Category: Movies
I make no apology for deriving most of my personal theology from the movies.
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House of Sand and Fog
What does it mean in the end to own the world but lose your soul? What good do possessions serve us if we lose our minds in the process of possessing them?
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In America
“In America” is the best film I’ve seen this year. And to be fair, I’ve seen some truly great films so that comment is no small task.
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The Last Samurai
“I’d like to think he found a small measure of peace, the kind that so many search for and so few ever find.”
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The Ring vs. Feardotcom
Both are arty, but differ in delivery: vague impressionism versus creepy surrealism.
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Enigma vs. A Beautiful Mind
The difference between these films is like the difference between mere artistic license and historical revisionism: pageantry and fraud.
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The Matrix vs. Dark City
Where Dark City is visual escapism, The Matrix is testosterone brain candy!
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Movie Numerology
The obsessive compulsive in me can’t help but organize things in pointless lists. Ever make a mental note of things that share some obscure relational similarity? I do. I can’t quit. Here’s an example: movies with numerical film titles. In the interest of keeping this list reasonable, I’m not counting foreign films or sequels. As…
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Hannibal vs. Silence of the Lambs
If anyone can make 70s Italian splatter movies mainstream, Hopkins can.
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The 6th Day
The Clones are Coming, The Clones are Coming!
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Boob Raider
As any self-respecting geek would agree, Tomb Raider hopefully wouldn’t suck as badly as its video game-to-movie predecessors.