You Make Being Desensitized Sound Like A Bad Thing
I’ll admit that I have seen enough horror movies in my life time that at this point it would take a hell of a lot for me worry about the characters on screen. That probably makes me a bad person… I’m okay with that.
Here’s the weird thing though. I’m so desensitized I can watch a movie where hundreds of people are having “unpleasantness” done to them and not shed a tear. But if you kill the dog off in a movie I will cry like a little girl and hate you forever.
I still remember watching that crapfest “I am Legend” and when they killed off the dog my rage was a living thing. There are many reasons to dislike that movie, but I will never ever…. EVER watch that movie again because I can’t stomach that scene.
I know it’s fake, no doggy was hurt…. It makes not difference to me.
I read Y the Last Man. The many many deaths didn’t bother me but when the monkey died, that made me tear up.
I hear ya. I can’t handle it when the critters die….. except in the movie “Critters” then it was awesome.
It’s OK for goody-goodies to censure something, but censorship is always a bad thing.
Your the first person to notice the difference. I award you imaginary zombie nation points. 🙂
Censorship can be good in limited amounts. However, when censors want to outright put an end to something that many people enjoy or water it down to where it’s not the same thing at all, that’s when censorship is going too far. You hear that extremists? You need to calm down and pick up a video game.
That is a nice hat. 😉
I should make me a hat like that and wear it to work.
Or even your next con. 😉
That would be awesome. I thought about dressing up as a zombie, but I would have died from the heat… oh yeah and I would have traumatized children. I guess that’s important too.
I’m sure that you dressing up as a zombie would be far less traumatizing than some of the other costumes that are typical of cons. (such as fat woman in a catwoman outfit)
There was a “Slave Princess Leia” there… But she had the body for it. 🙂
Well, it has been proven that constant exposure to violence and horrific scenes in movies and video games *is* reducing our sensitivity to them. Maybe it’s not such a bad thing to take a step back from the brink, and let our essential survival instincts re-assert themselves again.
Aha, but the counter argument to that could be that by reducing our sensitivity to horror we are making it far more likely that we’ll be able to take proper action when the zombies rise up to kill us. Rather than say panicking or freezing in place, only to be promptly killed.
Desensitization could be the key to our survival.
Hear, hear! I agree! I therefore think we should institute a curriculum of horror movies in all levels of school! That way we are prepared as a nation to handle zombies, robots, martians, or some combination there of!