On Saturday we suddenly felt very much like watching a movie. After the LOTR binge of the past few weekends, we were absolutely dried up on the movies front, so we decided to run down to Blockbuster and check something out. The price of movie rentals, however, has become outrageous. It would have cost $4.55, with tax, to rent one new release DVD! So we decided to spend $9.99 - practically the cost of two movies - and sign up for their unlimited movies program, planning to cancel at the end of the month. We've done this before, and it's a great way to get all those movies-we've-always-wanted-to-see-but-would-never-spend-the-money-on-individual-rental out of our system.
So we came home with our 'throwaway' movie, which really was a bad choice and made me very happy that we hadn't wasted any money on it. Perhaps it's that movies are getting worse, or perhaps it's just that I'm getting older (both true, actually, but their bearing on the present case remains indeterminate), but I find bad language soooo jarring and disturbing in a movie. A certain vulgar word was gratuitously used so many times in this particular movie that I told Michael, 'If the inventor of that word had been collecting royalties, he'd have made a fortune off of this one.'
We have decided that Jane can no longer stay awake during movies. Her infant cluelessness has officially worn off, and we don't want her learning things even if she doesn't understand them. So no movies until after 8:00 PM in this household.
And I have a whole list of Irish movies I want to see now...
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I should probably warn you that the Irish are notorious for their potty mouths. Be warned that In the Name of the Father is not a "clean" movie. And the language is awful. If you are working off my list, start with Michael Collins and The Secret of Roan Inish They will not disappoint. -rlr
I remember starting "Trinity" by Leon Uris, which is a story of the Irish Revolution. I'd very much enjoyed Uris' "Exodus," but I couldn't finish "Trinity" because of the language.
I think everyone is sensitive to different things, and for me, it's bad language. The major reason that I asked my parents to homeschool me was that I was so sick and tired of hearing the constant profanity in my public high school.
--DJ
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