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I'm wondering if they will expand God's Not Dead next week? Obviously Noah might affect it, but it has great potential.

Ummm, yeah this is far from under appreciated... It is one of the few animated movies (And sequels) to get best picture nod, excellent reviews, excellent box office, everybody has seen it, it shouldn't be here.

43 Spirited Away https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AR6cK62Y8-Y An animated masterpiece, Miyazaki provides a maturely made film using the anime medium as the forte, for the people that don't buy into the Disney cliches, this (although marketed by Disney in the US) does not follow any of them. Spirited Away explores mature themes through its gorgeous animation as an epic fantasy coming of age story about a girl finding her place in a foreign society when her parents are taken away.

44 Children of Men One of the movie's I'd like to say is the most underrated movie of this generation but (thankfully) it has picked up a very strong following since it's lacking debut and Oscar notice. It is a powerful, instant science fiction classic that captures the tone and themes through groundbreakingly striking cinematography. I may eventually rate Gravity higher than this, but as of now this is Alfonso Cuaron's masterpiece (although he still has a long career ahead of him).

45 No Country For Old Men It's been a little bit since I've put a Coen Bros piece, but here is another one, and this is one of their strongest. It is a remarkable movie that is a unique blend of drama, black comedy, and a thrilling Coen adventure-esque film. No Country For Old Men is definitely a great choice by the academy for The Coens first best picture win.

46 Alien The absolute best of the franchise by a pretty far margin, while Cameron's was definitely a jam-packed fun movie, Ridley Scott's slow moving, tension building, sci-fi masterpiece is by the far the superior installment. It is an influential film to its genre, while also being the rare sci-fi movie with an acting nomination (That speaks a lot of how well Sigourney Weaver was).

47 Unforgiven https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dngw8LbM39U A very violent and dark western that re-captures what I loved about many of the classic westerns, while also making it a bit more modern in appeal. Unforgiven is Clint Eastwood's best directorial work, and it also boasts one of his strongest performances as an actor he has given. It goes into a more realistic Western world than an idealized one, and it's also one of the most deserving Oscar winners out there.

48 The Truman Show I really think this movie was out of its era, as great as it was in the 90s, it completely fits the reality television situation of today with modern television shows. The plot is engaging, the script is layered with many thought provoking symbols (I have taken that the whole Truman Show is a symbol of religion/Christianity, with Christof being the head), and it remains as a phenomenal twisty drama that I am always able to find more thoughtful complexity in.

49 Glengarry Glen Ross "Nice Guy? I don't give a shit." This features one of the best film monologues of all times (it may be my favorite movie speech, at least up there), seriously Alec Baldwin is in the movie for 7 minutes and completely steals it, a phenomenal performance (surrounded by a lot of great performances). It is one of the most engaging, social commentaries that is out there.

I know when I review (I haven't reviewed much lately, been to busy), I review what stuck out to me as a viewer without spoiling any plot points (or important shots), I save in depth looks for analysis reviews (which I did for Pulp Fiction and Gravity, Gravity I only analyzed the imagery and shots taken).Most reviewers do the same (including those who review movies because they like them but don't know much about film as an art form), so to a person who doesn't know much about say, cinematography, won't say much about it. They may say it looks cool or something to that affect, but it just depends on the person reviewing. People will talk about what stuck out to them.

We could use 2-6 more interest participants for competing, if you have already volunteered then feel free to pm me your movie pick.Once everyone signs up ill pm for a reminder to make sure everyone participating is still in and I'll ask for a good time in the next month or so for the festival to take place.

I'll agree, it's half decently made but it's arguments are a bit cliche and been disproved various times. I also found the script to be way to convoluted, it tried jamming together a bunch of story arcs that really didn't need to be there.

I'll take any time period, I can pull a classic out from any of them, although I am anxiously hoping that we do not have to watch Birth of a Nation for pre 30s. I recognize its importance, but I hate it as a movie.

I got dragged to the God's Not Dead movie (my friend told me she bought tickets and we were going, so I went), and as a propanda piece it was actually fairly well-made, but it had an incredibly faulty, inconsistent, convoluted, biased (obviously) script (the biggest fault of the movie), but I should have expected that knowing the genre.The best part was the actor who played the professor (the majority of the actors did fairly well for how one dimensional the characters were) and he gave a great performance for how weirdly the author wrote him. Literally the writer wrote him at first with good arguments tha continually destroyed whatever the freshman tried to say, but then at a point the writer was like, "Oh yeah, I'm supposed to be writing propaganda, not a realistic debate." And the professor goes from a one dimensional dickwad professor who's intelligent and well versed on the subject debated in, to a one dimensional dickwad who doesn't know how to hold a debate.That's the thing I didn't like about the movie, if the character wasn't Christian then they were heartless, unlikable people to a point where it was ridiculous. Such as when the professor invites his colleagues over with his Christian girlfriend (something that made no sense, and the relationship was creepy) and him and all the professors are like, "Ho Ho Ho, you believe in God? Unintelligent imbecile, go make us another sandwich you inferior specimen." It really portrayed academia in a false and stereotyped light that it was insulting.But then again it was a propaganda piece that literally ended the movie by asking you to advertise their movie for them by texting everybody in your contact list, God's Not Dead, as everyone lives happily ever after including The movie was technically well made, but not was that script terrible. It served its purpose though, everybody in the packed theater ate it up (I even got some God's not dead texts) and applauded multiple times.

Shameless plug for the Box Office Forums Film Festivalhttp://forums.boxoffice.com/index.php?/topic/14158-the-box-office-forums-film-festival/?p=1290765#entry1290765I need some interest competitor participants, but anybody can participate at any time in the festival.

I just need participatants because if we do it I know the awards we'll use and the movie theme is Overlooked Movies.So the interested participants pm or post one movie you'd like to be your entry. The movie needs to be a film that is overlooked (in your opinion) in one of the following ways1.Not well known2.Ignored by critics or small box office (and not a cult classic)3.Anything that would in your opinion be overlooked. (If the movie is to well known I will tell you)

We put to many chips into Divergent my friend.

And there goes a lot of my points.

I'm not offended by it, but I believe it's soulless and lacks the passion stated in the title. It's more about showing him be beaten than showing why he was beaten. There's to much put into the physical detail that it misses the emotional and thematic detail.I personally have found Mel Gibson to be a fairly weak director in this regard, his movies tend to be more about the one dimension physical layers of grand events, and don't really go much further. His best movie (Braveheart) was good because it combined the grand events with the emotional depth and complex why's that went with the epic how.

It's already made 100 dollars...But because I know you mean million id be pleasantly shocked if it even made 50m, I hope it can though, but I don't know how well it will play outside of limited release.

If I had to identify myself with a specific religion, it'd be Christianity (I love the gospels, not so much the rest of the Bible so it often leaves me conflicted on what to think), and I think The Passion is torture porn.

I'd say any movie that is at least a decade and a half old that is regarded as "Classic", but I do think that there should be more movies from the 30s-50s than 80s-90s watched because I find that around the mid 70s is the typical cut off date a lot of people use when viewing film nowadays, they'll rarely look at the really old stuff unless it's like the Wizard of Oz, or other hugely known films. It's kind of like in Music, people will usually cut off their taste with the Beatles and not tread any older, because it just seems so unfamiliar. I think it'd be best to stick mostly in the early classical years of cinema, and throw in the standout classics from the 80s and 90s.

I'm actually interested if the technical and acting quality of it is good or not (as in, it's a well made propaganda movie), but then again half the people that review it will review whether or not they agree with its message, not its actual film quality. (Whether that be good or bad)

How come there isn't even one review for God's Not Dead yet?