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R.I.P.D, a movie about a man who is a police officer on Earth and gets shot on duty and goes to a place called R.I.P.D to wait out his sentencing as to whether he will go to hell or heaven. As he captures the dead people, he finds out that his best friend on Earth is the villain and is trying to build a tunnel so the dead people will forever be on Earth and can take over. Well, the man's wife finds out that he took some evidence when doing a case so his wife has a totally different feeling about him. He can't explain to her because he is already gone, but he took the evidence( gold) because he wanted to give them a better life. The man ( Ryan Reynolds) and his R.I.P.D partner take down the tunnel, but in the process his wife gets stabbed because she was the dead people's sacrifice. Well she is losing a lot of blood so for a brief moment she is able to go to the other side and she sees her husband. They share a special moment and he explains to her why he took the gold and then tells her that he must let her go and live her life instead of keeping her with him for his own selfish reasons. She ends up waking up in the hospital fine and he continues to watch over her.
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Don't take for granted what you have because you never know when that moment may be where you are no longer with the one you love. ( At least, that's what I took away from it)
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Turbo, a movie about a snail that wants to go fast! Obviously, he won't ever be able to go fast, but something happens to him and he gets 'super powers' per se and can move at lightning speed! He gets entered into a race to not only live his dream, but to also help send business to the guy that entered him in the race because they have been struggling, along with many other business owners in that particular shopping center. He puts up a good fight throughout the enter Indy 500 until one of the star drivers hits up and his shell breaks releasing his super powers. Now he can only move at snail speed. A huge accident happens on the track and no one can make it to the finish line on the last lap. Turbo is so beat up that even he can't until he realizes he is closer to the finish line than anyone else and starts moving as fast as he can. He ends up winning the race and goes on to live with the guy ( taco shop owner) who entered him in the race.
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No matter how many people think your dream is ridiculous if you put your mind to it you will be able to achieve it.
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I don't know why but it just dawned on me that every children's movie always has a moral. To me, kids are able to take with them these morals and they are tucked away in their subconscious. I mean think about it. When you are babysitting multiple children, or maybe you have younger siblings, you can see how they play together. They will share or tell the other kids what is fair and what is not. Or even when a child says, "I want to be a ballerina", there is always some snotty kid that says, "You can't!", but that child will say back, " Yes I can if I believe in myself." I know its cheesy, but even adult movies such as R.I.P.D had a moral for adults. Even love stories make us skeptical sometimes and reality tv shows by showing us that being unfaithful in a relationship happens and what the re-percussions can be. Go watch Temptation, the new Tyler Perry movie. Trust me that has a huge moral!!!
I just found it to be interesting how movies or tv have such an impact on us without us really knowing it. Just a little something to think about.....
Remember to....always pray for eyes that see the best in people, a heart that forgives the worst,mind that forgets that bad, and a soul that never loses faith in God.
