The message of this film is that guns kill, not people, and in this case it is the wielder of the gun who wants to displace his own guilt by tracing the origins of the damn gun. It is what I would call an morality unplay, a guilt displacer, an exercise in self-deception. It's an op-ed for gun-confiscation. Agenda driven propaganda. Thumbs totally down.
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Not about God. The Movie is Dead.
26 December 2018
Warning: Spoilers
Wow! So many raving reviews! Makes me want to bring mind something in the actual Christian Scriptures, "Beware when all men speak well of you..."
There is not anything in here about Christian apologetics, especially not about the existence of God. I would say that it actually goes in the opposite direction from the other movies, to move the argument from reasoned debate to subjective feelings. There is not one moment where the viewer is actually asked to think. It's possibly even a hijack of the meme to keep selling the franchise. (To sell promotional materials, plug a book, advertise a touring rock band! - in the bonus features on the DVD)
This movie is about a man's emotional attachment to a building and a fight over its imminent destruction couched in it's supposed value or threat religiously. It is not about a fight for free speech or for the Faith. Some points of Faith are rejected and mocked by characters with no answer, even seeming to want the viewer to agree and not question. Besides that there are some glaring negative stereotypes of the supposedly good Christians. The lead "good-guy" characters seem to be the ones with the most doubts about God along with being the least honest with themselves. Kind of like they don't have any principles on which to stand and in the end they prove it.
I don't really want to go into how implausible the whole lot of premises are, which alone merits a don't go, don't see review.
The ending is a real stinker - no resolution, just an amazingly dumb Kum-By-Yah, let's just all get along moment. No one will convert because of this film. The only choice presented is between being nice or not being nice. Nice is the one where you maybe feel like there is a God who might be alive - but even that is only implied.
Makes me wonder how Pure Flix has managed to stop being Christian! It's a new kind of not-Dead God being promoted here, one where it doesn't matter what you believe or not about Him. This God is not a person but an idea in people's heads about whom you may have as many doubts as you wish - as long as you can succumb to group pressure to light a candle.
So, it comes back to marketing - this movie is about creating a larger niche for the Christian Rock mega-church crowd - to embrace all agnostics by having "Christians" who imitate them. It is a seduction of souls that does not seek to unite them to Christ through Faith. A work without faith and it's Dead.
There is not anything in here about Christian apologetics, especially not about the existence of God. I would say that it actually goes in the opposite direction from the other movies, to move the argument from reasoned debate to subjective feelings. There is not one moment where the viewer is actually asked to think. It's possibly even a hijack of the meme to keep selling the franchise. (To sell promotional materials, plug a book, advertise a touring rock band! - in the bonus features on the DVD)
This movie is about a man's emotional attachment to a building and a fight over its imminent destruction couched in it's supposed value or threat religiously. It is not about a fight for free speech or for the Faith. Some points of Faith are rejected and mocked by characters with no answer, even seeming to want the viewer to agree and not question. Besides that there are some glaring negative stereotypes of the supposedly good Christians. The lead "good-guy" characters seem to be the ones with the most doubts about God along with being the least honest with themselves. Kind of like they don't have any principles on which to stand and in the end they prove it.
I don't really want to go into how implausible the whole lot of premises are, which alone merits a don't go, don't see review.
The ending is a real stinker - no resolution, just an amazingly dumb Kum-By-Yah, let's just all get along moment. No one will convert because of this film. The only choice presented is between being nice or not being nice. Nice is the one where you maybe feel like there is a God who might be alive - but even that is only implied.
Makes me wonder how Pure Flix has managed to stop being Christian! It's a new kind of not-Dead God being promoted here, one where it doesn't matter what you believe or not about Him. This God is not a person but an idea in people's heads about whom you may have as many doubts as you wish - as long as you can succumb to group pressure to light a candle.
So, it comes back to marketing - this movie is about creating a larger niche for the Christian Rock mega-church crowd - to embrace all agnostics by having "Christians" who imitate them. It is a seduction of souls that does not seek to unite them to Christ through Faith. A work without faith and it's Dead.
Talk like humans, please
20 December 2017
I hate movies where the people talk fast and sound like they have marbles in their mouths. I had to turn on the subtitles to be able to understand most of the dialog. Maybe some people really talk like that. I don't know them.
Mia's Got a Plan
(2015)
A fun look at family interaction.
4 January 2017
This is a cute little story, very believable, about a child manipulating her parents, via contract, into keeping their promises to her, and to be better parents to her by essentially sticking together.
Little Mia goes to a lot of trouble to make breakfast for her parents. Tickling feet and a bull horn are involved in the process of rousing them. You can tell the coffee left more than a little to be desired.
All of the things she suggests are what a kid would think of to make people happy and to take things to another level - from Froot Loops to tickle fights to little surprise gifts. A joy to watch this little short.
I liked Carly Adams in the thriller Emilie (2015). She only got to show a little humor in that film. I think humor is her niche when it comes to acting. I hope to see much more of her.
Little Mia goes to a lot of trouble to make breakfast for her parents. Tickling feet and a bull horn are involved in the process of rousing them. You can tell the coffee left more than a little to be desired.
All of the things she suggests are what a kid would think of to make people happy and to take things to another level - from Froot Loops to tickle fights to little surprise gifts. A joy to watch this little short.
I liked Carly Adams in the thriller Emilie (2015). She only got to show a little humor in that film. I think humor is her niche when it comes to acting. I hope to see much more of her.
I Heart Shakey
(2012)
I Can't Stomach Shaky
20 February 2013
I can't believe they got so many "actors" to take money to play such moronic characters, the worst being the apartment manager, Ms. Willinger (Janet Ulrich Brooks), obscenely overacted. This could have been a decent movie if the writers and director would not have spent so much effort in distracting the viewers with stupidity. When will the makers of so-called "family" movies realize that they can't tug at the heart at the same time they crap on your brain! That said, I should also say that the little girl, Rylie Behr, was cute in her role as long as it was just her, Dad and the dog in the scene. She was one of the few people in this movie given a sane character to play. Hope she finds something more worthy of her talents in the future.
The Cristiada was not a fight for religious freedom in the modern sense.
28 October 2012
The Cristiada was not a fight for religious freedom in the modern sense. In the year previous to this uprising was published the encyclical Quas Primas by Pius XI. This encyclical instituted the Feast of Christ the King and was a primary influence to the Cristeros battle cry "Viva Cristo Rey!" This encyclical taught that all nations and peoples are subject to Christ's kingship. He is God. He is the Creator. He is the Redeemer of Mankind. And Christ has chosen to exercise His rule through the One Church He established on earth - the Roman Catholic Church. The religious freedom the Cristeros were fighting for was the freedom of the True Church to exercise its rule over souls. Any government that attempts to thwart this rule is unjust, evil and a usurper of what does not belong to it. Nations actually have a duty to promote this rule of Christ as it is necessary for men to reach their last end - beatitude - happiness with God in eternal life.
Sadly, what seems to have triumphed, especially since Vatican II, is the modern conception of religious freedom, the "freedom" of individuals to worship as they please. Governments enshrining a "right" to reject the True Faith, a right no one has if they desire to reach their last end.
It is good that this movie was made because it brings to light the modern war against Truth. It was made explicit in this era of history. It continues now but it is less obvious and modern churchmen including the Pope continue this war having been deceived by this error.
Sadly, what seems to have triumphed, especially since Vatican II, is the modern conception of religious freedom, the "freedom" of individuals to worship as they please. Governments enshrining a "right" to reject the True Faith, a right no one has if they desire to reach their last end.
It is good that this movie was made because it brings to light the modern war against Truth. It was made explicit in this era of history. It continues now but it is less obvious and modern churchmen including the Pope continue this war having been deceived by this error.
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