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Movie Review: Excellent!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
When I put this DVD in and the first couple minutes of the movie began to play, my younger sister started to freak out-- she didn't want to watch a movie about "Bible-thumpers," she said, "They freak me out." She managed to watch anyway and saw the light. This is a great movie. Plain and simple. This is a GREAT MOVIE!!
With an all-star cast including Jena Malone, Mandy Moore, and Macauley Culkin, you really can't go wrong. The movie is about good girl Mary (Malone) who is a sweet Christian girl attending the perfect Christian high school. She also has the perfect Christian boyfriend. One day, she and her boyfriend are playing a game in the pool where you go under water and tell secrets to each other. Guess what his is. He's gay. She's shocked, to say the least, and on her way back up to the surface, she hits her head on the ladder and gets a vision from Jesus-- she must do whatever possible to rid him of his problem. And she ends up pregnant.
This movie is so brilliant and funny that even when I watch it now (I've seen it at least 10 times now) I still laugh out loud. With an awesome cast (Malone, Moore, Culkin... and also Patrick Fugit and Eva Amurri!) and a great script, this is one of the best films I've seen all year! I highly highly recommend this movie to anyone... it's filled with laughs and great messages for everyone.
Movie Review: Awesome Movie
Summary: 5 Stars
For some of us who didn't fit into the "Good Christian Norm" this movie tells our story. I grew up in a very strict religious home, yet I didn't want to wear a tie and go to meetings, knock on doors early Saturday mornings, go to bible study or fake an interest in hanging out with a bunch of boring people who always tried to look like they were the "in" crowd or hang out with the good kids who had more serious problems then us problem kids.
Anyway this movie tells the story from our end, some of us didn't try to fit the mold, some of us were just too different to try to fit in, and some of us saw the whole scam for what it really is. OK my review is not an attack on Christianity or Christians so don't quote a bunch of scriptures at me, just telling it like it is.
This is just a really great movie, my favorite lines from the movie are (don't know if I quote them right but goes something like this) "this is not a weapon" (after Mandy Moore throws the bible at Jena Malone) and "if god wanted all of us to be the same then why did he make us so different"
I really like Jena Malone in this movie, she seems like great actress, in fact the whole cast did a wonderful job in the movie, Macaulay Culkin did a great job I liked his charactor, I totally recommend this movie to everyone.
Movie Review: A Voice for the Easily Ignored...
Summary: 5 Stars
When this movie came out, I was a senior in high school. I had long since given up on religion as a result of my experiences in youth groups, and went to see the film because I expected it to be the Protestant Dogma. It was...but it was also so much more.
I highly recommend this movie to anyone who may actually be skeptical of how truthful the film is, or to anyone who has encountered this opinion of religion from a friend or family member. This movie sparked some controversy among Christians, as it should, because it represents an extremist side of the religion that many never see and don't believe actually exists. I know that once my own parents saw the film, they were surprised to find that I wasn't the only person who felt this way about my own religion.
A lot of criticism of the movie centers sround the idea that they did not do enough to counteract the hypocrisy or that they did not actually offer a good resolution to the problem. The fact is, I thought that the ending promoted the idea of "co-existing" perfectly.
All in all, yes, it's a controversial idea - especially in the Bible belt - but I think that everyone, no matter what side of the religious spectrum you're on, would benefit from viewing this hillarious movie with a great message for an ending.
Movie Review: Satire almost too real to be funny
Summary: 5 Stars
Having grown up in a Christian school in the heart of the Bible Belt, Saved was almost more of a reflection of some of the traps the religious world can easily fall into that I experienced growing up. While, in some cases, obviously over the top, it was very right on with how many evangelical communities think and function. While completely outrageous and hysterical, the first time watching it was almost painful instead of funny. As stated before, Saved does an ingenious job of bringing to life some of idiotic prejudices in some religious communities. However, upon second watching, I was much more able to simply laugh at the lives we live. The writing in Saved is superb, quick, irreverent, believable, go for the punches funny. This movie would be enjoyable as just a movie to anyone that has a sense of humor. However, to those of us who grew up in similar situations, it will act as therapy and help you see the humor in things we took so serious. Highly, highly recommended. One warning: This movie is obviously not for everyone. If you think Jerry Falwell is the supreme human on Earth, stay away from this movie. It needs to be watched with an open and critical mind.Movie Review: A great movie no ones' heard of!
Summary: 5 Stars
OMG!!! THis is SUCH a good movie that EVERYONE should see. The only reason I even saw this movie was because I heard of it through friends. I went to a private high school that was JUUUST LIKE THIS. Let me say this, the producers of this movie hit the nail on the head, it was incredible how much I idenified with this movie. Mandy Moore and Jena Malone also did spectacular performances as thier characters. If you watch this, understand that this is how these people really are. And this is how they think and deal with the things in life like in this movie. My boyfriend calls me "Hillary Faye" LMAO, because he says that there are so many paralells between me and her. I call Him "Regina" from Mean Girls. But anyway I digress...This is an awesome movie and definately worth seeing once. Great plot and great ending, this is also the last good acting i've seen from Macaulay Culkin in awhile eaither. I will admite its sorta chick flick-ish, but not really. I even had my friends from my christian school that were guys watch it and they LAUGHED because they saw how much like our school it was. No one ever has heard of this movie though but its FOR DEF. one of my top ten best movies!