[speaker001:] and what movies have you seen recently
[speaker002:] well we aren't just real big go to the you know first time it comes out kind of thing we neither one like to stand in line so we uh a lot of times will just kind of hold on until it comes to a dollar theater or
[speaker001:] I don't blame you we're the same
[speaker002:] something or maybe rent the video although I prefer the dollar theater because it is kind of fun and I say dollar theater I think they're actually two dollars these days
[speaker001:] right there's been inflation all the way along
[speaker002:] it's like saying go to the five and dime you know it's not five and dime anymore but the
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] a analogy is there
[speaker001:] right
[speaker002:] but um uh we have teenagers and we have we have a guideline I shan't say rule that uh you know we like to see the movies that they want to see first
[speaker001:] um-hum  um
[speaker002:] so that we can kind of talk about it and decide whether it's really appropriate or you know or not and uh we're probably stricter than most parents I know we are because I know that my children's friends even the youngest ones routinely see things that
[speaker001:] well I know that my kids have gone to things that I would never set foot in but they haven't gone with me and I haven't paid the bill
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] so there's are there are an awful lot of movies that I just think are uh unconscionable to be shown on especially to kids and I have had to hope that they would enforce the R ratings and not let kids under eighteen in
[speaker002:] um-hum um-hum and I don't really think they do I mean uh
[speaker001:] excuse me  we're having an pollen attack here and I'm having hay fever excuse me
[speaker002:] oh bless your heart I've I've have a throat that is so sore I know exactly what you mean just from that
[speaker001:] oh but anyway anyway um my kids are now twenty one and twenty four so I don't have to
[speaker002:] with absolutely no you know
[speaker001:] do anything now
[speaker002:] yeah yeah
[speaker001:] but once in a while what I try to do is try to entice them into something that I think is going to be useful or educational or something so the two
[speaker002:] yeah yeah
[speaker001:] recent recent films that we have seen where I've been able to drag them along um are the uh Henry the Fifth the Kenneth Bronoff
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] version and Rosencranz and Gilgenstern are Dead
[speaker002:] oh
[speaker001:] which were wonderful
[speaker002:] really
[speaker001:] both of them were just outstandingly good
[speaker002:] well
[speaker001:] excellent acting wonderful sets costumes and really worthwhile
[speaker002:] um-hum um-hum we uh I guess probably the last one that we really paid full price for was um oh the Russian one that they made the book
[speaker001:] hum I'm a bad one to ask because I don't
[speaker002:] I think the submarine the uh with Sean Connery there we go
[speaker001:] oh yes yes I know the one you're talking about Hunt for Red October yes
[speaker002:] there we go which I was so glad that uh my husband had read the book before we went because otherwise he you know he had to kind of sit and explain it along the way to me that uh you know that uh I thought it was very well done though uh-huh
[speaker001:] uh oh yes well uh my husband went and took his son and he enjoyed it a lot but I've never cared much for war and spy movies so they let me stay home and work in the garden
[speaker002:] um-hum yeah yeah that was a a nice trade
[speaker001:] but they thought it was a good movie and uh I like Sean Connery so I said if it comes out on video I'll be willing to pay the two dollars to rent it and then if I'm bored I don't feel like I've lost a lot and I can turn it off
[speaker002:] um-hum um-hum that's right that's right we uh have have have thoroughly enjoyed the uh Dancing with Wolves
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] that was uh I guess we paid full price for that one too
[speaker001:] well I
[speaker002:] that one was very unnerving for me I uh I have an American uh native American heritage and
[speaker001:] um
[speaker002:] I knew going into it that it was probably affect me deeply
[speaker001:] um-hum um
[speaker002:] and I was right it definitely did definitely did it definitely did
[speaker001:] well uh I have to tell you a comment that the man whose office is next door to mine goes to a lot of movies and uh he will come back with his capsule review and he said
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] well it has absolutely beautiful scenery but you wouldn't like it because of the cruelty to animals and any movie I have to say I where I notice the scenery means I didn't like the plot so
[speaker002:] well I have to agree with you it that that part of it was somewhat unnerving although it was cruelty to animals yes but not kinds of things
[speaker001:] um
[speaker002:] you know it was very much in the natural you know the way it really probably was not some sadistic crazed person you know who's going around pulling the wings off flies and birds you know swinging cats by their tail not not that kind of
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] uh torturistic type thing you know it was
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] but it it was awfully graphic that way but
[speaker001:] well I keep telling people that I don't go to movies where there's lots of blood and uh shootings and I certainly don't go to horror films
[speaker002:] oh yes I agree
[speaker001:] oh I if they are are trying on purpose to scare me then I don't want to go
[speaker002:] I'm certainly not going to give them money to do it
[speaker001:] absolutely not oh I'll tell you one though that I heard such good things about um oh let's see what was it um it's a David Lynch movie and it's about Sailor and Lula they're the two characters main characters I can't remember the name of the film now
[speaker002:] well I'll
[speaker001:] but anyway got lots of just wonderful reviews and I had heard that it had violence in it but I thought well I'll go give it a try and the first five minutes of that movie were so disgusting that I went and got my money back
[speaker002:] said I'm leaving
[speaker001:] I did I told my husband I've got a book in the car give me the car keys you can stay and watch this if you want to but I don't need this
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] and I just got up and left and in about two more minutes he joined me and we asked for ou r money back I said you know I I realize that this is advertised as an R movie and I had heard that it contained violence but I had no idea
[speaker002:] that this was what I was getting myself into
[speaker001:] how disgusting this was going to be and in the five minutes I watched there was no let up it was it was just filthy
[speaker002:] um-hum yeah and there's
[speaker001:] and now I don't mind uh nudity and I don't mind suggestiveness if it's appropriate to the story I'm not a prude and I'm not a prig but I do not see any reason why you should have one string of filthy language with no intermission in it and uh graphic violence and blood and uh it total disregard for human beings
[speaker002:] um-hum um-hum one of the I read something here just a while back about it was a newspaper thing just about the movie moguls and the television writers and what not that basically they individually personally are not even close to living the lives that the normal American person does that
[speaker001:] oh yeah
[speaker002:] we uh excuse me
[speaker001:] and I think that's got to be true if you look at what they produce that they think is the ideal normal person
[speaker002:] so how could they possibly you know so when they do find something that relates to some of us you know it's just kind on the seedy
[speaker001:] um
[speaker002:] side of our lives you know it's not the uplifting
[speaker001:] yeah and most of us aren't that seedy
[speaker002:] yeah exactly we're a lot more mundane and humdrum and
[speaker001:] at least the ones with the money to go to the movie right
[speaker002:] you know we uh we saw that little Home Alone with our children at Christmas
[speaker001:] uh
[speaker002:] you know thoroughly enjoyed that but it was uh you know
[speaker001:] I heard that was real cute
[speaker002:] totally different you know kind of thing and even in that there were a few things that had I been making it I wouldn't have put in you know so but uh
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] but you know we uh we try to you know catch things when they come back on the television and they're redone
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] you know so that the bad language is out and the heavier scenes are
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] removed for the kids we rent a lot of the old musicals and Broadway type things you know for the kids to watch here at home and try to
[speaker001:] there's a theater here in town that has uh been renovated by a foundation to its heyday of the twenties and it has the big old organ and everything and the big screen and they show only movies made before nineteen fifty
[speaker002:] um-hum oh how fun oh how fun
[speaker001:] and it is just great we go to that probably once a month or more uh at the very beginning when they were having film festivals like a Katherine Hepburn festival and a Fred Astaire festival and so on we were going a couple of nights a week and it's great for one thing it's not
[speaker002:] I wish they'd do something like that in Dallas
[speaker001:] well it's not full of rowdy teenagers who are uh spilling their Cokes and throwing their popcorn and talking all the time mostly middle age folks who are pretty decorous and sit still and listen to the film
[speaker002:] that's true but  that's cute
[speaker001:] and they get these absolutely terrific prints that are from the uh film archives in Los Angeles that have just been specially restored and sometimes they are made from the original negatives so they're really crisp and good so they're really crisp and good like they were when they first came out
[speaker002:] um-hum oh that's neat though that's you know that's good I wish more teenagers would take up some of those that they realize that they can be entertained and and enjoy a
[speaker001:] and you can go to a movie like that and you know that it's going to be entertaining and it's going to have some wit in the dialogue
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