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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TiQuinn" data-source="post: 9748420" data-attributes="member: 4871">To be glib, I grew up in the 80s, which I still think takes the crown for the most desensitized violence put onscreen whether it’s the jingoistic Rambo movies, or the “as long as the bad guy get his in the end” genre of cop/vigilante/military movies like Lethal Weapon, Death Wish, Dirty Harry, Commando, etc.When someone stands in the middle of an open space, and fires an automatic weapon and all the bad guys fall down but the good guy doesn’t get a scratch, I kind of feel that we’ve already peaked as far as the gratuitous violence goes. So from that standpoint, I’m a bit wary of concerns that the violence in movies today is somehow too much. We’ve gone from military violence, to cop violence, to sci fi violence to super hero violence - a steady stream of 50 years or more of this. Anecdotally, I can’t say that somehow it’s gotten “worse”. I don’t know what studies or outcomes there have been. I feel this is a subject that just comes up from time to time when someone feels like they’ve been rubbed the wrong way by usually a particular movie or trend, but there seems to be little evidence of actual impact.All I can say is…I’m totally normal despite a steady stream of Stallone and Schwarzenegger movies blowing stuff up.Totally. Normal.</blockquote>