Go to the AFI Top 100 list and pick:
1) Your favorite five movies that are on the list. This was hard to narrow down.
Casablanca
North by Northwest
The Philadelphia Story
It's a Wonderful Life
The African Queen
2) Five movies on the list you didn't like at all. There were others too!
Gone with the Wind
Psycho
ET - the Extra Terrestrial
West Side Story
King Kong
3) Five movies on the list you haven't seen but want to. Hmmm...
Doctor Zhivago
The Third Man
An American in Paris
Ben-Hur
Mutiny on the Bounty
4) Five movies on the list you haven't seen and have no interest in seeing. There were lots more of these!
The Godfather
The Graduate
On the Waterfront
Schindler's List
Some Like It Hot
5) Your favorite five movies that aren't on the list.
Cars
Toy Story
Toy Story 2
The Quiet Man
12 Angry Men
Showing posts with label Movies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Movies. Show all posts
Thursday, November 29, 2007
Sunday, August 5, 2007
ClearPlay Technology
A friend in our local homeschool group alerted me to the ClearPlay DVD players available online and at Target. We got ours hooked up yesterday, and I can't recommend it enough. It uses filters (little computer programs) to skip and/or mute objectionable content on DVDs.
It is an advancement over the CleanFlicks model, which violated copyright laws by making copies of movies, editing the copies, and renting the edited version. I can see why the Federal courts ruled in favor of the movie industry on this.
With the ClearPlay player and the filter to match your DVD, you can control content on owned or borrowed DVDs. The DVD itself is not altered at all, avoiding any copyright issues. The filters give the player commands which seemlessly mute out or skip past objectionable content in playback.
Check it out!
It is an advancement over the CleanFlicks model, which violated copyright laws by making copies of movies, editing the copies, and renting the edited version. I can see why the Federal courts ruled in favor of the movie industry on this.
With the ClearPlay player and the filter to match your DVD, you can control content on owned or borrowed DVDs. The DVD itself is not altered at all, avoiding any copyright issues. The filters give the player commands which seemlessly mute out or skip past objectionable content in playback.
Check it out!
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
Veggie Tales
I have only recently discovered Veggie Tales. How can this be? I cannot recommend them enough. If you are going to let your children watch television, you can't go wrong on produce with principles.
Sunday, July 1, 2007
Screening Movies for Children
Last weekend Door Man rented Happy Feet (Widescreen Edition)
for the boys. We were disappointed in it, although the boys liked it. It was only then that I remembered Steven Greydanus' web site Decent Films Guide. Greydanus is the film critic for the National Catholic Register. If I had read his review first, we would have skipped Happy Feet altogether.
One of the things I like about the Decent Films site is that you can filter reviewed films by ratings and moral / spiritual value and age appropriateness. So when I filtered for all films with a neutral or positive moral value, rated G I find 53 movies to select from. This will give us a starting place to build our queue on Blockbuster's online rental service.
for the boys. We were disappointed in it, although the boys liked it. It was only then that I remembered Steven Greydanus' web site Decent Films Guide. Greydanus is the film critic for the National Catholic Register. If I had read his review first, we would have skipped Happy Feet altogether.One of the things I like about the Decent Films site is that you can filter reviewed films by ratings and moral / spiritual value and age appropriateness. So when I filtered for all films with a neutral or positive moral value, rated G I find 53 movies to select from. This will give us a starting place to build our queue on Blockbuster's online rental service.
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