Ah yes, how we all love a good movie. You know, something entertaining, funny, some drama, action and something you’ll remember for a while. As we approach the close of our 2-month stay here in Fargo and living in a nice motel for a couple months, Darlene and I had the opportunity to enjoy free movies the entire period. Let me tell you a little about that.

We had a list of five hundred or so to choose from, listed as action, comedy, drama, family, documentary or thriller. Now, we’re pretty open-minded old farts but let me tell you… there was sometimes more “action” than we bargained for in a drama.

There was one called “A day in the life.” It said “Bad blood between two urban crime families explodes into an all-out turf war in this gritty, hard-hitting drama.” Well, we gave it a try. This thing was scene after scene of violence. Raw interracial sex, dirty and foul language in the form of rap music…no, no, not rap music, cause there was no music, just rap crap. There was no conversation in this movie… just rap, even the actors (?) never talked… just rapped in place of conversation. When there was no sex there was machine-gun-pistol-shotgun killings galore. Lots of guts, blood and weird substances being excreted everywhere. It never got better and the language only got worse.

I couldn’t help but remember the movie African Queen. That movie had action, drama, suspense and most important… a plot. There was love without sex, death without graphic violence, it was exciting, tense at times and somehow it made you feel good after watching it. It was full of good memories and a believable story.

Of all the movies we watched from the 80’s to present there were very few really worth it. The movie Australia was good, Hotel Rwanda was good… it was pretty bloody and graphic, but it was a true story and death and carnage was a fact of life in this show.

Comedy these days is really different, unlike Lampoon Vacation with Chevy Chase where the entire family got to laugh and watch as it kept you pretty well laughing from beginning to end.

“Her Alibi” with Tom Selleck was full of laughs; it didn’t have a big rating, but was certainly entertaining. John Wayne and Jimmy Stewart made some great movies that everyone could watch… and they kept you glued to the screen and there wasn’t a naked body, intestine or cuss word.

I guess movie directors in the past used things like a plot and “acting” instead of shock and people who thought they could act.