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The Top 10 Movies You Forgot About

Sure, everybody remembers movies like Jaws, Star Wars and Raiders of The Lost Ark. But what about the movies that don't get much discussion time anymore? Here are the Top Ten Movies you probably Forgot About.

10. Good Night and Good Luck

An Academy Award-nominated 2005 film directed by George Clooney and written by Clooney and Grant Heslov that portrays the conflict between veteran radio and television journalist Edward R. Murrow and U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin, especially relating to the anti-Communist Senator's actions with the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. The movie was nominated for the Best Picture award of 2005. It is a thought provoking film that is rarely spoken of.

9. Basic

A mind-bending mystery thriller starring John Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson. A squad of soldiers are all killed (except two) during a training mission, along with their superior officer. Army Ranger, Tom Hardy (Travolta) must piece together the broken pieces of what seems to have been a conspiracy that started before the mission. This film is full of so many twists and turns, you might need to take a break mid way through to pull yourself together.

8.Changing Lanes

An attorney (Ben Affleck) in a rush to make a court appointment to file legal papers involving a multi-million dollar trust accidentally collides with an alcoholic insurance salesman (Samuel Jackson), who also is a rush for a court appointment involving the custody of his children. The attorney leaves the scene of the accident and strands the salesman, causing him to miss his custody hearing. During the process of the post-crash discussion, the attorney accidentally drops the papers he needs to present in court. The judge gives him until the end of the day to present the papers and thus begins a cat and mouse game between the proponents. The movie was a box office success.

7. Kingdom of Heaven

This Epic film starring Orlando Bloom and Ridley Scott can be categorized almost like a sequel to Gladiator, set during the crusades. Its full of rousing action and epic inspiring, manly monologues, that make you want to pick up a sword and join the action!

6. Antwone Fisher

A sailor prone to violent outbursts is sent to a naval psychiatrist for help. Refusing at first to open up, the young man eventually breaks down and reveals a horrific childhood. Through the guidance of his doctor, he confronts his painful past and begins a quest to find the family he never knew. This was Denzel Washington's directorial debut, and was given two thumbs up by Ebert and Roeper. Roger Ebert says "I have seen this movie twice and it has made me cry twice."

5. Glory

This wonderful film starring Denzel Wahington and Matthew Broderick is a classic which has stood the test of time. This was the film that got Denzel Washington his first Oscar! That alone should be enough to give you an excuse to rent it.

4. The Passion of The Christ

Mel Gibson's powerful drama is rarely talked about. Maybe because it is such a harrowing and difficult film to watch. However it's one of the best film's of all time, if not the best.

3. Gone Baby Gone

Although this movie came out last year, It is arguably the most underrated of Film of 2007. When 4 year old Amanda McCready disappears from her home and the police make little headway in solving the case, the girl's aunt Beatrice McCready hires two private detectives Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro. The detective freely admit that they have little experience with this type of case, but the family wants them for two reasons - they're not cops and they know the tough neighborhood in which they all live. As the case progresses, Kenzie and Gennaro face drug dealers, gangs and pedophiles. When they finally solve the case, they are faced with a moral dilemma that tears them apart.

2. The Pianist.

This is arguably one of the most underrated films of all time. A brilliant pianist, a Polish Jew, witnesses the restrictions Nazis place on Jews in the Polish capital, from restricted access to the building of the Warsaw ghetto. As his family is rounded up to be shipped off to the Nazi labor camps, he escapes deportation and eludes capture by living in the ruins of Warsaw. Now faced with death and despair, he finds his only true escape from deprivation-- music.

1. The Hurricane.

This film is one of Denzel's greatest performances and is rarely ever spoken of. This film tells the story of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, an African-American man who rose above his troubled youth to become a top contender for the middle-weight boxing title. However, his dreams are shattered when he is accused of a triple murder, and is convicted to three natural-life terms. Despite becoming a cause celeb re and his dogged efforts to prove his innocence through his autobiography, the years of fruitless efforts have left him discouraged. This changes when an African-American boy and his Canadian mentors read his book and are convinced of his innocence enough to work for his exoneration. However, what Hurricane and his friends learn is that this fight puts them against a racist establishment that profited from this travesty and have no intention of seeing it reversed.

So, there are your Top Ten movies! I hope you decide to watch at least one of them, very soon!

What Would Jesus Say About This?

Abortion,

It is legal in the United States of America and in many areas abroad. Every year, approximately 46 Million unborn babies are slaughtered. That means that approx. 126,000 are killed every day. So that means approx. 5250 are killed in an hour, 88 in a min and 1 every second. Yet many people in the world would say that it is justifiable. They say that a mother should have the right to do what she wants with her unborn baby. They say it isn't technically a life yet. Will you please enlighten me as to why they are not considered a legitimate life? Is it because it just makes it more convenient for the mother? So she could just put it out of sight and not feel guilty?

Are you trying to tell me, that the heartbeats being read on the ultrasound, and the kicks and the turns in the womb are not coming from a living human being? Where is it coming from then?

52% of women obtaining abortions in the U.S. are younger than 25: Women aged 20-24 obtain 32% of all abortions; Teenagers obtain 20% and girls under 15 account for 1.2%.

So pregnant women of all ages are at risk of commiting this act.

So what would Jesus say about this? You might say, who cares? I don't even believe in God. But apparently, many of the mothers who abort their babies do.

In the United States, "Women identifying themselves as Protestants obtain 37.4% of all abortions in the U.S.; Catholic women account for 31.3%...18% of all abortions are performed on women who identify themselves as "Born-again/Evangelical"."

I have a feeling that it suddenly does matter what God thinks of Abortion. Does God really care about abortion?

In Jeremiah 1:5 God tells Jeremiah "I knew you before you were in your mother's womb. Before you were born, I set you apart and appointed you as my spokesman to the world."

God is saying that he knew this prophet Jeremiah, before he even entered the womb of his mother. Not only did he know Jeremiah, but he already had set forth a plan for his life, and predestined him to do great things.

Psalms 139:13 says, "You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mothers womb."

Exodus 21:22-25 says "If men who are fighting hit a pregnant woman and she gives birth prematurely but there is no serious injury, the offender must be fined whatever the woman's husband demands and the court allows. But if there is serious injury, you are to take life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise.

This passage says it all! God is saying that the life of an unborn and premature baby is just as valuable as that of an adult human being. Now it would be wise that you do not argue what you have just read, because you know, that way deep down in your conscience. You know that what you have read is right. The child within a mother's womb is not merely a "fetus" it is a baby, a living human baby.

"We cannot diminish the value of one category of human life--the unborn--without diminishing the value of all human life."

--Ronald Reagan

It is clear and simple, abortion is wrong, wether you like it or not! So many of you may ask, what about in the cases of rape or incest? I believe that two wrongs do not make a right, and if raising that child may be too much for the mother, I suggest that she put that child up for adoption instead of killing her. "Or what if the baby must be aborted to save the mother's life? Well, I can't give an answer for that one, because in that case, two lives are at risk of death and it is up to the responsible party to make the best judgement he/she can make.

But those, difficult scenarios are not very common.

1% of all abortions occur because of rape or incest; 6% of abortions occur because of potential health problems regarding either the mother or child, and 93% of all abortions occur for social reasons (i.e. the child is unwanted or inconvenient).

We as people cannot be reduced to this. We do not have the right to take a life because it is "unwanted or inconvenient." If we accept this as a way of life

In Conclusion, it seems rather obvious the Jesus would not approve abortion. How do I know that? Well, because God does not approve abortion as noted in the above scripture. In John 10:30, Jesus stated that "I and the Father are one." They therefore have the same views and Ideas. Jesus does not tolerate this kind of action.

Now, I am not condemning the mothers who have committed the act of abortion, but neither am I condoning what they have done. If you have committed the act of abortion and you are born again in Christ, then he has already forgiven you. If you wish to be forgiven and have not been Born again, all you need to do is to call upon The Lord Jesus Christ and repent of your sins, ask him to forgive you, and you must believe that he was crucified, died and rose on the third day. If you have done that, then welcome to the family. However we should never excuse the legal crime of abortion.

Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of The Crystal Skull

Love

Love brings happiness, joy and elation
Yet many shun it?
It brings forth complexity, vulnerability and is susceptible to anguish
Yet all seek it?
This magnificent thing called Love,
I will never fully understand.

Animated Short with Political Undertones

This is an Animated short I made a while back, with subtle political undertones. If anybody likes the style of it, please let me know and I will make more. This is more like a test episode to see if anyone likes it.

If The Unborn Could Speak

If The Unborn could speak, what would they say?

Would they say that they could dream?

Would they say that they could pray?

Or what if they could only live; wouldn't that suffice?

Shouldn't that cause us, to spare them the knife?

Who are we to say, that these little ones have no right?

That we should just destroy them, and put them out of sight.

Is a soul reduced to thriving within the insides of the mature?

Or can it reside within those that are truly minute in stature?

A six year old soul passes into eternity and many shed a tear.

But one who never sees the light of day is killed and the sadness is not sincere.

Where is the Justice?

Where is the shame?

What gives us the right to kill and to walk away?

It may be legal, but is it right?

When many kill innocents not in the dark but in broad daylight?

Those who were destined to be leaders, teachers, mothers and fathers,

They were all slaughtered at the hands of doctors, yet those doctors were not bothered.

Their oath forbid the very act they performed.

And yet they continue to do it without any desire to reform.

Where have we gone, my dear America?

If the Unborn could speak, what would they say?

I can tell what they would say.

"How could you kill me before I saw the light of day."


---- DONALD M