The new Superman movie premieres this weekend. Despite its flaws, it is a fantastic movie with a fantastic moral compass and message. In this article I review what the movie has to say about hope, despair, and the Three Great Virtues: Faith, Hope, and Charity (the pure love of Christ.)
Category: Movies
Hocus Pocus 2 Is Terrible In Every Way
No, I’m not over exaggerating just to get clicks. The plot is full of holes so big you could drive a freight train through them. It contradicts itself, repeatedly. There are no character arcs for any of the characters. It tries to elevate message over story, but fails to deliver either a coherent message or a logical story. And, worst of all, it sloppily tries to redeem the child eating, soul sucking, mind raping, slave mongering, tyrannical, sociopathic, insane, Devil worshipping, power mad Sanderson sisters in the absolutely worst way possible. In short, Hocus Pocus 2 is everything wrong with modern storytelling. It ends up doing far more damage than good and ends up glorifying Evil and diminishing Righteousness. Here I explain all these reasons in detail and why you shouldn’t waste your time on this movie.
“A Quiet Place” And The Terror of Social Media
The “A Quiet Place” movies have both seemingly struck a cord with society in recent years, racking up both praise and dollars in the process. This makes sense. Good horror does more than shock us or even scare us. Good horror tells stories about human fears and thereby helps us understand ourselves and our society better. The “A Quiet Place” movies do this very well. Its stories full of monsters ready to kill people and destroy lives for speaking mirrors well the very real dangers we face in today’s toxic social media world. This article explores how the “A Quiet Place” movies explore the dangers of social media as well as the message of hope these movies have about how to defeat those dangers.
LDS Movie Reviews: Wonder Woman 1984
Having recently seen Wonder “Woman 1984,” I thought I would write a review that I know is unique among all its critics. In addition to offering up a synopsis of the movie and its events I also explore the morals and values within the movie itself. I look for and try to draw out Gospel teachings and principles or morality and righteousness that it contains and which we might seek to enact in our own lives. There is a lot to really love about this movie, not the least of which is how it treats its characters, its themes of loss and redemption, and how even the most wicked deserve love and are worthy of being saved. The movie is not only fun, but it has meaning and ideals that made it worth my time and money.