Comments on: Helpful Movies

By: briank

briank — Mon, 24 Dec 2012 23:06:48 +0000

Hey Paul, sounds like we should connect somehow. Are you on Facebook? Here is my link:

http://www.facebook.com/brian.karcher

By: Paul Evans

Paul Evans — Mon, 24 Dec 2012 21:03:08 +0000

Add 1984, with John Hurt and Richard Burton. A classic story of mind control and conversion.

By: Vitaly

Vitaly — Sun, 03 Jun 2012 02:46:43 +0000

BTW I watched other movies by Antoine Fuqua and I liked them. They are very realistic. I watched also “Brooklyn’s Finest”, “Training Day”, “Tears of the Sun”. “Training Day” is a bit “dirty” movie, at least with russian translation. Still in the movie there is a naive young policeman, and even a latin mafia band leader decides not to kill him, saying something like “Who could imagine that a cop can do a good thing?”. “Tears of the Sun” is really a touching to the heart movie. An officer is commanded to save american and european missionaries, but when he sees unspeakable cruelty of muslims he decides to save as many as he can. The movie shows also a contrast between black people in the USA and in Africa.

By: Vitaly

Vitaly — Sun, 03 Jun 2012 02:26:58 +0000

Yes, HKUBF. “Courageous” is a very good christian movie, made by a baptist church. There are four films made by the same authors: also “Fireproof” which is very good, “Flywheel”, and “Facing the Giants”. After watching “Courageous” my wife said, “They speak so often about what the Bible says about fathers’ role in a family; and it seems to me that I don’t know what the Bible says about fathers even after 19 years of UBF Bible study”. There are so many “shepherds” and “fathers” in UBF but everything is founded on confucian teaching of blind obedience, not on the Bible teaching. There are also so many families in UBF and all of them are “by faith”; still UBF teaches that family is not important, that everyone is to sacrifice his/her family and children for the sake of “world mission” and obedience to the directors, actually for the sake of UBF. Now we have to reread and restudy the Bible.

By: Vitaly

Vitaly — Sun, 03 Jun 2012 02:08:03 +0000

Sorry, the title is “Shooter” with Mark Wahlberg. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0822854/

By: HKUBF

HKUBF — Sat, 02 Jun 2012 16:33:58 +0000

Be Courageous…Seek justice, love mercy…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTYSirKUiVw&feature=related

Recently, I watched the movie “Courageous”. I learnt that fathers play a very important role in a family and the society. They have deep influence on children and the next generation. I wish UBF-HK’s fathers and ancestor of faith could be courageous to act justice and speak out the truth honestly.

By: briank

briank — Sat, 02 Jun 2012 16:19:52 +0000

Cool. I will have to check out The Shooter! Is this the movie? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1367111/

By: Vitaly

Vitaly — Sat, 02 Jun 2012 12:50:52 +0000

Thanks, Brian. I’ve watched almost all of them, and am going to watch the rest. But I didn’t think about Monsters Inc’s helpfulness, now I find it to be very helpful, yes )). You know somewhy I liked a movie “The Shooter”. It is not christian, but it seems to me that it is very american and about justice and law(especially in the end) and about one man’s possibility to fight back. This movie is like a warning for those who don’t think seriously of harming or even killing one man. I just liked the movie and watched it may be 10 times )).

By: briank

briank — Sat, 02 Jun 2012 11:50:26 +0000

And some more excellent movies related to the grace vs. law, honor vs. truth, power vs. freedom struggle... "A Few Good Men" "Amazing Grace" "IronClad" "The Avengers" When I started asking questions about the problems my UBF friends were having, I found myself living out all four of the above movies combined :)