The big movie opening this weekend is the new Harry Potter movie. Even though it is getting glowing reviews, we won’t be seeing it. This time around, Harry Potter is getting good press
from Christian writers who claim Christianity and Harry Potter don’t
clash. The author is a member of the Inklings, we are told, C.S. Lewis’
group, and is carrying on in the C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkein
tradition. I haven’t read any of the books or seen any of the movies. But witchcraft and Christianity clash.
That is my bottom line, and I can’t get away from it. The occult is
real, it is a real gateway to the demonic, and it is dangerous.
In other movie news, “Pride and Prejudice” opened in a limited release this week, and I want to see it. It will open locally next week. Ann Coulter skewers
Clooney’s historically flawed “Good Night, and Good Luck,” about the
eeeevil Joe McCarthy (ahem). Boy, Clooney has an ax to grind. Maybe
when he runs out of money making all these flops he will get over it.
The last movie he made that I loved was “O Brother, Where Art Thou.” Speaking of Clooney, Rosemary Clooney (George’s aunt) was wonderful in “White Christmas.” I love her singing Count Your Blessings.
“Derailed” gets a good review.
I don’t know anything about this other than what the reviewer reveals.
It is supposed to be marriage- and- commitment- affirming. I don’t
think I can sit through the indiscretions to find out if that is true,
though.
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Update: Oh! Oh! Oh! I want to see Walk the Line, the new movie about Johnny Cash! I didn’t know it opened today!
about Harry Potter (but we could write gobs of posts about that subject… oops… already did that!) 🙂
I too am chomping at the bit to see Pride and Prejudice, although I think my favorite will always be Persuasion… I just love second chances!
And I think George Clooney does have an ax to grind…it is very apparent in most of his work, and his ‘charitable’ benevolence that he calls us to recognize.
Although my husband and I did love the movie, O Brother, Where Art Thou too! We still find ourselves singing many of the songs in that movie. It is a great soundtrack too!
Joyfully His,
Carla
Do you need help if you post comments on your own posts, LOL. I was just thinking, Carla, how witchcraft is portrayed by Lewis and Tolkein, and it is so different than how it is portrayed in Harry Potter. The White Witch in Lewis is the metaphor for Satan, for crying out loud! And in Tolkein, the wizard who gets ensnared by the Dark Lord is not Gandalf, who very very rarely uses “power” and cautions others against it, but it is Saruman, who embraces power and its use. The contrast is so stark.
Mom, I agree about Harry Potter, though I know Ty still wants to take me to see it. We can’t wait to see the Chronicles of Narnia, I hope that will change Ty’s idea about witches being harmless. That’s just another door for the enemy to reach into our lives. But I know the Lord has my little family in the palm of His hand!
Yes, Harry Potter is just another way the enemy is desensitizing many youth (and unfortunately adults and Christians too!).
Lewis and Tolkien kept the lines straight and narrow. I remember, many years ago, reading the Landscape Without Dragons (I think it is called that) and it very much helped me with discernment and teaching my children the same when authors try to make the dragon out to be “Puff the Magic Dragon.”
Even as a child, I did not have blurry vision when it came to LOTR or the Hobbit… dark was indeed evil and light was good.
Harry Potter tends to rub me the wrong way because of how many Christians are trying to see ‘something’ in there to redeem it. At a church I visited many, many years ago, when Harry Potter first came on the scene, they were having growth group studies to ‘show’ the Christianity in it. I am sorry, I could not. Light and dark, good and evil do not mix…
And I am very excited, as you and your daughter are, to see the Chronicles of Narnia. I pray it will be an astounding movie to go and take all the children to. We love the BBC version of it, and we have been awaiting this one for over a year.
I think tomorrow night for our family night, we will watch some LOTR….:-)
Love,
Carla 🙂