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Walker: One Good Thing (2022)
Frustrating
I hate it when writers make drama out of lack of people connecting the dots.
Abby knew child was given away .... She didn't know it was Geri. She's off the hook
Geri should be angry Denise Davidson and her mother's behavior. .... They have no honor to say that race was legit.
Denise Davidson gives no apology to BH for accusing him on flimsy evidences? She!'s a mess.
Walker: Common Ground (2022)
Bad writing
I love this show but disappointed in so many things lately..
1)Cordell's stuttering and emotional outbursts are annoying
2) He has his entire family estate on the line and he goes back for Dan when he falls off the horse . Finish the race and go back afterwards. Or once you cal tell Dan's ok ride on.
3) How does anyone get close enough to Cordell's borse it cut the straps? Was a ranch hand paid off by thr Davidsons?
4) What kind of idiot agreed to resolve a multi million dollar land dispute with a horse race ?? To dumb to believe.
5) And I agree. How did the original investigation miss a lantern ?? Not realistic .... I agree the fire would have burned ant blood residue.
Don't Look Up (2021)
Horrible waste of time
This movie is a horrible waste of time .... Depressing and sad. Just makes you feel dirty. Way too long . I was done after an hour but persevered just to see how it ends and turns out after hour one can easily predict the outcome.
Prayer Never Fails (2016)
Good message
This movie had a great message. These are the actual guidance regarding prayer and schools.
He could have prayed with the student as long as he was not acting on his official capacity as a teacher.
The Way Back (2020)
Horrible - Not a Sports Movie
This was not a sports movie. It is a story about alcoholism and emotional dysfunction. There is nothing inspirational about it. Usually in a great sports movie the leading character is an example of good character. This guy was a profane drinker who couldn't process his son's death and turns to alcohol to cope. And it was clear he came from a family history of alcoholism which was never really dealt with in the movie.
He loses his wife and eventually his coaching job. The emotional energy of the movie is a downward spiral ending in him going to rehab. It would have been better if that happened 1/2 way through the movie and focused the second half on his way back to the man he wanted to be when he got married. Perhaps develop 2nd season of him coaching and being that man he always wanted to be.
I was also highly disappointed with the Catholic priests in the movie. They were hypocrites. They said they were about faith and raising men of character but they tolerated Cunningham's out of control profanity which was a red flag that he was no where near ready to be a moral example. Had they pastored him about that perhaps they could have discovered the alcoholism struggle more in a pastoral setting. Then when he comes to practice drunk they enforce their code of conduct on alcohol use, while right to do so, they provide no pastoral care for Jack. No empathy driven desire to ask him what is really going on with him as the root cause of his behavior, no spiritual guidance, or bringing him back to right relationship with Jesus.
And then they cut to the final game scene when the team is praying only to break to a "player only" huddle where the hype is once again profanity filled, one of things modeled by Coach Cunningham as if it was a good thing.
This was not feel good at all .... it was more or less depressing, emotional dribble with no inspirational redemption. Total waste of time and money..
I'm Not Ashamed (2016)
Great Movie about Christian Identity
This movie is really not about Columbine .... Columbine is a backdrop for the larger narrative of what it feels like as a teen growing up in America caught between two separate and distinct cultures - that of "those who are earnestly making Jesus the #1 priority in their life" vs the mainstream non believing middle America. For that reason the concept of belonging is a major theme. In Christian terms the ethos of this struggle is captured in the concept of "being in the world and yet not being of the world."
And this movie even goes one step further on the "you do you" manta of today's generation by asking the question of what it may look like to change the world through compassion and love.
Other high school movie like "Mean Girls" also deal with classic issues of overcoming high school cliques. Putting this movie in that genre doesn't do it justice to the insight of what it portrays as true Christianity and the struggle of Christians teens in America. As someone who lived that struggle in the 80's and 90's, I very much resonated with "I Am Not Ashamed."