To be so sick of films and their advertising glamourising guns and murder?

[GinaGinelli]

Saw this today at a bus stop.

Now doesn't she make that a big machine gun look cool? I also saw the advert for it on TV where she says 'I kill people, darling'.

Lovely.

I can appreciate a good action film along with all the explosions etc. but I'm so sick of guns being the main focus. Don't posters like this , this and this make guns look so glamourous? How can campaigns to reduce gun crime possibly compete with messages like this?

I can see there is a place for these films; for adults to enjoy as a bit of escapism, but why on earth do they have to put huge posters of sexy film stars toting sexy guns on bus stops?

Am I just an old fart?

omg it's helen mirren! [shocked]

yanbu at all! it's horrible.

Well, this is what makes people go see these films.

You want to DO something about it, stop seeing the films rather than moaning about it on some internet message board.

I haven't been to see those films.

I have emailed a complaint about the one I saw today.

I am aware WHY guns are used in the advertising, just think it's wrong.

And I will post and moan about anything I fucking well want.

yabu
people go to see the films, if you don't like it, don't go

YABU.... If you think people are engaging in gun grime because Glamorous Old Duck Helen Mirren is on a poster holding a gun then you're sadly mistaken. If you don't like the film, don't watch it.

Is that the film where Helen Mirren has a raunchy sex scene?

Nah, "Red" is based on a critically aclaimed comic series/graphic novel where she plays a retired "Black Ops" killer for the us Government marked "R.E.D - Retired and Extremly Dangerous"

The one with her sex scene, where she actually gets her baps out is the one where she plays a brothel madam!

YANBU I think its ridiculous to tell kids that violence and guns are wrong then show glamourous images depicting guns and violence at bus stops.

I have the same problem with Angelina Jolie. One minute she's a UN ambassador saying that war and violence is wrong then the next she's on a poster with a gun in her hand. I don't think I've ever seen a movie poster of Jolie where she isn't sexily posing with a gun.

I'm not a prude but I don't like double standards. Plus why are cigarettes on posters banned and guns not?

yanbu
It's not about making the choice not to see the film. It's about the poster being on the high street with no choice about seeing it.
Someone posted on here recently about the poster for 'The Last Exorcism' - people are becoming so desensitized to this stuff now, it's not even seen as a problem.

Maybe it's just the fact that people are realising that a "Poster" wont do anything to anyone rather than being desensitized to it? And there are far worse things out there that are more important than a photo of a woman holding a gun.

I can't stand it when people say 'there are worse things to get worried about'. Yes we know there are worse things out there but that doesn't mean we can't be annoyed by this type of thing too. I know there are children starving in Africa but that doesn't mean I can't ever care about anything else.

It bothers me that people are becoming too decensitized to violence.

It's also lazy artistic direction. Can't be bothered to come up with something truely creative, I know lets just get a woman to pose with a gun in her hand whilst looking moody/sexy that will guarentee us a big opening weekend.

People seem to be getting very cross about women with guns. If it's OK for Daniel Craig to do the James Bond moody/sexy pose with trademark Walther PPK... why not Angelina Jolie?

I am not okay with anyone with a gun on a poster, male or female but the poster in question is about Helen Mirren who happens to abe a woman and I remembered Angelina Jolie at a UN conference one minute then holding a gun the next. Its hypocritcal. I don't think any poster needs guns to promote a film anymore than they need someone holding a fag or a bottle of Jack Daniels.

No need to make this into a sexist thing. If you need to see a gun in a poster to convince you to watch it that's fine but I don't see the point of it or like it and have the right to say that I agree with the OP. You don't, fine.

It doesn't matter if it's man or a woman.

TBH I really never thought about it much before, but today, stuck in a traffic jam staring at that Red poster, it just bothered me that it's acceptable to put up huge pictures of actors making guns look sexy.

Ok, it's unlikely that an otherwise law abiding citizen would see that poster and think 'I want a gun' but I still don't think it's a good message.

Of course there are other things to get worked up about but this was my thing today and if we only posted about the world's heaviest issues MN would be a very different place.