Christ's Free Servant Posted April 30, 2005 Group: Royal Member Followers: 1 Topic Count: 197 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 2,461 Content Per Day: 0.35 Reputation: 4 Days Won: 0 Joined: 02/18/2005 Status: Offline Birthday: 12/31/1949 Share Posted April 30, 2005 My husband and I love to watch movies. This is one of our main ways of relaxing. Our children are all grown, so they are no longer an issue for us. We have the TV Guardian, which is a box that cuts out the bad language through replacing words in the CC, if the movie is marked CC. So, in most cases, that is not an issue. Nonetheless, we are having great difficulty finding anything decent to watch that we have not already seen a bunch of times. We don't want to watch anything with sex, nudity, sexual situations, sexual humor, crude or rude humor, etc. And, we don't want to watch anything where people are sleeping together outside of marriage, or where there are extramarital affairs or honestly where any sin is glorified and laughed at and regarded as ok. We also do not want to watch anything demonic or with extreme violence, gore, blood and guts, etc. Mild violence is ok if appropriate with the story line and is not just thrown in there just to have gore. So, we find ourselves going through the movie rentals and ruling out 95% of them, and the 5% that are remaining we have seen enough times. I know this is long, but does anyone have any recommendations of movies that are clean-cut? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerioke Posted April 30, 2005 Group: Royal Member Followers: 3 Topic Count: 97 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 5,850 Content Per Day: 0.84 Reputation: 128 Days Won: 0 Joined: 03/19/2005 Status: Offline Birthday: 08/11/1911 Share Posted April 30, 2005 You could try renting those nature shows Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catsmeow Posted April 30, 2005 Group: Royal Member Followers: 0 Topic Count: 439 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 7,315 Content Per Day: 0.93 Reputation: 356 Days Won: 0 Joined: 11/21/2002 Status: Offline Share Posted April 30, 2005 I'm particularly fond of Shakespearean plays made into movies. I realize that the themes may not make the cut because some are quite secular but I enjoyed Hamlet. I still love Romeo and Juliet, but it has a suggested sex scene in it. There's no sex or foul language in Henry Vth but the battle scenes are pretty rough. Excellent movie, though. I strongly suggest Henry V. The king goes into battle with France and the night before the great battle, falls on his knees in prayer and begs God to give them victory. He confesses his sins and the sins of his father and pleads for God to grant them favor. In a case of incredible and miraculous odds, this historically accurate portrayal of the King of England depicts a remarkable victory God gives this godly king. It does help to have some understanding of basic Olde English and/or a good understanding of Shakespears' plays. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tsth Posted April 30, 2005 Group: Royal Member Followers: 2 Topic Count: 297 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 5,586 Content Per Day: 0.69 Reputation: 193 Days Won: 1 Joined: 04/09/2002 Status: Offline Share Posted April 30, 2005 Dear Sue, Did you happen to see the section under "Parents". It's called "Family Movies". There's not too much there yet, but hopefully more will contribute to it and we can have a decent list of good movies? In His Love, Suzanne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hippo's hope is HIM Posted April 30, 2005 Group: Diamond Member Followers: 2 Topic Count: 111 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 775 Content Per Day: 0.10 Reputation: 21 Days Won: 0 Joined: 02/18/2004 Status: Offline Birthday: 11/12/1987 Share Posted April 30, 2005 Ever After is one of my Favorite movies ever. There isn't any sexual inuendos...there may be a kiss or two. But nothing bad. The language isn't foul. It has Drew Barrymore and that guy in it Hope that helps If you like kid movies.......I know a jillion. I love them as much as my nieces and nephews do Do you like Westerns? A lot of the old timey movies are good. I am not sure about language though. My family curses a lot, so often times in movies I don't even notice it but Rio Bravo was good, and if you like them I can find out a whole lot more. Ghost, Body Guard, 10 Things I hate about you (it's more of a teen movie, but it's really cute), Andre (about a seal... and a little girl) Stepmom, To Dance With the White Dog, Fried Green Tomatoes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Annette443pink Posted April 30, 2005 Group: Advanced Member Followers: 2 Topic Count: 58 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 228 Content Per Day: 0.03 Reputation: 22 Days Won: 1 Joined: 09/21/2004 Status: Offline Share Posted April 30, 2005 (edited) Christ's Free Servant - I know what you mean!! We step into Blockbuster every once in a blue moon and it's just covered with smut and gore. It's hard sifting through it. I know someone who just decided they weren't going to do it anymore. Have you checked out "plugged in" on the Focus on the family website? You can go there and get excellent reviews on movies. I keep meaning to go there and get a list of movies that are acceptable so I'd be ready next time we want to rent. You could also check out Christianbook.com and go to their movie section. Edited April 30, 2005 by Annette443pink Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peaches Posted May 1, 2005 Group: Royal Member Followers: 1 Topic Count: 95 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 2,315 Content Per Day: 0.30 Reputation: 14 Days Won: 0 Joined: 06/25/2003 Status: Offline Share Posted May 1, 2005 this is so cool that u guys do that. i was like that with tv shows and with music. i never buy secular CD's but i have backslid to watching the secular music channel and tv shows and movies. its awesome to sacrifise stuff (not really though but it seems like it at first) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Work in Progress Posted May 1, 2005 Group: Royal Member Followers: 2 Topic Count: 123 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 3,111 Content Per Day: 0.39 Reputation: 35 Days Won: 0 Joined: 08/29/2002 Status: Offline Share Posted May 1, 2005 All of the seasons of "Little House on the Prairie" are available on DVD now. You can find them all on ebay. I think the Waltons are on DVD now too. Also, at WalMart, there is a large "family" section. If you don't want to buy, you could just write down the titles and then see if you can rent them. "October Sky" is another good movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christ's Free Servant Posted May 1, 2005 Group: Royal Member Followers: 1 Topic Count: 197 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 2,461 Content Per Day: 0.35 Reputation: 4 Days Won: 0 Joined: 02/18/2005 Status: Offline Birthday: 12/31/1949 Author Share Posted May 1, 2005 You could try renting those nature shows <{POST_SNAPBACK}> For instance? Not sure what you mean. You mean like Disney stuff? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christ's Free Servant Posted May 1, 2005 Group: Royal Member Followers: 1 Topic Count: 197 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 2,461 Content Per Day: 0.35 Reputation: 4 Days Won: 0 Joined: 02/18/2005 Status: Offline Birthday: 12/31/1949 Author Share Posted May 1, 2005 I'm particularly fond of Shakespearean plays made into movies. I realize that the themes may not make the cut because some are quite secular but I enjoyed Hamlet. I still love Romeo and Juliet, but it has a suggested sex scene in it. There's no sex or foul language in Henry Vth but the battle scenes are pretty rough. Excellent movie, though. I strongly suggest Henry V. The king goes into battle with France and the night before the great battle, falls on his knees in prayer and begs God to give them victory. He confesses his sins and the sins of his father and pleads for God to grant them favor. In a case of incredible and miraculous odds, this historically accurate portrayal of the King of England depicts a remarkable victory God gives this godly king. It does help to have some understanding of basic Olde English and/or a good understanding of Shakespears' plays. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Thank you for your suggestions. We do watch Hamlet every now and then and we also have Midsummer Night's Dream and another one that is a comedy and the name escapes me at the moment, but actually we may have gotten rid of that one because it had a sex scene in it and we are really trying to stay away from that. We have gone to live productions of Shakespeare's plays, too. We also enjoy Jane Austin novels made into movies. We just watched Pride and Prejudice tonight for about the fifth or sixth time (not continuously). We have a couple of other ones by her and we also have Little Women, which I love. We like the old English movies like this, so if you know of any others, please let me know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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