Did you know rape is funny?
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I've heard its quite the opposite of that which is mainly why I have no reason to check out the movie. Several of the reviews I've read says that it is one of the most graphic rape scenes in any kind of mainstream movie they've reviewed.
I've not seen the movie (nor will I). I was just offering another reason why some people laugh at what SHOULD be a gravely serious business in a movie, but turns out to be otherwise by incompetence.
--Ted
--Ted
It can be graphic and still badly realised. I bet many of those laughing were just laughing because it was so bad. Let those people watch Irreversible and most of them won't laugh.
"We now return to Raped by a Clown..."
Yeah, I embarrassed the hell out of myself once when I was younger because I couldn't stop laughing in the middle of a funeral for one of my friends. I had to get up and leave, it was honestly uncontrollable. Then I went outside and started balling.
Here's a tip: it's not real. People aren't laughing at rapes and murders, they are laughing at simulated rapes and murders. There is a difference, an immense one. You've never enjoyed a violent movie where someone was killed? If you have, aren't you being a bit of a hypocrite?
And there is no video game where you rape women unless you're talking about some cobbled together flash piece of crap. There is certainly no rape in Grand Theft Auto if that's what you're referring to, at least none done by the character. You can bang a hooker in your car and then kill her when you're done, but that's different. You can also kill thousands of cops with a rocket launcher and mow down hundreds of pedestrians with your car, in the grand scheme of things those are far more greivous simulated acts than a simple rape.
And if you're referring to Custer's Revenge that old 80s game... puh---leeese.
You know the worst film rape I've seen was Monica Bellucci's in Irriversible...
It still make's me feel sick just thinking about it.
It still make's me feel sick just thinking about it.
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The Accussed was funny, especially Foster's horrible haircut.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that pretty much all decent people shouldn't even find simulated rape all that funny. That's a bit different from violent shoot up movies, where the people getting shot up usually deserve it in some way or another, even if their the good guy. I'm not sure there's a case to be made for even cheering on simulated rape.
Which I mentioned above as a scene nobody would be laughing at.
Nobody gives a monkeys about the characters in a horror movie. Everyone laughed when the "amorous couple" in Snakes on a Plane were attacked by a snake too.
I'm not sure it is any different. Nobody here is defending people actively laughing at a rape scene but in many, many action and horror movies, violent horrible deaths are played for laughs. How many times has James Bond violently killed someone and then made a joke afterwards ?
What difference does them deserving it make ? Killing someone for their supposed crimes is murder, not justice.
Is it the identity of the victims ? Some random, invariably male, mercenary working for the evil big boss versus some innocent girl ?
As I said, a stupid game a couple of hacks put together than no one cares about. You can find ANYTHING on the Internet, doesn't mean you should hold it up as an example of what society enjoys or finds acceptable.
Some of that Japanese shit is so weird and perverted it's hard NOT to laugh at the over the top foolishness of it all. Laughing at some gigantic breasted woman with purple hair getting banged by an alien with six huge penis tentacles does not make one amoral and does not mean a person enjoys watching people get raped.
My post was for informational purposes only. I do not condemn or support the game I mentioned. Please read the rest of my responses in this thread if you think I am suggesting that one game is representative of an entire culture or an entire industry.
I don't disagree with you.
Only an effete liberal like you would jump to the defense of guys who laugh during a rape scene.
OTOH, people complaining about having their childhoods raped by some piece of popular entertainment often is very funny.
I hope that wasn't a serious statement.
The context is enormously important here. The scene took place in a horror movie. Viewers laugh all the time during horror movies in part because of the adrenaline rush and as a release from the suspense/shock. There might have been a different response if the scene was in a serious drama.
Also, as has been pointed out, the chuckling teenagers in question realize that it's fiction. They know its just a bunch of actors on a set.
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