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Our Father's Keeper (2020)
If only a real Christian attitude towards Christine were shown
The movie was realistic, apart from the onset of Alzheimer's was a little odd. However the almost total disregard, even virtual lack of acknowledgement, of the part that the homeless girl Christine played made me grieve big time. How selfish. How unChristian. If it were me I would want to go back to where David was found (the boys knew where it was) and bring her in. After all, Thanksgiving in Canada (and I suspect the US too) is about bringing in all those who are not blessed and blessing them too. You should look for someone who is alone then - we always do - and invite them to join the celebrations. It's part of being thankful. The Christian ethic was severely absent there. The family was clearly in a position to take in this young lady - we would and we are not as well blessed. At least some of her aspirations would be met. She is such a positive person and would have blessed those who helped.
I was planning to give this a 9 or even a 10, but the response (or lack of) with the family means it immediately fell to a 5. What a pity. How sad.
End of the Harvest (1998)
Good realistic college atheist vs Christian conflict
Realistic and at the same time fundamental advice by example,. with a twist at the end as all good movies should have.
I Am... Gabriel (2012)
smile?
Why doesn't the kid ever smile?
I'm all for Christian movies, but there is no doubt as many have said that this is a B movie. There are some minor doctrinal problems (such as - very minor spoiler - no angel is ever shown in Scripture to have two wings. They have six, four or none). Scripture tells us that there are far more people who will reject the message of God's love through Jesus than accept it, so a whole town that turns to him is at best - not normal.
The story is well-intentioned, the acting is almost adequate though it often appears as if 'lines are being read'. There is no significant tension, no surprise twists, or unexpected responses from people the way real life would present. There is praise always given to God, and that is right and good. With a lot of work this could have been good. I like the aspect of the boy being God's messenger, so there are a number of things that are good about it, but the presentation fails I'm afraid.
And what's the deal with the kid NEVER smiling. Surely the Christian life is full of joy at what the Father has done for us, and most Christians I meet smile a lot. He should be giving us an example of the peace and joy of Christian life.
That's mho anyway.
The Gentle Knight
Turbulence 2: Fear of Flying (1999)
Morse Mix-up
I understand that someone might mix up an 'a' in Morse code (dot dash .-) with an 'n' (dash dot - .), but it's really stretching things to say someone confused a 'd' (dash dot dot - . .) with a 'q' (dash dash dot dash - - . -) There's no similarity to mix up.
In all this did have a lot of suspense, but there are so many glaring impossibilities that it became amusing (I won't say 'funny') rather than a thriller. It became total nonsense.
I think that any movie like this that contains profanity is simply trying to make the movie into something it really isn't by compensating for lack of ingenuity with 'shock value'.