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Violence all over big screen as filmmakers seek to capture youth market

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" Are future streets filled with these nice folks places we'll want to walk? Is this an itch that really needs to be scratched?"

Exactly. It's the path we're already on, I'm afraid. Kubrick pointed it out with "Clockwork Orange". Between gratuitous violence in movies and video games, and then physical manifestations, it's like a self-licking ice cream cone.

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Bringing up Alfred Hitchcock was an excellent argument against gratuitous violence. I know I personally can't stand to watch graphic violence, but I hold a strange sort of fascination with Hitchcock productions.

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Hollywood cant see beyond the dollar sign hence the lowest common denominator story lines ie: violence....

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Here's a thought. How about making quality films with good story lines?

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