The irony is just too much. I agree there is so much vulgarity and grossness in movies and TV, yet Hollywood gets on its moral high horse and shuns people, even their own, for making a vulgar statement or for objectifying women IRL.

I blame the advances in computer graphics over the last 10-15 years.

Older movies had to use good acting, nuance, implied violence, and the suggestion of bad things that could happen to scare people.

Today they can just slap in some grotesque CGI and call it scary. If Silence of the Lambs were made today, it would be filled with gory computer graphics.

Maybe it does mean I'm just getting old, but I like the old way better. It actually messes with your head, instead of just making your stomach turn.

But really, Hollywood keeps making movies like this because people keep buying them.

You want a good example, check out The Pledge. It's not that old of a movie, but is made in that style - really disturbing, but very little blood and gore. It got hardly any attention and did not rake in a ton of money, but was very well done. If you like S of the L, you'll like this one. Trigger warning, though, it deals with violence against children.

Depends why they're rated R.

I was about to buy the movie Billy Elliot for a 13 year old crazy for ballet, only to realize it was rated R for swear words and a brief scene where a girl propositions a boy (no nudity). Ridiculous.

Compared to scenes of torture and rape, which I can't watch, I feel that's really nothing. Which is why the whole rating system needs to be overhauled.

I don't mind movies as how they are nowadays. But I'm put off by the quick one second cut scene fights in actions movies, mostly popularized by the Bourne trilogies.

Anonymous wrote:Agree. It’s not just movies. TV is the same. It’s crass and vulgar. Everything is spelled out so bluntly. What happed to subtly and using your imagination.

OP here. To be fair, subtlety and using one's imagination has been out for decades. I'm beginning to have less tolerance for the crassness in movies I once enjoyed.

Anonymous wrote:The language and gratuitous violence is really off-putting. I don't think you've changed as much as the movies have changed. Good films don't need it, but most of what is out there now is really bad.

But I feel that now I would have less tolerance for something like The Big Lebowski, which I loved when it came out. Now I just find myself annoyed that they chose to throw in 500 f-bombs. I fear that I'm becoming a prude.

Agree. It’s not just movies. TV is the same. It’s crass and vulgar. Everything is spelled out so bluntly. What happed to subtly and using your imagination.

I’ve been like this for a long time. R rated nowadays means lots of gross violence. No thank you. Hollywood weirdos think this is what people want to see - if you don’t then don’t support them.

The language and gratuitous violence is really off-putting. I don't think you've changed as much as the movies have changed. Good films don't need it, but most of what is out there now is really bad.

The Me Too movement has added a layer to this for me as well. I wonder how many of the women were objectified in the films and than the women who didn’t get roles for not sleeping with Fatty Weinstein. Having DDs I hate to see women objectified as mere objects for men to gawk at.

Anonymous wrote:Agree to some extent. I was just thinking about this the other day. I saw Silence of the Lambs, when it was released and although I've never liked scary movies this one was good. There is slim chance I'd go see it if released today which is a loss for me because it's a good movie.

It's not vulgar though. I think that's what OP was addressing.

Agree to some extent. I was just thinking about this the other day. I saw Silence of the Lambs, when it was released and although I've never liked scary movies this one was good. There is slim chance I'd go see it if released today which is a loss for me because it's a good movie.

Anonymous wrote:I'm with you, OP - I have turned into a big prude. I'm also 46. I think it's age and having kids, plus that things actually are that much more vulgar.

I just hate how they throw things in simply for the sake of being edgy. Why the heck does everything have to be edgy now? Not a movie, but one example is the Girls show. I've seen a few episodes and I actually liked it, but is the grossness really necessary?

I'm with you, OP - I have turned into a big prude. I'm also 46. I think it's age and having kids, plus that things actually are that much more vulgar.

i'm not a religious or particularly conservative person, but recently I've realized that I really don't care to see R rated movies anymore. I never used to feel this way, but now I just find it off putting how over the top vulgar most of them seem to be. I recently turned 46. Is this a sign that I'm getting old?