“Despicable Me”

This was a delightful movie with a great message about what matters most in life.  I was genuinely touched by it.  The main character Gru (Steve Carell) is an ornery, self-serving man.  His right hand man is an old guy with wrinkled skin and gray thinning hair named Dr. Nefario (Russell Brand).  He serves as a steady advisor for Gru to rely on in the midst of all the chaotic people (and creatures) around him. 

As we learn later on in the movie, Gru wants most to please his mother (Julie Andrews) who has been a force of negativity and criticism since he was a child.  He does this by making plans to capture the moon. 

Review of “*batteries not included” VHS

I watched the movie Batteries Not Included recently on 14 or 15 January 2010.

Batteries Not Included is a fun, intelligent movie I saw more than 2 decades ago.  It was released on videotape in 1987.  It stars Jessica Tandy as an old woman with dementia, living with her husband in a delapidated apartment building awaiting demolition.  There are a few other tenants.  Some take settlement money and move while others refuse the money and insist on staying determined to keep the building standing.  One night, the husband of the old woman in frustration in a sort of prayer pleads, “Somebody, please help us.”  That night, miniature UFOs show up during the night and repair the husband’s restaurant which was vandalized by men ordered to offer the settlement money, but do it with great threats and breaking the tenants’ possessions and property.  The UFOs also repair the damage to the apartments. When the couple wakes up to survey the damage in their restaurant, they are shocked.

The movie is very sentimental and encourages all of us to never give up hope even against seeming impossibilities AND to always stand up for what you believe.

Content Breakdown

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…