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Weekend Thoughts

// January 11th, 2008 // 7 Comments » // Movies, Random Thoughts, Video

Some interesting links and thoughts from this week…

• Thanks for the feedback on what you’d like to see more of this year from Live.Awake. Heather and I are planning on doing some combo posts on topics like “How to Fight with Your Spouse” and “Maintaining Intimacy” and others. I’m planning on doing a combination of short quickie posts and longer articles both serious and funny (or at least idiotic).

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Two Movies I Can’t Wait to See

// July 13th, 2007 // No Comments » // Movies

I love movies and I’m a total sucker for movie marketing and advertising.

It’s like my cynical side takes a vacation and I turn into a blathering 12 year old.

Here are two movies that I can’t wait to see and their trailers.

Have a great weekend!

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Evaluating Film as a Christian

// June 28th, 2007 // No Comments » // Christian Living, Movies

I read an interesting post over at The Resurgence. Greg Wright is discussing how Christians should be evaluating films and wondering whether or not we have lost the plot (sorry… couldn’t resist the wordplay there). He brings up an interesting point.

Consider this graphic Hollywood plotline: A man travels to Las Vegas to retrieve his cheating wife. On the way back to Los Angeles, the two stop at a rundown motel in Death Valley. During the night, a mob of sexual degenerates surrounds their cabin, threatening to sodomize the man. Hoping to appease the bloodlust, the man throws his wife outside—and when morning comes, the mob has left nothing of her but a corpse. The man cuts up her body and sends pieces of it to his friends… But that’s nothing compared to the bloodbath that follows.

This is actually a modern synopsis of Judges 20-21. And it would have been avoided by every good church-goer and reamed by Christian film critics. Yet there it is in our Holy Bible.

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Memorial Day Salute

// May 28th, 2007 // No Comments » // Movies, Video

Let’s remember our heroes today.

This video features footage from the movie “Saving Private Ryan” so this is NOT for young eyes, but I think it’s important that we not look away from the sacrifice that so many have made before us (and are still making today).

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Scientology is Growing in Hollywood

// May 21st, 2007 // 3 Comments » // Christian Living, Movies, Video

The BBC recently did an investigation of Scientology in the UK. It resulted in a much publicized temper flare-up by the interviewer. It was another reminder to me that Scientology is not going to go away, despite it’s nuttiness.

I’ve been watching Scientology for a while. I don’t know why, but it has always stood out to me as particularly dangerous and insipid. I know, I know. How dangerous can a cult be that believes in an evil (pronounced ‘eeeee’ – ‘villllll’) overlord alien that tried to take over the earth to solve his overpopulation problems be “dangerous and insipid”?

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