Now Fly! Fly!: Field of Dreams

 Ok, so we got to talk about  Field of Dreams 

When Ray Kinsella and his family move to a farm in Iowa, strange things start to happen. Ray starts to hear a voice says "if you build it they will come". Then he sees a vision of a baseball field in his yard. So, without much questioning from his wife, he builds a baseball field. Then ghosts of old baseball players start to show up. Then the voice tells him other things, and he winds up going across America in order to fulfill what the voice is telling him. he ends up back home, with two people, and his house about to be foreclosed on. 

So, here is the thing I want to harp on the most. I knew about that baseball field, but I thought most of the movie was going to be about him trying to figure out why he needed to build a field. So, when 10 minutes into the movie he just does it, I was confused! Like you're not going to struggle to about some voice coming to you out of no where? Then his was wife is just ok with it? There is never an explanation for the voice either. We, as the audience, are just told there is a voice, to trust the voice, and ask nothing about it. If this same movie was made today, it would two and half hours long because we would need to see the struggle, and the building of the field. We would nee to trust the voice for ourselves, not just be told and then move on. 

It was oddly refreshing though to be told just to trust it and go with the flow cause not everything needs a back story. 

Which is a good way to lead into my Obedience lesson for today. God does not need to give me a back story as to why He asks me to do the things he does. Ray listen to the voice, not sure it was God or not, but it did him a lot of good with trusting and healing. He got some second chances that he didn't think he was going to have. 

However, what I really loved was the story of the Doc Graham. This character got to play half an inning as a Major League pro, and we discover, he went home and became a Doctor for this small town in Minnesota. How he helped to shape the town, and help many many people long the way. Terence Mann says something like "the inning that changed the world". When Ray questions what he means Mann points out "if he had gotten a hit he wouldn't have come home to be a doctor". Which is such a wonderful thing to point out. Graham found a purpose in his life even if he didn't get the "big dream" of batting in the Major Leagues. 

Graham's life didn't turn out how he thought it would when he was young, but when it didn't he pivoted and found a totally different purpose and meaning to his life. What most people would have been bitter about, he didn't let himself to hold onto that dream slipping through his fingers, and did something else with his life. 

So, what if we always listened to God voice and just did what He said without questioning it? That is what I have to remember. Asking questions can sometimes get me more messed up than just doing what was asked in the first place. How different would life be is I stopped getting in my own head?

Brian Tyler Takeover: Eagle Eye

 Ok, finally a movie that is somewhat interesting. 

AI sees the US Congressmen a enemies of the state, and again the Constitution. Uses citizens to try and destroy the government and kill the president. 

So, this movie was actually a bit more intriguing to watch, and held my attention. It's also very timely for these days that AI is actually starting to take over everything. I won't say much else about this movie, but Shia LaBeouf was a nice addition to the movie. He remains to be a good actor, thankfully.

Now, this movie is when I really started to realize that Brian Tyler favors stings in his music. Not sure how I caught that, but it's the only tidbit I have about the music this time around. 

Brian Tyler Takeover: Bangkok Dangerous

 Another bummer.

Hired assassin kills people, then falls in love and dies.

Not even kidding this movie was awful! I mean, it was a little over an hour and half long and it took me several hours to watch because I kept pausing it out of boredom. 

Again, sorry Brian Tyler I don't remember anything.  

Brian Tyler Takeover: Rambo

 Let's just get this one over with.

A man that stayed in Vietnam after the war, decides to help rescue some missionaries. 

I was not looking forward to the movie, and I was correct in that assumption. I think this movie is very forgettable. I honestly forgot if, after renting the movie, if I finished the movie, rented it again and found out that I wasted that money for nothing, because I did. 

I don't even remember the music. Sorry, Brian Tyler. 

Brian Tyler Takeover: War

 So, let's have a little chat about this project. 

It's been too much. I have bitten off more than I can chew and I am too busy to watch like 6 plus movies a month, on top of the other movies I need to watch for other projects. So, this project is no longer going to happen in a year, it's going to happen in two years. Which I don't recall doing any other project outside of a year, except for my No Place Like Movies at Home one. Now that it's going to be two years, I will only have to watch three movies a month, and it also makes up for the two months I have totally missed so far. 

So, let's pick up where we left off and talk about War. 

When FBI Agent Crawford discovers that his best friend, and his partner in the FBI, has been killed by a Japanese gang, he becomes obsessed with taking them down. 

This movie was one of those that teetered on being an ok film or a good movie.  Not great. Just good. The cast is good, and the plot made sense, there was just something missing to push it over the edge. It's a pretty forgettable movie. 

I will say that Brian Tyler has something about movies that have Asian influence about them. There is a movie I will write about in the next couple of days that's location is in an Asian city, and Mr. Tyler also does the music for the movie Crazy Rich Asians, if I remember correctly. His music does fit in very well, so I'm interested in seeing if there is more influence that I don't know about yet.  

Now Fly! Fly!: Bruce Almighty

 Ok, so we are SO CLOSE to being caught up here. Thankfully, we have a very funny film today, Bruce Almighty!

Bruce is a average guy. He has a beautiful girlfriend, a dog, and a good job. However, Bruce suffers from what most human suffer from, feeling lesser than. Bruce wants to be anchor, he wants to be taken seriously, he wants a better car, home, and life in general. When things start going wrong, and he make some poor choices, he starts to blame God. That is until God gets his attention. God meets him and gives Bruce all of His powers and tell Bruce that if he think he would be better at being God prove it. So, Bruce starts doing things to get what he wants, but soon realizes that he is failing worse than he thought. 

It's been so long since I have seen this movie all the way through. I am so happy I got to sit down and watch it again. It's a funny movie, with a few questionable theologies thrown in. 

I love how they gave Bruce the powers to be God and showed what we all would do. Use the powers to get what we want, and say "yes" to all of the other prayers that are prayed. Which is wild because seeing everyone win the lottery and getting all the stuff they wanted just created more chaos. It just made it more insane to show how God hears all of our prayers, and knows which to answer with a no, yes, and wait. 

Which comes to the obedience part of out movie, at least for me. I could say that we need to trust God and do what he says, and do things with a good attitude. However, this one is listening to God. We have to remember to "no" is an answer. So many of us ask God for things for ourselves, and we get so made when God says "no". When we don't like the answer, we try to do everything we can to get God to change Him mind. Like we start living "holier" or serving more or going on mission trips. We try to show got that He can give us what we want and we can use it in a way that honors Him, or say we will ask for nothing ever again. Thankfully, God know our own stupidity and gives us the answer that we need, and not the on we want. 

Which is why I think "wait" is the hardest answer to get. Wait doesn't mean yes, but it also doesn't mean no. Sometime wait is for us to get to the answer that God know best rather than telling us outright what the correct answer is. God can sometimes tell us to wait so our hearts get right and prepare us for whichever the answer is. 

I have been in a waiting season on some things for a very VERY long time. I have lost count to the number of times I have asked God "Just tell me the answer is no so I can move on!". God doesn't work like that. Sometimes what feel like slow torture is actually slow construction. 

I need to remember to listening to all of the answers because He knows what best for me.  

No Place Like Movies at Home: Pillow Talk

 We have the second of three Doris Day and Rock Hudson movies that I own.

Doris Day and Rock Hudson share a party line. However, Rock Hudson is always on the phone wooing women, so day can't get a line out to anyone. In an, always, hilarious circumstance, Hudson ends up dating Day in order to get he to loosen up. However, he lies about who he is and where he lives in order to continue to date her. 

This is the movie that I always think it Sent Me No Flowers. Pillow Talk is my favorite of the thee movies. Plus, the film also has Jack Lemon in it so it's already a better film. I wish Rock Hudson and Doris Day made more than three movies together.