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* Are children who act in R-rated movies allowed to see them? And doesn't that interfere with child labor laws in the first place?

** Before ''Harry Potter'', Daniel Radcliffe had a small part in ''The Tailor of Panama'', which is rated R. [[IMDb]] trivia says he's never seen the film (although that info might be outdated now).

* Why do very, very few movies show realistic reactions to violence? Seriously, shoot someone, anyone, even a mook, and TRY not to feel horrible about it later.

*** There were a few deleted scenes from the first [[Austin Powers]] movie along these lines. (which even entered the released cut of some countries!)

*** They do make [[During the War|that sort of movie]]<ref>I would recommend you see [[Saving Private Ryan]] if you don;t believe me</ref>. At which point they recast the mooks as main characters and bill it as a [[Downer Ending]].

** How many movies have you seen where they showed more than a few days after the climax? Maybe, after the pure relief of success, they ''did'' go home and cry.

** [[Willing Suspension of Disbelief]] meets [[Acceptable Breaks From Reality]], baby.

** [[Truth in Television]] is boring. Violent movies are supposed to be entertaining. Therefore, violent movies need to have unrealistic reactions to violence.

 

 

* This is more of a general zombie movie question, but is there a zombie movie ''anywhere'' that shows the characters actually, y'know, ''putting something protective'' on their arms so they don't get bit? You'd think this was common sense! "There's undead monsters that spread the disease through bites, and I've seen people get bit/eaten - maybe I should put something on to protect myself." You don't see them put on so much as a long-sleeved jacket, even though they have time to prepare.

*** In many movies, people are surprised by the Zombie attack and wear whatever they had on their bodies before.

*** People need to be bitten, how else could [[And Then John Was a Zombie|John become a Zombie]]?

*** Full-Body clothing prevents fanservice. ;-)

*** I'd have to agree. I mean, look at ''[[Dawn of the Dead (film)|Dawn of the Dead]]'', particularly the remake. These people are in a ''mall''. You're telling me a whole mall isn't going to have a store selling, say, quality leather jackets? Or sports equipment? How many people in these movies die because they get an almost-superficial bite on their forearm or wrist that could've ''easily'' been thwarted by wearing a decent quality leather jacket?

Part of the problem of clothing that would provide you with protection from bites: It will restrict your movements. Especially thick gloves. You won't be able to use a chainsaw without risking dropping it and cutting your own leg off. You also may not be able to get your finger through the trigger guard of a gun, or to remove it from the trigger guard. So, either you won't be able to fire the gun, or you may waste all of your bullets trying to get your finger out of the gun. And good luck trying to outrun even the slow zombies when you have to waddle around and are prone to falling on your face and have a hard time getting back up. It's just not going to work. So this actually falls under [[Truth in Television]].

*** Those who are more overweight are more easily hunted down and eaten while fitter folks might just get a wee bite and run off to die/un-die somewhere else

* Specific zombie movie question: In [[Return of the Living Dead]] the zombies eat brains because it takes away the pain of feeling themselves rotting (because the brain is full of those smooth endorphins). This leads to two questions: How do the newly risen zombies know that eating brains will help with their pain? Do they tell each other or something or do they just hear the other zombies saying "Brains!" and think "Hey, not there's an idea!" or does the chemical just give them a natural knowledge of brains = painkillers. The second question is why the hell don't they just take shitloads of painkillers? Seriously, you break into a hospital and eat the brains of all the doctors in order to get the endorphins in his head. Why not just steal the damned morphine?

** Zombies aren't usually very bright. They probly get foiled too easily by the childproof caps that painkillers have. Plus, painkillers may not work on the undead. Personaly, I've always questioned the brain eating zombies as a whole. It's just a silly plot device...

 

** This is actually how I figured out the truth about Santa.

** I know that ''[[The Polar Express]]'' explained it with [[Weirdness Censor]] -- the parents just don't believe it and ignore it. This was symbolized with them not being able to hear the ringing of a magical bell, despite the fact that said bell was in plain sight.

 

* This is a complaint about horror films. Specifically the ones where there's one ''Cassandra'' type character who tries to warn everyone about the monster, but no one believes him. This [[Just Bugs Me]]. Why? Because ok, in our world ghosts don't exist. Knowing this, we, the audience, can identify with the rest of the people who don't believe him, and know how we would react if we found a murder and the only suspect claims it was a ghost or a monster or something, which makes the situation all the more desperate for the poor disbelieved hero. But in the movie's world, they *do* exist. So people should be much more open to the notion that a possessed pencil could have shoved itself into the brain of the victim. So it's like they've taken the monster and the hero from the movie's world, and the rest of the population from our world.

** If people were accepting of the supernatural in these movies, the film quite simply wouldn't be a horror. ("What, you've got a possessed doll in our house? We'll get the nearest exorcist over as quickly as possible.").

** The Howling III: The Marsupials actually deals with this topic. You have to understand that in most worlds, unless the ghosts/werewolves/etc. are widespread enough, the general public is going to assume that the person making the claim is a nutjob. Only those who believe in that sort of stuff, or secret government kill squads are going to believe them. Unless of course, you live in Crystal Lake or on Elm Street... The best bet would be to get on the internet and track down groups of people who do believe and notify them. Or track down that secret government kill squad and tell them. Or, in the case of the movie mentioned, marry into the monster's family and become one of them. After all, why worry about therianthropes when you can join them? I wouldn't advise that method for dealing with serial killers, the undead, or ghost, though. They either don't care about family, or tend to turn on their own family first...

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