Never, ever have I been able to undetstand this. Television shows like "1,000 Ways to Die" and movies like the "Final Destination" series absolutely disgust me. The show "1,000 Ways to Die" is also immensely distespectful to those who are portrayed in it, and the fact that a telvision show based on people dying was even made is completely sickening to me. Yet it seems that the majority of society finds them entertaining. What is the entertainment value in watching someone die? I know it's not real, but it's horribly sad to me. Some even find footage of real people dying entertaining. How?! How is that entertaining in the least? I've seen that on the internet once ever (/gif/) and it brought upon me such a terrible feeling of depression. Maybe I'm more sensitive to these things than most are, but I honestly just don't understand at all what makes anything about the death of another human being entertaining. I feel like there's something seriously wrong with this. If anyone finds things like this entertaining, please enlighten me.
People listen to death metal. I personally feel that it sounds like garbage. I don't know why they listen to it. For me it ranks up there with graphic depictions of violence. At this point I'm desensitized to it, but I have no reason to be looking at it, it's just there. Any morbid curiosity I might have had about that kind of thing went away when I got the internet. It's like yeah that guy's missing half his face, that happens, but why anyone would want to look at it, I don't understand.
Some people are entertained by the things that some of us find repulsive.
Or 'Why do people like the things that I have absolutely no interest in?'
It's human nature
[QUOTE=RenegadeCop;35171604]Final Destination is suppose to be suspenseful and scary, death tends to be scary. Many if not all of horror films have death.
1,000 Ways to Die just showcases some really idiotic people and how they died, kind of like a dark version of America's Funniest Home Videos, but no one wins any money.[/QUOTE]
While I suppose death is scary, I find it more disturbing than scary. I like scary games (FEAR, Penumbra), but for some reason depictions of real people dying just holds no entertainment value or fear factor whatsoever. It's just upsetting.
As far as 1,000 Ways to Die is concerned, while some of the deaths are "idiotic", I still find it horribly disrespctful to those who died. I guess I have more respect for living beings than others.
most of those people who died on the show were disrespectful themselves
[QUOTE=Death_God;35171714]most of those people who died on the show were disrespectful themselves[/QUOTE]
They're portrayed as such. That doesn't mean they were.
[QUOTE=J Paul;35171550]People listen to death metal. I personally feel that it sounds like garbage. I don't know why they listen to it. For me it ranks up there with graphic depictions of violence. At this point I'm desensitized to it, but I have no reason to be looking at it, it's just there. Any morbid curiosity I might have had about that kind of thing went away when I got the internet. It's like yeah that guy's missing half his face, that happens, but why anyone would want to look at it, I don't understand.
Some people are entertained by the things that some of us find repulsive.
Or 'Why do people like the things that I have absolutely no interest in?'[/QUOTE]
This. Though I do find death repulsive as well. I'm just not going to even begin trying to get into the school of thought of people that do enjoy death. I'm assuming it's one of those things you have to get accustomed to, despite initially and naturally wanting to avoid. I avoid alcoholic drinks for the same natural reason, not for the longer-term human-associated effect of wanting to get drunk.
[QUOTE=Zero Vector;35171790]They're portrayed as such. That doesn't mean they were.[/QUOTE]
I'm guessing they do that so people won't feel bad for the people who died. Give them a sense of "they deserved it", to try and keep the show entertaining.
Human beings have had a fascination with death since human beings were a thing. Some people like the cheap thrill of dealing in a taboo subject. Some people are depraved sociopaths. Maybe it's the mystery, or the raw emotions evoked.
There's no straight answer- death has a different meaning everyone. It's just another bit of cultural baggage everyone carries around.
death is scary and makes people nervous.
stuff that makes people nervous is funny.
I don't really like watching [i]people[/i] die, but I'll happily watch cars die by the thousand. I love car crashes. Rally, NASCAR, russian red-light runners, it's all the same.
It's hard to explain why though. I don't know why I like watching car crashes. But I do. If someone from the IIHS walked up to me and said "We'll pay you $7.50 an hour to crash cars for a living" I'd say "I accept, where's the first junkheap I'm smashing?" before they had the chance to finish the word "Living".
If I had to guess - it's a coping mechanism.
We're all going to die - there is absolutely no way getting around that. But when we see that people have died doing incredibly dumb things, it kinda makes you feel better about the fact that when you go it won't be as bad as others demise. Odds are most of us will die in our sleep. Much more comforting then dying in a plane crash or burning alive. And now that you've seen the outcome of it, you're more likely to accept it.
They just do
For example, Commando is an entertaining movie - and it basically just consists of 90 minutes of people dying
Because they think it makes them bad ass.
For shock value. Of course not really a big fan on those gruesome movies like Saw.
It's the type of people that get themselves into those situation and how they deal with
what's happening to them what the bad/dies does to them or one person.
And the situation we rather not want to get into.
Sometimes people die in funny ways.
1000 ways to die is funny in the way its funny to watch people hurt themselves in dumb ways except they end up dying as well
I agree entirely with the post. I like some dark humor, but I believe that dying isn't a laughing matter (unless it's a plant or fungus, that isn't very remarkable anyway). I guess that some people grew up with people that had different morals, and those people kind of dominate the entertainment world.
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