Yes
This movie encourage school massacres like Columbine and Virginia Tech and gives psychotic kids ideas
It should be banned and it's producers and actors prosecuted
There is no place for such vile material in society
Now of course liberals and other left wing loons will scream censorship but people with real moral values and integrity know that it's the right thing to do
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I do think the TS has a point about the sensationalism of these types of movies. I do not know where they get the idea that high school kids are actually that sadistic and sociopathic. When Bradley was saying "You.Can't.Stop Me" and when the girls were actually chasing down the goth girl it sent an unrealistic message to the point of being irresponsible. Bradley had been torturing Dane nonstop for years and did not even know his name? Come on, does that kind of stuff really happen, even in Texas or other backwoods areas? I am at the very least skeptical of this notion that in real life there are kids who act exactly the way Bradley, Bernard and the 3 popular girls in this movie did. I do not believe there are actually kids that sadistic in high school except for the Eric Harris types.
To say nothing of the fact that it seemed to be deliberate misrepresentation of Texas and small town America and yet another obscenely stereotypical view of high school athletes and cliques. I do not entirely get why the writers felt that they even needed another of these types of movies in the first place; don't we already have about 5478906 of them or so in existence? And they do create an unrealistic image of these psychos being driven to what they did by extreme bullying when in real life examples, like Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, it was simply not true - in that case it was discovered that they were never really bullied anymore than 95 % or so other kids and if anything were bigger bullies themselves than most of the jocks on campus. And this movie did have a fair number of viewers rooting for the outcasts no matter how brutal they got, and to do that they had to make the bullying sadistic at a level that was completely unrealistic.
Hey! I'm from Texas and while I've been out of school for a long time (graduated in '92) I can say our school was NEVER even remotely like that. The closest we had to bullying were minor pranks and maybe some name calling but it never got physical (except for the occasional mutual fist fight, i.e. no one ever got beaten up by a bigger, stronger kid while being helpless to fight back), no one was ever hideously humiliated nor was personal property ever destroyed (like the video camera in the movie). My school experience was nothing like this movie or any of the other movies, tv shows or media stories I've hear. Either we're only hearing the extreme, worst cases, or things have really, really changed a lot since the early 90's.
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Just out of curiosity, did you go to high school in a suburb of a city like Houston, Austin or Dallas where there may have been more restrictions on what schools could get away with?
I am thinking it may have been an issue of location and your school may have been in a place where schools cracked down on bullying more and were not encouraged to bully kids to this extent. In a state like Texas, it is completely impossible to come up with any kind of uniform high school experience. it may have been very different in one of those towns where football teams are placed on a pedestal, and in this movie there were hints that it took place in a town that did place football on a pedestal.
No, actually, thinking back on it the situation was probably the way it was because it was a small school in the middle of nowhere. We didn't really have rich/poor everyone was pretty much middle class to maybe slightly below that. Mostly white (so no racial tensions) I guess that's why things never went beyond maybe the occasional name calling and fistfights (and the fistfights even didn't happen often and not at all as I was getting out of school).
About the worst thing I can really remember was some of the upper classmen in high school picking on one girl in my class because they thought she was a lesbian but that only went on for about a week or so (a rough week or so to be sure) and it never went beyond name calling. They never laid a hand on her or did anything physical or intimidating.
It really seems to me that the whole thing must as escalated in the years since I left the U.S. school system.
BTW we didn't even have a football team, with us it was basket ball and there wasn't really much of a pedestal. If they did something stupid they got in trouble and they had to pass their classes in order to play and, to my knowledge, there was never any attempt to cheat to help them out, of course it may have happend and I just didn't know about it. Can't say.
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Just out of curiosity, did you go to high school in a suburb of a city like Houston, Austin or Dallas where there may have been more restrictions on what schools could get away with?
I am thinking it may have been an issue of location and your school may have been in a place where schools cracked down on bullying more and were not encouraged to bully kids to this extent. In a state like Texas, it is completely impossible to come up with any kind of uniform high school experience. it may have been very different in one of those towns where football teams are placed on a pedestal, and in this movie there were hints that it took place in a town that did place football on a pedestal.
I don't think it should be banned. For what it's worth, the psycho kids weren't depicted as reasonable, justified or cool etc.
shareBit of an over reaction. Most of the stuff in the movie would take a level of planning and resources beyond most high school kids (which is why, in real life, they usually just shoot up the school).
If it was a school shooting story you might have a point but this is pretty far out to be taken seriously and most (if not all) of the stuff in it has been seen a million times (and mostly better) before so...
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Sine it was meant to be a bullied high school revenge film, just out of curiosity, what films do you think were the best at portraying a high school revenge of the bullied kids story like this one did?
shareI think you should go find yourself a house on top of the mountain, surrounded by a giant wall to protect yourself from the world. Seriously? Encouraging? Prosecuted? For what? This is, thankfully, a free world. Everyone can make any kind of movie they want.
Deal with it.
LOL! nice try troll. I think it should be banned because it is a crappy movie. Something like this would never encourage Columbine
shareI think you should be tortured to death for making this post, to be honest.
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