I was invited via email by MovieTickets.com to a screening of this movie at a local theater, before it was released. So, when the day came around, my friend and I went to the theater and got in line for the show. Then we looked at the rest of the line and noticed something was a bit off. A theater employee then approached us, asking us how we had been invited to the screening. He said there had been a mistake and that the screening was for African Americans only. They were trying to survey the reaction of that demographic. So, yeah. It was a race thing. I don't know how MovieTickets.com made the mistake. Did they see the name, Samuel Francis, on a list and think, "That's gotta be a black guy?"

I felt bad for the guy who had to go through the line telling Whites, Asians, Latinos, etc. that they weren't allowed into the theater unless they had come with an African American friend. Talk about awkward... And I can't imagine that they do white-only screenings. Imagine a black couple being denied entry to a theater because of the color of their skin.

We didn't make a fuss about it, especially because they gave us each a free ticket to any other movie of our choice, so we saw THE TOWN. So it probably worked out for the best anyway. I still have yet to see this movie.

You take that back.

They also end the exact same way- with a new challenger come to take over the world, never again to be revisited. Though this one was more fitting and funny than the mole things from Incredibles.

I had a great time with the movie. Even while trying to drown out the random and senseless outbursts of laughter coming from an annoying kid sitting a few rows back, trying to impress his friends. That went on the entire time. I need to start waiting at least a week after movies are released before I go see them.

The only thing I didn't like so much was Emmet being able to move on his own in real life, throwing himself off the desk. I liked the idea of the entire story being in the kid's mind. That moment dragged the real father-son story into fantasy land.

Thought this was interesting.

I took these a couple years ago with my Sony NEX-5N, kit lens and a cheap macro adapter I dug out of an old camera bag. I shot in JPEG like an idiot, but I think they turned out pretty well.

Ugh these movies are a mess.

Yeah. Not just mysterious, but higher. And I have no problem accepting that.

It's also impossible to walk on water or to turn it into wine. If God caused the flood, I assume he could take care of the rest. There are also details about the story we don't know. All we have is what is in the text.

Keep in mind we are talking about God here. To accept the Bible is to accept divine intervention. And you really can't disprove that. You can only choose whether or not to believe it.

Isn't it peculiar that so many ancient cultures passed down similar flood stories? Maybe it's because a great flood actually happened. Different cultures infused their own myths into the stories, but the fact that so many of them told stories of a great flood tells me that maybe Moses wasn't copying them, but referencing the same actual event.

I do agree that's the way things have been going lately. I think the era of Christendom in the 20th century greatly influenced our cultural values, whether or not we all believe in God, and it brought our culture's values to a certain point. Now that era is over, and human reason is taking over from there. Some Christian values will still align with popular culture (for the foreseeable future, at least), but some will get thrown by the wayside.