Good god - 5 seconds of horrible television

I think I had the station on "FX", and ignored the "mature audiences"
warning. The first clip was a guy strangling, and then killing a cat.

Man - it's so weird how we're inured against simulated murders and
mutilations of humans in the media (anyone watch Annikan on fire in
"Revenge of the Sith"?), but animal cruelty is like a hammer to the
head for animal lovers.

Like "Apt Pupil" with Ian McKellan - there's a scene where he's
captured and cooked a cat, reliving the good old days when he was a
nazi concentration camp executioner. I had to leave the theater.

Jesus. That little piece of fiction is gonna ****ing kill me for the
rest of the night.

BLink

"Brian Link" wrote in message
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I think I had the station on "FX", and ignored the "mature audiences"
warning. The first clip was a guy strangling, and then killing a cat.

Man - it's so weird how we're inured against simulated murders and
mutilations of humans in the media (anyone watch Annikan on fire in
"Revenge of the Sith"?), but animal cruelty is like a hammer to the
head for animal lovers.

Like "Apt Pupil" with Ian McKellan - there's a scene where he's
captured and cooked a cat, reliving the good old days when he was a
nazi concentration camp executioner. I had to leave the theater.


BLink


***I think a lot of the current TV and movies are junk and mind poison. I
neever watch fictional TV drama shows, at all. Most top 10 drama shows
glorify violence, and sensationalize crime and sex. I really think it's odd
that so many people can watch this stuff and act like, La-la-la, Oh...there
goes a man who gets shot up to pieces and then cut up... la-laa-la-la.. ??

I was watching TV the other night and a preview for some fiction type of
crime show came on and it showed a gun held right beside a woman's head,
practically touching the side of her face(!). It was only around 8:00PM, not
that it mattered because it was in such poor taste to begin with, but I was
shocked, and couldn't help but imagine all the children/ teens watching this
crap and often idolizing it.
I think that awful TV preview was probably one of those dreadful CSI shows
that are now popping up everynight and as common as the flu. I also think
the huge hit (of course) show, Desperate Housewives is pathetic. It's no
more than an updated and contemporary version of the terribly bad show,
Married W/Children, IMO.

ML

Brian Link wrote:

I think I had the station on "FX", and ignored the "mature audiences"
warning. The first clip was a guy strangling, and then killing a cat.

There was a similar scene in last weeks "The Shield".

-mhd