Date: 2009, Length: 1h 48m (MINI REVIEW)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
TMDB Rating: 71 %
Watched It On: 2/23/2024
My Comments: √ Funny, entertaining. But has scenes that intrude on morality. Amazon rental. (PS, HS, Niagara).
ENJOYMENT RATING: 3.5 stars
Clean Rating: 3
Genre: Comedy
TMDB Rating: 72%
Our Review: ✔ Watched it on 12-25-2023 (PS, HS in Niagara). This is another movie that has been a family tradition since it came out over 30 years ago. It is incredibly funny and entertaining. That said, there are several scenes that can grate on viewers from a morality standpoint. More below. Enjoyment rating: 4 stars.
Clean Review: From a clean standpoint, there are several moral issues. Immodest views of women, the male protagonist side-stepping that he’s married in the presence of a pretty shop clerk, rude behavior, innuendo, and more. These are downfalls. They fit in with the movie’s lampoon style, but it could have been just as funny without any of this. It is what it is. A very funny movie, but it barely achieves a Clean Rating of 3.
TMDB: It’s Christmastime, and the Griswolds are preparing for a family seasonal celebration. But things never run smoothly for Clark, his wife Ellen, and their two kids. Clark’s continual bad luck is worsened by his obnoxious family guests, but he manages to keep going, knowing that his Christmas bonus is due soon.
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| Enjoyment Rating: | 4 + stars |
| Clean Rating: | 3 (barely) |
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This site is maintained by a small group of family and friends. If you happened upon us, welcome. We love movies. As Christians we endeavor to do things in a morally honorable way. That includes the movies we view. What drives us in everything we do is our faith in God. We developed a Clean Rating System to help us navigate the movies we watch with Christian values in mind. Our perspective is not puritanical. We try to keep it real.
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☞ New Life Bible App and Resources (from ShareWord Global)
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☞ Salvation: Exchanging Living Death for Dying Life (from Grace To You)
☞ Fundamentals of The Faith
Genre: Drama, Romance
TMDB Rating: 82%
Our Review: Watched it on 11-12-2023 with HS, ASB, and CB in Burlington. It’s a Netflix film. “Forgotten Love” (Polish: Znachor, meaning “The Quack”) is a 2023 Polish film directed by Michał Gazda. It is an adaptation of the novel Znachor by Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz. It has received very positive reviews from critics and audiences alike. It was a top film in 59 countries the first week it came out. A romantic drama, the film explores themes of love, loss, and the power of memories. If you’re a fan of foreign films, you’ll love this one! The story and acting are excellent. The main characters suffer incredible losses, yet a happy and emotionally moving ending comes to prevail. It’s an incredibly powerful film! Enjoyment rating: 4.5 stars.
Clean Review: From a clean standpoint, there are a couple of scenes that portray couples starting to get intimate, but in truth, they are kept in their place so to speak. There is also great loss throughout the first 3/4 of the film, and some graphic scenes of medical procedures. On morality levels, this is a fairly average film. Adults, view it at your discretion and we hope these comments help you decide. Possibly not suitable for children or young teens. Clean Rating: 3.
TMDB: A once-respected surgeon who’s lost his family and his memory gets a chance at redemption when he reconnects with someone from his forgotten past.
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| Enjoyment Rating: | 4.5 stars |
| Clean Rating: | 3 |
New to the concept of movies rated for morality?
This site is maintained by a small group of family and friends. If you happened upon us, welcome. We love movies. As Christians we endeavor to do things in a morally honorable way. That includes the movies we view. What drives us in everything we do is our faith in God. We developed a Clean Rating System to help us navigate the movies we watch with Christian values in mind. Our perspective is not puritanical. We try to keep it real.
If you’d like to know more about a faith-filled life and how to connect with God, please check out YOUR NEW LIFE from ShareWord Global.
Additional resources that answer questions on faith:
☞ New Life Bible App and Resources (from ShareWord Global)
Sincerely, the family behind Our Flix Pix!
☞ Salvation: Exchanging Living Death for Dying Life (from Grace To You)
☞ Fundamentals of The Faith (from Grace To You)
Genre: Western, Comedy
TMDB Rating: 69%
Our Review: Watched it on 11-03-2023 with HS at our place in Niagara. Rented it on Amazon Prime. This is a genuine Western but also a genuine comedy. Excellent cinematography, beautiful scenery, excellent acting by Gibson, Foster, and Garner. It’s an interesting story, with lots of action. The movie tracks the adventures of the trio making their way to a major poker tournament and pays considerable attention to the game itself. This riverboat gambling section is exciting and intense. Fantastic twists near the end. The music is scored by Randy Newman and Vilmos Zsigmond does the photography. Based on the 1950s television series of the same name. The main character on TV was played by Garner. Here Gibson plays Maverick, and Garner has a huge supporting role. Enjoyment rating: 3.5 stars.
Clean Review: From a clean standpoint, there are a few expletives throughout the movie. Of course the whole premise of the movie is of the leading characters “taking people for their money” through petty theft, deception and through card playing. An objectionable scene occurs where the main characters engage in a tryst on the riverboat. Thankfully this is all behind a large bed, and nothing objectionable is actually seen. On morality levels, this is perhaps just below that of an average film. Adults, view it at your discretion and we hope these comments help you decide. Not suitable for children or young teens. Clean Rating: 3.
TMDB: Maverick is a gambler who would rather con someone than fight them, and needs an additional three thousand dollars in order to enter a winner-takes-all poker game that begins in a few days, so he joins forces with a woman gambler with a marvellous southern accent, and the two try and enter the game.
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| Enjoyment Rating: | 3.5 stars |
| Clean Rating: | 3 |
New to the concept of movies rated for morality?
This site is maintained by a small group of family and friends. If you happened upon us, welcome. We love movies. As Christians we endeavor to do things in a morally honorable way. That includes the movies we view. What drives us in everything we do is our faith in God. We developed a Clean Rating System to help us navigate the movies we watch with Christian values in mind. Our perspective is not puritanical. We try to keep it real.
If you’d like to know more about a faith-filled life and how to connect with God, then check out “Find Peace With God” from the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association.
Additional resources that answer questions on faith:
☞ Know Jesus, an online course on what it means to have faith in Christ.
Sincerely, the family behind Our Flix Pix!
☞ Living in Christ, a self-guided online course on what it means to live as a Christian.
☞ Basics of Christianity, a place to learn more about what Christians believe.
Genre: Comedy, Romance
TMDB Rating: 64%
Our Comments: 10-10-2023 with HS, in Niagara. Rented it on Amazon. Very funny and enjoyable, with a believable story about a self-centered, womanizing, shallow multi-millionaire developer and an activist lawyer who winds up working for him through an interesting twist. There are memorably funny/witty lines in this movie. It’s a good date night movie to watch at home by mature viewers. Enjoyment rating: 3.5 star
Clean Comments: Given that the leading man is a shallow womanizer, you can surmise that there will be sexual references throughout the movie. There is a strip-chess scene that has a couple winding up in their underwear, and references to casual sex. But these things are not central to the movie. It stands on its own outside of these themes. This movie is not for kids or impressionable teens. But it is still basically an “average” movie from a morality standpoint. Two Weeks Notice would be a discretionary choice for mature viewers. Clean Rating: 3 (3 = Average for a Mainstream Film (several moral* issues; watch at your discretion).
TMDB: “Dedicated environmental lawyer Lucy Kelson goes to work for billionaire George Wade as part of a deal to preserve a community center. Indecisive and weak-willed George grows dependent on Lucy’s guidance on everything from legal matters to clothing. Exasperated, Lucy gives notice and picks Harvard graduate June Carter as her replacement. As Lucy’s time at the firm nears an end, she grows jealous of June and has second thoughts about leaving George.”
Enjoyment Rating: 3.5 star
Clean Rating: 3
… About Clean Ratings: see this page.
Genre: Classics, Comedy
TMDB Rating: 72%
My Comments: 08-21-2023 at our place in Niagara (PS, HS). Borrowed the set from ASB. A lovely little romp through Big City 1959 through the lives of two people sharing a telephone party line. Rock Hudson plays the playboy at the other end of Doris Day’s line. It’s a funny movie, with a pleasant glimpse back to the late 50’s: scenery, decor, and social setting of the time. Even back then, the sexual revolution was already emerging. And this leads us to the moral dilemma with this movie. A modest adult can certainly deal with the many compromised attitudes and innuendos (both sexual and in the portrayal of alcoholism), but this movie is probably not for impressionable young teens.
Overall, we enjoyed the movie for its classic feel, its lively energy and comedic delightfulness, but were a bit disappointed in the lack of innocence you usually get with a 50’s film.
TMDB: “Playboy songwriter Brad Allen’s succession of romances annoys his neighbor, interior designer Jan Morrow, who shares a telephone party line with him and hears all his breezy routines. After Jan unsuccessfully lodges a complaint against him, Brad sets about to seduce her in the guise of a sincere and upstanding Texas rancher. When mutual friend Jonathan discovers that his best friend is moving in on the girl he desires, however, sparks fly.”
Enjoyment Rating: 3.5 star
Clean Rating: 3
Genre: Romance, Comedy
TMDB Rating: 67%
My Comments: √ 09-14-2023 (approximately) at our place in Niagara (PS, HS). Good comedy, sweet romance. Great “curl up at home” date movie. 3.5 star.
Clean Rating: 3
Genre: Comedy
TMDB Rating: 71%
My Comments: √ 09-10-2023 (approximately) at our place in Niagara (PS, HS). Good comedy, fun movie. Pure escapism. 3.5 star.
Clean Rating: 3
Genre: Action, Thriller
TMDB Rating: 77%
Our Comments on Merit: 9-01-2023 at the theater (PS, HS, AD). 4.5 star. This is one of the best crafted MI movies in the series. It’s complex story, non-stop action, and premise are top notch. It was wonderful to watch it with our 18 year old grandson. This is “part one” of the two-part seventh film in the franchise. With the provisos noted below, this is an action film that gets almost everything right. There are wonderful daring stunts, and the entire movie is exciting to watch end-to-end! It delivers!
Clean Rating Comments: For the most part, this movie is more family friendly than your average James Bond movie. Bad language is limited to “goddammit,” “hell,” and an unfinished “what the fu…” There’s also a scene with mostly nude gyrating dancers that grated on your sense of propriety. It was quite disturbing to me, but at least it was brief. Also be aware, the violence and danger are constant, with some intense fight scenes. On the plus side, there is an abundance of positive messaging. The propriety of doing what is right is a strong theme (in this case, almost nobody knows which end is actually “up”). Hunt and his team have to sort that out. And the team shows tremendous strength of character with their courage, teamwork, and long-suffering tenacity. We give it a clean rating of 3. 3 = “Average for a Mainstream Film (several moral* issues; watch at your discretion).”
TMDB: “Ethan Hunt and his IMF team embark on their most dangerous mission yet: To track down a terrifying new weapon that threatens all of humanity before it falls into the wrong hands. With control of the future and the world’s fate at stake and dark forces from Ethan’s past closing in, a deadly race around the globe begins. Confronted by a mysterious, all-powerful enemy, Ethan must consider that nothing can matter more than his mission—not even the lives of those he cares about most.”
Cast: Tom Cruise (Ethan Hunt), Hayley Atwell (Grace), Ving Rhames (Luther Stickell), Simon Pegg (Benji Dunn) Rebecca Ferguson (Ilsa Faust), Vanessa Kirby (The White Widow) Esai Morales (Gabriel).
Enjoyment Rating: 4.5 stars
Clean Rating: 3
