My How Entertainment Has Changed

I can still remember that day, Thanksgiving Days, 1976 and my Mom took us to see Star Wars. WOW!!!! We were so excited. It was such a great movie.

Can remember the movies you saw when you were a kid? Have you noticed how movies have changed since you were a kid.

I remember the Friday the 13th movies and how by the third in the series they were almost laughable.

The violent movies of today are so bad I will not go see them, not to mention letting my children see them.

What about sex in movies? I still remember Porky's and the little bit of skin you saw in it. That is nothing to today's movies.

How come in today's movies there always has to be a homosexual? Are the movie people trying to please everyone?

I ran across this story on an email I get from Plugged In Online. It talks about how entertainment has changed over the years. Here are some pieces from it.

clipped from The entertainment media’s preoccupation with sex, violence and profanity would have been unthinkable in the minds of their early pioneers. Even if computer generated graphics, advanced special effects and digitized audio had been available back then to carry the messages so explicitly, public sentiment would not have embraced music that glamorizes rape, murder and drugs, or much of what shows at the local movie theater. In 1967, when The Rolling Stones performed The Ed Sullivan Show, they were asked to change the lyrics of their hit, “Let’s Spend the Night Together” to a much tamer “Let’s Spend Some Time Together.” While they resented the change, they performed it as Sullivan requested. Why? Because society viewed songs about casual sex as—dare we say it?—wrong. Unfortunately, that’s no longer the case. Casual sex is not just accepted; in many cases it’s expected.