The Grey

    The movie The Grey could have been a very epic movie for all those who love to see a thrilling and gut-wrenching movies. Everything in my opinion on the movie was great from the storyline to the effects except for two issues that made me lose respect for the movie. The first being the insane amount of profanity and the second being its extreme anti-God outlook.
    First off, the question we face is, is it necessary to insert crude language in a movie? Do those words really make a movie more appealing? I, personally, don’t believe that having 50 f-bombs is the only way to show the madness of a movie and what these men were put through. One of my friends, named Chase Rhodes, who also saw this movie agreed with me. He gave it a 6 out of 10 because of its numerous f-bombs. You could easily see all the fear, anger, and frustration, without the profanity, in the men’s eyes and by seeing the choices they make and how they interacted with each other! So why use those words!
    Along with the profanity, the whole movie had a very negative connotation towards God. There was only one man throughout it that had some sort of faith in God but as soon as he stepped out with that faith, he was immediately shut down and made to be a fool. Also, the main character, Liem Neeson, had blamed God for everything throughout the movie, and finally, near the end, he gave God one final chance to help him but nothing happened. This movie made God out to evil and non-existent in this world.
    By adding the profanity and an anti-God connotation The Grey lost a huge group of possible viewers. I believe they could have made this movie neutral in its cursing and neutral in its opinion on God, and it would have still been just as thrilling and gut-wrenching as it was for all its viewers.