it's in a moive I just fast foward.  Really two people kissing, guy takes his shirt off--we get it.  But it really comes down to prefrence.  Making a movie is a crap shoot.  Some moives like Knocked Up (i.e. hot girl gets drunk has sex with a guy she wouldn't if she was not drunk and gets pregnant) make over $200 million in the box office while clean family movies like a presonal favorite of mine, Forbiden Kingdom which combines legends Jackie Chan and Jet Li flop in the movie house.  Hollywood is about the money so they go with whatever trend is popular right now.  Currently it's comics.  That is kind of refreshing to see since they are family freindly films.  While there is action it's not really violence.  Of course you get things like Rambo and honestly I can't picture Rambo being less violent and still work.  You really want to see Rambo kill a room full of bad guys.  So to truly answer the question, no.  I do not think hollywood should cut down.  I think hollywood should continue with the ratinng system.  But that being said I think that rating system should be more closely monitored by movie theaters.  Let's face it, there is more violence in a Xbox/PSP/Computer/Wii game than in a movie--and it's more personal.     

[MichelleHW101]

Frankly hollywood is just a reflection (not a direct cause)  of the society and time period in which a specific movie is created.  For example clothes are the best dead give away for a time period.  In 19934 when It Happened One Night came out, there was an out-pouring of shock because it’s lead male star, Clarke Gable (to which he won the Accadamy Award) has a scene where he just puts on a shirt with no undershirt.  Think about that for a moment.  People were in shock he wore no t-shirt under his long-sleeve, collared shirt.  Today guys go out without a shirt.  Go to the beach.  How many guys do you actually see wearing a shirt at the beach?  Exactly.  All about the generation in which we live.  I watched Excessive Force (With Thomas Ian Griffith) with my grandmother.  First time she saw it she nearly had  a spasm because after a sex with his girlfriend in the shower Tom Hodge’s character Dylan goes into the bedroom and puts on jeans with no underwear.  I just sat there thinkin’ ‘so what?  Underwear or the lack there of is a personal thing.’  But it’s not just men.  Go to any night club and you’ll find those ‘nearly naked’ chicks dancing out on the floor.  And thongs, two piece string bikini’s etc.  All these ‘nearly naked’ clothes all reflect the soicety in which hollywood is just trying to capture (let’s say for future generations when people might opt for wearing nothing rather than a thong.)    Another example, my grandparents, my parents were virgins before they got married.  My brother wasn’t a virgin by the time he graduated high school.  Half the girls in my senior class were in ROTC.  Half of the half that weren’t were either pregnat or already had a child.  That’s why movies and tv shows such as sixteen and pregnant are a hit now than say twenty or thirty years ago when the idea wouldn't even have crossed a producer's desk or if it did it would have made it to the 'recycle' bin.  To say Hollywood should tone its stuff down or to accuse hollywood of directly causing a society to change, to me is wrong.  Society is not molded by what kind of moives hollywood may or may not make.  Hollywood just captures the moment society is in.  Morals, codes by which an idividual lives is not created by what movies Hollywood makes, by what games people play, books they read.  It’s about the society in which they live, the kind of laws their parents set down for them.  The kind of person they choose to be.  I play very violent video games, tend to watch very violent rated R movies (although I prefer PG-13) and yet I am not a serial killer or anything.  I get frustrated and want to punch out my computer sometimes when it does things I don’t want it too, but it is not my nature to be a violent person.  I wouldn’t hit anybody unless they hit me first and I still hold the door open for others, and help those when asked without asking for anything in return.  If hollywood directly influenced society I’d be either serving a life sentence right now or dead by death penalty.  So no, even if hollywood were to tone down it’s sex and violnce, people would still be people regarless of what Hollywood puts out. 

[ttix67]

Censorship itself is a controversial topic.  Do I believe Hollywood contains too much violence and sex? Yes.  But at the same time, one has to understand that certain movies do make use of this and rely on it for the advancement of the plot.  With that said though, there is a lot of unnecessary and meaningless nudity and violence in movies that do not make proper use of it. However, I don't think that the entirety of Hollywood should be punished for that.  Rather, the reviews, reception and ratings should deter people from seeing it. I would like to see reform to the current ratings system in place today in that too many below-aged kids are still watching material meant for adults. Granted it will fully deter those that are determined to seek it out, but at least it weeds those that simply have a passing interest.

[vee46]

yes hollywood should cut down on violence and sex in the movie industry-unfortunately thats what sells-another catch22, anyway cut down not cut off are the key words

[sharae90]

yes most sex/nudity and violence is unnecassary and I think it's pretty pathetic how hollywood has to put sex/nudity n a movie in order to make more money :/