Action Movies = Violence Movies. WTF

[Toonami Tom]

I enjoy action movies, video games, and also action figures. Pretty much all of my entertainment deals with some form of fictional violence. Even the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are violent. This usually doesn't bother me, as its all in good fun and its fake.

This morning, I woke up screaming "What the hell?!" I found myself living in Gotham City and it was f***ing scary. Not fun at all. I got to see Batman and Gordon standing nearby on a street corner, but I was so busy dodging grenades that I could care less if one of my all time favorite superheroes was about 20 feet away. No time for meet and greets or autographs. Who was the villain? The Joker? The Riddler? No, it was the extremists from the middle east. Bad dream, to say the least.

So I started thinking about everything that I am exposed to on TV, video games, and other media. I believe that between the constant News coverage of the terrorists, and the fictional violence from video games, movies, and TV shows, that I have kind of psychologically messed myself up.

Why is it that almost all of the entertainment for males involves violence? I didn't think it bothered me, because its fake, but obviously it is having an impact on my mind. Almost all of the movies, video games, and TV shows for males involves killing and some kind of horrible conflict. Its endless bulls**t. There's too much money made from producing this content, and people continue to buy it, so it is a vicious cycle that doesn't have an end.

This reminds me of the boss in the film Small Soldiers, who said something about not calling it violence, that it should be called action. Even though they are the same.

[Toonami Tom]

My above post seems weird to me now. Hopefully it was entertaining at least. I just hope I don't have any more dreams about Gotham City. This was definitely Nolan's version of Batman, not the 1960s series starring Adam West.

If all the violence was removed from all movies, there are a lot of films that wouldn't really have much of a story. So I don't know what was going on early, I must have been in a weird state of mind.

[Venom]

Humans are inherently violent creatures, sure we are conditioned not to wildy destroy each other and to obey restrictions but differing viewpoints give rise to violence. Take a look at just about any other great ape, or monkeys in general: seemingly peaceful animals who can blow up without any known reason.

I'm not sure about all of the psychological intricacies that make up the human psyche, but deep down we want to conquer weaker beings and quash those who oppose us.

Really though, while there may be some deep-seeded reason for the dream, most likely it was information overload and your brain used that imagery while you slept.

And I'm a "glass is half-full" guy!

[Powder]

This morning, I woke up screaming "What the hell?!" I found myself living in Gotham City and it was f***ing scary.

I didn't notice the part where you said bad dream on my first read so needless to say I just laughed my ass off.

[shuriken]

That is trippy. I think since we are "conditioned"to not be violent, we crave violence in some way shape or form. I've never dreampt about Gotham City, but I have drempt that I was in this f**ked up circus and got saved somehow by the TMNT. I was also a cartoon.

[Jester]

I once dreamed Shredder was chasing me through the sewers....most vivid nightmare I've ever had.