Monk of Mequon

Prince Caspian!

2008-05-16T12:24:56-06:00

I spent my first night of summer seeing the midnight showing and writing a review of Prince Caspian.

It was awesome and it is definitely worth the insane amount of money it is to see it. It is a must see movie of the summer!

For my review head over to the main Higher Things site and its the most recent article in the pop culture and the arts section.

Or I could make things easy and just give you the link:
http://higherthings.org/myht/articles/pop_culture_arts/princecaspian.html

Movies I'm looking Forward to

2008-04-25T12:04:20-06:00

It has been a very long time since I've seen a movie in theaters. Probably only one this entire school year. But now there are some movies I can't wait for. The first of course is Prince Caspian which comes out May 16 (which just so happens to be my first day of Freedom so someone may be going to see it at midnight!) Here's a fun trailer:

The second is still a couple of years off but I saw an article that they are beginning plans for The Hobbit and its sequel (which covers the years between the Hobbit and Fellowship of the Ring.) there are more details here: http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSN2442868220080425

Pax!

The Nativity Story

2006-10-22T22:45:01-06:00

So I saw this Trailer a couple days ago

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gsOd4VyKTM

Why does it seem like there should be a lot more Jesus in a Trailer for a movie called The Nativity Story.

The Prestige

2006-10-21T00:50:59-06:00

“There are three acts to every magic trick. The First Act is The Pledge Where the magician shows you something ordinary, but of course it probably isn't. The Second Act is called The Turn where the magician makes this ordinary something do something extraordinary. The Third Act is called the Prestige. This is the part with the twists and turns, where lives hang in the balance where you see something shocking you have never seen before.”

That description of The Prestige basically sums up the movie. It begins with two magicians who work together. When you have two friends in the same line of work that friendship soon becomes a rivalry. Throughout the course of the movie, Robert Angier played by Hugh Jackman and Alfred Borden played by Christian Bale continually try to find out how the other does his tricks. That rivalry very quickly turns into an obsession. They continually try to out do their former friend no matter what the cost. Lives truly do hang in the balance, whether it be the lives of the magicians themselves or the lives of those that they love.

The best quality in a magician is always keeping your audience asking, how? They certainly do that in this movie. The greatest trick of each of these magicians is called the “Transported Man” something no one had ever seen before. They both try to out do the other. Which finally leads them to seek help from science.

The acting done by Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale is excellent! Some of the parts where kind of slow moving and somethings were easy to predict what would happen next. The plot was full of twists and turns, matters of life and death, and things that are altogether shocking. I really enjoyed this movie, but since I saw it with my brother I realize that there are those younger ones who may fall asleep during it.

Overall, I would suggest you see this movie but, it is definatly something you could wait to see until the DVD comes out.

Not A Tame Lion

2006-04-07T23:54:36-06:00

From the title of this post most of you could probably guess what its about. A couple days ago I bought The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe on DVD. It is quickly becomming my favorite movie. I read the books regularly. Everytime you read the books you can get something new out of them. Athiests can even appreciate them as great fiction. With our Christian background it is easy for us to see a lot of the symbolism between The Chronicles and The Bible or Church history.

I have been able to get some of the same things out of the movie. Then there are some things that are more apparent in the book then in the movie. As I watch the movie more I can think of things i never thought of while reading the books. One part I particularly like in the movie is the battle between Peter and The White Witch. Clearly Peter cannot defeat the White Witch by himself, but then Aslan comes and "crushes her head."

I would Reccommend that if you havent seen the movie yet that you do. It is a great movie. It stays very close to the book and it is amazing as far as movies go. Everything from the beautiful locations they chose to film it, to Aslan both his appearance and personality (for lack of a better word).

"Once a King or Queen of Narnia, always a King or Queen!"