Tonight, at Pierce Morgan's program, Pierce mentioned that Morgan Freeman blames our too much preoccupation with
violent entertainment for the tragedy in Sandy Hook elementary school in Connecticut.
Author and critic Harold Schechter, whose 2005 book Savage Pastimes lays out a social history
of violent entertainment, notes that the trend divided the literati of the time.
«California's effort to regulate violent video games is the latest episode in a long series of failed attempts to
censor violent entertainment for minors,» he wrote, but «even where the protection of children is the object, the constitutional limits on governmental action apply.»
Paul Michael Glaser's film adaptation however turns what was a potent critique of America's thirst for
violent entertainment, into an Arnold Schwarzenegger vehicle of the most mindless and silly kind.
The result is fast - paced,
violent entertainment that's enhanced by witty dialogue and just enough unexpected variations on time worn themes to keep the audience guessing.