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Date Posted: 14:07:36 01/24/06 Tue
Author: Aria
Subject: End of the Spear

For once *I* have a movie review! Wonderfully done movie, I thoroughly recommend hunting down whichever local theater has this movie in your area. Obviously you do have to be somewhat interested in the plot - its about the 5 missionary families who wanted to reach this tribe somewhere in the Amazon... (Jim Elliot being the missionary with the most name recognition of the bunch - the 5 men were killed by the tribe the first time they tried to reach them - ok so that gives away SOME of the plot, but since most of us who are interested in this kind of movie have already heard about the real story)- anyway - it was just extremely well done.

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[> I thought about going to see this last weekend, but I wasn't really in the mood for it. My friend asked me what I wanted to see. My reply: "An end-of-th-world movie." Seriously. I was in the mood for whole overdone archatypes. The down and out scientist that no one respects and sees the signs and gives a warning no one believes, the family being split apart emotionally only to be brought back together, the dog that survives, the global panic, the newsroom scenes, etc. etc. It's great! There aren't any of those out right now. I was bummed. -- C, 23:23:40 01/27/06 Fri [1]

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I'd love to see it and hope it's doing well. I'm familiar with the story and honestly am not sure I'd be able to watch. I think I will have to rent the tape so I can fast forward thru the violent part. But oh what a story! Glad it's being done. -- Luoodles who absolutely LOVES Elisabeth Elliot, 18:52:19 01/31/06 Tue [1]

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[> [> Lu - if I could watch it, I think you could - I freely admit to throwing a hand in front of my eyes anytime a spear came in to view practically - and really, the movie to me seemed like it focused so much on what happened AFTER the violence (both after the violence among the people as well as after the violence against the missionaries) that at first I almost said that the violent parts weren't that long...just because there was so much that came after...(but really - there was a good bit of violence at the beginning - but - it was only rated PG-13 so you know it wasn't WAY too violent...) -- Aria, 23:27:35 01/31/06 Tue [1]

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[> [> [> Yes, a friend of mine was telling me about it today. She said most of the violent stuff took part very early on. She loved it. I think I'll have to go. I'll let you know what I think! -- Luoodles, 23:53:25 02/01/06 Wed [1]

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[> From what I saw in the TV ads for this movie it looks like Chad Allen is in it. (from Dr. Quinn and St. Elsewhere) playing both a father and then later the son. -- Nonnaru, 22:18:23 02/16/06 Thu [1]

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