Philosophies and What a 5th Grader told me about Nine–Released 9/9/9

I wonder how long Tim Burton has waited so that this movie could be released on yesterday’s date.  I would guess that he has had the story in mind for a few years.  On second thought, maybe he just decided a couple of years ago to save the number nine gunny sack character.  I do not know what they are really called.  One of my 5th graders saw it last night.  He gave me a brief synopsis about the first part of the story–how some of the gunny sack characters (spoiler alert) died.

Originally, there are the gunny sack characters–one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine.  About 4 are destroyed early on, but I will not tell you who they are.  (My 5th grader did.  But I pleaded with him to not give away the ending.

“HOOK” Review

“Hook” was directed by Steven Spielberg and released in theaters on December 11, 1991.

I watched “Hook” (starring Dustin Hoffman, Robin Williams, Julia Roberts as “Tinkerbell” and Bob Hoskins as “Smee”) yesterday at my home on DVD.  There was some mild profanity I hadn’t remembered the previous times I have watched before.  I have a sentimental connection to the film because it was one of the few theatrical releases my parents watched (at the theater) in the last 2 to 3 decades that they actually liked.

The real reason, though, is that my parents saw that within a year that my mother passed away in September of 1992

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Contentment

Long Time, No Post

To all you dedicated visitors, just dropping a line, though my blog has been inactive (no posts) for a few weeks, that I still care about you and this blog is still alive and well. Life has just been busy. Later…

See, I have been busy.

New baby!

The webmaster of this site just had a healthy baby on Monday.  What a beautiful early Christmas gift from heaven and spouse!  Merry CHRISTmas to all of you!!! We hope you are surrounded by much family and many friends this day even if they are far away. God be with the troops and their families fighting for and defending freedom in the Middle East and throughout the world.  And may heavenly angels strengthen all the missionaries throughout the earth who bring glad tidings of great joy of the good news, the gospel of our Savior Jesus Christ.  Our thoughts and prayers are with all of you.

With love and sincerity,

The LDSreviews4movies Family

“Indiana Jones: Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” Review

This is a fun action film–it recycles the idea that Indy is afraid of snakes, among other things. It has a lot of visual advantages since the first one (“Raiders”) one came out…especially in the CGI department. CONTENT BREAKDOWN coming SOON…

“Iron Man” Review

It may go without saying than this movies containes a lot of mayhem and violence, mostly missile weaponry, and people in suits of armor taking down the bad guys or dueling each other.  I remember one scene (I closed my eyes for 95% of the scene) that was a bedroom scene and a woman gets up out of bed basically wearing a bedsheet.  Other than using deity’s name in vain (I hate that; I’d rather hear the F-bomb than that), I only recall four uses of profanity.  MORE DETAILED breakdown of content COMING SOON…

“CTU:Provo” Review

I’ll start off saying that this is very well done. The creative force behind it did very well giving it the same camera shots, etc. as “24″ does, which it spoofs. You can download the movie for free. It’s fairly violent, only one shot where the audience sees blood; It’s the aftermath of a gunshot wound to the head. It had more profanity than I thought it might, but was minimal on immorality. MORE SPECIFIED breakdown on the content COMING SOON…

“Nim’s Island” Review

I attended a screening of “Nim’s Island” Friday, June 5, 2008 at a second-run theater.  What a great story.  The most famous actor is Jodie Foster, but the lesser known actors were great, too.  The storyline is well-scripted and at a great pace.  The character arc of Jodie Foster’s role is excellent as are the way the 3 main characters lives interweave.

A Review will be coming soon!  But, til then, just one thing: I recommend this movie to all, ages 5 and up.  Stay tuned and check back soon!

“Happy Valley” Review

I attended a screening of “Happy Valley,” directed and produced by Ron Williams, at the Wynnsong in Provo.  It was on a whim and my wife let me pick.  I scanned the movie posters and it looked to be the most interesting.  “Happy Valley” is a well-made documentary, mostly about prescription drug abuse in Utah County.  I was pleasantly surprised.  It informed me and it moved me.