Can you NOT think of the ending of GR?

[Bekah]

I wasn't criticizing parents! I was curious to know if the movie was seriously violent - that's it.  What kind of movie would a very intelligent bizerko pull out the guns for?  I was thinking he was going for audience size, not the violence of the film.

Bek

On Jul 24, 2012, at 5:45 PM, "Erik T. Burns" <eburns at gmail.com> wrote:

> >What sort of parent brings these children to midnight movies of any sort?
> 
> Y'know, under most circumstances I would agree with this sentiment. But the issue here is not the "bad parenting" of the audience, it's the fuckwit with the guns. The killer, not his victims. 
> 
> On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 11:23 PM, <malignd at aol.com> wrote:
> I don't think this appalling fact has much to do with the quality of the movie.  What sort of parent brings these children to midnight movies of any sort?
> 
> Has anyone here seen the movie? There were 6-year olds and younger there and nobody has criticized that (to my knowledge).
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bekah <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net>
> To: Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net>
> Cc: pynchon-l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Tue, Jul 24, 2012 6:21 pm
> Subject: Re: Can you NOT think of the ending of GR?
> 
> Has anyone here seen the movie? There were 6-year olds and younger there and nobody has criticized that (to my knowledge).
> 
> Bekah
> 
> http://beckylindroos.wordpress.com/
> 
> On Jul 24, 2012, at 3:44 PM, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net> wrote:
> 
>> On 7/24/2012 4:01 PM, Mark Kohut wrote:
>>> "This willing dissociation of response from violent spectacle has a
>>> downside, as many people have said: we become inured to actual
>>> violence when it excites us on; we forget that that there’s pain and
>>> death, we become connoisseurs of spectacle
>> 
>> Can there be "willing dissociation of response from violent spectacle"  if the spectacle isn't seriously violent in the first place.  Is Batman movie "violence" even violent enough to dissociate from?
>> 
>> I'm asking for information.  Way too old to judge for myself.
>> 
>> P
>> 
>> 
>>> . This kind of
>>> connoisseurship showed up in the response to 9/11, which many people,
>>> with obvious relish as well as awe, said resembled a movie, a remark
>>> that left anyone with half a brain feeling queasy, if not furious." —
>>> David Denby, The New Yorker
>>>  
>>> Many said it without any relish. & Pynchon has half-a-brain and
>>> he was furious (in GR).......
>>> 
>>> He (and many others) go there:  "Blame the movie, not the guns/killer."
>>> 
>>> David Morris
>>> 
>>> On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 12:50 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > Ban Batman, not guns!
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
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