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FBI: Most Wanted (2020)
More a Bunch of Questions
...than a review:
Are the characters the same ages as their actors? I'm asking because that would make Special Agent LaCroix only one year younger than his mother-in-law! In that case, I'm interested in the back story there. Was his and his now-deceased wife's marriage a December-May romance?
Miracle Maker (2015)
I'm a Little Curious...
...as to why the apparently generic Christian pastor is wearing a rather large rosary around his neck? 😇
Sarge (1971)
I Sure Do Wish...
...that this short-lived, but excellent TV series had made it to DVD. I would have given a set to my father, and gotten one for myself, as well.
A Mac Davis Special: Christmas Odyssey - 2010 (1978)
I Remember This Christmas Special...
...39 years later, so it apparently made a significant impression on me at the time. I do not share the earlier reviewer's distaste for it, however. The show was a parable that explored a dystopic future where official paganism (presented as a worship of materialism) had overwritten the Christian meaning of Christmas, replacing it with a cultural "Commerce Day"--and, in fact, keeping the traditional ways of Christmas had actually become illegal. As I recall, the show ends with the chilling sound of police sirens in the distance, coming closer, presumably enroute to arrest the family who rebelliously dared to celebrate CHRISTMAS.
The special thus provoked thought: Have I allowed Christmas to become merely Commerce Day in my own heart?
A State of Emergency (1985)
Not Quite the Same Impressions
I saw this film in a movie theater with a group of friends from our Catholic church. Apparently, I was not as impressed as the other reviewers already published concerning its anti-nuclear weapons message, since I didn't even remember THAT aspect of the story until reading their reviews.
What I DO remember is that any non-Catholics viewing this film would have come to the false conclusion that, as many of them already incorrectly believe, Catholics do indeed worship Mary, the mother of Jesus, as some sort of pseudo-goddess. My friends and I were absolutely outraged by this particular facet of the story, so much so that any other message the film-makers were trying to communicate was completely overshadowed. There are a lot of good, well-known actors and actresses in this movie (though, perhaps, they were less so when it was made), but I was truly embarrassed for them in being associated with this production.
Star Trek: The Next Generation: Half a Life (1991)
A Chilling Foreshadowing of Our Own Western Culture
Given that the Social Security system in the United States is now in big trouble, due largely to the economic consequences of legalized abortion and artificial contraception--the SS system was designed based on a pyramid model: more, younger workers feeding into the fund to support fewer, older citizens; both abortion and artificial contraception have reversed the pyramid model, so that FEWER younger workers are now supporting MORE older citizens--this particular episode of STAR TREK: NEXT GEN may give us a not-so-far-fetched insight into our own society's future. Just listen carefully to what the representatives of Timicin's planet, including his own daughter, say to justify their law requiring their citizens' deaths at age 60. Rather than fixing their society, they simply eliminate their sick and elderly! End of problem!