Are You Kidding Me???

Seriously. Are you kidding me? Are you KIDDING me? Who does this? What kind of parents do this? Do they think this won't influence or impact their childrens' young and hopefully pure and innocent minds? It is appalling and disturbing.

What is appalling and disturbing? Or should I say who? Parents who take their children to movies like "The Dark Knight." What? Parents do that? Surely the kids are 13, 14, or 15 years old right? NO! Try 3, 4 and 5 !!!! I'm NOT kidding you!

We're in the new Batman movie (seriously good, seriously long) and there are a handful of kids, yeah, even toddlers, who were brought in by people who obviously did not make the short list for parents of the year. Really? I'm just dumb founded by it and what's worse, coming out of other movies, I have seen "parents" and I use this term loosely, taking 5,6 and 7 year olds in to not just PG-13 movies, but R rated movies- shouldn't the theaters be doing something about this? Shouldn't there be a rule in addition to no adittance under 18 without an adult, PLUS no admittance with an adult if you don't have a license???? Yikes. Rant finito.

Father's Day

Ok, so I know this is late, but I had to post about my Father's Day weekend. Weekend, you ask? Yes, I finally got a Father's Day weekend. I learned from my wife to milk these special days for all they are worth and the best way to do that is to call them "weekends" instead of "days". It works to my advantage too, now!

So, while many of my friends and I have sent our wives out on "girls nights" and "scrapbook nights" etc, we have yet to do anything like that. So the idea was born that we would have a movie night. With so many great summer flicks coming out, we decided to watch the best ones- all in one sitting!

So, we starting at 3:30 and headed to the theater and started off with Iron Man. Much better than I expected! Then we walked to Culver's for a grease break, downed some grub and headed back to catch Indiana Jones. Lame ending! But it was still good for the nostalgia! Movie ends, head to Culvers for round 2!

Head back to the last movie of the night, The Incredible Hulk for the 9:50 showing. Pretty decent, except I have a hard time buying into the idea that a 4'11" British man is the villian in this movie- plausible but not believable. Anyway, 12:30-ish rolls around and we head home. I can now say that I have watched three movies in one day at the theaters! Would I do it again? Hmmm....maybe. We'll have to wait till my next "weekend"!