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Paul, Apostle of Christ.

Sadly, it was uninspired and uninspiring.

It would have been much better if it had been the story of Paul's missions as told by Luke. There was much more real intrigue between Paul and his enemies than the made-up stuff about the Roman warden of Paul's last imprisonment.
 
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The last movie I watched was tonight on DVD called "Silence" with Andrew Garfield, Adam Driver and Liam Neeson.

It was about two Christian missionary priests searching for their mentor in the 1600s in Japan, Christianity is outlawed and missionaries not allowed. It was harrowing, I can't say it was enjoyable but it was a brilliant film.

From the torture suffered by the Japanese Christians from their rulers really brought home to me whether I would be strong as they were. It was also heartbreaking because they held such store in forgiveness being issued from a priest rather than God Himself.

My, it made me see how easy we have it. Has anyone else seen it?
 
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Toy Story 4

As one reviewer put it, "It's the closure you didn't know you needed."

As satisfying as Toy Story 3 seemed to be, it actually left Woody in precisely the same ultimately tragic position he was in Toy Story 1.

The problem: A toy's ultimate fate is either to become a collector's item and boxed on a shelf or in the attic (Toy Story 2) or tossed out with the trash and destroyed (Toy Story 3).

That problem was not settled at the end of Toy Story 3. Sooner or later, Woody would face the same situation again, and if necessary, again and again until he was finally boxed or destroyed.

Toy Story 4 solves that problem, and also provides an important lesson for helicopter parents watching their children grow up.
 
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The Last Flight Out.

Not the greatest Christian film, but it was somewhat entertaining; But I really would not recommend it, though. While the film encourages a person to accept Christ at the end, it was unbelievable in several places within the film, and the acting was a bit cheesy.

The War Within is a much better Christian film. In fact, I watched certain clips and scenes today again from "The War Within" because it was really an amazing film. It was very emotional, and creative.

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Men In Black International.

Not as good as 1 or 2, and really misses Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones; but is ok. Liam Neeson and Emma Thompson. Not a bad combo.
 
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"Fog in August," was the last film I watched, it was a foreign film subtitled set in an asylum during WW2. It was about a Gypsy boy who put there as a delinquent who found out they were carrying out killing the inmates and tried to sabotage it.

It was so good but dreadful also, then at the end it told you it was true and told you what had happened to the people afterwards.

Yes I would recommend it because we need to know the truth of the depravity of man.
It is said if we forget history, it gets repeated, but then again mankind without God is wicked and it is true there is nothing new under the sun.

Let's face it, it was euthanasia and here we are today with people rejoicing over it when governments allow it. It has started here in Victoria Australia supposedly under the strictest conditions, yeah right but its only the beginning.....
 
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Knives Out


It's not the movie you think it is. It starts out that way, then it turns into something else.


You think at first it's a light whodunit. Daniel Craig puts on a Kentucky colonel accent to play a Columbo/Matlock/Holmes hybrid.



Then when you think that story is over because you've learned whodunit and how, it turns into something else. Maybe a crime thriller.


In the third act, you get to a point that you think the story is over and you're wondering why the credits aren't rolling.


Then it turns back into what you thought it was the first time. It is a whodunit after all. But Daniel Craig does manage to get you back into the game by the sheer force of thudding through his Kentucky colonel accent.



We thought it was, ultimately sufficiently entertaining. But you do feel very much that the director is manipulating you rather than simply offering a whodunit.
 
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My wife and I saw "A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood" last night. I was too old to have been a Mr Rogers fan, but I was aware he existed.

First off, it turned out to be a film worth watching. Like an episode of Mr Rogers' Neighborhood, it rolls slowly, but it's saying a lot.

It's also kind of surreal at times. And there were a couple of places where a bit of Tom Hanks' drawl came out sounding kind of Forrest Gump-ish.

This is "inspired" by a real circumstance. An investigative reporter known for expose stories was assigned to do a story on Fred Rogers. He intended to do a "kill" piece uncovering the "real" Fred Rogers, but what he uncovered was a Fred Rogers that was pretty much what we saw on television. That was about as true to life as this movie is. Many of the details of the story are changed or fictional. The actual reporter, however, has endorsed the movie as true to how Rogers affected his life.

The entire story is told within a framework of a Mr Rogers show, with Mr Rogers introducing his audience to his new friend, showing a picture of a startled-looking man with a bruised nose: Reporter Lloyd Vogel. He tells us Lloyd has a problem, and then the story begins. The story is far more about Vogel and how his life is changed by Rogers than about Mr Rogers himself, so it's not really a biopic.

Most of the "outside" shots, particularly when people are taking transportation from place to place, are shots of the toy Mr Rogers neighborhood. So you see the Mr Rogers toy cars going down the playland street, toy airplanes taking off from the playtown runway, et cetera. That keeps reminding you that you are seeing a story being told by Mr Rogers.

When Vogel first tells his wife that he's doing a story on Mr Rogers, she of course knows what kind of stories he writes, so she warns him, "Please don't ruin my childhood."

Vogel's life is severely off track in a couple of major ways, but first he has to contend with Fred Rogers. Rogers has a disconcerting way of responding to hostile questions (I said "responding," not "answering") by going straight to the subtext, not to the context. He discerns from the questions that the reporter is really troubled by something else, and he put his finger on that trouble, trying to find a way to help the reporter.

Fred Rogers also has a disarming way of accepting a hurtful criticism by ignoring the intention to harm and accepting the criticism with genuine gratitude: "Thank you for that observation. That's good to know."

In other words, Rogers continually messes with the reporter's head by his unexpected expression of kindness at every turn. But Rogers' kindness is not weakness. Rogers knows exactly who this reporter is and what this reporter does, but the movie presents him intentionally overcoming evil by doing good (Romans 12:21).

They do touch on Fred Rogers' Christianity being a primary factor of his character, and they do get a lot of details correct about the way he lived his actual life.

It's not an exciting movie as movies these days go (not a single explosion or car chase). It paces about the same as a Mr Rogers show. Also, it's not a movie for small children (it may be too deep even for a lot of teens), but it is a movie that leaves you wanting to be a better person.
 
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