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Vivarium 8/10

I think what the author was really trying to say was most people fall into a banal and pointless existence with few mundane pleasures.

Grand Prix (1966), 8/10

Loved the audio and visuals, story dragged a bit and the movie didn't need to be 3 hours long.

Bleakness of real life and the amount of MCU and DC action shoved down our throats for the past 10-15 years has made me move to less action/violence in movies.

Definitely not just because I'm getting older

don't really watch action movies or thrillers or whatever. seems like a very cheap kind of thrill. explosions and well-choreographed fighting/shooting scenes aren't really why i sit down to watch a movie of an evening.

do not think there is much correlation between representations of violence and actual violence, however. extremely shaky reasoning from cultural conservatives on these kinds of topics (not that NRA-bought conservatives in america are kicking up a fuss about this particular topic ...)

i think a far bigger danger is the social ecosystems that one can find online that normalise violent behaviour, whether for sociopathic reasons (incels, etc.) or ideological ones (alt-right, etc.)

no well-adjusted person is going to start thinking it's okay to shoot a schoolkid in the face with an AR-15 because 'i saw it on a videogame'. people need healthy human contact and to feel as though they belong to a community/society.

the problem, as we have seen repeatedly, is that it's entirely possible now to spend every waking hour on toxic discord channels or consuming extremist content. look at the charlie kirk shooter: the guy's entire worldview was basically a pellmell grab-bag of random internet memery. he assassinated a guy basically because he thought it would get him some +post karma on a discord server somewhere.

Last edited by uziq (2026-01-06 07:34:36)

SuperJail Warden wrote:

How do you guys feel about violence in media? Particularly gun violence?

I am annoyed by movies like John Wick where hundreds of people die.

All I can think about is "that grunt had a family." "Every person that gets killed are dozens of lives ruined."

This clip is another example of stuff that bothers me.

https://youtube.com/shorts/AdnGTI1hauc? … rQxqGaQqB-

I don't want to see someone get killed at a dinner party. I would rather be at a dinner party. I would rather be at a dinner party than at a movie theater watching hundreds of people get killed.

I've been droning on about this for a while.
I think the ultraviolence is less of a problem than the agenda which has been pushed for decades - if you're a dysfunctional misfit who no-one 'gets' then  don't worry, you can achieve success and adulation by blowing away dozens of people.

I have watched three of the John Wicks and gave up on the fourth as it was literally non-stop people getting shot in the head from different angles.

Tron Ares 6.5/10

Within the slightly crappy Tron universe it was good enough I guess. Had some weird patches, and shaky premises, but was overall OK.
The Ares character needed more evolution and development, at least the visuals were good.