Straw Dogs? Balancing Realism with Bloodlust

    Wow, I have not been keeping up on my posting.  Shame on you Luke.  Well the excuse LUKE! WE DON'T WANT TO HEAR YOUR EXCUSES RAGE!!!!!! RAGE!!!!!!!!  Cool down guys, I know you don't care about excuses, so I'll just say I have several posts in the draft stage, but I haven't really had the time, or the attention span to complete them yet.  You'll see a bunch of new ones coming out in the next couple days.  I think they might even be worth skimming.
    OK, today's post is going to touch on some of my views towards movies, specifically using Straw Dogs as an example.  If you have even looked at my more recent posts, you know that I am in love with making and watching videos.  Going to the movie theater is one of my favorite things to do...unless there are a bunch of giggling tweens in the row behind you, putting their feet right next to your head, and whispering how hot Taylor Lautner is.  I speak from experience.  I guess that's what I should expect going to see Twilight. Yes I actually went and saw the first one, and the most recent one...aaand yes it was because Taylor Lautner is freakn' HOT.  I digress.  
    I am going to level with you right now.  I have watched R-rated movies, and I do not plan on avoiding a good movie just because some company that has no affiliation with the church puts a little R on the box because they said a couple words that we all hear regularly anyway.  I don't look down on those who choose to not watch those movies, that is their choice, and choosing to watch them is my choice.  Granted, there are a lot of R-rated movies that should not be seen.  They received that rating because there is excessive gore, or sensual nudity, or needless vulgarity, and I avoid those movies because they are inappropriate and only add those elements to cater to their target audience. Now there are some R-rated movies that do tell a good story, send a good message, and use those elements tastefully to convey that message.  A couple of the most famous examples would be Saving Private Ryan and Shindler's List.  Both magnificint movies that are R-rated, but use those harsh elements to convey a valuable message, or really get the audience's emotions going.  Good emotions like empathy, pride (as in in one's country, family, origins, not the bad pride), and joy.  The crummy R-rated movies also drum up emotions, but ones like, bloodlust or inappropriate passion.
    I have never seen Straw Dogs, nor do I plan to, and I do not plan on seeing the remake coming out sometime next week.  I know the premise of this movie, and while people may say that it was an iconic movie for showing brutal reality, it is really a piece of junk geared at an audience that wants to see a girl get rapped and a guy freak out and hack-up an entire town to pieces.  In cases like this, the movie should be treated as what it is, like trash.  It reminds me of the movie Clockwork Orange which I did watch to review for some competition thing, and I had heard that it is a great cult classic.  Well I did not end up watching the whole thing because it is an unpleasant 120 minutes that feels like 4 hours about a British gang who likes to dress up at night and go rob, bludgeon, and rape the English population.  Do not watch ether of the movies mentioned in this paragraph, they are not worth your time.
    Well I need to run, but I really want to post this before I go so I have to cut it short.  THANK GOODNESS!!! I ONLY READ THIS CRAP BECAUSE I'M LUKE'S FRIEND AND HE EXP... OK, I get it.  See you next time...