Anchorman

This movie is hilarious. Hands down one of the funniest movies I've ever seen.

Ron Burgundy is the Lead Anchor of the Channel 4 News Team in San Diego, CA. Joined by a rough group of chauvinistic co-anchors, Champ Kind, sports, Brick Tamland, weather, and Brian Fantana, reporter in the field, Channel 4 holds the number 1 spot on the News boards. However, the affiliates are complaining about a lack of diversity in the news room. And no, diversity is not an old, old wooden ship used during the civil war era. So Ed, the manager, brings in Veronica Corningstone to be a new reporter. Ron begins courting her shortly after she arrives. After Ron throws a burrito out of his window at an unsuspecting biker, and gets his dog, Baxter punted off a bridge, Ron is unable to do the news for that day, so Veronica steps in and does it for him. This ruins their relationship as Ron now sees Veronica as a threat and tries to do whatever he can to get her to leave the station. After Veronica sabotages him, Ron is fired. He hits rock bottom until, during the biggest story of the century, Veronica is pushed into a pit of bears and Ron is called upon to do the story. He rescues Veronica and does the story, and the two end up together being the first mixed gendered anchors on the World News Station.

When I started thinking about this movie a little more I realized that it's sort of like the story of Saul and David. Saul was an awesome king. He was doing everything right until he began to step a little to far. Saul began thinking of himself as a god, and God could see that. He told the prophet Samuel to go find David and anoint him to be the King after Saul dies. At first when David is anointed, he and Saul are pretty ok together, but once people begin to think more about David than they do about Saul, he gets very upset. Spear-throwingly upset. However, in the story of Saul and David, at the end of the story Saul doesn't get to come back from his slump, and ends up killing himself. He should've just grown a beard and roamed around drinking milk out of a carton, but whatever...

I think one of the points we can take away from the story of Saul and David is that sometimes God has different plans for us than what we think. Saul was a good King for a while, but after a while David was the man for the job. It's our job as Christians to trust God's plan for our lives and understand that sometimes our work somewhere will be done, and we can't or shouldn't try to do it all on our own.

Next week: Apollo 13

Analyze This

You... You my friend... You have a gift... for watching movies. Thanks. This movie stars Robert DiNiro as Paul Vitti, a mob boss and Billy Crystal as Dr. Ben Sobel, a psychiatrist. Paul starts to have panic attacks after his best friend and partner Dominic is assassinated in front of him. He seeks help from Dr. Sobel. After a while they come to the discovery that Paul's feeling guilty for his father's death. Paul and his father had been fighting, then one night at dinner at their favorite restaurant, Paul's father was gunned down by a rival gangster. He feels that it's his fault because he saw the gunmen coming, but couldn't react in time. Ben keeps trying to tell him there's nothing he could've done to prevent it.

This resonated with me for the spiritual point of the movie. Sort of.

God loves you, and there's nothing you can do to prevent it. I'm a little distracted right now, cuz i'm just trying to catch up from over Christmas Break. I promise my posts will be better after this.

American Wedding

Jim and Michelle finally get married. Through many many many trials, mostly caused by Stifler, the ceremony goes of with on a few (dozen) hitches. This movie was pretty hard to think of spiritual connections for because it was so dirty and weird, but I was reminded of the Bible verse where it says to love your enemies and pray for the ones that persecute you. Stifler does cause the majority of the problems that happen during the wedding, but everyone is incredibly harsh on him. He then, feeling incredibly guilty, gets the flower lady and everyone to get everything back to the way Jim and Michelle wanted it to be.

I dunno, that's the only thing I could think of... Well, now that the wedding's over, we can put this trilogy to bed... I know.

Next time: Analyze This

American Pie 2

Well, after an extended leave of absence during Christmas and New Years break, and after moving into a new place, it's time to get The Nexus back up and running!

The old inappropriate gang is back again in American Pie 2. In this sequel, after their first year in college, Jim, Kevin, Oz, Finch and Stifler spend the summer at the lake in a cabin. Their plan is to make their cabin the place to be (*) if you know what I mean. Kevin and Vicky have broken up, Heather is taking a summer semester in Spain leaving Oz unattached, Stifler remains single and lovin' it, and Stifler's mom continues to evade Finch. Jim is itching with anticipation of seeing Nadia at the end of the summer. Over a conversation with the guys Jim starts questioning his "abilities" and seeks the only person who has experienced him. Jim heads over to Tall Oaks band camp to see Michelle for the first time since their night after prom. See informs him that his performance was less than desirable, but she offers to help him practice for Nadia when she comes. After a glue accident, which heals just in time, Nadia comes into town earlier than planned. To avoid having to explain his glue injury, Jim and Michelle pretend to be dating, then Michelle will "dump" him once he heals so he can get with Nadia.

The plan seems to work fine, until it comes to the big show. With Jim and Nadia holed away together, Jim begins to think about Michelle. Nadia can tell he doesn't have the same feelings he once had for her, and insists he go and "get your girl!" Jim drives to Tall Oaks and interrupts the concert with his famous Petey impression, they fall in love, and the credits roll.

What did I take from this movie? Well, I basically took 2 things away: this is not a movie to watch with... well, anyone... and this movie showed the significance a planted seed can have (not that kind of seed!) When Jim and Michelle were practicing, a seed of a relationship was planted in their minds. It took effect when it was planted deep enough, and it will blossom to it's full flower in the next movie, which I think I might watch tomorrow and blog about on Saturday, or tomorrow night... We'll see

Next: American Wedding