Doper Women: Do you ever enjoy violence in media?

In My Humble Opinion
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Now that I have more time to answer, I will say, I love action flicks, and get positively mad when a romance is shoehorned in. I like kung fu, and I even like violence.

I don’t like real violence of any kind, to the point that once my SO tried to show me some video the troops had taken of themselves in Afhganistan or Iraq, and I wouldn’t watch it. That sort of stuff makes me feel faintly ill, even if no one is getting shot or hurt. I know those are real men and women getting shot at, and it’s upsetting.

But I am usually the one shouting for him to just “FUCKING HILL HIM, ALREADY!” And I love games like Fallout 3 where I usually carry the plasma rifle or a combat shotgun. YEAAAAAAAAAH! Love blowing muties away!

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Wow, I really don’t like violence in movies or TV, in books I will tolerate it if it is critical to the story … but sometimes it is just TOO much. Back to movies and TV, my husband was amazed when we were first dating at how limiting that is … surely a little violence would be okay, or suggested violence, if it was an otherwise compelling film, or violence that is supposed to be funny like in a satire … but no, I physically can’t stand it, I absolutely feel ill, especially if there is a lot of blood or gore.

But then … Vice City. I became a fiend for Vice City. (And I don’t usually play that kind of video game at all, my taste running more toward things like naming my animal families in Zoo Tycoon after literary characters.) But Vice City … I loved solving the missions, and even more, in between times cruising around and running over hookers and beating up random people with golf clubs. So the lesson I learned was that my opposition to violence in media completely crumbles in the face of a rockin’ 80s soundtrack. And golf clubs.

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I think this thread gives you your answer.

I’ll go farther than most… as part of my bizarre dual nature, I have a lifelong fascination with gore and violence. When the internet was first becoming popular, my porn was Dan’s Gallery of the Grotesque, which I reviewed every page of.

I’ve since consumed scads more such vileness, and actually slaked my thirst for the most part. I’ve now consumed such huge quantities of human mutilation and destruction that I am pretty much topped off - you tell me about some icky thing that happened to someone and I can probably visualize exactly what it looks like with perfect accuracy.

I do have my limits, though…while fake violence of the most extreme sort is fine, and the already-dead - I am not good at handling real violence on LIVING people, which is why, in spite of my appetites, I did NOT ever view, nor do I intend to, the video of Daniel Pearl’s death, nor any other beheadings that have been filmed. That’s something I’m pretty sure I couldn’t scrape off my brain and I don’t need it there.

I saw a very brief and completely stunning video of a soldier cutting another soldier’s throat once that was so unexpectedly intense and…well, efficient, it cured me of any desire to see that sort of thing again.

Unlike depictions in movies, this soldier knew exactly how to cut a person’s throat for maximum effectiveness. For the curious:

[spoiler]The victim was on the ground facing up, I believe he was being stepped on in some way, held down. And the video perspective was extreme close up from the top of his shoulders up. Rather than slice across the man’s neck, the killer did something that I had never heard of, but which was sickeningly effective: he plunged the knife into the side of the victim’s neck and pulled it straight out the front. The look on the victim’s face was similar to what I think the look on mine was: absolute shock… as he realized how perfectly he had just been murdered.

I thought my eyes were going to just melt out of my head. I’ve never sought out a video of anything like that ever again. [/spoiler]

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Yes, definitely. Sometimes battle scenes drag on too long and get boring, and there’s been one scene that, for me, was too much (the ear-biting scene in the remake of Cape Fear), but Terminator 1 is my all-time favourite movie and I found the killings in The Running Man absolutely hilarious.

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I love action movies. I have been known to say that I don’t care how ridiculous the plot is, how implausible the physics, or how poorly acted, I just like to see shit get blown up - preferably in a hail of bullets.

The only thing I can not tolerate is violence towards animals whether real or not.

I generally dislike horror movies, but not because of the violence but because they aren’t scary. With horror, I want to be freaked the hell out during and after. The only movie to ever do that is The Shining and is the standard by which I judge all horror movies.

If we’re talking “realistic” violence opposed to stylistic violence, then I still don’t mind, but I need good plot and acting.

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Oh god. I literally could not finish reading “Water for Elephants” because of the animal abuse in there. I don’t particularly want to be a dog or cat owner, but I hate when people accuse me of not liking animals because I don’t like their brand of pets…I know how much compassion I have towards animals!

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No violence towards animals, no torture, no real-life violence. Other than that, bring it on.