Movie Suggestion!!

So its Tuesday night, and you need something to do with your girl, or your guy, or your friends tonight.

I highly suggest you rent the movie Gone Baby Gone. I saw this movie in theaters and I have become a zealot trying to get everyone i know and love to see it. It is a thriller that is also a thinker. When Meg and I saw it in theaters we talked about it the rest of the night and continued to spar over it for at least 2 more weeks. The movie presents a….can you say, “moral ambiguity” that is undeniable.

I guarantee that this movie is a piece of art that will leave you thinking and thinking some more.

WARNING: MOVIE IS NOT FOR KIDS.

Here is the trailer:

if ya watch it, comment back what you thought!!

So, I’m nervous…..

So i love the original Indiana Jones movies. When my family would go on vacation when I was younger, my dad would put in a travel tv in the car and my brother and I would only bring 6 movies, The original Star Wars trilogy and the 3 Indiana Jones movies. We would watch them a ridiculous number of times to the point where my dad would yell at me and my brother for ALWAYS quoting the lines from the movies ( “Cover your heart, Indy. Cover your heart!!”- In young Asian boy’s accent)

I was soo disappointed by the 3 Star Wars prequels due to freakin Jar Jar Binks and poor romantic chemistry and dialogue. I am so nervous that Spielberg and Lucas are going to screw up the new Indiana Jones.

Yes, I will see it with my dad and brother on opening night, but should I get my hopes up? You tell me?

Falling slowly

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I truly can’t put into words how much I love this song….

I cannot suggest the movie Once enough. This movie IS the great music movie of our generation.

Props to my good friends Derek and Collin for talking up the movie….It truly delivered

Crash

I am on some prescription pain meds right now, so I don’t know how this is going to sound, but I just watched the movie Crash for the 3rd time today. Everytime I see this film it moves me in a different way. I don’t know if I have ever seen a movie that is so powerful and TRUE. The movie portrays:
* Human brokenness
* Humanity’s loneliness and dire need for soul connection
* Humanity’s diversity and stereotypes that lead to pain
* Humanity’s cry for an unconditional love

Crash is interesting because it is probably one of the more vulgar (language mostly) films I have ever seen, but at the same time God works on me everytime I see it.

Some of you might not agree, but I think God loves moving and working through the dirt and through the trash of our lives. How much brighter does a light shine when its in the presence of pure darkness? How awesome is resurrection in light of Jesus’ horrid death? God’s great love and salvation is so incredible and indescribable because sin is so awful and leads to nothing but destruction. I think its in humanity’s lowest places where the world really reaches out for a something. They reach out for something that repairs brokenness and lifts up the brokenhearted and the hurt.

Its the job of the church (universal) to be Christ’s hands and feet on this earth. Let us shine a BIG light towards the ONE who renovated our broken and lonely hearts. Let us reach people where they are in their messiness, because we are all messy. Life is messy. Peace

Any lack of coherence in this post is being accredited to drugs. hha

Movie Review- Awake

So I love movies. I think I started falling in love with cinema when I first went to college and you enter the world of no sleep, all play. “Oh, hey it’s 2 in the morning, lets watch a movie.” Yea, that is norm and I love it. Movies move me, challenge me, frustrate me, and bring me joy.

So on friday night, Meg (my incredible girlfriend–three years and running) rented Awake (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0211933/). It stars Hayden Christenson (Mr. Plastic aka Anakin Skywalker), Jessica Alba (Dark Angel, Fantastic Four), and Terrance Howard (Crash, The Brave One). The movie had an interesting idea of a psychological thriller focusing on a man who experiences a phenomenon called “anesthetic awareness,” which leaves him awake but paralyzed throughout an open heart surgery.

Needless to say, I don’t really recommend Awake at all. The acting was flat. The characters were shallow, and the plot, which had an interesting idea, never took off and lands extremely unsatisfying.

The one thing did make me think during the movie though. A stat flashed at the beginning of the film stating, “30,000 people experience anesthetic awareness every year.”

Now, that makes me think twice about going under the knife.