Thirty Minutes or Less: Rude?

[MyFamily]

I don't think it's rude. Tasteless maybe, but it happens all the time. Heck, nearly every episode of Law and Order SVU is ripped from real-life headlines, it seems.

To be fair, Law and Order rarely turns it into comedy.

Comedy or drama the purpose is the same - to entertain the audience. 

[LEMon]

I don't think it's rude. Tasteless maybe, but it happens all the time. Heck, nearly every episode of Law and Order SVU is ripped from real-life headlines, it seems.

To be fair, Law and Order rarely turns it into comedy.

Comedy or drama the purpose is the same - to entertain the audience.

Yeah, but if it were my family or friends that had been involved in something, I would much prefer it to be presented as a drama than a comedy.  One feels like the audience is invited to feel with me or to understand, while the other feels like an invitation to laugh at me and/or my situation.

[Twik]

Right. At least L&O usually stresses "violent death is horrible and traumatic," not "HAHAHAHA! Look at the guy sweat, thinking he's going to be blown up!"

I wouldn't want to watch either version if it related to someone I loved, but at least the first would indicate that they took the death of my loved one seriously.

[Thyisa]

Were it a drama, I would feel it has less chance to be offensive, but a comedy? Err? I think using the idea of the bomb is suspect enough. There are rumors things are too close to the actual events, but its sorta murky in my opinion. (http://www.wired.com/underwire/2011/08/30-minutes-or-less-collar-bom/)

[DuBois]

I would have more sympathy with the family of Brian Wells if he had not been an accomplice to the events, I think.

[NutMeg]

I would have more sympathy with the family of Brian Wells if he had not been an accomplice to the events, I think.

What does his family have to do with that? They weren't accomplices.

[grannyclampettjr]

Thelma and Louise came out shortly after I was robbed at knifepoint at a bookstore I was working at.  I wasn't exactly happy about people cheering on criminals, no matter how "grrrrrrlpower."

[kherbert05]

I'll vote with my dollars and feet - I won't see it.

[DuBois]

I would have more sympathy with the family of Brian Wells if he had not been an accomplice to the events, I think.

What does his family have to do with that? They weren't accomplices.

I think that if you are the family of a criminal, you have to take the rough with the smooth.

[Larrabee]

I would have more sympathy with the family of Brian Wells if he had not been an accomplice to the events, I think.

What does his family have to do with that? They weren't accomplices.

I think that if you are the family of a criminal, you have to take the rough with the smooth.

Well, you do because everyone does, but it really really sucks to be the innocent family member of a criminal I'm sure.  You aren't responsible for their crimes but the world treats you as somehow complicit.