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God's Not Dead (2014)
Great For Intended Audience
Most of these Christian movies are not really intended to be evangelical tools for non-Christians. Those types of people would not go see most "Christian movies", including this one. If they did, they would just ridicule them.
In watching this movie, it's intended audience are Christians who are feeling doubt and need a "boost", as well as Christians with a strong belief who want to feel positive about their faith.
Given that supposition, this movie accomplished those tasks very well. Good acting by appealing actors and actresses, a positive message, and good music. If you are a Christian, you more than likely walked out of the theater feeling good and positive. I know I did.
And if it did touch a few "non believers" along the way, that would be great.
Frank's Place (1987)
The Best Show Ever!!!!!!!!!
I am 50, and "Frank's Place" is still my all-time favorite TV show! It broke my heart when they canceled it.
The characters were so real and believable. The actors who played them did so with a gritty realism that made them both quirky and real at the same time.
They didn't try to paint the rough life of that part of New Orleans with a "PC paintbrush" either.
I have a few old episodes on VCR tapes that I still watch when I need a laugh, and, for the life of me, I can't figure out to this day why this show didn't have a run of at least 5 years.
I still hope to see this come out on DVD before I die...
That '80s Show (2002)
What Could Have Been...
What made "The 70's Show" work so well was that the cast had almost instant chemistry. They also didn't try to make the characters anything special. They were just regular kids who hung out and got into regular kid trouble. No geniuses or super-jocks or anything else. Just regular kids (like the ones I used to hang out with in the 70's).
"The 80's Show" characters just didn't have that chemistry from the start. There also wasn't a sense of direction -- like they were trying to figure out which direction to take the show as they went along. In a lot of ways, it had the same problems that "Joey" had a few years later.
I actually enjoyed the show and thought it had some promising moments. I truly wish they had given it a 2nd season to try to see if it would "gel". But I also understand why they canceled it.