Link to Part 4 of Richard Dutcher’s interview with Mormon Stories and my comments below:
Tag Archive: film content
Sep
28
Seeking for the Good: Praise and Report
Note: I’ve been working on this post on and off for a long time as these ideas have been percolating. Some of my notes from a while back I can’t make head nor tail of now. If the post is longer than it should be and somewhat disjointed, I hope you’ll forgive that and attribute …
Sep
22
Judging Visual and Printed Mediums
“If the Bible (or Book of Mormon) was a movie, it would be rated R…” An oft-heard phrase…notwithstanding they HAVE made movies based on the Bible and the Book of Mormon and most of them were not rated R.
Aug
20
Searching For Decent Films: Using Movie Ratings Appropriately
The current movie rating system in the US gets a lot of criticism – most of it deserved. However, it also gets prematurely dismissed as unhelpful and irrelevant. It’s not irrelevant. A movie’s rating – subjective as it is – still presents information about that movie.
Aug
17
Searching For Decent Films
Violence. Profanity. Sex. Nudity. Crude dialogue. Casual drug use. Dirty jokes. Vulgar and Blasphemous Language. With recent research suggesting movie content such as the above has been on the rise since 1992, it’s understandable that viewers who wish to make appropriate choices in entertainment (Latter-Day Saints among them) may ask themselves, “Where are the ‘decent’ …
Jul
27
CleanFlix and Clean Flicks: A Look At Edited Movies
Once upon a time, my wife and I watched a TV movie on a basic cable channel — the TV-edited version of a movie that was originally rated R in theaters. It was okay, but the interesting part was what we didn’t see.
Jun
17
Seeking for the Good: What is Virtue in Film?
The closing sentence of the thirteenth Article of Faith provides a favorable frame of reference for both the production and the consumption of cinema, as well as all the arts. It reads “If there is anything virtuous, lovely, or of good report or praiseworthy, we seek after these things.” On the production side, this sentence …
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