Post by darkrage6 on Mar 30, 2024 7:19:14 GMT
This will sound ridiculously prudish, but trying to consume "critically acclaimed" movies, games, and shows that have mega harsh cursing like every other word. Maybe it's the way I grew up and I can't help it, but UNLESS it's like super, super important for the setting (say, a rough neighborhood, or certain war torn environments) I just find it irritating. Some, or even a fair bit, of media does use harsh profanity effectively or humorously or even importantly, but I feel like certain pieces of media don't do it for me, because I'm too distracted by the language. For example, my mixed friend group might use harsh curse words like 25% of the time, not like 70-80+% of the time as some media seems to say that "we all do."
Honestly my dad swears way more in real life(hell he was my introduction to it before any piece of media was) then any movie character i've ever seen so i'm just pretty numb to it and it does not bother me in the slightest.
It also distracts me when otherwise mature TV shows like The Shield and Sons of Anarchy shy away from saying the F-word(blame the moral guardians that freaked out over the 2004 Super Bowl nip slip for that one, Shield was supposed to have an F-bomb in season 3 but advertisers got cold feet after the incident and FX wouldn't let them do it anymore)it takes me right out of the show personally as I that in real life those characters would've absolutely been dropping the f-bomb left and right.