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Me too Dustin - you're not alone.

I tend to reserve my anger for certain things...and this raises my ire...so, with that said.

Steven Monroe...I hope your wife crashes into a gas truck, and it's a pity you didn't suffer a crib death.

What. The. Hell? Didnt anyone in the marketing room say 'Wait hang on a minute, this is actually a bit sick and wrong?' or were they too busy eyeing up their cheques?

thank you, dustin. i like pajiba the most when it's not just criticizing bad movies, but also examining and slamming the machine and cultural elements that create and encourage them.

Just.

Just SO BEYOND WORDS. CAPLSOCK RAGE. JUST GOING TO MASH THE KEYBOARD. BEYOND MUCH MORE. THSEIFDGSDFMKL;BVSFUO;AERUO;SVJUVBSDASOECCUNTCUNTCUNTCUNTCUNCUNTFUCKANAJL;ASGUI;IVBFBASO/GRSBRMZV\SVSW/'

HIT.SEND.HNOW.BYE ALL.

Brings up the image from The Unborn poster to me (http://images2.fanpop.com/images/photos/3400000/The-Unborn-Movie-Poster-International-odette-yustman-3436235-540-800.jpg) which was clearly designed to raise some sexual feelings. In the context of THIS totally unnecessary remake this poster is disgusting. Thank you Dustin, you should send this blurb of yours to the film makers/producers/ studio.

Well said, boss. I think you've got plenty of rage left in the tank for this pile of garbage.

Oh, and just in case this didn't really drive home how fucked up this whole idea is (remaking a film that centered on a graphic rape and then marketing it by glorifying/sexualizing that rape), I jumped over to IMDB just to see the actors names. Out of curiosity, I scrolled down to the message boards, despite knowing that those are the sewage backups of humanity.

The first post listed has the following header:

Will Jennifer(Sarah Butler) be nude in this?

And people wonder why I'm the way I am.

This is just sick

Another thing what makes me feel ill like this is the rape condom. Not because of the jagged teeth and a Doctor having to remove it from tiny little rapist peen, but for the fact that women are living lives where the fear of being raped is such harsh reality that measures like this aren't even considered extreme. No one should have to bear trap their bajingo!

A women shouldn't have to arm her vagina in case the scary menfolk get on up in it. Convicted rapists should have to have 'I am a Rapist, please fist me in the facehole' tattooed on their foreheads (same goes for pedophiles)

Or better yet, how about all males are forced to wear Saw-like mini guillotine contraptions on their junk poised at the read to chop the minute any forced sexual activity goes on?

Trust me, the rate of rape will go down like THAT *click*

*End feminist rant, stamps out burning bra*

That is disturbing on so many different levels that it defies reasoned explanation. I'm just going to assume Mel Gibson had approval authority on this one.

Thanks for posting this, Dustin. I hear enough shit about women from men I forget there are actually a few of y'all out there who getting pissed the fuck off by a completely disgusting act of disrespect and objectification. This bullshit is deserving of righteous anger.

it doesn't even make me angry, it just makes me incredibly sad. Because there are so many people out there who don't think there is anything wrong with this or, even worse, are aroused just because a woman's ass is hanging out.
And it feels defeating, knowing that things like this will only outrage the few, rather than the many.

There are so many other creative choices that could have been made for this poster; color palettes unconsidered, grain sizes, perhaps a different background with a happy little tree. I mean, I like Photoshop's desaturation filter as much as the next hack graphic designer. But really, couldn't they try messing with the white balance or morphing her with a woolly mammoth, like those clever lads on the message board groups?

Oh, you're so damned evil, Mel! And YOU, Polanski, you're a child rapist bastard!! Pathetic little bitch Lindsey can do anything she wants & just gets a slap on the wrist!!! And now these disgusting perverts trying to sexualize rape!??!!

The oil spill, Proposition 8, Lady fucking GaGa, 'Last Airbender' - -

How the hell am I supposed to contain all this pent-up righteous indignation boiling over inside me?!??

PuhLEEEZZ, civilization, could ya stop being so douchebaggy for a little bit? This anger shit is wearing me out!

God bless you, Abby and stay strong.

I saw the header pic and thought, "Well, it's a bit like a rough fashion shot but I don't think it's too out of line". Then I finished reading the article and saw the whole thing.

Good God Almighty, who's responsible for this? Did someone actually utter, "She's horribly brutalized but goddammit, she's going to look fucking hot".

I wasn't planning on seeing this (rape themes upset the shit out of me), but I'd rather blow a sawed off shotgun then watch a minute of this dreck.

Dustin - I agree that the poster is an affront to humanity and that the losers who created it, okay'd it and get off on it should be sealed up in their mother's basement, subjected to an endless stream of Lady Gaga and then terminated with extreme prejudice.

However, I think that smoke inhalation is an easier way out than the fire licking at their bodies. (that's why when people were put on the bonfire there was a barrell nailed up above their heads to act as a chimney so that they couldn't inhale the smoke and pass out, instead they'd feel the full fury of the flames.)

Send them off to a small deserted island with absolutely NOTHING and let them starve to death! Hell, put them all together so they can cannibalize each other until only the strongest survives, and then put his ass on a plank and let the sawyers at him, starting at the toes.

As others have said, hopefully this flops major at the b.o. and this trend dies a quick death. (Followed by bone cancer for each of the dickwads who ok'd this up the line.)

Words fail me. (believe it or not)

100% agree

HA! Oh Rio I really shouldnt laugh but I did.

Abby you spell how you want to spell chickee!

Rotten, scum sucking, bastard pig-sons of pox-ridden whores, dickwad, fucktard, screaming douchebag assholes!

There's no escaping that we live in a rape culture. Anyone who has suffered this (or pays attention) will see the acceptance of rape tropes in mainstream media, and as long as they aren't pushed past a certain limit, most folks will pretend that's not what's going on right in front of them. That limit is reached* when you try to make an actual rape, or actual rape victim, into something inherently sexy. There is no one out there who doesn't know someone who was raped. The victim might not ever mention it, but trust me when I say there is nowhere you can go where you will not encounter someone who has suffered sexual assault.

One wonders if the victim in this movie had been a man who was brutally raped by a bunch of guys, would the poster try to sexy him up? No, I didn't think so. Because while we dehumanize women who have been raped by placing blame or equating the attack with sex instead of violence, we completely fucking ignore the fact that men get raped, too.

*for your average person with a reasonably stable mental state. Socio/psychopaths and other fucked up people may have a different reaction, and they're the target audience for this flick.

The original movie was a steel toed boot kick to the nuts of my soul, so I find it relatively unsurprising that anyone who thought it deserved to be revisited are pretty much the scum of the earth.

-frob

Thirty years ago, right out of college, as an optimistic and vocal feminist, I participated in Take Back the Night marches and protests against strip clubs and porn shops -- in ultra liberal San Francisco. I spray painted "Women are not Chicks" on a Harrah's billboard that depicted showgirls wearing feathers and heels. How naive. Today, those strip clubs are Gentlemen's Clubs, frequented by famous actors and atheletes. The "porn" plays nightly on my TV as "Girls Gone Wild." That Harrah's billboard is nothing -- so tame, wouldn't even raise an eyebrow.

I see an movie poster like this and think, how did we women let this happen? I can hear the thinking -- women are now empowered by their sexuality and are in control of their bodies. I have a 15 year old daughter. My heart breaks for her, sometimes. This is not the "empowerment" envisioned her.

OK that just made my stomach churn. In a very real, not-at-all-exaggerating way. I'm disgusted. What the fuck is wrong with these people? and the people who are allowing this to be made and promoted?

And the worst thing is you KNOW they'll try to defend it. Like every asshole who has defended the original movie: and I'm sayign it flat-out: if you liked that movie, you're an asshole and a sick fuck. There's no other way around it. As is everyone involved in this fucking remake. It just makes me sick.

I just..."UNRATED". For a RAPE movie. WHAT THE FUCK?!

You know, I'm all against censoring in movies, but this is one where I would cheer on the protesters. Hell, I'd join them happily.

The thing that annoys me the most is like...to be blunt, I know rape victims. Im sure a lot of the Pajibans do, and to be awful, I'm sure a few Pajibans and Pajibette's have suffered through rape or sexual abuse.

This?
Is a slap and a spit in the face of everyone who was ever raped, molested or made to feel endangered and violated.
Fuck these people. Fuck anyone who sees this film, fuck anyone who helped make it.

I do not believe for a second, Dustin, that you or any other Pajiban will see this film even to review it.

But if you do I'll have to actually murder you.

May everyone reponsible for this rot in the deepest, darkest pits of hell.

RE Stillnadine
"I see an movie poster like this and think, how did we women let this happen? I can hear the thinking -- women are now empowered by their sexuality and are in control of their bodies. I have a 15 year old daughter. My heart breaks for her, sometimes. This is not the 'empowerment envisioned her."

The way I figure it, the pendulum swung way the other way. It used to be any sexual expression by women (ie to imply their enjoyment of sex) was awful and wrong, and now if you don't choose to "celebrate" your sexuality by joining in or at least noting approval of the other "empowered" women, you hate sex. So women still don't have much of a choice (that's an exaggeration, but not by a lot). If we don't agree that porn and the other forms of exhibitionism are the coolest, ultimate, most honest portrayal of sexuality out there, we not only hate sex, we hate men, because men love porn. If we don't agree that spreading it for Playboy or stripping (sorry: exotic dancing) is a celebration of our power and womanhood, we obviously aren't as enlightened as all those super-confident women out there flashing the beav and twirling around the pole.

Porn "stars" and strippers and the nekkid women in magazines have never struck me as particularly empowered or confident. But I'm just a woman, I must not know what I'm talking about. I'm not saying no sex worker enjoys the work, but I bet those people are in a distinct minority. Feigning enjoyment is part of the marketing. If women could make as much money slinging fries at McDonald's as they can stripping or doing porn, there would be a lot fewer strippers and porn workers.

BTW, I'm certainly not suggesting that women (and men) who work in the various sex industries should be scorned, but I sure would like it if - at least - people would acknowledge that porn is way more about money than sex. It's commerce. That's it. Porn isn't sex any more than Cheetos are food. I love Cheetos, but I wouldn't argue they are superior to every other food out there. But people who are into porn really seem to expect the rest of us to agree that it is superior to every other sexual expression and that if somebody doesn't particularly like porn, they must hate sex, as if the two are inextricably intertwined. Yeah, I'm well aware that depictions of sex go back literally thousands of years. Not really the same thing as porn and stripping, but thanks for playing.

Abby, I didn't see your post.

You rock.

I'm happy to see another man get upset about this shit. Too many think it's not cool to get upset about a picture and the message it sends. Believe me, it is very cool to get upset about it.

I emailed Anchor Bay. Can't wait to see how they took my outraged chastisement.

I just sent over this little screed to the folks at Anchor Bay:

Is this honestly the kind of publicity your company is looking for?
http://www.pajiba.com/trade_news/the-reprehensible-sexualization-of-rape-i-spit-on-your-grave-remake-poster-.php#comments

Congratulations, you're somehow managed to make a deplorable remake of a deplorable film even MORE deplorable! That's truly an accomplishment, Anchor Bay!

The original Spit On Your Grave at least pretended to have a feminist argument of revenge, despite a grotesque and overlong gang rape sequence that fetishizes the act entirely too much to be redeemed through any actions of the victim character. But now, your company has chosen to release a poster that makes that fetishization more explicit, for the delight of audiences of degenerates everywhere!

Now you have a poster that tells the public, "Hey, America! Not only have we released a movie with graphic sexual violence, but we've made sure the victim is nice and sexy, too! That way you'll be sure to get off when that bitch gets what she deserves! Come join the fun!"

To recap:
1. The film's source material is repugnant - could have been a political statement, but chose to be a glorified rape fantasy.
2. Making a remake is deeply irresponsible at best, and certainly morally questionable.
3. Making sure that the poster for a morally questionable and irresponsible glorification of rape onscreen is nice and sexualized, as well as ensuring that you promote how "Unrated" it is (just to make sure audiences know that that character gets raped "real good!") is unconscionable.

Do none of you have daughters, sisters, or wives? Please tell me someone realizes just how horrifying it is to create a sexualized promotional piece for a film about violent rape.

Disgusted, and gleefully passing along links decrying your company all over any social media platform that I can,

[full name redacted - Pajibans call me Tammy]
Demographic: Women aged 25-30 - i.e. the ones that (potentially) buy a lot of your products. Enjoy the backlash, which I can only pray will be coming your way.

Tammy, I am whooping and cheering in my kitchen.

I get why everyone is so mad about the movie but it sounds like to me the reason for this article is the poster and the poster looks basically the same way the 1978 one did.

Aside from that, keep in mind that they are playing to their audience. Sex sells and they’re in the business of advertising to sell a product.

I noticed someone else mention the poster for "the Unborn" too which makes less sense then complaining about this one. Do you have any doubt that girl got the role for any other reason than she's attractive? I saw the movie, because I knew that hot girl would be in it, and it sucked. She can’t act but she's fun to look at it. One of the best scenes in the movie was the shot of her in her underwear, and that was one of the only bearable parts of that movie. Aside from Gary Oldman who is always awesome.

Again, I get why this movie makes people sick, I just don’t get why so much hatred is being focused on those who were paid to make the poster.

I too see this advertising campaign as a fetid dung-load popped out, steaming and still wet, from the sick minds of a few male marketers who capitalize on the audience that jerks off for such shit.

But in all seriousness, this really sickens me.

I talked to a man a few years ago, and he mentioned how he would *never* see the movie "Hostel" because it showed a woman being raped.

I hate gore movies because I find their violence sickening. (Hostel being just one example of those gang-rapey movies that show females being violated in excruciating ways. )

In my friend's mind, there was no excuse for showing a rape scene in a movie in such a way. It's done only for the over-the-top edge (if we can call it that) of showing such a titillating and taboo issue. It has nothing to do with art or expression.

Thanks for putting this up.

Also Dustin, tell us where we can send complaints. I think if everyone on here could copy (clean up a bit perhaps) their comment and send it to the marketers, the distributers, the movie house, and to the head of any cinemas showing this movie, it would be the best thing.

Maybe we could actually force them to admit what they have done if we make enough fuss about it.

"Aside from that, keep in mind that they are playing to their audience. Sex sells and they’re in the business of advertising to sell a product."

All kinds of wrong. Rape is not merely another form of sex. To equate the two in an advertising campaign (much less a movie) is beyond disgusting.

unpopular comment of the day: to everyone who is outraged by this poster, i direct your attention to the scene in the original where the retard is in the grocery store and there's a quick shot of a butcher slicing ... some smaller animal, legs spread, straight down the middle. think about this image. i then suggest anyone further interested in why things are the way they are read The Sexual Politics of Meat. you may not agree with everything in there, but i feel any discussion of the abuses of women is incomplete without also considering our abuses of animals.

I just hope and pray that this film NEVER makes it to Trinidad. I hope it flops in the states and the idiots in the distribution industry down here will not get the bright idea to pick it up.

This movie has gone beyond reprehensible and picking up speed. Morality deprived fucks.

I think I feel a headache approaching.

OscarTamerz I can agree that eroticizing may be a slightly more accurate word than sexualizing. I argue that rape is not sex. It is a horrifying hate crime that uses sex acts to humiliate, dominate and abuse another person physically and mentally.
Sex is consensual, shared, and hopefully entirely pleasurable for everyone involved. Equating rape with sex is like equating blunt force trauma assualt with a hammer with any other kind of normal tool use. No, it is brutal assualt. It is also disrespectful to the survivors (and sadly, non-survivors) of the hate crime.

I can't imagine any rape scene being artful, and it creeps me the hell out to know that you do. I'm not sure why you would think the majority in this thread would want to view the link to it. You sure seem to have viewed a lot of rape movies. What difference does it make what Bellucci was wearing? Are you saying it is her character's fault that she was raped because the men just can't help themselves if they see an attractive woman? And why are you pushing for hate for the actress in the movie poster and none of the male actors? I realize the poster is the focus of the thread, but considering your post as a whole, well, you just seem to really enjoy the rape, which is part of hating women.

Dustin your wife is a lucky woman. I hope I can find and fall in love with a nice feminist sympathizer like you someday (some feminists would argue that unless you have a vagina of your own, you can only sympathize because you can't fully experience the daily influx of hate from men on a visceral level for yourself).

Abbynormal and Tammy you inspire me. I want to hug so many of you Pajibans right now.

I imagine much of the thought process behind this poster was to appeal to those (un)fortunate enough not to know the content of this abomination, and too stupid to find out.
"Hot chick with knife and ass sticking out? I don't care WHAT this is about, I'm heading down to the megaplex!"
It's cynical and disgusting.
I'm always pleased to read your rage, Dustin. I wish it were more widespread...

I understand rape films are not uncommon in Japan, and have been for several decades now. What does that say about them?

OHMYGOD I just wrote this HUGE thing and it just randomly for no reason vanished before I could post it!!
What I said was this;

Oscar, rape isn't sex. Very few rapes are about sexual release, they're about power, dominance, degradation. The few rapes genuinely fuelled by sexual desire usually have a lot of back story in the sense they rapist and victim usually know one another and the rapist has unresolved sexual tensions for the victim, but even then, the rape isn't sex, not for the victim.
Rape, simply, is a violent physical assault, just one that happens to involve the sex organs.
So saying that Rape is sex does not make this poster okay.( I know you didn't say that but...)

The OTHER thing I said was, was that this is the original poster;

http://www.critcononline.com/images/i%20spit%20on%20your%20grave%20poster.jpg

It's just as horrible and exploitative how ever you could, theoretically argue that in the original, the victim is shown walking through the woods with more of her arse covered(just a little though). She's shown with some...purpose. it doesn't make the image okay but arguably it's shows a certain aspect of part of the plot, her actual revenge desires, which like I said, doesn't make it okay but is just a way of looking at it.
Plus her bikini fits her snuggly but smoothly. It happens to cover her butt but the new poster's is actually up her butt, giving her a cleavage which is far more suggestive of nudity which in this context is far more suggestive of sex.

In the NEW poster, it's a model shot. Simple as that, the over the shoulder pose, the coy, half show face, it's the same pose used by models and celebs all the time. It's a favourite for women on the red carpet to show off their pretty dresses more favourably.
You look half over your shoulder to make yourself look slim and hide a wobbly chin.

The there's the knife.
Total fem rant here but;

The knife is already a phallic symbol for a lot of people and in this instance it's no different. It's huge, framed against her buttock and the first six inches are soaked in blood.
It's supposed to represent the dicks of her rapists, after the rape(In my fem reading of this) And framed against her buttock it, to me, from my current fem point of view, it looks like a BRAND, like a mark of ownership, which is in fact what it is.
In the films, the victim uses their lust and warped views of women to get close. They do leave her for dead but then figure she must have liked the gang rape so let her get close to each of them individually. She uses their idea they own her now to literally castrate/drown etc them all.
But that faint idea of empowerment doesn't come through here. The poster makers are trying to go for 'she's totes a bad ass who will get revenge' and missed by all of the miles in the world. What they've landed on is 'sexy rape victim is only capable of mindless blood lust revenge after her forced dicking' which is not empowering, it's pathetic.

Don't get me wrong, I'd love for every rape victim to be given an array of pain causing tools and a day with their attacked, who would be bound but not gagged, so his screams could be heard by all, but this poster doesn't convey a sense of empowerment, it just shows me a victim, marked by her attackers for the rest of her life, and nothing more, using her big phallic knife to get revenge because a rape victim can only move past her assault by flirting with her attackers then using a tool the film makers have actively worked to make represent the rapists dicks, to get their revenge.

I could sit and analyse this for days and never find a positive thing about it. Fuck this movie.

Qwert you'll find that more than a few Pajibans contribute to and/or are heavily involved in a lot of charity and relief work for, amongst other things, rape. A lot of Pajibans are victims of rape themselves, or know victims of rape.

Name ONE PLACE where gang rape is A-Ok?

I understand your point, but you must understand, it's because there are places in the world where rape happens all the time to female and male victims THAT we're so pissed off. This poster takes one look at victims of rape and slaps them in the face.
We're pissed off because this poster is wildly insensitive to victims of rape and sends the message that rape victims are sexual objects.
It sends the message to people, young people, that it's okay to sexualise rape and rape victims and when that message is sent out, women who are gang raped because they're lesbians or any victim raped for any reason lose voices in their fight for their rights and justice. People see stuff like this and think 'oh this poster makes rape sexy, rape must be sexy' because there actually are people THAT dumb in the world.

We're not ignoring those victims, we're pissed on their behalf because this poster sends the message that the fight against rape in those 'places in the world' is going no where because rape is sexy.
Rape isn't sexy and this poster is sick.

God I know its Nadine posting just from the first two words, damn sisterly bond.

Its heartening to know that women and men are still able to get outraged over things like this poster. Sex and rape has become a commodity in Hollywood leading viewers to become desensitised and less empathetic to what they are watching. Im glad I can come here and see that there are still humans who dont want to watch torture porn in the cinemas no matter how hard Hollywood tries to shove it down our throats.
That poster and the idea behind it sickens me, I honestly thought we had moved on from video nasties, but unfortunately Hollywood and the film industry will keep recycling crap until everyone stops watching it.

"Another thing what makes me feel ill like this is the rape condom. Not because of the jagged teeth and a Doctor having to remove it from tiny little rapist peen, but for the fact that women are living lives where the fear of being raped is such harsh reality that measures like this aren't even considered extreme. No one should have to bear trap their bajingo!"

I wonder if there's been any case of a girl actually wanting to have sex with a guy, but forgetting to take out the rape condom. That would be hella funny if I weren't a guy and found that thought to be pants-shittingly horrifying.

Seriously, you guys are espousing all this feminist shit when 99% of guys agree with you. I saw the first one on TV when I was a kid and thought it was sick. Almost everyone who sees this will think its sick. I agree that it is needless porn for those who truly get off on it. I remember seeing the Hills Have Eyes 2 and when there was the rape scene, there was some guy in the theater laughing. That shit pisses me off too. Heres the lowdown though, for all of you making stupid threats, why dont you go on those websites who list the names and addresses of pedophiles and rapists and make good on your threats if you really want to do somthing about it. Or better yet, how about you carry a fucking gun so you can kill any degenerate scum that would try? The problem with rapists is the fact that weak ass people dont think its bad enough to give the fucker the death penalty or at least 50 fucking years. Its weak bitch ass people like that who destroy America. Everyone can kill germs and plants etc but dont have the moral aptitude to do whats right and put the fuckin goons 10 feet under. Most of your problem stems from dumb ass females who dont get that if it was ever me vs them, the only chance they have is a gun (maybe a knife).

You fem-nazis should be preaching to your compatriots. Not this bullshit self-defense, not fucking pepper spray, give them a gun, better yet, make it perfectly legal for people who arent convicted under violent crimes to carry a concealed weapon.

Rapists should die in my opinion.
Women should protect themselves.
Criminals should stop, but they wont, nor ever will.

Now stop bitching and either find some way to protect yourself or stfu, because the real problem is not this movie, the real problem is
1. The Judicial system.
2. Gun Control
3. Rapists!
4. Dumb bitches who wont protect self from #3

Im not saying it is a victims fault that she was raped, im saying if you do nothing to prevent such an act, its hard for ANYONE to not look within and say "I should have been prepared".

No you shouldnt HAVE to be prepared, but fuck man, we shouldnt HAVE to have a military, I shouldnt HAVE to wear a seat-belt, We shouldnt HAVE to have a border, but therein lies the fucking problem, if you dont have a way to deter those who are wicked than you empower them.

PS. If I seem pissed off, I am a little but I HAVE to protect myself and my family as well, I dont like carrying a loaded gun around everywhere its a friggin pain in the ass LITTERALLY, but I do it because I feel that my saftey is MY RESPONSIBILITY, not joe-schmoe-police officer. I never even bought a gun until I thought "what if someone breaks in my home? or tries to hurt my family" well gotta have at least an equal battle ground.

PS. Ive known 4 rape victims, and even my mother was raped. So stop bitching and do somthing about it.

So you're against a rape-revenge movie, and to show your anger wish anal rape upon those who might like it? By doing that you're trivializing the very thing you are supposedly against.

Stay classy.

"Seriously, you guys are espousing all this feminist shit when 99% of guys agree with you."

That 1% of guys who don't agree must be spending every waking moment raping and assaulting, considering roughly 1 out of 4 women experience sexual assault.

And then you go on to describe women who are raped as "dumb bitches" who simply didn't protect themselves well enough.
Because, you know, everyone has easy access to guns.

Your stupidity, sir? It is fucking epic.

And for the record: "I've known four rape victims, so I can say these things!" is hilariously analogous to "But my best friend is black!!"

Somebody probably said this already, but I find it funny that all these people getting bent out of shape over this seem to be wishing violence against the people who made the film. that's fucking stupid, and contradictory. I for one don't think that a simple poster for a movie makes anybody evil. It's a marketing ploy, and they have every right to push their movie in a way that will sell it to more people. Regardless of what anybody here is saying I bet most of us here will still go out and see it. And when/if you do go see it, and God forbid even like the film, it doesn't mean you support or endorse rape.

Dude, seems like you got a lot hate bottled up. see a psychiatrist or something before you go all Virginia Tech on your workplace one day.

This poster is the farthest thing from "titillation": it's meant to be shocking. It plays upon a common cultural representation of sexuality, but brutalizes it to a point of repulsion. It screams "VICTIM" and "DANGER." When I look upon this image, I am not turned-on, but afraid.

So, if such visceral outrage stems from a belief that this is meant to be titillating, then perhaps a small part of you IS titillated--and for that, you feel much shame.

I’d be inclined to give the go-ahead with you on this. Which is not something I usually do! I love reading a post that will make people think. Also, thanks for allowing me to speak my mind!

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