Let's go to the movies???

A couple of my (Geoff) favorite thoughts from movie reviews on http://www.pluggedinonline.com/ No thinking person who cares about their money and thought life (Phil. 4:8) should see a movie until checking out this site. Now these movies may be extreme examples, but they represent the general desensitization that is Hollywood. 2 Cor. 11:14; Phil. 4:8; Psalm 101:3; Psalm 141:4; Eph. 4:17-19; Prov. 5:21



A portion of a review by Bob Hoose on the movie, "The Strangers":

After their night of butchery, one killer says to her less-seasoned fellow slayer, " It'll be easier next time." Truer words are rarely uttered on celluloid. For isn't that exactly what happens? Murders that were so unbelievably shocking back when a Texas boy read of Charles Manson's gruesome actions are much easier to swallow now after years of being bombarded by such things.
We grow numb. And it somehow gets easier to accept a dark cinematic celebration of unredeemed terror and death as something worth watching and paying money for. We ticket-holding frogs in our about-to-boil pot of water start to accept that this ghastly stuff is entertainment.
At the height of her torturous turn in The Strangers, a blood-smeared Kristen keeps asking, "Why are you doing this to us?" Eventually one of her tormentors blandly replies, "'Cause you were home." Maybe the line should've been, "'Cause you came to the theater."



A portion of a review by Steven Isaac on the movie, "Hostel, Part II" (this one's scary):

I'll not document a single other act of perverse—and I would say animalistic, but animals don't kill for pleasure so I'll not implicate them unfairly here—viciousness. There's simply no reason to do so. But I will raise to the surface something that bothers me far more than watching raw violence for the sake of raw violence. It's a festering idea that has begun to be fostered by more than just one or two twisted pieces of entertainment lately: It's the idea that murder is more satisfying, thrilling and even orgasmic than sex. In Hostel: Part II, sex merely fills time for bored men who yearn for a bigger fix. Killing is an extreme sport played by those who've tried everything else and still want more. It's the highest brass ring to be grasped by those devoted to power, revenge and lust.

Prov. 4:23