Posted on 11/10/2024 5:01:14 PM PST by outofsalt
I am posting a vanity in the hope of saving my FRiends a little money, which you might donate here or to another good cause. Spoiler alert in comment.
The last movie I went to was the Alice in Wonderland remake after I had read the reviewers I normally trusted. I was curious about the CG stuff which was pretty new at the time. Five minutes in I knew it was a damned Disney movie. I knew the outline already and knew how it would end.
Like a sumo wrestler taking a dump on a burning tire.
I am trying to build up my dvd collection. There isn’t much even streaming.
I hope that turner classics stream some day
I got rid of my family TV in 1988 and haven’t looked back. My kids all learned about books and sometimes had to be gently chastised for reading under he covers with flashlight at night.
Just got back from seeing "The Best Christmas Pageant Ever". It definitely lived up to my expectations, and remained faithful to the true meaning of Christmas throughout. One of the VERY few movies I've gone to see in theaters in many years.
I loved the book as a child and was hoping that I could share that with the next generation.
I used to get the Disney movies for the grand kids, but I stopped when I saw the new movies coming out were just not of the same caliber as the older movies were. The only 2 exceptions were Monsters Inc. & Shrek.
it is so bad the Bishop Barron condemned it as Anti Catholic.
My grandsons, ages 5,8,12, have never seen a movie. here is no TV in the house and they are not allowed cell phone use until age 18. There is a computer and the 12 y.o. is allowed to work on his own projects with it. He is currently teaching himself calculus.
Impressive indeed. 🙂👍
Disappointing.
We saw it yesterday. It's fine for the kids - a few mild expletives are covered over with other sounds, no sex, no skin, no grossness, no woke (in fact one of the reviews I read was lamenting that they didn't take the opportunity to preach about "classism"). Very churchy. If you like the book, it's very faithful to the book. Funny, though - we went to the 4:00 showing at our local theater and it was a ghost town - both before and after the movie. I mean almost nobody there. The popcorn was at least a day old and stale, cause nobody is there to buy it. Hollywood has really screwed the pooch.
instead, watch it for free online and rob the Hollywood as an alternative.
heck, the venom3, and transformer one was just posted on youtube.
I concur. The set and the inner workings of the Vatican in the film were interesting-—up until a single sentence of dialogue. Then I was pissed.
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