CatholicFatherOf2

Unpopular Decision – Good Choice

My son is involved in his school musical. A group of the students in the musical planned on going to the movies today. My son wanted to go. When we got all of the details about the movie we decided to no let him go. As you can imagine he was not thrilled. Most of the children going are a year or 2 older than my son. The movie they picked was Employee of The Month. I went to RottenTomatoes.com to check out the movie. Not only was it rated PG-13 (for crude and sexual humor, and language), but it only got a 21%. That came from 56 of the 71 reviews saying it was a bad movie. We did offer him an alternative. We asked him if the other kids wanted to go see Flicka instead. Of course they turned down his suggestion. So, we told him if he wanted we could all go see Flicka instead. It is rated PG (for some mild language). It also got a 55% rating meaning 31 of the 56 reviews said it was good. The movie is a contemporary movie adaptation of Mary O'Hara's beloved novel My Friend Flicka. Well, my son took me up on my offer. We even invited one of his friends. It turns out that the movie was pretty good as both of my children and my son's friend said the movie was good. I even enjoyed the movie. I wasn't happy about the $7 popcorn or the $4.50 small soda, but that is another story. It turns out that our unpopular decision was a good choice.

posted by CatholicFatherOf2 @ 8:38 PM