I know that some will say "Its just a movie" but I have a thing against the animal cruelty or the infant/baby/child cruelty. I watch a lot of CSI or SVU.....in which there is a child the victim of rape, molestation, abuse, etc. Even though I know its "just a show/movie"...I hate watching it. Because it makes you wonder "If someone had these sick and twisted thoughts in their head, enough to write a movie/show about it...What kind of R/L freaks are actually DOING this sort of thing!?"

As for the animal abuse....it really upsets me too. I have been an avid dog lover and owner all my life, (along with many other animals) and I just hate to see anything portrayed in that manner :

...That part made me angry, I loved Drag Me to Hell but that poor little kitten didn't deserve that.
It may just be cinema but it's still hard for me to watch. ='<

When i see things like that in movies, I always think to myself it's just a movie, but my heart doesn't see it that way. I can't seem to watch anything about animal abuse. I have a soft spot for animals.

Me and my boyfriend went to the movies to see "Rise of the panet of the apes". Don't get me wrong, it was an amazing movie. But, I found myself crying during it. There was some serious animal abuse, at least it was to me. At one point in the movies, I busted out crying and yelling at my boyfriend "why are we even watching this?". My heart was really hurting. We didn't leave the movies, and I'm partly glad we didn't because it had an amazing turn around.

Whenever I talk to people about the movie. The first thing I tell people is that, if you cry easy over animal abuse, then I would becareful watching it. I know this may seem crazy, but sometimes I think to myself that I'd rather see a person get hurt over an animal. Some people may not feel this way, but I personally do.

There are hundreds of the thousands of animals slaughtered in the US alone, and we justify it by claiming that these animals are killed for human consumption. It's disturbing, but if you go to your local beef farm, you'll see cows fed corn (they should be fed grain) and sometimes pumped with hormones and then killed when deemed appropriate. I justify that as animal abuse, but it's OK in our culture for whatever reason. And every culture differs; what may be okay for African tribe may not tolerated in a Native American tribe. Though it may deemed as abusive in our culture, it's important to try to understand as to why a culture does what they do.

Religion is tricky too; there are still religions around the world that practice animal sacrifice to ward off bad spirits, and though we may not agree with it, it's also important that religion is very sacred and personal thing for many, many people. Sacrificing an animal to gain glory, insight, enlightenment, whatever can be a justifiable motive.

I don't get that perturbed by animal violence in movies because I know the animals on screen are being taken of and they're not being abused at all. I do get disturbed when I see animal cop shows, so I don't watch them. Instead, I just give money to organizations like the ASPCA so they can take care those that they've rescued.

I don't like human violence and rape on camera because it triggers memories that I have of violence in my past. I also feel like it's celebrated on a lot of modern film, and I don't see how that's beneficial to our culture at all.