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Despicable Me

Overall not a really great movie, but certainly not as terrible as some of the Christian movie review sites make it out to be. I give it a middle of the road on morality, but if you’re looking for a cartoon kids movie to teach you morality your probably stuck on stupid anyways and this won’t help.

YES, the main character is a thief, a bad man, he steals for a living. Big deal, he’s also it seams falling upon hard times financially and needs to go to the bank for a crime loan. This to me was hilarious, the bank which on the sign said, “Formerly Lehman brothers” is run but a dishonest criminal. STOP already, I know. Criminals are all bad. It’s a MOVIE. Chill.

Now, 3 little girls who are in a orphanage are totally abused by this unbelievably mean woman who is just terrible to them. They are forced to go out and sell cookies and then even have a quota which if they don’t meet they are punished in the “box of shame” or something like that. That’s how they meet our “Nice” criminal who isn’t nice until he gets to know and like the girls.

Overall, without giving away too much. GOOD MOVIE.

I laughed, I saw a few indoctrination things there, and liberal things which were said. But, it wasn’t terribly offensive to a Christian right wing conservative.

One thing to note… if going with kids is this one part… that I almost think it’s silly mentioning but. One of the girls is enclosed in a casket with spikes, and after the casket closes, red fluid pours out of the bottom (the fluid turns out to be juice) but it did make me and my wife go… WhAT!?   :-)    it leaves you hanging for just a few seconds before they open it back up to reveal shes ok.

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July 30, 2010 at 5:36 pm Comments (0)

The Invention of Lying Movie Review

The Invention of Lying SUCKS.

End of the movie he invents a god and heaven. There, now it’s totally ruined for you. I HATED this movie.

If I can speak really quickly about what makes a movie good. Movies serve one purpose, to elicite an emotional response. (MY OPINION, it should be a positive emotion)

This movie starts off making everyone feel totally uncomfortable with how crude it is. The first five minutes we cover a huge era of topics including masturbation.  DO NOT watch this movie with your kids, parents or anyone who has any kind of a moral compass.

If you are a Christian, you know that Man did not invent lieing, it was the serpent in the garden. The devil. The first lie was? Did God Really say?

This movies then is built upon a underlying premiss that I disagree with. It’s not funny, it’s actually really sad.

Official Preview and Movie review of the Invention of Lying.

Ok, so there is the preview. Kind of looks a bit funny, but really… I think it’d be depressing to live if there was no God.

Here is Anthony Flew who was an Atheist and is now a Theist.

William Lane Craig debated Anthony Flew on the topic Does God Exist

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July 30, 2010 at 4:23 pm Comments (0)

Movie Review: Prince of Persia

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time

Great Movie, I recommend!

Alright, now that you know what I think… understand. Everyone has an opinion. MINE is just written on a blog.

The movie, graphically, and visually… which is kind of the same thing. This movie I liked a lot.

Here is my theory, a movie has only one purpose. TO ELICIT an Emotional response.
–> “I think it should be a positive emotion!”

This movie, if you can let go of reality a bit, and actually just sit back and relax and enjoy the show. It’s fantastic. I’m not a big Jake Jill-in-hall…  :-) fan… Same as I despise freaking George Clooney, and Matt Damion. They aren’t people I’d “want to have a beer with” but can they make good movies every once in a while. YOU BET!

This movie I’d allow a young man to see (12 or older) so long as they aren’t fragile flowers…

The plot, it’s basically betrale and revenge with some eastern mistasism and it’s based on the VIDEO GAME! Prince of persia. So don’t go in expecting it to be this long freaking drama. IT IS based on a video game.

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June 11, 2010 at 7:42 am Comments (0)