AletheiaRivers Posted April 17, 2005 Share Posted April 17, 2005 Here's a thread to discuss recent movies you have seen or movies that have made an impact in your life or anything to do with movies at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ComradeInChrist Posted April 18, 2005 Share Posted April 18, 2005 I just rented "Dreamkeeper" again. It's a road trip coming of age movie that deal alot with native stories and spirituality. I loved it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
des Posted April 19, 2005 Share Posted April 19, 2005 Ok, movies I loved not in any particular order: Harry Potter Prisoner of Azkaban (the only good movie of the group, imo) October Sky (not as good as the book at all) Close Encounters of the Third Kind ET Flight of the Navigator Peter pan (the original with Mary Martin) Cider House Rules (just about anything with Toby McGuire, except Spiderman, like Seabisquit, sigh :-)) To Live (Chinese) Chocolate or was it la Chocolate My Big Fat Greek Wedding Little Buddha (except the parts that Keanu Reeves was in) Star Trek IV (the one with the whales). Ok the acting is terrible, etc. Contact Little Man Tate Searching for Bobby Fisher Most hated movie of all time: Eraserhead (not Eraser) some cult movie of the 60s or 70s. --des Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AletheiaRivers Posted April 19, 2005 Author Share Posted April 19, 2005 (edited) OK, guess I should contribute to my own thread. My favorite movies: Contact Forest Gump Finding Nemo Monsters Inc Lord of the Rings 1,2,3 Star Wars 4,5,6 French Kiss You've Got Mail City of Angels Matrix (part 1) The Princess Bride ET Close Encounters Liar Liar Blast from the Past Starman Pleasantville Emma Pride and Predjudice The Abyss Edited April 19, 2005 by AletheiaRivers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jasn Posted April 20, 2005 Share Posted April 20, 2005 i rented i heart huckabees over the weekend - i thought it was great, story and acting was great - it had a message very few comedies are trying to prove a philosophical point - well at least so blatantly i liked eternal sunshine of the spotless mind i also liked sideways Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeachOfEden Posted April 20, 2005 Share Posted April 20, 2005 My favorites: 1. the first original 3 Star Wars 2. Indiana Jones 1 and 3 but NOT 2. 3. LadyHawk 4. Pirates of the Carribean 5. Brides of Christ 6. Brother Moon, Sister Sun Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
curlytop Posted April 20, 2005 Share Posted April 20, 2005 Ahhhhh . . . Beach, Brother Sun, Sister Moon is probably my favorite flick of all time! And admittedly, all you Star Wars fans out there, when the first of these movies came out in 1977, my high school buddy and I went to see it every week for a year!! I also loved Contact -- it's one of the movies that makes me stop what I'm doing and watch it when it comes on TV . . . And nothing can beat that director's cut of The Abyss Other favorites: Wings of Desire (was later made into an English-language version -- City of Angels? -- but I prefer the original German Wem Wenders version). The Unbearable Lightness of Being Dirty Dancing (kind of embarrassed to admit it, though!) Jesus Christ Superstar Mystery Train The Yes Men Fantasia A Room with a View There are others, but that's what's off the top of my head! Cheers, curlytop Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cunninglily Posted April 20, 2005 Share Posted April 20, 2005 Brother Sun, Sister Moon See, this is why I started this thread! I've never seen this movie and now, with two recommends, am going to rectify that. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Make that three recommends. Beautiful movie! I'm a big fan of Robert Duval and so three of his movies would feature on my favorites list: "The Apostle" "The Stars Fell on Henrietta" "Tender Mercies" I love the lastest "King Arthur" movie (I'm a big fan of the music of Hans Zimmer who did this soundtrack and the soundtrack for Gladiator) "Legends" w/ Tom Cruise and Mia Sara "Sophies Choice" "Dangerous Liasons" "Dangerous Beauty" "The Muppet Movie" "The Cisco Kid" "Blazing Saddles" "Edward Scissorshands" ...just some lily Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeachOfEden Posted April 21, 2005 Share Posted April 21, 2005 Oh yes! Brother moon, sister Sun is a MUST I mean this IS Progressive Christianity. It's about Saint Francis doing a Progressive alternative to the morbid rigid religion of his day! St.Francis starts a church where women CAN be priests and people are encouarged even to bring their pets to church with them! He is also is against war! It rocks! BTW, are you excited to see the next star Wars movie? I am! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
curlytop Posted April 21, 2005 Share Posted April 21, 2005 I am looking forward to seeing the Wookie planet though! And bunches of Wookies! By the way -- on Bro Sun Sis Moon -- St. Francis remains Catholic so he can't have a church with women priests -- however his platonic love, St. Clare, joins his group's female counterpart, a Franciscan order for sisters. But yes, the film is certainly intended to appeal to those who want women priests! Definitely warms a progressive's heart! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrotherRog Posted May 21, 2005 Share Posted May 21, 2005 Peace & Justice & Progressive theology related Movies: Romero – starring Raul Julia The City of Joy -sPatrick Swayze Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story Hotel Rwanda – Don Cheadle The Mission – Robert DeNiro/Jeremy Irons To End All Wars – Kiefer Sutherland Gandhi – Ben Kingsley Erin Brokovich – Julia Roberts The Thin Blue Line – doc. re: death penalty Chattahoochee – Gary Oldman/Dennis Hopper The Fog of War – doc. featuring Robert McNamara Bonhoeffer – Ulrich Tukur Born on the 4th of July - Tom Cruise Amistad –Morgan Freeman/Matt.McCon. Dances With Wolves – Kevin Costner Dead Man Walking – Susan Sarandon/Sean Penn Schindler’s List – Liam Neeson The Killing Fields – Sam Waterston Eyes on the Prize – PBS doc. re: civil rights mvmt. The Corporation – documentary Amandala – doc. re: ending aparthied in S. Africa The War – Kevin Costner The Control Room – doc.re:media coverage of Iraq war Silver City– Chris Cooper The Saint of Fort Washington - Matt Dillon/Danny Glover Philedelphia - Tom Hanks/Denzel Washington A River Runs Through It -Brad Pitt Road To Freedom, The Vernon Johns Story -James Earl Jones The Milagro Beanfield War -Ruben Blades Red Corner -Richard Gere To Kill a Mockingbird 12 Angry Men -Henry Fonda The Grapes of Wrath - Henry Fonda Angus - George C. Scott All's Quiet on the Western Front Spring, Summer, Winter, and Spring (a beautiful Korean Buddhist journey) The Gods Must be Crazy Luther The Nuremburg Trials Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mystictrek Posted March 18, 2006 Share Posted March 18, 2006 Mary & I watched RENT last night and I was impressed with its message and music. REVIEW OF RENT > http://www.spiritualityhealth.com/newsh/it...item_10157.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
October's Autumn Posted April 30, 2006 Share Posted April 30, 2006 Just watched Brokeback Mountain Geesh, made me almost cry. I guess I wasn't expecting that... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
des Posted May 1, 2006 Share Posted May 1, 2006 Oh gee, I loved some of those (didn't see others). Have to add a few. In no particular order. Not necessarily peace and justice but hey we are off topic over here. October Sky Flight of the Navigator (ok I know not so heavy, as are some of the others here) ET Searching for Bobby Fisher Contact To Live (Chinese) Little Man Tate Close Encounters of the Third Kind --des Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mystictrek Posted May 6, 2006 Share Posted May 6, 2006 NORTH COUNTRY is really good. It deals with women being harrassed at a northern Minnesota mine and it deals with family reconciliation. 2 tissue boxes! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mystictrek Posted May 6, 2006 Share Posted May 6, 2006 Fred & Maryann Brussat who do such an incredible job of reviewing spiritually oriented movies and books etc. have moved their very comprehensive web pages from S&H > http://www.spiritualityhealth.com/newsh/it...e/item_216.html to S&P > http://www.spiritualityandpractice.com/ They have listed and reviewed all the great spiritual movies for many years. I consider their website the peak of the WWW! Even better than mine! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fatherman Posted May 16, 2006 Share Posted May 16, 2006 I'm a movie nut. I cannot resist this topic. These are movies that never fail to make me laugh, cry, think, bite nails, get freaked out, smile, or just get plain geeky. It's not exhaustive, but it's good enough. It's a Wonderful Life To Kill a Mockingbird Jesus Christ Superstar Raising Arizona Rear Window North by Northwest Vertigo Halloween 1 and 2 Stand by Me Mary Poppins Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (Gene Wilder) Young Frankenstein Kung Fu Hustle Sound of Music On Golden Pond Any Harry Potter (especially Azkaban) Any Star Wars Any Lord of the Rings Monsieur Abrahim The Grapes of Wrath West Side Story E.T. Napoleon Dynamite Dumb and Dumber Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mystictrek Posted December 20, 2006 Share Posted December 20, 2006 + Don't miss this movie! Spirituality & Practice offers a film review by Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat of Joyeux Noel which is available on DVD. Review Excerpt: "This story is inspired by the Christmas truce of 1914, a miraculous occurrence of peace for two days when men laid down their arms, came out of their trenches, and celebrated the holiday together. The aftermath depicted in the film is also part of history. The German, French, and Scottish commanders were severely reprimanded for 'fraternization with the enemy.' New troops were brought in to replace those who had been tainted by the experience. After all, war depends upon seeing the other side as subhuman." +++ this is the latest post at the abundancetrek blog. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neon Genesis Posted July 27, 2011 Share Posted July 27, 2011 Since we have the topic on favorite PC-themed songs, I thought it would also be interesting to post our favorite PC-themed movies. As with the PC-themed songs thread, it doesn't have to be a movie that's explicitly pro--PC but it can be any movie that you like that you think is also compatible with progressive Christian themes. Some of my favorites: Contact-Though Carl Sagan was an agnostic and not a Christian, I think this movie version of his sci-fi novel can still have a lot of meaning to progressive Christians. Sagan takes a more realistic approach to the question of what would happen if we really did discover alien life and rather than focusing on sci-fi action, he focuses on what sort of impact this would have on society. He addresses the concerns of how would the discovery of intelligent alien life effect the conflicts between religion and science. Unlike other anti-religious movies and books, I think Sagan does a reasonable job of presenting both sides of the theist versus atheist conflict in a fair and balanced manner by having the main character, Ellie, be an atheist scientist who falls in love with a Christian philosopher. The movie addresses complex issues like whether or not God exists, the limits of both logic and faith at attaining the truth, and the role that religion plays in a modern scientific society. Though the movie is not an action film, the climax still has some very impressive special effects and visuals and if you're looking for something more than standard action alien flicks, I think Contact is still a very heart warming and touching story that can inspire people of all faith and no faith. Disney's Hunchback of Notre Dame- Yes, this is a kid's movie but it's surprisingly a pretty mature and smart movie and it's one of Disney's darker and under-appreciated movies. Rather than having magical beasts and witches as the villains, the villains in this movie are fundamentalist Christians. Judge Frollo is not an evil wizard but he's a hardcore Christian extremist who uses his religious authority to justify wiping out the Gypsies and torturing his enemies and the movie even opens up with Frollo murdering a gypsy and almost murdering Quasimodo as a baby because of his disease. Frollo is all too similar to real life fundamentalists in that he acts all holier than thou throughout the movie but in reality he has his own inner demons and sins of lust that he struggles with. The movie has a timeless message that you shouldn't judge by appearances. Everyone fears and loathes Quasimodo because of his disfigured appearance but reveres Frollo because of his devout piety but in reality it is Frollo who is the monster and Quasimodo who is the man. As opposed to many Christian kid's movies that just dumb the bible down to indoctrinate kids into fundamentalism with, The Hunchback of Notre Dame is a powerful movie for all ages that reminds us that a truly living god would be big enough to love everyone regardless of their faith or social background. The Da Vinci Code- Though Dan Brown's movie has a number of historical errors in it that annoy me as someone who enjoys reading about religious history, I still liked this movie and how it tried to promote the importance of feminist spirituality in Christianity and promote tolerance and acceptance of "heretical" Christians. And again, while the movie suffers from some historical inaccuracies, I think it does help raise awareness that the history of the church is more complex than many Christians like to think and that there are different ways of worshiping Jesus than "traditional" Trinitarinism out there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rivanna Posted July 27, 2011 Share Posted July 27, 2011 (edited) "Contact" is one of my favorites also. Brother Rog posted a good list earlier on this thread...I would add to those, Life is Beautiful Milk Babette’s Feast Antonia’s Line Groundhog Day Amazing Grace Arranged Edited September 17, 2012 by rivanna Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yvonne Posted July 27, 2011 Share Posted July 27, 2011 (edited) Eat pray love I add this because its one woman's struggle to find some sort of meaning in her life beyond her work and the relationships that she seems to fall in and out of too easily. The whole idea of finding her balance within herself is wonderful. (The reference to Gound Hog Day made me laugh, until I thougt about it for a minute. But I think you're absoutely right!) Edited July 27, 2011 by Yvonne Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marsha Posted July 29, 2011 Share Posted July 29, 2011 I have seen many of those movies! Loved "Eat, Pray, Love"....and many more of the above. How about Yentl? Boy in the Stripped Pajamas (sad and shocking, but what a lesson it tries to teach) Driving Miss Daisy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JosephM Posted July 29, 2011 Share Posted July 29, 2011 I would add... THE BIG BLUE - Starring Jean Reno and Rosanna Arquette (2000) )) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
murmsk Posted July 29, 2011 Share Posted July 29, 2011 Lars and the real girl The Ultimate gift One of the Star Trek movies (help my Riv) The Final Frontier??? It is the one where they go looking for God. Some might call it an atheist movie but to met it shows the problems with the "Man Behind The Curtain" view of God. Several Documentaries " The Bible tells me so" talks about religious bigotry toward GLBT the historic Jesus PBS and ABC specials steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rivanna Posted August 1, 2011 Share Posted August 1, 2011 (edited) “The Final Frontier” was one of the least inspiring Star Trek films, though it did carry out the theme that God isn’t “out there” but within us. Here’s a movie index that reminded me of many spiritual films I’d seen but forgotten - organized by specific categories of social justice, personal healing, family issues, the search for meaning, models of courage, hope, etc. http://www.cinematherapy.com/filmindex.html One that should be on their list - “Something the Lord Made” (2004) --a dramatization of the relationship between heart surgery pioneers Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas. Edited August 1, 2011 by rivanna Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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