Re: [ZION] Gods and Generals
> What about you all? Have any of you seen a good movie lately? I buy a > couple of DVDs every month, and I'm always looking for something good that > I have overlooked. My wife and I laughed (sinned?) all the way through "The Singles Ward". The critics in and out of the Church stomped all over the movie but I have not met anyone in the Church who did not think the movie uproariously funny. "The Other Side of Heaven" is fabulously good for the whole family. Again, non-LDS critics panned the movie but it is one of the better movies I have ever had the fortune to enjoy. "Charlie" was not so good although most members seemed to really enjoy it. This is one movie where I agreed more with the critics. The musical play was far better and in most ways truer to the book. I know that Jack Weyland was very happy with the movie but I believe that the director misstepped. I have really been enjoying my mega-set of the complete series "The Prisoner". There are 17 episodes of the best TV show ever made hands down and the mega set has them all. Of course, even though it is the best TV series ever done does not mean that everyone will like it. My wife doesn't sit with me to enjoy it but fortunately my fourteen year old son does. Try rottentomatoes.com to get a good take on a movie. The website sums up all the reviews of paid critics (i.e. columnists or professional reviewers from many publications) and gives a percentage rating. Since most movies get around 100 reviews or more, and since the reviewers are from a variety of persuasions you get a very balanced take on each movie. I find rottentomatoes.com to be seldom wrong. Then I jump over to screenit.com to see if I can watch the movie (i.e. no gore, sex or language). If it's good but unclean I either skip it or hope for a chance to see a version done by cleanflicks.com = Mark Gregson [EMAIL PROTECTED] = -- http://www.operamail.com Get OperaMail Premium today - USD 29.99/year Powered by Outblaze // /// ZION LIST CHARTER: Please read it at /// /// http://www.zionsbest.com/charter.html /// / --^ This email was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?aaP9AU.bWix1n.YXJjaGl2 Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] TOPICA - Start your own email discussion group. FREE! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/create/index2.html --^
Re: [ZION] Gods and Generals
On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 10:15:03 -0800 "John W. Redelfs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > What about you all? Have any of you seen a good movie lately? I > buy a > couple of DVDs every month, and I'm always looking for something > good that > I have overlooked. Oh yes! I recently got the new double DVD of over 5 1/2 hours of Led Zeppelin concerts from 1968 to 1979. It rocks big time and no one can play the guitar like Jimmy Page. Paul O [EMAIL PROTECTED] The best thing to hit the internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today! // /// ZION LIST CHARTER: Please read it at /// /// http://www.zionsbest.com/charter.html /// / ==^ This email was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?aaP9AU.bWix1n.YXJjaGl2 Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] TOPICA - Start your own email discussion group. FREE! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/create/index2.html ==^
Re: [ZION] Gods and Generals
John W. Redelfs wrote: Perhaps the thing that most detracted from my enjoyment of the film was the Confederate bias. Of course Jackson was a southerner, so I guess I couldn't expect anything else. But I am most definitely a Yankee when it comes to my thinking about the Civil War. I don't care for books and films that make heros of the rebels. = Grampa Bill comments: Without going into the merits of the Southren cause during the Recent Unpleasantness, (JWR seems somewhat sensitive on this issue, and I try to to offend the touchy. ;-) ) Stonewall Jackson was probably the greatest fighting general since Alexander the Great! With apologies to Julius Caesar, Big Al and Stonewall didn't let no woman get in their way when there was fightin' to be done! It is, of course, debatable whether the South could have won even if Stonewall had not been killed. but I believe everyone will agree that it would have been a much closer contest. Had the South won, I believe that the Church would be much smaller, not a world-wide religion, and limited primarily to the independent nation of Deseret comprised of the present Idaho, Utah, Arizona, Nevada, California, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, and Alberta. That (not the righteousness of the northern cause) is probably why the Lord allowed the barbarians to prevail. Love y'all, Grampa Bill in Savannah // /// ZION LIST CHARTER: Please read it at /// /// http://www.zionsbest.com/charter.html /// / ==^ This email was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?aaP9AU.bWix1n.YXJjaGl2 Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] TOPICA - Start your own email discussion group. FREE! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/create/index2.html ==^
