Posted on 01/31/2008 6:40:00 PM PST by SeekAndFind
What do monks, kites, unwanted pregnancies, a 19th century abolitionist, and a young man with a life-sized inflatable doll have in common? They're all in movies that we've deemed the ten most redeeming films of 2007. posted 01/29/08
First off, what do we mean by "redeeming" films? They're all stories of redemption—sometimes blatantly, sometimes less so. Several of them literally have a character that represents a redeemer; all of them have characters who experience redemption to some degree—some quite clearly, some more subtly. Some are "feel-good" movies that leave a smile on your face; some are a bit more uncomfortable to watch. But the redemptive element is there in all of these films.
It's interesting to note that six of our ten choices are all based on true stories. Maybe that just goes to show that some of the best redemptive stories—at least the ones that move us the most—are those that are really true. And so, our list:
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My husband and I went out of our way to support "Bella" on its opening weekend. That was the first movie (in a cinema) that we had seen in several months...
Into the wild...directed by Sean Penn? I saw this at a free advance screening and found nothing redeeming at all in it. The main character voluntarily removes himself from society. Goes up to Alaska and frolics with nature. After this goes on for a while he accidently poisons himself and dies no doubt painfully. It was the story of an idiot presented by another well known idiot (Sean Penn).
The hippie lifestyle. The film is well worth missing.
Into the Wild was morbid IMO.
bookmarked for my netflix queue
The only film that I saw out of the twenty listed was Gone Baby Gone which was very good, and in some ways covering much the same territory as Scorcese’s The Departed. I actually thought Gone Baby Gone was better than The Departed. The best film that I have seen in the last couple of years was Notes on a Scandal which was truly a black comedy and worthy of an Academy Award for best picture if a lesser black comedy like American Beauty was worthy.
It’s the films themselves that are considered not the personal lives of the people who make them.
There are many more pro-life films then pro-abortion films. That’s been the case for a long time.
The only movies on that list I have even heard of is Freedom Writers and the Rat one. I saw the Rat one. It was pretty good.
Production budget is only part of the cost. Marketing costs are a bit**.
True. Rule of thumb is advertising and distribution equals 1/3 of production costs. That would put total production, marketing and distribution costs at 240 million, which still allows 70-80 million profit.
why would anything directed by sean Penn be considered?
Because it was a good film what is hard to understand? I did not see it but those who did raved about it. Do you have a comprehension problem while reading? /sarc.
Shouldn’t the correct title be How She MOVES?
I guess the Hollywood racists who thought up that title laughed about “How quaint those colored people talk”
Patronizing BS.
What would the righteous do if the sinners all repented at once?
I wouldn't call it a pro-life movie, because there's not a moral message against abortion, only the personal choice of a scared little girl. If anything, the writer was trying to paint pro-choice people in the best possible light and not just as people whose only instinct is to kill their babies.
I just do not want to give money to traitors is all
If you want to give money to Jean Garafaolo or Sean Penn have at it. I prefer not to.
It’s vernacular as in the Spike Lee film ‘He Got Game’.
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