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May 17, 2007
Hoyts Stinks
So about that preview we saw before Spider Man 3...it was so awful there was a palpable awkward silence in the theater. It was for a movie called Good Luck Chuck about a guy who discovers that every woman he sleeps with finds the man of her dreams afterward. So his dilemma is how to actually find his own girl. The preview was full of sexually suggestive and explicit scenes, and I was mortified for the young families that had come to see Spider Man, a decent movie with great themes and morals. A family from our church had two young teenagers with them, a boy and girl. Now that I'm thinking as a parent, I imagined how outraged I would have been had my teenage son been subjected to that visual assault.
I don't consider myself a right-wing fanatic, and I understand that I can't expect the world to have my values, but I turned to Peter on the way home and told him I really wanted to write them a letter. He ended up doing it for me :) He's a better writer than me anyway.
Guess it just goes to show, if you really want to control what your kids see, bring the movie home. And I guess there's only so much we can control and then we've got to let them practice the skills we've hopefully taught them.
Anyhow, go to Spotlight! They're cheaper anyway, cleaner, and more comfy chairs.
Posted by Shannon at May 17, 2007 07:55 PM