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the music was really good, but it was too much music with almost no talking to it that got a little irritating

yup we know about you almost normal folks :p

I like the music, and it's very well down. I felt the story was somewhat of a let-down the way they did it. Or maybe that's the story itself. It's beautiful to look at too, and the costumes are great.
 
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I like the music, and it's very well down. I felt the story was somewhat of a let-down the way they did it. Or maybe that's the story itself. It's beautiful to look at too, and the costumes are great.
no they made the story drag a bit too much and the ending was a let down along with the flashbacks that were not tied in well even though you can figure them out in the end they were not useful just another distraction.
 
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I didn't see it that recently, so I don't remember that stuff that well. I'd heard such good things and then when I saw it, I just wasn't as thrilled as so many others were.
for a movie it is better than average but not great but for an opera/musical it was nearly great. I am not that much into musicals most of the time so I rated it about a 7.
 
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The Cross

by Max Lucado

The cross. Can you turn any direction without seeing one? Perched atop a chapel. Carved into a graveyard headstone.
Engraved in a ring or suspended on a chain. The cross is the universal symbol of Christianity. An odd choice, don’t you
think? Strange that a tool of torture would come to embody a movement of hope. The symbols of other faiths are more
upbeat: the six-pointed star of David, the crescent moon of Islam, a lotus blossom for Buddhism. Yet a cross for Christianity?
An instrument of execution?

Would you wear a tiny electric chair around your neck? Suspend a gold-plated hangman’s noose on the wall? Would you
print a picture of a firing squad on a business card? Yet we do so with the cross. Many even make the sign of the cross
as they pray. Would we make the sign of, say, a guillotine? Instead of the triangular touch on the forehead and shoulders,
how about a karate chop on the palm? Doesn’t quite have the same feel, does it?

Why is the cross the symbol of our faith? To find the answer look no farther than the cross itself. Its design couldn’t be
simpler. One beam horizontal—the other vertical. One reaches out—like God’s love. The other reaches up—as does God’s
holiness. One represents the width of his love; the other reflects the height of his holiness. The cross is the intersection.
The cross is where God forgave his children without lowering his standards.

How could he do this? In a sentence: God put our sin on his Son and punished it there.
“God put on him the wrong who never did anything wrong, so we could be put right with God” (2 Cor. 5:21 MSG).
 
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