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would've been lovely if you'd asked this question IN that other thread first before making incorrect assumptions and crunching your boots on a perfectly valid statement. then there wouldn't have been a "slight argument." we'd have had a perfectly civil discussion. farts wouldn't have been set afire.
i curse all the d@mned time. via my keyboard, and via my mouth. cursing is a part of language, and is as much a part of life as violence and nudity. however, i know cursing is not always enjoyed by others and everyone has a different comfort level. just like some people freak out when girls sit with their legs open and they're wearing a skirt, and some people think it's rude to read the paper at a meal.
some people can't take it, and the world is a shared one in which we must make frequent social compromises. thus the films that have to cut parts out because they're threatened with ratings they don't want to get labeled with.
i do think gratuitous or unnecessary violence, nudity, and cursing, are pointless. ie, there is more than one way to tell a story, so if you depend on one crutch for too long or too much, i think it's a waste. you can do so much more. there are times for all these things, and times for none of it at all.
if a key character is being drawn with a serious dramatic issue for a reason, and his issue is turette's syndrome, I am going to be A-OK with him cursing up a storm. the shoe fits. if the story wants to look bad@ss and starts peppering the script with cursing for the sake of beefing up the "macho" factor, that's dumb.
take Kill Bill. if every other word had involved cursing, would it have been necessary? no. this wouldn't have stopped me from seeing it, though.
Trainspotting. If there had been no bare skin, violence, or cursing, in the flick, it would have not been about what it was about.
i don't actively avoid anything unless the story just doesn't appeal. for example, i am not in the mood to see The Hills Have Eyes, not because I don't like violence, nudity, or cursing, but because I don't want to see someone's head get cut off and get scared out of my mind or grossed out. I am totally fine with these types of flicks getting made and wish desperately I had the stomach to get scared witless. Alas, I am a wimp, and cannot.
Some things I can take, some I can't. But that's just me. Still got no problem at all with violence, cursing, or nekkedness.
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