On this wonderful day-off, Jess and I enjoyed our latest borrowed movie – Pixar’s “Cars”.
Firstly, let me just again comment at just how amazing computer-generated movies are becoming. The continual shots of life-likeness throughout the movie made my eyes happy.
What didn’t make me happy about “Cars” is that it was again disappointing to realize that phrases like “Hillbilly Hell”, “heck”, and “darn” are making their way into Children’s movies and will only get more and more liberal as time continues – therefore making me nervous about the future of movie-watching with my daughter! The suggested “pissed in a cup” mention, too, made me cringe. Why do the writers of such movies feel the need to add these bits of “humor” (as THEY call it, not me)?
how is pissed in a cup not funny in a car movie? u did get it right? – a piston… thats a part of a car right? :)
some call it pee, some call it tinkle , some call it piss. plus, movies arent usually written to keep those of us who grew up being taught piss and heck and darn and the like are bad words from cringing. who says our parents were right b/c they taught us that oh my goodness is safe but oh my gosh isnt. and i dont buy the slippery slope mentality b/c that’s not a mentality at all – that’s fear.
seriously. for a “relevant” guy i expected a bit less judgement and more realism.
and how bad (actually the opposite) is it to have a teaching moment with ur kid about what words u do say and what words u dont say and why – hopefully in a way that will help them not grow up to judge people whose slang vocabularies are different from theirs but to understand family cultures.
just out of curiosity – how old is the show “kids say the darndest things”? ud think if that was a true american bad-word it wouldn’t have survived in it’s “conservative” day in age.
im not mad at u – but i strongly disagree with so much you represent in this post. and im a bit sad (as im sure u are now too).
We had the Hitchhikers guide too for you to “rent”.
We have added to our collection: Christmas w/the Kranks;
Superman returns; You, Me and Dupree and in just a few short
days: Pirates 2!!!!!!!! and I will be adding Talladega Night :)
I know, I’m sad.
Will be keeping you in our prayers for your part in Fred Orr’s
services.
No snow yet, but hopefully it will be coming!
UH, I am the mother of this boy and the daughter who wrote above, and I am not a bit concerned over how I raised my children (Paul can speak for himself), and I see a concern in being critical, but the teaching wasn’t to be critical of others, but to set standards that could border your lives, not others! I know it seems to be confusing, but when it comes to others, there are soooooo many things that “others” do and say, that doesn’t keep us from loving them and being with them, praying for them and even taking lessons from them – but it doesn’t mean that their standards are what we would use to teach our CHILDREN or pattern our lives after … not just because they do, so can we!! If they jump off the bridge, is it good for us to follow? If they break in and enter, shall we too follow? If they have loose morals, is it ok for us to also?
There are things in life that need our criticism, but so much is not because of criticism, but in setting up borders of our own, which is necessary and good and right in our relationship with our Savior – it’s our path and what we are called to be responsible to do as parents (by God..His Word)!
Love you both dearly! Keep your focus on what God wants and expects from YOU!
Okay, how about a totally different standpoint: Being a “former” teacher, I dealt with the many different teachings/views of the various families represented in my class each year. It is hard to know what to “teach” as appropriate and inappropriate when you know that the kids in your class have different “bad words” that they aren’t allowed to say. Here is a minor example: I read a book where the little girl said “shut up and stupid” but I made sure to tell my class that just because she says it doesn’t mean it is okay to say to each other. (By the way, it isn’t okay because the words are not positive in any way and the girl always used them disrespectfully!) Of course there were “umms” and other comments when the words were read, but the kids refrained from using them since I voiced my expectations. Now, here is my qualm: I shouldn’t have to be the one explaining this stuff, but because these words are used in a good book that I know the kids would pick up by themselves, I was forced to bring attention to said inappropriate comments. I don’t appreciate having to always explain–why can’t we leave such questionable words out of the innocent lives of children (I have problems with such things being in cartoons too, because I think that should be safe for a kid to watch, but instead, the makers of cartoons are more interested in the adult content to make it funny instead of the kiddos–I guess we should ask who the intended audience was. What kid would have gotten that joke about the “piston cup?” They would only laugh if their parents laughed at it, I can guarantee!). We wouldn’t be allowed to show that movie as a treat for the class because of those words–why promote it? That’s why I am not pleased with what is acceptable in such movies/shows nowadays. I won’t even get on “my own child” bandwagon today.
Ok, I guess I’m clueless and I’ve seen this movie twice. And since I am a watcher of NASCAR–I was guessing the Piston Cup was the cars version of the Nextel Cup. I still liked the movie.
And Jess, Calah and I both cried w/Click.
Oh, one more thought–the rating system is the most deceiving. If this is rated G, then there will be a lot more “accepted” soon. PG would have been better with the little paragraph stating use of slang or innuendos of some sort.
I did like the movie, Momma Sweeny! :-) I was just bummed that they had to throw those little things in there that little ears will pick up on if their parents laugh about it.
I understand sweetie!! Not having little ones, I tune into more of the
“other words” in movies and cring and realize how blessed I am to live
in a household and having had raised our kids in a household that
doesn’t have to use foul language with every other word!!!
Love ya both and have a sweet weekend and hopefully Stevan will
get his snow soon! I keep looking out the door here at work waiting
to see the white stuff!!
Momma Sweeny
I SEE SNOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I don’t think there was any innuendo as far as the cup goes. Piston Cup is just that, the Piston Cup. Not a ‘Pissed in Cup’. As far as the other stuff, you may be right.