Recently, our son and his wife gave us five huge shopping bags stuffed with films on video cassette. They were getting rid of their TV. Now, that is something we can fully understand; we did that a good 8 years ago----except for NETFLIX -- where we can pick and choose from the cream of the crop.

First, you must understand that NO TV PROGRAMS can reach us "through the air" here in Peru, Illinois---so if you don't have cable, you get NOTHING at all. We listen to the Cubs and white Sox and Blackhawks on the radio.

Also, Carol won't watch r-rated films. Those are too much for her! Anything less than PG-13 I can endure---but barely--only if it's a great film

I was really happy to get all these films I'd not watched before from Chris. Watching them has been an education, as ALL of them are really WELL MADE.

Here's the RUB. Folks, I was NOT ready for the action violence and graphic blood. I could grasp that
Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers was a brilliantly made film; BUT it was quite SICKENING.

That crap can't be good for kids and some adults to see!!!
We live in a HUD building where four fifths of us are walking wounded of some sort---either physically, mentally, what-have-you. I generally take the videos down to our lobby for others in the building to watch if that is their wont! But today I put four of the films down the garbage chute----a form of censorship,
I guess.

There is NO WAY IN HELL that I'd want to inflict Natural Born Killers, Con Air, and others, on these people. That is a simple fact!!

How do other Mucatters draw their own lines? What films do you really dislike because of stuff like this they've got in them?

I did watch most of them once all the way through--- so I could make a judgment. Some few I even kept to watch again. But not many.

Art Thieme