Diane H

This will be a welcome and new tradition in our Christmas Season line up. Full of true to life feelings and our responses to them. May we all land in the authenticity of His Grace. Beautiful.

Inspiration to the max! It has been three days since seeing this movie. I cannot shake the inspiration of her following her calling with chronic health issues in tow as she faced giants without fear. This is an example to follow in life as her life followed Jesus and His call. We all face health issues and giants…let us face them in faith and the confidence of that faith.

I wanted to give it a 5…I did. I had read about the technology and it was amazing and beautiful. Water is magnificent, but the movie lacked wonder and awe like the first one had…it had some but was too caught up in moving forward…rushing, fighting…technology. I wanted to luxuriate in the beauty of a waterscape for extended moments and couldn’t. I wanted to see the characters be stunned silent, mouths open discovering. Storylines weren’t fully developed…lots of unanswered, “Now who do you belong to and why?” It’s almost as if we missed a movie in between. Why could the boy speak English to the whale?…and be understood? The wild child boy’s behavior wasn’t justified enough to go through those phases, i thought. We were mining up until we weren’t…all of a sudden the goal is whale brain cells? No, we were just chasing Sully to the marine environment! Hollywood disturbs with its continued portrayal of such a devil enemy force being every inch Marine…The enemy does not need to be Marines…these are our good guys…we owe much. Why portray as Marines? Lastly, I didn’t expect the adolescent body to be a major focal point…sometimes even more than the breathtakingly short moments (I wish longer) of the watery creation. In our culture that has proven to feed some dark forces no one can deny. The movie was long and choppy instead of exciting, logical and drop jaw stunning. When it was mesmerizing one couldn’t sit with it much at all. I love the work being done here but a good story is the most vital thing of all and it was lacking.