[AletheiaRivers]

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.

[ComradeInChrist]

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.

[des]

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

[cunninglily]

Anyone planning on seeing the upcoming release of "The Kingdom of Heaven" with Orlando Bloom?


lily

[AletheiaRivers]

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

This post has been edited by AletheiaRivers: 19 April 2005 - 09:13 AM

[jasn]

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

[BeachOfEden]

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

[curlytop]

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

[AletheiaRivers]

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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.

[cunninglily]

AletheiaRivers, on Apr 20 2005, 02:14 PM, said:

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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

[BeachOfEden]

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!

[AletheiaRivers]

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BTW, are you excited to see the next star Wars movie? I am!

I am moderately excited and hopeful. I didn't like the last two.

[BeachOfEden]

Yeah, I agree..I hope but try not to over-expect. I like McGreger as OB1 but the others don;t have the charm that Leia, Luke and Han had.

[curlytop]

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!

[TheMeekShall]

cunninglily, on Apr 19 2005, 07:12 AM, said:

Anyone planning on seeing the upcoming release of "The Kingdom of Heaven" with Orlando Bloom?


lily

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Saw it. It was a movie about the stupidity of aggression, in this case, from so called Christians. Lots of people were killed unnessarily, as many other times in history. Depressing, nothing terribily new.

[BrotherRog]

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

[mystictrek]

AletheiaRivers, on Apr 20 2005, 01:14 PM, said:

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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}>

Me too!

[mystictrek]

Mary & I watched RENT last night and I was impressed with its message and music.

REVIEW OF RENT > http://www.spiritual...item_10157.html

[October's Autumn]

whew, heavy list!

I have to add the Brady Bunch and the Brady Bunch sequel. It is especially good when depressed and in need of laughter.


oh, I want to see rent, too!

This post has been edited by October's Autumn: 23 March 2006 - 01:24 AM

[October's Autumn]

Just watched Brokeback Mountain Geesh, made me almost cry. I guess I wasn't expecting that...