Which Movie Is Better?
 

Interesting question... Ran across this post today on Eternity Bible College's Faculty Blog. What do you think?

See the original post and comments here.

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Excellent question.

I would also add two more films.

Adult themes and foul language aplenty, yet guaranteed to not leave a dry eye in the room when done.
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Or.....

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Why not throw a little tasteful nudity into the mix? :heeheehee

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The second image in your post is not showing up for me... But for those who are wondering, it is Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. (I checked the HTML.)

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...and who can resist the "terrific Beatles songs"!

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:thumbsup

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The little mermaid has a plot that promotes rebellion and sin? Parts are almost alegorical with Christianity whether intended or not.

1. Girl rebels and gets herself into trouble that can't be undone (Adam and Eve's Fall).
2. The girls Father offers to exchange himself in place of her. (Jesus taking our punishment in our place).
3. The witches spell gets reversed and both her Father and her are free. (The resurrection of Jesus).
4. The girl now gets to live a new and changed life as a human instead of as a mermaid. (The new man that the Holy Spirit lets us become or perhaps its a picture of heaven).

...I guess The Little Mermaid really teaches alot of bad stuff afterall. Kind of like how the bible teaches rebelling from God is okay since God ultimately makes a way to save us from our mistakes and we still ultimately get what we want, heaven ;)

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Grand Torino is really a very good movie. And the Harry Potter one isn't bad either, though the story line is predictable.

Neither is appropriate for young children, because their values and maturity is not far enough along.

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I would say that is stretching the line more than a little bit. If you stretched it much tighter, you would be able to use it as a guitar string.

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I guess as long as you want to view the movie as only being about a rebellious girl who makes mistakes and faces no long term consequences for them then be my guest.... but just remember it isn't hard to dumb down Christianity's story to being about rebellious humans who make mistakes and face no long term consequences for them too.

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Hmmm, I have to disagree with you. I have a physical infirmity (muscular) that God has said that He will not heal. I have and will continue to live my life with it because of Adam's sin. Sin has had long term consequences for all of us. There are billions who are dead because of sin, and should the Lord tarry, trillions more will die.

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Grand Torino is one of the best movies I've seen. The language in the movie was pretty bad but the message and overall theme was so good that I actually felt good after watching it.

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Someone missed the word LONGTERM. You see, even the little mermaid was imprisioned for a while to the evil witch (a temporary consequence for her mistake). So yes both humans and the little mermaid often have temporary consequences for their actions.

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I would say that the consequences of sin are incredibly long term. In fact they are both final and fatal, which is not shown in that movie.

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Because her savior saved her by taking her place!!! Our savior saved us by taking our place too ya know? And because of that even though we have made mistakes those consequences are not long term but short term. They are incredibly short term... only this lifetime and not all eternity.

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Further, the consequences for the mermaids mistake were very long term in the movie. She was to belong to the evil witch forever... Thankfully she had a savior. Sounds kind of like us. We were to belong to Satan forever but thankfully we had a savior ;)

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As I said, I find drawing analogies from Hollywood is a far greater stretch than I care to attempt. Most people would not find the comparison in the movie.

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I have a 7 y/o and 4 y/o. Since I'm 100% against foul language and rebellion, neither movie would be suitable. HOWEVER, to bring it down to a child's level, I would choose Little Mermaid since, as I said, it would be more to their level of understanding and not spew the foul language. They already hear enough of that outside the home as it is...

Someone mentioned Harry Potter. Both of my children love watchinig those, and my oldest has a full understanding of the moral of the story; the youngest loves watching it for all the action.

If we ever have any question about a movie prior to its release or before we take my girls to watch it, we generally pull up http://www.christiananswers.net/spotlight/ or http://www.pluggedin.com/; The first one is generally more detailed than the second and have found it to be very useful...

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I was not interested in the Harry Potter movies until my son told me that they were similar to Lord of the Rings. So, we have started watching the series, will be on the third one next. The story lines are kind of predictable, but they are fun to watch. They have to watched as fantasy and not taken too seriously. The special effects and the creativity is awesome.

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Y'all are going to hell. Just sayin.

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You may know my understanding of "hell", so you know I'm not scared!!! LOL

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Looks like you'll be joining us too...

JUST SAYIN!!!

:nahnah

Just kidding... :lol

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Having seen the first 4 movies years ago (and then stopping), we picked up the 8 movie Blue Ray box set and plan on watching all 8 one of these weekends -or more likely, over several weekends.

And I wouldn't say they are anything like Lord Of the Rings.

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A few decades is not long term, in the Christian doctrinal view. And the ones who die in sin are not the ones the frog is talking about. He's talking about Christians, who will (they believe) not be punished in the afterlife for anything they have done in this life.

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Huh? 100% against rebellion? I guess you're not a patriotic American, then. :lol

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They have some similarity, in the mythism and drama, I really liked the Rings, my opinion of the HP's is still incomplete.

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:D

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:highfive

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:icecream

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Good one, sir Timmy, good one... :thumbsup

If my kids we older, like 10, I'd probably be a little more willing to let them watch GWH; obviously, they'd be older and more mature, and probably understand the plot much better...

I think the only foul language (if that's even what one would call it) in Harry Potter is "bloody hell." Until my kids use it, or they ask what it means, "bloody hell" won't bother me in the least compared to other, more common words and phrases...

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Egad!

(Like that, you mean? ;))

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I recommend everyone read Hunger Games before the first movie comes out in March. I gotta say - I really enjoyed that book series, and think it is a good series for young teen girls.

I'm a fan of most all of the movies mentioned. But I will admit that the Disney stuff can seem deceptively light when you look at the cover, but they often deal with some pretty disturbing events and themes. My daughter saw Tangled when she was 4, and was really upset (understandably) that the main character was kidnapped and taken from her parents for so long. She much prefers older Disney movies like Mary Poppins.

By the way, I highly recommend the new Muppet movie. My daughter really liked it, and I loved them as a kid.

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How about this one ?
http://www.jesusfilm.org/film-and-media

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Did you see how many languages it's in? Wow! Is it a new record?

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Yes I know.

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All above given movies are my favorite movies. I liked all movies and seen already. Interesting stories with best cinematography which can attract anyone easily.