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RE: How Do You Decide Whether or Not to View a Film w/ ... - 6/8/2009 8:32:32 AM
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iratenate
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just to add to my last post, another question I've heard some people ask themselves, which I find helpful as well, is, would I be OK with seeing, hearing, etc. this in real life? Meaning, if I'm OK with literally watching my daughter have sex with her boyfriend, witnessing my neighbor beat up his wife, or hearing my husband curse like a sailor, then I can be OK with seeing/hearing it in a movie or tv show. If I'm not comfortable with it in real life, I shouldn't be comfortable with it in a movie or tv show.
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RE: How Do You Decide Whether or Not to View a Film w/ ... - 6/8/2009 8:05:46 PM
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Gran Torino was excellent, by the way.
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RE: How Do You Decide Whether or Not to View a Film w/ ... - 6/29/2009 7:45:54 PM
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ORIGINAL: iratenate
just to add to my last post, another question I've heard some people ask themselves, which I find helpful as well, is, would I be OK with seeing, hearing, etc. this in real life? Meaning, if I'm OK with literally watching my daughter have sex with her boyfriend, witnessing my neighbor beat up his wife, or hearing my husband curse like a sailor, then I can be OK with seeing/hearing it in a movie or tv show. If I'm not comfortable with it in real life, I shouldn't be comfortable with it in a movie or tv show.
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I don't think it's a good idea to watch movies with lots of kissing and sex scenes, because I don't condone pre-marital sex and knowing that actors/actresses simulate that behavior to make the movie would be wrong for me. ...What I mean is, we should only have sex and do the foreplay sexual stuff with our spouse. ...We should also not wish to see others engage in this activity as it can easily lead to lust and/or is otherwise just obscene. ....But when actors/actresses have to do such a scene - as mechanical and unromantic as they say it is to shoot the scene - they also engage in behaviors that would seem sinful. Even though it is acting, I don't think it's right to simulate sexual stuff with someone that is not your spouse. ...And those scenes aren't even necessary in a movie, but done to make money and arouse the audience. ....Movies don't have to show a sex scene, but can imply it if it is part of a storyline.
So for the most part I wouldn't want to watch or support a film that has those tpyes of scenes. Now maybe a simple kiss is fine, but when they start going into sex scenes that are like several minutes long that is sinful to me - to film and to watch.
As for violence and profanity, etc. I think I am less critical of it if it serves a movie's overall moral purpose and/or storyline in an important way. We know that that violence is fake......but when actors/actresses shoot a sex scene part of it is real - even if the touching, kissing....etc. is simulated. They still caress and kiss each other's naked bodies, etc. ....
If a movie has mindless and unnecessary violence and profanity, then that for me is a movie that I'd want to avoid. Problem is.....I can't always tell from previews alone. And I don't like to read reviews, because they spoil the plot.
I guess one can always walk out of a movie .....if you went thinking it was one thing and later find out the movie is something else and not something you'd want to watch.
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RE: How Do You Decide Whether or Not to View a Film w/ ... - 6/29/2009 8:09:12 PM
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How do you decide whether or not to view a film with known or potentially gratuitous sex, violence, and/or other vulgarities? Examples?
Psalms 119:105 Thy word is a lamp unto my feet , and a light unto my path.
Philippians 4:8 Finally brethern whatsoever things are true, whatsoever
things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are
pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report;
if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.
I will check out the reviews on the films that I feel may be not good for me to see on sites like Christian Spotlight . I will check the positive and the negitive reviews and than try to make the right decison.
This here should be the test we put to what we watch, imho.
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RE: How Do You Decide Whether or Not to View a Film w/ ... - 6/29/2009 10:01:59 PM
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ORIGINAL: iratenate
just to add to my last post, another question I've heard some people ask themselves, which I find helpful as well, is, would I be OK with seeing, hearing, etc. this in real life? Meaning, if I'm OK with literally watching my daughter have sex with her boyfriend, witnessing my neighbor beat up his wife, or hearing my husband curse like a sailor, then I can be OK with seeing/hearing it in a movie or tv show. If I'm not comfortable with it in real life, I shouldn't be comfortable with it in a movie or tv show.
Nate
Even that's too simplistic, because it ignores the context in which these actions are shown and the way in which they're handled. If domestic abuse is shown just to be tittilating, then that's probably bad. But if it's shown as a means of conveying the tragedy that it is, then that can be a good thing.
I wouldn't be comfortable watching Jesus or a bunch of German Jews get tortured and executed, or watching a bunch of marines storm Omaha beach, but those have all been perfectly legitimate (and not immoral) sources of material for quality films. I also wouldn't want to watch a woman get pushed out a window and get eaten by dogs, a king get disemboweled by his servant, a man offer up his daughters to an unruly mob, or an ancient army commit genocide, but all of those are in the Bible.
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RE: How Do You Decide Whether or Not to View a Film w/ ... - 6/30/2009 3:41:05 AM
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Sorry, I didn't have time to read all of the posts here, so my apologies if I am rehashing something.
My answer? Context. To me context is king, both in Scripture and entertainment. In some cases, I have no problem with violence. In some, it is not necessary. In some cases, foul language doesn't bother me (Saving Private Ryan, por ejemplo), while in other cases it keeps me from viewing a film. In some cases, a certain amount of sexualization is fine, but in MOST cases it is unnecessary since much more innocent innuendo can serve the EXACT same role from a storytelling role.
*shrug* my opinion.
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RE: How Do You Decide Whether or Not to View a Film w/ ... - 6/30/2009 2:21:13 PM
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How do you decide whether or not to view a film with known or potentially gratuitous sex, violence, and/or other vulgarities? Examples?
i'll check out reviews from a family or Christian orientated site such as pluggedinonline.com
that will usually tell me enough about the movie to made a decision as to whether i personally want to let that into my eyes and ears.
example: one of my co-workers has mentioned a couple times including yesterday after he saw it again that i should see run fat boy run as i remind him of one of the characters - thankfully not the fat one lol. so i read the review at
http://www.pluggedinonline.com/movies/movies/a0003983.cfm
part of the conclusion jumps out at me:
Whatever sweetness there is to be found here, however, gets well and truly drenched by a steady rain of sexual jokes, images and innuendo. Scenes feature "scrotal zones," bare bottoms, the problem of erectile dysfunction, a cross-dressing lingerie thief and wink-wink allusions to Gordon's ambiguous sexual predilection
to me, this is enough to outweigh any interest in the movie. i don't condemn anyone who sees it, we all have our filters set personally.
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RE: How Do You Decide Whether or Not to View a Film w/ ... - 7/3/2009 6:35:11 PM
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I avoid films rated 18 which is just a licence to throw in all kinds of sex, violence, drug use etc. Actually violence doesn't bother me as much, it's the sex, swearing and drugs. I've only started restricting myself in this way in the last 6 months or so.
With films rated 15 I'll decide based on the content; there's still a lot of sex in there, eg the sex and the city movie was a 15.
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