Another movie that Wendy and I watched recently was Just Like Heaven. It was also surprisingly good. While it had a fairly high “cheese factor” and a lot of stereotypical rom-com stuff, overall I was happy with it. Also, I was very glad to see the anti-Euthenasia theme (although it was handled fairly lightly).
I have mixed feelings about Adad Sandler. While in some ways I’m disappointed in him because his humor has gotten more sexually crass over the years, I’ve also been glad to see him attempt to have stonger messages in his movies. Case in point: 50 first dates. While I wasn’t happen with the androgynous character Alexa and references to tacos and sausages, I was overall very happy with the themes of true love and dedicating one’s life to another person despite the difficulty of doing so.
Well, Adam Sandler’s latest movie Click, is even more severe in following this trend. There was even more crude humor, so much so that some of my more sensitive Catholic friends walked out on the movie. Which is really a shame because once this movie gets rolling… it packs a powerful punch with a VERY compelling moral theme and message. At the end of the movie (which Wendy and I went to as part of a rare “date night”) we both looked at each other and said the same thing: “That was not what I expected”
It was a powerful movie that REALLY tugged on the heartstrings. But there was nothing cheap in those tugs. It was a solid plot and a movie I was very glad to see.
Now only if I could get Sandler to clean up the humor a bit.
Those who know my father and I, know that we have had a few blowouts over whether there is objective moral truth or not.
Well, my new pal Steven Colbert has done a done a segment on the subject of objective truth. And while it doesn’t specifically reference morals, I think the same principles apply to morals. Plus, it’s a good primer on the risks of using wikipedia.
After the big showdown in Boston over Catholic Charities and gay adoption, the SF arch-diocese has decided to pre-emptively address the problem before the pressure grew to unsustainable levels. However their solution is completely unacceptable. As much as the article tries to put the solution in a good light, it’s nothing more than the arch-diocese “washing their hands” of their moral responsibility. Let me give you some other “headlines” that illustrate the point:
If that wasn’t bad enough, not only are they “washing their hands” they’re doing so to an organization that is in business SPECIFICALLY for the purpose of helping with gay adoptions. Just go look at their website.
To me that’s a case not only of “washing their hands” of the matter but also pro-actively subverting the Church.
May God have mercy on us all.