DesDownunder's Blog

I can't speak specifically, but can generically. When The Blair Witch Project came out, it got so much word of mouth raving, I had to see it. And I, too, walked out, because the headache wasn't incipient, it was real. An entire movie filmed like that was way, way, way too much for me to tolerate.I didn't avoid seeing Slumdog because of that. I didn't even realize it was filmed that way. I avoided it because it supposedly has scenes, or a scene, of torture, and I object to torture. I also don't pay money to see it.But the message in the film is one of hope, and so I agree with you, Des: I'm sorry that other aspects of the film denied us the ability to see what the director intended us to witness.C

I avoided it because it supposedly has scenes, or a scene, of torture, and I object to torture. I also don't pay money to see it.

Good for you Cole. Gratuitous violence is a turnoff for me too. Today's film-makers seem to lack the knowledge that suggesting the horror has more impact than showing it in all its gory detail.There is a divide, a line which is crossed solely for the sensational that deprives the film-make of subtlety and the audience of irony in their perceptions.

I suspect that the film makers are aiming squarely at the video game generation. You know who they are; those kids with attention deficit disorder that is not medically induced, rather, by commercial interests.