Good Entertainment

This last Friday was date night.  Ritchell and I went out for dinner and a movie.  It had been about a month since we had been able to get out without the kids.  We really enjoyed the time together.--Thanks Mom and Dad for watching the kids.

Ritchell and I went to Panda Express for dinner.  After, we saw the movie RED.  Neither of us really knew much about the movie before we sat down to watch it.  I don't recall seeing any trailers for it.  The movie has many good actors in it--Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, John Malkovich, Mary-Louise Parker, and Helen Mirren.

We were thoroughly entertained!  This movie was full of action and very funny.  It reminded me somewhat of "Grumpy Old Men" crossed between "Die Hard."

Anyway...if you are looking to see an entertaining movie--we'd recommend "RED," which we found out stands for "Retired and Extremely Dangerous."  :)

Other good entertainment that Ritchell and I have enjoyed is watching Smallville.  I think the show is one of not many that have stayed mostly clean over its 10 seasons.  I initially had no desire to watch a show that was about Superman.  I'm not really into the super-hero thing.  I just happened to come home from school one day and Ritchell was watching the first season that she had borrowed from a friend.  I watched a few episodes with her and was hooked.  If you haven't watched it, I would recommend going back and watching all of the seasons, as it is now on its last season. 

It is hard to find good entertainment these days.  Ritchell and I do not watch movies that are rated R.  We have found it to be increasingly difficult to find movies that are not rated R that we haven't already seen or that are even worth seeing.  It seems that a great majority of movies coming out are nearly all rated R.  It also seems that among the movies that are not rated R, maybe 3 out of 10 are worth watching.  It saddens me that Hollywood is creating such movies and that the increase in these types of movies only signifies an increase in their bottom line---which means people are actually viewing them.  Why shouldn't I watch rated R movies?

To simply say that such movies do not effect our minds would be a lie.  Have you ever watched a very graphic movie and then dreamed about it later that night?  I know I have.  I am not a psychologist, but I can see the effects that such movies have on children AND adults--and on our society.  Sure, just because I have a dream about it doesn't mean that I am going to change my actions.  However, when I see something that has that kind of negative effect on my mind--over time I may come to think that this kind of behavior is normal.  Swearing, alcohol, drug use, killing, adultery, etc should not be normal.  These are things that plague our society and cause many problems--which I chose not to participate in.  I would rather seek for solutions to these problems rather than embrace and encourage them.  This is why I seek out good, wholesome entertainment. 

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