- Which Christian film critic calls The Fountain “a syncretistic mishmash that never addresses core biblical teaching about humanity’s sin and our need for a Savior”?
- And which one calls it “a brilliantly conceived and executed artistic vision”?
- Who said Deja Vu “feels a bit like a shell game”?
- What do Christian critics think of the new James Bond?
- Is Bobby going to “lead many people astray, morally, politically and theologically” with “false Romantic, Neo-Marxist liberal ideology and … rhetoric”??! Or is it ” reasonably moving portrayal of a society in need of salvation”?
- Who said Deck the Halls “makes Chevy Chase’s campy Christmas Vacation or Ralphie’s quest for a Red Ryder BB gun in A Christmas Story seem Oscar-worthy in comparison”?
Here’s this week’s super-sized Film Forum!
The Fountain bewilders.
Déjà Vu puzzles.
Plus, Casino Royale,
Happy Feet,
Bobby,
Fast Food Nation,
Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus,
Deck the Halls,
Tenacious D: The Pick of Destiny,
Let’s Go to Prison,
and more views on
Deliver Us from Evil,
The Departed,
The Last King of Scotland,
Stranger than Fiction,
The Queen,
Babel,
and One Night with the King.
JO,
From your review of “Fountain:”
“Together, they deliver some wonderfully intimate moments, including one in a bathtub that’s much more affecting than … well … the last time we saw Rachel Weisz acting from a bathtub. (Who really wants to remember Constantine?)”
What about the bathing scenes in “The Constant Gardener?” It seems that Weisz has a predilection for bathtubs. Is that what won here the Oscar?
Also, why can’t she do any accents
other than British and American. Would a Spanish queen sound like an English woman? This is the second movie I’ve seen where neither she nor her male costar attempted the accent.
Remember the embarrassing British accents in “Enemy at the Gates?” At least Bob Hoskins got the Russian down passably. Jude Law stuck with British while playing a Russian. Ed Harris stuck with American while playing a German. Did they have the money in the budget for dialect coaches?
Don’t even get me started on Joseph Fiennes’s accents in “Enemy” and “Luther.” I don’t know what they were, but they weren’t Russian or German.
Don’t know why I’m so mouthy tonight.
Jason Kranzusch
Concerning Into Great Silence, Here’s one of the quotes in my sig at A&F:
“I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
I come from a Charismatic backgroud, full of loud, fervent worship. But there have been a few times during a worship service or two in my life when a truly beautiful moment of silence befell the whole church. And I deeply sensed that perhaps the Holy Spirit wanted the assembly to linger for a prolonged season in that silence. But then someone suddenly babbled out a message in tongues, and then that same person also gave the interpretation: “If you do not worship me, I will cause the rocks to cry out! Worship me, my children!” And then everyone was suddenly spurred on into shouting and praising, and the silence was destroyed. That precise scenario unfolded in exactly the same fashion twice in the span of four weeks, with the same person giving that silence-destroying message which I believe was bogus both times. I was ready to storm out of the meeting hall after he did that the second time.
Silence is such a beautiful thing some times. We shouldn’t fear it.
I want to see Black Snake Moan. It’s seems like it’s a redemption story, gritty, but redemptive.