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A La Carte (1/7)
- 01/07/11
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Here is a slightly abbreviated “the last two days were a little less organized than I had thought they would be” edition of A La Carte.
God’s Technology - My friend Chris Larson did an interview with my friend David Murray on the subject of technology. Did you get all that?
The Heart of Fasting - A couple of people have asked me recently about fasting. It turns out that John MacArthur is beginning a series on that very topic.
Family-Friendly Films - “With the exception of Christopher Nolan's psychological thriller ‘Inception,’ the top-grossing films of 2010 were all aimed squarely at families.” Let’s hope that the studios are paying attention!
Letters to a Young Calvinist - I quite enjoyed Wes Bredenhof’s review of the book Letters to a Young Calvinist. He does a good job of addressing some of the book’s weaknesses.
reFocus - Here’s a conference I’m excited to be going to next month. If you’re anywhere near Vancouver you may want to check it out.
Apple’s App Store - Here’s a list of some of the best items available in Apple’s new Mac App Store.
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Comments (4)
That’s a somewhat broad definition of “family friendly”: the Potter movies get darker each time out, the problems with the whole Twilight phenomenon have been pointed out here before, Iron Man 2 was standard summer fare, and Clash of the Titans was both violent and absolutely terrible—MPAA ratings usually under-rate violence and certainly don’t rate for quality. I assume Titans was also helped with its gross because 3D costs more for a ticket. The three animated movies (all actually good) and the also-good Alice were also 3D, which certainly helped their box office. That’s probably the real story there.
Neat that you’ve linked to MacArthur on fasting. That has been a topic of thought and conversation here at the house over the past few days. I’m looking forward to MacArthur’s thoughts.
I think that’s a strange description of “family-friendly.” Twilight & Clash of the Titans are terrible films—regardless of a person’s stance on them as far as their content goes, they are morally reprehensible as works of art and they affirm nothing good. “Inception” on the other hand, that’s a movie I would take my child to see (starting about age 10 or 11, depending on the child).
The top 10 from Box Office Mojo are:
Of those, I haven’t seen Alice in Wonderland, Twilight and Karate Kid.
Honestly, I hope the studios don’t start limiting themselves purely to family films. I thought Inception was excellent; it would be a shame if a film like Inception failed to get made because its appeal wasn’t broad enough.