Source - The study, released Monday by the journal Pediatrics, found that nearly 90% of top-grossing movies over a 25-year period show main characters acting violently, and in 77% of the movies those characters also engage in sex-, alcohol- or tobacco-related behavior. The study also found that more than half of the biggest PG-13 movies featured a main character acting violently and involved in either drinking, sexual behavior or smoking within a five-minute segment — leading researchers to conclude that movies are “potentially teaching youth that violence is as acceptable as these other behaviors.”
It's times like these I understand why I didn't get in to an Ivy League school. They operate at a higher wavelength than I ever could. I mean movies that do well are full of action, sex, and drugs? It takes a keen eye to find patterns in all of life's mysteries, and what UPenn has done here is nothing less than solving a mystery.
In all seriousness, who the fuck would go see a movie without any of these things? If watching someone sleep through their alarm, eat old chicken nachos for breakfast, watch tv in their sweatpants, and blog all day I would already be famous.
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