When the Siver Screen Turns Red: Opinions on Movie Violence : ‘Batman the killer is not a hero for our times...’

Try comparing the carnage in the 1967 James Bond film “You Only Live Twice” (shown on television here last Sunday) to the latest film; “License to Kill” doesn’t even come close.

Twenty-two years ago the Bond movie included two people eaten alive by piranha, myriad stabbings, shootings and poisonings, a pitched battle with a body count in the hundreds.

Protest all you like against the current upswing in movie violence (like Sheila Benson in her July 23 article, I too found the Joker’s art-museum rampage in “Batman” highly objectionable), but leave “Licence to Kill” out of it; as these things go, it’s kids stuff.

FRANK LOWTHER

Los Angeles