Just saw Do You Believe? the other night with the Mrs. Excellent! For those unfamilliar I will not spoil the suprise, but I will say that it was well written, and acted. The Christian message was spot on, and not presented in such a way as to get sappy.
The script contains enough straightforward messages, mixed in with bits of humor to lighten things up.
Some of the scenes might be a little intense for the very young, but very mild compaired to much of hollywood fare in theatrs today.

Thanks for the recommendation, Puddleglum!

Shadowlander: I loved War and Remembrance, a mini-series based on Herman Wouk’s novel. I haven’t seen his The Winds of War, which was also adapted for TV. Shining Through, set in Washington, DC and Nazi Berlin, has an all-star cast (Liam Neeson, etc) but a flawed script. I’d love to see One Against the Wind with Judy Davis, but I can’t find a copy anywhere. Valkryie with Tom Cruise: I wouldn’t have been part of the plot to kill Hitler, but the story was a national tragedy. Have you seen The Young Lions with Marlon Brando? It’s a strange film that tells the stories of three soldiers: two Americans (one Jewish) and a German Nazi.

Hey all..

I just saw Hotel Transylvania in its entirety today for the first time. I liked it.

I like most Disney movies, and Frozen is currently my favorite (next to the Frozen Fever short). I'm also waiting for disney's Cinderella (2015) to come to DVD, I hate going to theaters.. Too loud for my sensitive ears.. :/

Snow White and the Huntsman (which has fighting scenes), is a non-disney movie I also like. I'm more into the fantasy / fairytale / magical (family friendly) type movies. Reality movies just don't hold any interest for me.

The Narnia movies were great as well. They did great with the CGI. ^_^

Alice_WL, I liked Frozen too, but I felt the plot was rather unfinished and a little under developed, but I really enjoyed the characters. Who was your favorite character? Mine was Kristoff

I haven't seen the new Disney Cinderella, I wanted to go to the theaters to see it, but it came out around the same time as Annie, and I only had the funds to see one movie, so I went with Annie (which I really enjoyed by the way, it was pretty good for a remake.) I'm also waiting for Cinderella to come out on DVD so I can see it. I'm a little annoyed though, that Disney is remaking all their cartoons into live action films, it sort of seems like a cheap way to make money. The trailer to Cinderella did look pretty neat, and she had a REALLY pretty dress, so I am looking forward to seeing it.

I generally love Disney cartoons, my favorite ones are Beauty and the Beast and Tangled. Cinderella and Tarzan take a close second

Oooh, and just recently I watched Big Hero Six, I really enjoyed the film, it was different from other Disney cartoons, I liked the plot and the way it turned out.

Just rewatched Edgar Wright's The Worlds End the final film in the Cornetto trilogy. It's my personal favorite of the 3. The first 2 while hilarious rarely rose above the level of very well made spoofs. This final one combine Wrights great humor with great characters and a surprisingly poignant story. And it's got some of the best brawls scenes I've ever seen.

(But it does have a lot of language)

*notes the WWII film reccomendations* Ditto to what jo said--such an interesting time.

Who was your favorite character? Mine was Kristoff

Ditto!

My sister watched the new Cinderella, and her summary of it was, "The story was not very original, but the whole thing was like watching a fairy tale." I'm waiting until it comes out on video to see it.

Last night, I watched Life is Beautiful. It was technically a rewatch, but the first time I watched it, I was too young to really remember anything about it. I think it makes it on my top five favorite films. Such a beautiful movie. Not many movies make me cry, but this one did constantly. I think the fact that it is centered on these characters and how the changing world of WWII affected them rather than being focused on characters in WWII is what makes it very powerful storytelling.

Bella, Life is Beautiful is truly an amazing film. The first part you are laughing your head off and by the end you just end up in tears.

Seeing you enjoy WWII movies I thought I'd recommend The Dawns Here Are Quiet, it's a Russian 1972 movie, but it can be found with English subtitles. It was nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign Film. I saw it accidentally on tv a while back (when we still had a tv ) and I seriously cried through it.

I've seen Life is Beautiful many times.

I watched Ben Hur (1959) on DVD this week. One extra was "The Making of an Epic" (1993), narrated by Christopher Plummer. Compared to other biblical films from this era (Robe, Ten Commandments), Ben Hur is well done – cast, cinematography, costumes, music, etc. But compared to the novel on which it’s supposedly based, this film is a travesty. Gore Vidal and Christopher Fry’s screenplay is horrific! Ben Hur and Messala’s falling out isn’t a lover’s quarrel either. We need an adaptation that gets all the religious elements of Lew Wallace’s novel right.

I had a chance to view Interstellar this weekend with friends, and agree with the reviews of it that were posted before (beginning here).

It definitely reminded me of 2001, and even the musical score hinted at this a number of times, but I found this movie far more interesting and watchable. I liked the father/daughter dynamic and the worlds at the other end of the wormhole.

Watching it as I did with a number of self-proclaimed sci-fi geeks, most of the main plot points and surprises were called out very early (who the ghost was, who 'they' were, Doyle's role as a redshirt, etc), but it was still enjoyable to watch. I liked the importance of time as a theme and the way they dealt with relativity and time dilation.

A couple of nitpicks: the huge waves on the water world would probably have been visible as they came in for a landing, saving the trouble there. And why wasn't the ship equipped with several probes so all the planets could be checked out at once? All it really would have to be is a radiation-shielded camera. That would have solved the dilemma of not having time to check out each planet in person. (I imagine it's possible that the time dilation effects would have hampered this).

But all in all a very enjoyable movie. Some liberties were taken with current theory about what happens when something crosses a singularity's event horizon, but physics near a black hole is so crazy anyway that this really didn't matter (unlike Gravity, which messed with well-known properties of its title force in the familiar environment of low earth orbit ).

We have opened a general Movies topic here, which includes Past, Present, and Future Movies. For any related discussion, that's the place to go.