Sometimes in this ‘wide-world of E’ some crazy and strange things happen.  When it does, I climb on my soapbox to deliver my 2 cents and invite you to add comments of your own.  This time:

It’s the film, ‘The Pirates! Band of Misfits,’ coming this April to multiplexes everywhere.   Turns out, the film has a scene, which I thought was hilarious (having seen it in the first promo released last July), which has been deemed controversial because proponents of fair rights towards lepers believe it harms the image of those afflicted with the disease.

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Hey All!

I have been watching movies since I was old enough to sit up straight. Being raised with two older siblings, I was exposed to my fair share of classic 80’s movies—all the best that John Hughes and his comrades of that decade had to offer. I can remember sitting in our family friend’s basement and being forced to watch A Nightmare on Elm Street. I was 4 years old. (Thanks a lot Mom and Dad for not protecting your little girl against the harsh realities of burnt faces, striped sweaters, and metal-clawed gloves!)

My point is: I have loved motion pictures for as a long as I can remember. Yet lately, I find that my self-proclaimed “movie-buffness” is being called into question. The aforementioned title has been challenged by at least three of my friends this holiday season alone. And how, may you ask, did they come to this unfortunate conclusion? Because I had never seen National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation and have yet to see A Christmas Story (gasp away, it won’t affect me in the least). I have no legitimate reason for never watching these movies. I simply did not have an interest in doing so.

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