Posted on 01/27/2023 8:32:17 PM PST by sphinx
Are movies still relevant? ... Even as Hollywood rebounds a bit at the box office (up 21 percent in 2022), critics rightly observe that innovation is suffering. Sequels, reboots, and franchises rule the day and artsy “prestige films” can’t find audiences. Part of the problem: audiences have a growing (and justifiable) sense that Hollywood is increasingly less interested in entertaining them than in force-feeding them progressive ideals.
As I put together my list, I focused on films that didn’t pit entertainment against artistry or confuse the difference between having something to say and telling audiences what to think. The best movies captivate audiences because they’re artistically excellent. And the best movies provoke audiences to wrestle with ideas rather than be bludgeoned with arguments.
As a reminder, don’t take my commendations as wholesale endorsements of the content. Just because I loved a film doesn’t mean I loved everything in it, and a “best” movie doesn’t mean an appropriate movie for all audiences. Though the films highlighted below are all in some way edifying—depicting goodness, truth, or beauty in ways Christian viewers can celebrate—a few are rated R and should especially be viewed with caution and discernment.
(Excerpt) Read more at thegospelcoalition.org ...
I’m interested to see what “Everything, Everywhere, All At Once” is as a movie. I’m a Michelle Yeoh fan, so figure I’ll like it.
My thoughts Also.
I collect DVDs and I’m revisiting my
KUBRICK collection!
Genius.
After you watch “Blonde” you wonder if Marilyn Monroe ever had one happy moment in her life. I’m sure that’s not true.
Want me to post my movie DVD list? I take a few on the road with me (I have a small DVD movie player).
Just watched Apollo 10 1/2 OMG! It was wonderful!
I’m not sure everyone will love it as much. For me, this movie was EXACTLY my childhood at one of the most influential times of my life. I had just turned 10 when the moon landing happened. And I lived 18 miles from El Lago. That was my life.
Watching the kids riding in the back of the pickup, and chasing the mosquito sprayers was hilarious!
THANKS again! I think I’m going to like this list.
By all means, post anything you want to recommend to other creepers. Always looking for positive suggestions. As a group, we’re strong on the golden oldies. When it comes to newer movies, however, we have a big blind spot problem.
Plot holes? More like plot craters.
Glad you liked it-as I have aged, I find I can still remember very fine, color details of things that happened nearly fifty years ago, which is nice, even if other things seem to fade and disappear.
About twenty years ago, as I began posting on FR, I decided to write down things in my life, and I save them, because there are things that have simply gone away.
Interestingly, some of them come back for no reason. For example, the drummer for the Moody Blues passed away recently, and seeing that triggered something from 30 year ago that had completely fled my mind.
My wife and I were in Provincetown, MA about thirty years ago, and we went to the Governor Bradford Restaurant for dinner and drinks. It is a pub style place, occasionally with live entertainment and such. (Provincetown is a very different place now, and so am I, so I don’t do much more than pass through these days)
We were sitting at a high table, and there was an older couple milling about because there were no seats, and I think we asked them if they wanted to sit down with us and share our table (I don’t remember exactly how, but I suspect this is how we came to be sitting at the table with them)
Anyway, they sat down, and somehow we started playing Trivial Pursuit, and we were having a lot of fun. He had a heavy British accent, and she was animated, and we were feeling the socially lubricating effects of our drinks.
At some point, we began just chit-chatting, and he said he was a musician, and played the drums.
We were with them for an hour or so, and had not even introduced ourselves to each other. As we got up to leave, I offered my hand and told him my name, and he said “Graeme Edge”. The name stuck in both of our brains, not because we thought he was a famous musician, but because he was pretty bushy and very animated with that heavy British accent and wide eyes with humor when he was amazed or trying to be funny, and we laughed a lot with them. Americans are often suckers for British accents!
Anyway, his name didn’t register with me at all even though we remembered it for years and would occasionally talk about how much fun we had at that table in the Governor Bradford with a couple of strangers that night.
Like many people, though I enjoyed the music of The Moody Blues, I couldn’t have named a member of the band. It was only until some time a few years later when we were talking about that night, that I looked up the guy’s name and saw a picture of him, realized he was the drummer for The Moody Blues.
Hahaha...thanks for your service, Shipmate! On my very first time on the ship, I was doing what most people did, walking around, getting familiar.
I was all the way up on the O2 level starboard side, in the fore and aft passageway all carriers have that runs from the bow to the stern, and I was right next to the catapults when they fired one.
I had no idea what it was, and it nearly made me crap my dungarees!
I always had a lot of respect for you Tin Can Sailors...I was up in the North Atlantic back in 1976, and I saw one of the Knox class vessels twisting, pitching, rolling, an yawing, and I couldn’t figure out how anyone could function on that!
LOL, on a carrier, you might bump into a bulkhead!
I was amazed at how used you could get to noise and sleep right through it!
My DVD movie list is three pages long. LOL
Oh, didn’t know you had a movie ping list. Please add me to it! Thanks.
What IS this mystery movie? Dying to know.
Amen. Fantastic!
The best movies are the original ones we keep on tape/disc
1. Ben Hur
2. Twelve-O-Clock High
3. Midway (original)
Done.
All: The TGC “Best Movies of 2022” list is pretty good — and not only the top ten, but the Honorable Mentions and the documentaries as well. I hope people will scan the list and check a few of them out. I think that those who do will be pleasantly surprised. Take a chance.
The selections aside, I really liked the author’s short descriptions of the films. I hope people will read them carefully and follow some of the links. I keep preaching that reality is conservative and that even filmmakers who may be personally left of center in their politics can and often do make remarkably conservative films.
If you read the short TGC reviews, the author does a terrific job of highlighting the morally serious and conservative themes embedded in these films if you are willing to dig a bit. You don’t have to agree with him, but he does give some pretty solid reasons for taking a close look at his picks.
“Anyone else?”
Add me please.
I’ll take the balcony seat.
Thanks!
If I had One DVD
It would be
“Cold Mountain.”
One Director-— Kubrick.
One Series -— Seinfeld.
Done. The company is excellent in the balcony.
LOL! I was being nice.
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