[spacecoyote]

So, we all saw the horrible murders over in Virginia Tech recently, and the witchhunt starts again. This time out it's our First ever Film Of The Week - Oldboy. Yes, Oldboy was the favourite movie of the killer, and as it is a movie about a Korean bloke out for vengeance, it was all too simple for the press to jump on the bandwagon. Am i the only one who thinks this is ludicrous. Oldboy may be a violent movie, but i cannot draw any connections with the reality of the killings. How many times do americans have to blame movies before they start to look at themselves & their own laws?

Its so easy to blame Oldboy, the matrix, etc.... for atrocities. But can movies really be blamed?

[Necronomicon]

Originally Posted by spacecoyote

So, we all saw the horrible murders over in Virginia Tech recently, and the witchhunt starts again. This time out it's our First ever Film Of The Week - Oldboy. Yes, Oldboy was the favourite movie of the killer, and as it is a movie about a Korean bloke out for vengeance, it was all too simple for the press to jump on the bandwagon. Am i the only one who thinks this is ludicrous. Oldboy may be a violent movie, but i cannot draw any connections with the reality of the killings. How many times do americans have to blame movies before they start to look at themselves & their own laws?

Its so easy to blame Oldboy, the matrix, etc.... for atrocities. But can movies really be blamed?

Yeah, it doesn't bear thinking about to be honest. The media will always use movies and video games as scapegoats. Apparently he played Counter Strike as well, which is also being berated.

I'm sure Oh Dae Su isn't the only fictional character ever to hold a hammer above his head. But he's Korean too, must have been an influence

[Petey2006]

And how many people have watched the film and NOT gone on some killing spree? I, for one, have seen it and have no desire to end a person's life. People who do these things are already sociopaths or psychopathic. It's not the movies that make them do it.

[spacecoyote]

Originally Posted by Necromomicon

I'm sure Oh Dae Su isn't the only fictional character ever to hold a hammer above his head. But he's Korean too, must have been an influence

lol yeah, and theres definitely never been anyone hold a gun to their own head in a movie

[Kojak]

No matter what film/tv programme/copmputer game that Korean lad played, he was still probablu going to commit those awful murders. The bottom line was that he was seriously damaged goods, and it didn't matter what he saw etc.

This is typical American thinking that "if we ban it, it will go away" - look at drugs, they banned them and yet they still have a huge problem with them because of it.

Maybe I'm going off the point here, but a film wouldn't have made him do those things - it was his own choice to go on that rampage.

[Sad Professor]

AFAIK there is currently no evidence to suggest Cho ever watched Oldboy. A professor at Virgina Tech (who's now trying to distance himself from it) noticed a "similarity" between the two images and passed it along to the New York Times, probably because the movie (like Cho) is Korean. Then Sky News made up some crap about him watching the film repeatedly blah blah blah.

[shane86]

Originally Posted by spacecoyote

Its so easy to blame Oldboy, the matrix, etc.... for atrocities. But can movies really be blamed?

Certainly.

40 minutes into the overrated ****e that was the Matrix I felt like shooting whoever told me to run out and rent it.

[Darko]

What ever happened to plain old crazy?

[Running Bing]

It's laughable that movies and games are being berated while this 23 year old clearly disturbed man was allowed go into a shop and purchase a semi-automatic gun! Talk about side stepping the real issue here. Ridiculous.


As for the media, they are incredibly hypocritical. They show the video of this man and give potential psychopaths belief that this is how they can get their views across and yet they say Films are damaging? I read articles all the time and see clips on the news all the time where they describe these "terrible" films. They relish in giving every horrific detail to grab our attention and get our interest and then they say the movie should be banned

[qwertplaywert]

rmember scream 2?which made fun of the ''copycats''?man trhat was great....

[Sean7]

as Chris Rock said why do we always have to find something to blame, whatever happened to crazy?

[311]

Movies don't create people ,people do.

[qwertplaywert]

man, bullets kill people , not the guns.....BAN BULLETS

[Deliverance]

Originally Posted by spacecoyote

So, we all saw the horrible murders over in Virginia Tech recently, and the witchhunt starts again. This time out it's our First ever Film Of The Week - Oldboy. Yes, Oldboy was the favourite movie of the killer, and as it is a movie about a Korean bloke out for vengeance, it was all too simple for the press to jump on the bandwagon. Am i the only one who thinks this is ludicrous. Oldboy may be a violent movie, but i cannot draw any connections with the reality of the killings. How many times do americans have to blame movies before they start to look at themselves & their own laws?

Its so easy to blame Oldboy, the matrix, etc.... for atrocities. But can movies really be blamed?

Just goes to show that they still haven't learned which means the chances of it happening again are higher than what they should be.