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Darth Chaltab

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#80955
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Video Games - a general discussion thread
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/80955/action/topic#80955
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Ric's cheery out look on life everybody...

Anywho. Hitler--anyone--being analy raped is offensive, and I would definietly not want to play a game about that. Not because I like Hitler, but because I don't images of rape, especially homosexual rape, floating in my head.

But besides that, I've noticed a double standard: anytime somebody makes a game about WWII and shooting Nazis, it's perfectly fine, but if you make a Pacific game about shooting Japanimperialists or Muslamic terrorist, then it's called offensive and taboo? I don't understand the difference? If it's not wrong to exploit past events, why is it wrong to let modern people vent their frustrations about 'currnet events'

To prove my point: Do you think anyone from the WWII generation at home would have objected to Medal of Honor if we'd had videogames back then.
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#80957
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A Good Thing about Episode One
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/80957/action/topic#80957
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Originally posted by: GlopOfGrease
I hope that asking if Metropolis is a Superman movie is a joke. If it is not, I fear we are going to lose great movies to a lack of interest since even intelligent people have not heard of the classics. Metropolis is one of the first and one of the great science fiction films. It was made in 1928 and is silent, but don't let that deter you from trying to find it. Great science fiction did not begin with Star Wars.
By the way, you all were talking about the Hayes code. The Hayes Code was basically the rating system with more bite. Between 1930's-1960's, you had to submit your script for approval to the censors. They would not allow cursing, suggestions of sex, violence, drugs, or anti-religious statements. They had bite for a while until some directors like Otto Preminger were willing to release movies without their approval. People would line up to see what they thought was going to be dirty, but found there was a whole lot more talk about sex than action. By the mid-60's, they had to stop with the Hayes Code and started the ratings system, which led to a lot more freedom in the movies.


And a lot more freedom in movies let to travesties in morality and quality such as Kill Bill and Showgirls.

Also, Asking about Metropolis being a superman movie was a joke, but I really didn't kow what it was. I'd never heared of it, or seen it in stores. But I did look it up on IMDB...........