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Old 05-06-2011, 12:47 AM
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Originally Posted by mr_Goodbomb View Post
I respect your opinion and your moral reserves, but I'm not sure what you expected. If you've seen any of the films within the genre they were aiming for, especially those within the era they were attempting the emulate, "crossing the line" was done to bring audiences into theater seats, whether for the right reasons or not. The Dirty Harry films, the Death Wish series, The Exterminator, the first two Road Warrior films, Warriors, even spaghetti Westerns and Peckinpah films, vigilantes in exploitation films have a long and incredibly violent history, and the filmmaker had a considerable amount of source material to work with. If "depravity" and violence bother you, these films are not for you. Not to be rude, I mean this politely, but if language still has the power to offend you in a film, then a film like this was certainly not intended for you. It's film, and film emulates real life, not the other way around. I can assure you, more violent, graphic, and unacceptable things have happened in real life, and your outrage should be directed there. You should be willing to let anyone interested in this film decide for themselves whether the content is too much for them rather than telling them not to see it themselves. I suspect that most anyone with interest in this film is not in the same boat, no disrespect intended, as you.
There is a difference between Charles Bronson, Clint Eastwood, or John Wayne shooting mooks and a guy getting cut open in high detail with a baseball bat covered in razor blades or someone burning a schoolbus full of children with a flamethrower
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