The Overt Use of Vulgarity on TV, Film, and in Real Life

How Excessive Cursing Degrades Your Entertainment, Your Work, Your Life

Let me be perfectly clear:

I swear all the time.

And I get angry and pissed off (see what I did there?).

But to watch a new TV show or go see a new movie, and even to sometimes listen to new music, and hear nothing but “F-this” and “F-that” every two seconds is degrading — on a personal and professional level.

I remember a few decades ago, in 1997, when the script for the movie Good Will Hunting won the Academy Award best screenplay.

I was like, “Really? They won an Oscar?! For THAT script?!”

Actually, the film won 2 Academy Awards and was nominated for 9 in various categories.

And that just got me scratchin’ my head.

That script was littered with the ignorant over-use of vulgar words and profanity. And I don’t care how wonderful a piece of art this film is considered by many, in my book, this film was a piece of crap (see what I did NOT do there?), made so if only for it’s poor choice dialogue decorations.