technology allowed for more elaborate special effects, allowing for more and more fantastic violence in movies and on television. In 1979, the first of the Alien films was released. In 1984, The Terminator debuted. (Schneider). That same year, one year after I was born, the far less sophisticated but bloodier Nightmare on Elm Street was released. (Giles). Around the same time came the Jaws films. The first violent movie I ever saw was Jaws when it made its network premier. I was two years old, and my father allowed me to watch the movie with him while my mother, who had made him promise he wouldn't, was at work. Many of my peers have reported to me having similar experiences. For all the blood and gore of Jaws, it paled in comparison to films that came later.
             Terminator 2 was released in 1992 (Schneider), and Jurassic Park in 1993 (Gelman), when my generation was about ten years old. My friends and I clamored to see the visually stunning, but also very graphic action film. Similarly, any of my male friends whose mothers would allow it went to see other movies released around the same time, such as the Die Hard series. In the mid-90's, my parents brought me to see some action films like The Rock, the Batman movies, and Con Air, released in 1997 (Schneider). I had to sneak out to see movies such as Seven and the notorious Pulp Fiction. In the late 90's came the hand-to-hand combat of the Chinese Jackie Chan movies, which have set the tone for the type of violence my generation craves in movies today.
             In the medium of television, violence was largely relegated to prime time in the 80's, so my exposure was minimal. But some of my peers were permitted to stay up and watch The A Team or Miami Vice. In the 90's, prime time was taken over by non-violent sitcoms and crime drama's like Law and Order, where violence is more often purposeful and punished. (Szaflik). However, daytime televis...