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SouthOfNoNorth · 03-16-2006, 09:59 AM

it's a tie with carrie and several movies of the death wish series, i can't remember which was first. carrie scared the living shit out of me, though, and charles bronson was a personal hero for a while, so their respective emotional impacts were pretty different.

incidentally, i seem to remember movies in the 80's being more free with their graphic/sexual content. seemed like every time you turned around there was a nude scene in a movie or a guy getting gratuitiously decapitated, and no one really made a big deal out of it. it could bet that, since i was a kid at the time, i wasn't in touch with what people considered "pushing the line".

i think our society makes WAY too big a deal out of graphic content in movies, especially sexual. that's a whole other can of worms, though....

03-16-2006, 09:59 AM	#27
SouthOfNoNorth Colloquialist Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Pittsburgh, Pa Posts: 77	it's a tie with carrie and several movies of the death wish series, i can't remember which was first. carrie scared the living shit out of me, though, and charles bronson was a personal hero for a while, so their respective emotional impacts were pretty different. incidentally, i seem to remember movies in the 80's being more free with their graphic/sexual content. seemed like every time you turned around there was a nude scene in a movie or a guy getting gratuitiously decapitated, and no one really made a big deal out of it. it could bet that, since i was a kid at the time, i wasn't in touch with what people considered "pushing the line". i think our society makes WAY too big a deal out of graphic content in movies, especially sexual. that's a whole other can of worms, though.... __________________ Don't you worry about the day-glo orange life preserver, it won't save you. Swim for the shores just as fast as you're able.....