Hands-down the best entry on the site is the question in the name, asked about John Wick:
Hands-down the best entry on the site is the question in the name, asked about John Wick:
Yes, and it's terrible, BUT John Wick spends the rest of the movie deliberately, gloriously, and violently avenging the dog, so it feels really pro-dog overall.
Seems pretty useful. I'm not terribly sensitive to anything, but my wife hates people burning alive; seems like this has ok coverage of that, but Google may still be her best bet.
Seems pretty useful. I'm not terribly sensitive to anything, but my wife hates people burning alive; seems like this has ok coverage of that, but Google may still be her best bet.
Posting in the hope that others will find this site useful, because I just learned about it today. More details here. Both movies and TV shows are covered. Spouse has a bug phobia, I've got some...
Posting in the hope that others will find this site useful, because I just learned about it today. More details here. Both movies and TV shows are covered.
Spouse has a bug phobia, I've got some "won't watch" things myself - malicious dentistry ("Little Shop of Horrors", yes; "Marathon Man", heck no), gratuitous "fridging" and rape scenes, graphic deaths (human or animal), etc.
It's nice to be able to have an option to avoid entertainment that might unexpectedly make us run away screaming and retching, even if that involves spoilers. It's also great to avoid supporting content that's exploitive, abusive, or discriminatory.
Note that this site is using crowd-sourced information and collecting ad revenue from non-supporters.
Had you heard of this site, are there others like it, and do you think it's positive or negative to choose to shield oneself from abhorrent content? Would a similar site be tolerable if it listed movies on the basis of violations of religious prohibitions or ideological precepts?
Capalert did this, specifically for evangelical Christians looking for movies suitable for their children to watch. Although I am a solid atheist, I don't mind the existence of this site. In fact,...
Would a similar site be tolerable if it listed movies on the basis of violations of religious prohibitions or ideological precepts?
Capalert did this, specifically for evangelical Christians looking for movies suitable for their children to watch.
Although I am a solid atheist, I don't mind the existence of this site. In fact, I rather like it: I find some of the reviews pretty amusing (e.g., he criticizes Bewitched, "I counted 46 uses of 'magic' for purposes such as to do harm, to manipulate for unfair advantage, to deceive, to grow plants, to appear and disappear, for theft, to control time, to fly and levitate, to force performance of the victim(s) and many other things such as convenience manipulations like opening and closing doors and making an umbrella appear."), while others are just sweet (e.g., he praises Wall-E, "I will be so bold as to make a somewhat rare positive comment about a film. This film presents one of the best visual depictions of falling in love I have ever seen in an animated film. A great example of non-verbal communication."). And I also appreciated the honesty of these reviews within the context of the belief system (e.g., The Chronicles of Narnia, despite carrying an overtly Christian message, gets failing scores on "wanton violence" and "offenses to God", such as depicting mythological human/animal hybrids).
I recommend this to students semi-often. I had a student who had just recently been sexually assaulted. She was watching a biopic that she had no idea had any sexual assault in it, and it...
I recommend this to students semi-often. I had a student who had just recently been sexually assaulted. She was watching a biopic that she had no idea had any sexual assault in it, and it blindsided her and nearly ruined her evening. We talked about using this site to let her give herself a heads up and make an informed choice before watching.
As noted in other posts, Christian sites already exist - as a kid they're how I found out about the naughty bits in movies. I think sites like these are fine and can be really useful tools for folks.
As a response to your comment this site has been around a long time. I don't find it particularly useful because there isn't much in media that will rattle me, but I totally get why people would...
As a response to your comment this site has been around a long time. I don't find it particularly useful because there isn't much in media that will rattle me, but I totally get why people would want to avoid certain content. I don't pay attention to content warnings for my previously listed reason, but totally understand why one would if certain things put somebody well past what I would consider "consenting severe discomfort," and see a general value in a tool like this.
I did see the the site was started in 2011, and was a little bit surprised I hadn't heard of it previously. I used to think I was unshockable, but lately I've gotten more disgusted by lazy overuse...
I did see the the site was started in 2011, and was a little bit surprised I hadn't heard of it previously. I used to think I was unshockable, but lately I've gotten more disgusted by lazy overuse of very graphically violent imagery, particularly directed at women and animals. There have been some lauded productions (Game of Thrones, Haunting of Hill House, etc.) that would, in my opinion, have offered better visual storytelling without lingering so long over the grotesque details. If a content warning shows up, that's an indicator to me that the material might be artistically bad, in addition to being triggering or offensive.
This website is great, and I'm glad it exists. I watch a lot of horror movies which can vary wildly in how well they handle sensitive topics, and it's comforting to get a heads up about what to...
This website is great, and I'm glad it exists. I watch a lot of horror movies which can vary wildly in how well they handle sensitive topics, and it's comforting to get a heads up about what to expect going in without totally spoiling things.
I've also found it to be a useful resource when sharing movies with friends. Said friend can take a look at the site and decide for themselves if there's anything on the page for that movie that they might have a hard time with, without them needing to share more than they're comfortable with or me needing to quiz them on their trauma to make sure they'll have a good experience watching it.
do you think it's positive or negative to choose to shield oneself from abhorrent content?
I think it depends. It's important to acknowledge, be aware of, and understand the horrifying things that can happen in the world, so from that perspective it can be negative to shield yourself too much from the things that make you uncomfortable. But on the other hand, a lot of folks have direct real life experience of those things already, so why would it be negative for those people to want to shield themselves from experiencing it again?
Would a similar site be tolerable if it listed movies on the basis of violations of religious prohibitions or ideological precepts?
probably not in the same way, unless the specific religious prohibition was against literally viewing a certain thing and the person viewing the site wanted to avoid violating that prohibition themselves. Otherwise it's not an individual making an informed choice not to do something; it's a site making value judgements about what the creators of that media are choosing to depict. That feels pretty different from a site listing trigger warnings
I have no hesitations about using the site on my spouse's behalf, at least. The word "horripilation" could have been invented to describe his reaction to close-up images of insects - he'll have...
I have no hesitations about using the site on my spouse's behalf, at least. The word "horripilation" could have been invented to describe his reaction to close-up images of insects - he'll have nightmares and skin twitches for days if we inadvertently stumble into that content. But he's a horror fan (and nature documentaries as well - I'll be his seeing-eye censor and let him know when it's safe to watch again).
I'm a little more reluctant to sieve what I watch through the broad categories I dislike. Those are more matters of personal taste and policy than specific triggers. Looking at the way crowd-sourcing labels have been applied in doesthedogdie.com, I suspect it's less effective for that purpose.
It's not a life-impairing phobia, it's specific to enlarged insect images on the screen and cockroaches (a/k/a giant f'ing Florida palmetto bugs) in real life. Thankfully, these are avoidable....
It's not a life-impairing phobia, it's specific to enlarged insect images on the screen and cockroaches (a/k/a giant f'ing Florida palmetto bugs) in real life. Thankfully, these are avoidable. Ants, mosquitoes, small spiders, etc. aren't bothersome to him unless they get on him, and I think most people can understand that easily as a reasonable discomfort.
I took my girlfriend to see "8 Below" (a damned Disney movie!) and a short while into the film she looks at me and asks ... [spoiler alert] ... "Do dogs die in this movie?" ... her dog had just...
I took my girlfriend to see "8 Below" (a damned Disney movie!) and a short while into the film she looks at me and asks ...
[spoiler alert]
... "Do dogs die in this movie?" ... her dog had just passed away recently. Oof. That was a bad one.
Hands-down the best entry on the site is the question in the name, asked about John Wick:
I may have told this story already, but one night the family was watching Hatchi and I noped out to go rewatch John Wick. Hatchi will destroy you.
Not that any come to mind, but aren't most movies "pro-dog" whether or not the dog dies?
Not everyone kills an entire mafia from soldier to boss only to avenge a dog.
Seems pretty useful. I'm not terribly sensitive to anything, but my wife hates people burning alive; seems like this has ok coverage of that, but Google may still be her best bet.
Posting in the hope that others will find this site useful, because I just learned about it today. More details here. Both movies and TV shows are covered.
Spouse has a bug phobia, I've got some "won't watch" things myself - malicious dentistry ("Little Shop of Horrors", yes; "Marathon Man", heck no), gratuitous "fridging" and rape scenes, graphic deaths (human or animal), etc.
It's nice to be able to have an option to avoid entertainment that might unexpectedly make us run away screaming and retching, even if that involves spoilers. It's also great to avoid supporting content that's exploitive, abusive, or discriminatory.
Note that this site is using crowd-sourced information and collecting ad revenue from non-supporters.
Had you heard of this site, are there others like it, and do you think it's positive or negative to choose to shield oneself from abhorrent content? Would a similar site be tolerable if it listed movies on the basis of violations of religious prohibitions or ideological precepts?
Capalert did this, specifically for evangelical Christians looking for movies suitable for their children to watch.
Although I am a solid atheist, I don't mind the existence of this site. In fact, I rather like it: I find some of the reviews pretty amusing (e.g., he criticizes Bewitched, "I counted 46 uses of 'magic' for purposes such as to do harm, to manipulate for unfair advantage, to deceive, to grow plants, to appear and disappear, for theft, to control time, to fly and levitate, to force performance of the victim(s) and many other things such as convenience manipulations like opening and closing doors and making an umbrella appear."), while others are just sweet (e.g., he praises Wall-E, "I will be so bold as to make a somewhat rare positive comment about a film. This film presents one of the best visual depictions of falling in love I have ever seen in an animated film. A great example of non-verbal communication."). And I also appreciated the honesty of these reviews within the context of the belief system (e.g., The Chronicles of Narnia, despite carrying an overtly Christian message, gets failing scores on "wanton violence" and "offenses to God", such as depicting mythological human/animal hybrids).
I recommend this to students semi-often. I had a student who had just recently been sexually assaulted. She was watching a biopic that she had no idea had any sexual assault in it, and it blindsided her and nearly ruined her evening. We talked about using this site to let her give herself a heads up and make an informed choice before watching.
As noted in other posts, Christian sites already exist - as a kid they're how I found out about the naughty bits in movies. I think sites like these are fine and can be really useful tools for folks.
As a response to your comment this site has been around a long time. I don't find it particularly useful because there isn't much in media that will rattle me, but I totally get why people would want to avoid certain content. I don't pay attention to content warnings for my previously listed reason, but totally understand why one would if certain things put somebody well past what I would consider "consenting severe discomfort," and see a general value in a tool like this.
I did see the the site was started in 2011, and was a little bit surprised I hadn't heard of it previously. I used to think I was unshockable, but lately I've gotten more disgusted by lazy overuse of very graphically violent imagery, particularly directed at women and animals. There have been some lauded productions (Game of Thrones, Haunting of Hill House, etc.) that would, in my opinion, have offered better visual storytelling without lingering so long over the grotesque details. If a content warning shows up, that's an indicator to me that the material might be artistically bad, in addition to being triggering or offensive.
That's definitely useful as an approach if you're trying to look for markers determining how much you should invest in a property.
This website is great, and I'm glad it exists. I watch a lot of horror movies which can vary wildly in how well they handle sensitive topics, and it's comforting to get a heads up about what to expect going in without totally spoiling things.
I've also found it to be a useful resource when sharing movies with friends. Said friend can take a look at the site and decide for themselves if there's anything on the page for that movie that they might have a hard time with, without them needing to share more than they're comfortable with or me needing to quiz them on their trauma to make sure they'll have a good experience watching it.
I think it depends. It's important to acknowledge, be aware of, and understand the horrifying things that can happen in the world, so from that perspective it can be negative to shield yourself too much from the things that make you uncomfortable. But on the other hand, a lot of folks have direct real life experience of those things already, so why would it be negative for those people to want to shield themselves from experiencing it again?
probably not in the same way, unless the specific religious prohibition was against literally viewing a certain thing and the person viewing the site wanted to avoid violating that prohibition themselves. Otherwise it's not an individual making an informed choice not to do something; it's a site making value judgements about what the creators of that media are choosing to depict. That feels pretty different from a site listing trigger warnings
I have no hesitations about using the site on my spouse's behalf, at least. The word "horripilation" could have been invented to describe his reaction to close-up images of insects - he'll have nightmares and skin twitches for days if we inadvertently stumble into that content. But he's a horror fan (and nature documentaries as well - I'll be his seeing-eye censor and let him know when it's safe to watch again).
I'm a little more reluctant to sieve what I watch through the broad categories I dislike. Those are more matters of personal taste and policy than specific triggers. Looking at the way crowd-sourcing labels have been applied in doesthedogdie.com, I suspect it's less effective for that purpose.
Has he considered therapy for this? That sounds like it could be a great difficulty in life and getting some extra stability is a reasonable goal.
It's not a life-impairing phobia, it's specific to enlarged insect images on the screen and cockroaches (a/k/a giant f'ing Florida palmetto bugs) in real life. Thankfully, these are avoidable. Ants, mosquitoes, small spiders, etc. aren't bothersome to him unless they get on him, and I think most people can understand that easily as a reasonable discomfort.
Oh okay! I misunderstood.
No worries, I appreciate the benevolent wishes and advice.
I believe this website is also useful for triggers in books
I took my girlfriend to see "8 Below" (a damned Disney movie!) and a short while into the film she looks at me and asks ...
[spoiler alert]
... "Do dogs die in this movie?" ... her dog had just passed away recently. Oof. That was a bad one.
Oof, you can't trust Disney not to kill parents and animals.
hahaha I'd
forgottenblocked out the trauma of my childhood, clearly.