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Children
A couple of rantings, because, hell, why not?
1. Kids Don't Deserve Good Food (Apparently)
Why is it that, when in a restaurant/cafe/any eating-type place, the child's menu only ever seems to consist of burgers, chips, beans, sausages or some unidentifiable trash? What the hell is it with such small-minded thinking? How does this promote healthy eating?
Understand, I have no problem whatsoever with a child having a fair share of pizza, chips, whichever in the course of a week. Children love that sort of thing, for the most part. What I do resent is that the eating out experience is ruined for children straight off.
No matter what the restaurant; French, Italian, Grill, Mediterranean, Mexican, whatever-- it's always the same story. Burgers, chips, other bland things. How on earth does this teach children to enjoy the wealth of food and different cultures?
Of course, some children would always opt for chips over lasagne, or eschew coq au vin for pizza, but you know what? When I was a child, I remember seeing red at being forced to choose between Fun Bites and sausages, whilst the adults chose some exotic food. I have always loved different tastes-- I much prefer Spanish, French, Japanese and Caribbean cooking to bland British fare-- but it seems society feels that children can't think like this, and I'm sure I'm note the only one who ever felt slighted by that fact.
2. Cinemas.
Now, I understand fully that if a film is rated PG then there's a fair chance we're going to be sharing the audience with some children. If it's 12A as Mona Lisa Smile was (dear lord, that film) then, again, we'll see some children there, but hey-- they're with adults, right? They'll be well-behaved, right?
Wrong. The moments in the film that tried to reach some deeper place, and let's be frank here-- they were pretty far and few between-- were spoiled by some children of the 10-12 age group who realised that they needed to go to the loo every five minutes. Hence, we have them running up and down and up and down the stairs. Shouting. I sort of hoped one of them would just fall, but then that would have made for much crying and helped them achieve their goal in making it All About Them.
If cinemas refuse to provide the staff to stop people like this ruining the film for the rest of us, couldn't they at least impose an Adults-Only screening of a film say, a couple of days a week, or something? It's stuff like this that makes me further resent the overpriced £6.50 ticket.
If I were prime minister, right after pulling as far away from Dubya and as close to mainland Europe as possible, I'd force restaurants to adopt an alternative healthy menu for children and... I don't know... personally take troublesome brats from cinemas by the scruff of their necks.
Hmm... I think I'll stick with my dog for the moment.
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*wasn't ever really given a choice though--ate what was given*
hmmmmmmm.....freudian analytics....lol
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Hee! Indeed! ;)
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But instead, let's discuss how annoyingly average Mona Lisa Smile was. I expected so much better considering the names involved. Instead, there were one-dimensional characters, tired themes, plotlines that went nowhere, and plotlines that suddenly popped up and tried to convince us they'd been there all along. Plus its entire message was at odds with the styling of the end credits. WTF? I could not figure that movie out.
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2. Oh my God, yes! When I saw RotK, there was a woman behind us with three kids, all of which were under ten, and the youngest was probably 4 or 5. For a 3+ hour movie! They were kicking the seats, and of course the youngest totally didn't know what was going on, so she was constantly asking her mom questions in that non-whisper whisper that little kids do. Aaaaaaaargh! And then she had to pee and her mom wouldn't take her so she was whining. It was really awful. I can't imagine why that woman thought RotK was a good movie for a bunch of little kids.
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And, when I went and saw Passion of the Christ, there were children in there. :| Between the lady next to me sobbing and jumping into my lap, and this one child telling his mommy about his toy at the top of his lungs, I about stood up and screamed. It made it so hard to concentrate and zone into the movie. I hate that!!!
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Ack. Well, Maggie and Kirsten, you know. They rock.
However, I cannot find any excuse as to why I am going to see The Passion of the Christ in a couple of hours.
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Can't wait to read your review on that one :-p
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*but gave 2 hours of selfs life to "What a Girl Wants" on monday simply to drool over one Colin Firth and yummy Indian boy*
:P
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